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Re:How New York City Gets Its Electricity by spelunker on Friday February 10, 2017 @03:56PM (#13618815)
I knew someone who used to work at a place that built those bots for natural gas lines. Really interesting stuff. They nicknamed them pigs, if I recall.
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Re:How New York City Gets Its Electricity by grzm on Friday February 10, 2017 @04:00PM (#13618836)
You recall correctly:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigging

I think my introduction to these devices was one of the three Bond films they mention in the article, probably Diamonds are Forever.

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