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Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 | 05:36 PM
Have you seen that episode of 'Johnny Bravo' where Johnny builds a transAtlantic four-lane highway? I did, a long time ago...funny stuff...
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BullyBasha
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Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2004 | 05:18 PM
I don't think it's any more of a hoax than landing on the moon or being able to communicate with people around the world. Much progress and more advances still need to be made. Perhaps by the time that this is possible, something else will have been developed to make the idea obsolete... like scramjets. |
benjamin
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Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 | 03:22 AM
hello
i think thoses projects are hoax because this refer to the imagination of Jule Verne and this is the Annyversary of his death,
here in France we have the same kind of "project"
i hope this is a hoax >> http://www.transatlantys.com/ |
Deediddums
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Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 | 05:48 AM
Hmmmm, funny that the Irish Government is given no ,mention considering this tunnel supposedly runs underneath the entire width of the country. I would think we Irish might have have had some say in the matter! |
Sharruma
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Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 | 12:31 PM
Best way to do something like this would probably be to leave from Canada and build it to greenland
and then from greenland to ireland and finally from ireland to mainland britain where there's already a tunnel to the rest of europe.
Of course there's a small detail of techtonic plates and mid atlantic drift which mean you should probably make the tunnel out of rubber or elastic. |
benjamin
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Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 | 03:25 AM
hey wake up those projects are HOAX !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
Mort
in Just left of centre
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Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 | 04:19 AM
If they do ever build it, (I'm as sceptical as Ben here though) imagine the toll charge?
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benjamin
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Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 | 04:31 AM
for those who understand french here is the explication about this HOAX !!
the link >> http://www.hoaxbuster.com/hoaxliste/hoax.php?idArticle=37278 |
james
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Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 | 05:16 PM
ben, thanks for the link. i've been seeing all the pubs in the metro and been totally confused by them. it makes more sense that sncf is doing this as a publicity stunt. but isn't it odd that the british are doing it as well with http://www.atlantictunnel.com? |
Captain Al
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Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 | 07:56 PM
Alex posted something about this last year. I remember making a comment about a serious Popular Science article on the subject.
<a href="http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/permalink/atlantic_tunnel/">Atlantic tunnel</a> |
pacifico555
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Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 | 09:46 PM
Damn French! |
DFStuckey
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Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 | 10:54 PM
I think Harry Harrison should sue.
He is the author of the 1968 novel "A Transatlantic Tunnel, HurraH!". Set in 1972, it concerns the attempts to construct a tunnel between England and New York, using constantly elongating sections that are expected to be built as the plates shift apart; The structure resembles a tube crossed with asuspension bridge, as unlike the Chunnel it does not rest on the sea bed.
The chief engineer on the project, who has to face terrorist threats, financial worries and the doubts raised by other experts, is Col. William Washington of the Royal American Army Corps of Engineers, who wants to finally put to rest the family shame of his executed rebel ancestor, hung for his part in the abortive American revolution.
It's a boffo read.
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David B.
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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 | 02:03 PM
unlike the Chunnel it does not rest on the sea bed
If by 'Chunnel' you mean the Channel Tunnel (between England and France), it most certainly does not rest on the sea bed. We dug the whole 32 miles an average of 140 feet below the sea bed with huge great machines.
There may actually be some very good reason not to 'sink' a tunnel to the sea bed (probably the danger to/from channel traffic), although we possibly didn't think of it. :lol: |
Phil
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Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 | 02:51 PM
try to submit your name for the contest to win tickets. http://www.atlantictunnel.com |
Arthur P Bloom
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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 | 03:57 PM
Please see our website
http://www.sibta.com |
Miguel
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Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 | 05:05 PM
It is not a hoax.
It's an April Fool's Day joke.
See http://www.atlantictunnel.com/af.html |
DFStuckey
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Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 | 09:54 PM
David B., I was aware that the existing Chunnel is a subsurface tunnel, or rather subseafloor tunnel; the one in the novel is built upon different lines as it needs to exhaust the smoke of steam and Stirling engines to the surface periodically.
My mistake. I did not mean to cause confusion. |
