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How LACMA plans on moving the heaviest rock ever moved…

To make it happen, Emmert International, “a company that specializes in moving ‘extreme objects’ like nuclear generators and missiles,” is building this transporter (in Renzo Piano red!) around the boulder. A road will be carved out of the quarry, and the transporter will move at night, on closed roads, with a police escort, at under 10 mph. Some utility lines and stop lights will have to come down for a short time as the boulder passes by. As you can probably imagine, the permitting for this has been a nightmare, involving the state, three counties, and all the local municipalities.

William Poundstone investigates the history of moving monoliths and sums it up with this:

Takeway: Neither the Digital Revolution nor the Industrial Revolution has done much for us in the moving-big-rocks department.