Trans-Atlantic Tunnel - completed
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Trans-Atlantic Tunnel - completed
This is incredible to me. I thought I was at least kind of "in the know". Check out the link below and read about the under-the-ocean tunnel that has been built between the US and England. You can even book a seat on it...but you'll have to wait until 2009 for the first passenger train. They have been planning and working on this tunnel for over 60 years. You don't even want to know the cost invested so far. Read the entire article..its short, has pictures and even kept me entertained...when I picked my jaw up off the floor anyway.
This train is magnetic and in testing has run at speeds of over 600 MPH and it is said that you don't feel a thing...no movment, no vibrations..nada! Of course, with a full load and people aboard, they still expect the train to travel at over 400 MPH floating on a magnetic cushion.
Well heck.... read about it yourself....http://www.atlantictunnel.com/hist.html
I never knew it even existed. And here I was impressed with the Chunnel. Wow.
This train is magnetic and in testing has run at speeds of over 600 MPH and it is said that you don't feel a thing...no movment, no vibrations..nada! Of course, with a full load and people aboard, they still expect the train to travel at over 400 MPH floating on a magnetic cushion.
Well heck.... read about it yourself....http://www.atlantictunnel.com/hist.html
I never knew it even existed. And here I was impressed with the Chunnel. Wow.
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It's amazing how much effort some people will put into an April Fools joke. Putting the time and money into contructing a professional website, not to mention to sit and come up with a nice big - almost realestic - story.
This actually would have gotten me good but for two points. Number one being on all those extreme engineering shows - love to watch them - they always say that a transatlantic/ transpacific tunnel would be great with the exception of the fact that the Earths magnetic plates are constantly moving making it pretty impossible to contruct with modern technology. Also, if they were really building something like that, I think we would have heard about it a long long time ago.
- Chris
This actually would have gotten me good but for two points. Number one being on all those extreme engineering shows - love to watch them - they always say that a transatlantic/ transpacific tunnel would be great with the exception of the fact that the Earths magnetic plates are constantly moving making it pretty impossible to contruct with modern technology. Also, if they were really building something like that, I think we would have heard about it a long long time ago.
- Chris
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Oh sure...just burst my bubble. I guess I'll have to do a Snopes search to check it out. I was wondering as I read about it, because I've definitely never heard about it. Well as they say...you can fool some of the people some of the time.
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That would be so cool if reality was stranger than fiction in this case.
Then again.....like so many of his time, my great grandfather never believed we made it to the moon......he said it was all Hollywood.
Then again.....like so many of his time, my great grandfather never believed we made it to the moon......he said it was all Hollywood.
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Originally Posted by Tomcat7742
It's amazing how much effort some people will put into an April Fools joke. Putting the time and money into contructing a professional website, not to mention to sit and come up with a nice big - almost realestic - story.
This actually would have gotten me good but for two points. Number one being on all those extreme engineering shows - love to watch them - they always say that a transatlantic/ transpacific tunnel would be great with the exception of the fact that the Earths magnetic plates are constantly moving making it pretty impossible to contruct with modern technology. Also, if they were really building something like that, I think we would have heard about it a long long time ago.
- Chris
This actually would have gotten me good but for two points. Number one being on all those extreme engineering shows - love to watch them - they always say that a transatlantic/ transpacific tunnel would be great with the exception of the fact that the Earths magnetic plates are constantly moving making it pretty impossible to contruct with modern technology. Also, if they were really building something like that, I think we would have heard about it a long long time ago.
- Chris
http://media.dsc.discovery.com/conve...teractive.html
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If you'll notice on that Discovery channel article there are a few key words. "could", "theoretically", and "might".
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That's kinda odd- a couple of the news releases are dated April 1, 2004, but there is no current certificate for the site. I wonder if it's all some sort of scam, they get you to register to win the free tickets, then sell your address. Anything's possible nowadays.
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Originally Posted by peppy
That would be so cool if reality was stranger than fiction in this case.
Then again.....like so many of his time, my great grandfather never believed we made it to the moon......he said it was all Hollywood.
Then again.....like so many of his time, my great grandfather never believed we made it to the moon......he said it was all Hollywood.
Didn't he know it was in Hollywood ?
It was on Tim Lamkin's lower 40 !!!
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Studies done on constructing such a tunnel determined that contructing tunnel modules would require more cement then the entire world production. And needless to say, it would be cost prohibitive. Every country on the planet would have to contribute billions of dollars.