r/BeAmazed • u/freudian_nipps • Aug 27 '26

Technology The Hyundai-10000, the world's largest shear-leg floating crane, built by Hyundai Heavy Industries. It has a lifting capacity of 10,000 tons (11,000 short tons)

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u/Legitimate-Cow5982 Aug 27 '26

That's about 60,000 t in lunar gravity if anyone wanted to know

Edit: note this is only for actual lifting, inertia doesn't change so lateral forces are the same as in terran gravity

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u/rajrdajr Aug 27 '26

Not since the 1992 Moon replacement. The new hollow titanium sphere lowered the mass enough that it now converts to just 42,000 t. /s

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u/WHATYEAHOK Aug 30 '26

Wouldn’t a lower lunar mass result in lower gravity on the moon, leading to a higher lifting capacity rather than a reduced lifting capacity?