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It’s actually really fucking cool, for ones like this they cast them in concrete sections, seal the ends, float them out, and sink them into place! Practical engineering made a video about
This one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KclYKAnaJ_k
I didn’t know about this tunnel, but I imagine other ones are built by actually digging under ground right?
Different strategies for different situations!
“Hey you!”
Me?
“Yeah you. Get over here and build this tunnel.”
*picks up shovel
Actually not too far from how they built tunnels in the 19th century.
Hmmm… water is leaking in that one, shut it down get out the shovels again and we’ll try to build better one that doesn’t leak.
You there, stick your finger in this dyke!
You can’t just say stuff like that.
The fate of the town depends on it!
I’m gonna need more fingers cap’n! i’m givin’ her all i’ve got!
TOES!
Would you really shove all your fingers & toes into a lesbian??
Easy, you buy a really big machine that goes brrrrrrrrr
For rectangular ones like this they often build it on shore as a big metal tube, and sink it into the water afterwards
This machine even is called brrrrrr or borrrrr or something like that.
It was aliens. We clearly don’t have the technology so the ancient people who created this obviously had external help. Have you seem how huge these blocka are? Insanity.
It’s only a matter of time before someone has to fly a fighter jet through this to stop a nuke launch.
I’m glad they started putting up No Helicopter signs at the entrance to the tunnel near me. I think the local henchmen got so used to chasing people through them that they would sometimes get distracted and absent mindedly take the tunnel on their commute to work.
It’s even worse when you take the time to learn how they’re made, and then you realize just how very far you are from being able to even comprehend the basics of such an operation. The amount of money, time, equipment, resources and training for something as simple as a goddamn overpass is staggering.
Our whole system is so incredibly complicated and fragile that it’s reassuring at least we pick the very best, smartest and most qualified leaders to manage all this.
Wait, I’m being told that we do the exact opposite of that. Welp.
it’s reassuring at least we pick the very best, smartest and most qualified leaders to manage all this.
Reminds me of that episode of Futurama: “Fortunately, our handsomest politicians came up with a cheap, last minute way to combat global warming.”
I work with these tunnels and while I am not involved directly in their construction I can say that it takes quite an effort going through all the nooks and crannies and stocking supplies in crates and locked containers like ammo, anti radiation pills, random junk, low tier armor, and fruit that never goes bad.
There’s a group in Brooklyn who might be able to help you out
Stop trying to get out of it and grab a shovel already.
