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Re:How to move a 200-ton spectrometer across Europe by smackfu on Thursday July 24, 2014 @11:44AM (#8080165)
Right. The better way to look at is is that once you exceed the size of the roads, land is extremely expensive to cross, while water is extremely cheap. So a 8993 km water journey + 7 km land journey can easily be cheaper than a 400 km land journey.
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Re:How to move a 200-ton spectrometer across Europe by broolstoryco on Thursday July 24, 2014 @05:14PM (#8082247)
Im a bit surprised that that thing fit under all the bridges on the Danube
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