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Something Called "The Object" Stops World's Largest Tunneling Machine
Gizmodo.com ^
| 20 December 2013
| Geoff Manaugh
Posted on 12/26/2013 5:02:00 PM PST by Windflier
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To: 21twelve
With the numerous borings not hitting anything, I sure hope they double checked that the emergency brake was off and the thing was in “drive”!
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posted on
01/02/2014 6:42:29 PM PST
by
21twelve
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
To: 21twelve
They are still stopped. AND, six(?) borings have been drilled in front of the tunnel boring machine (TBM) at 5-foot spacings - and they didnt hit anything! Curiouser and curiouser. Uh-oh. Only one thing explains that. They've hit the force field of a buried ancient spaceship.
Thanks for the link. I'll have a look :-)
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posted on
01/02/2014 6:51:52 PM PST
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: Windflier
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posted on
01/02/2014 7:05:48 PM PST
by
ez
(Muslims do not play well with others.)
To: 21twelve
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posted on
01/02/2014 7:15:54 PM PST
by
ez
(Muslims do not play well with others.)
To: Dogbert41
Minors and explosives could be a bad combination. Miners might get the rock out of the way, though...
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posted on
01/02/2014 7:19:47 PM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: The Cajun
I could just picture an old iron-ass company man or tool pusher being told,"We've been here a week on your well and have no idea what the problem is", it wouldn't be pretty :) Might be a little ruckus on the other side of the cattle guard over that...
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posted on
01/02/2014 7:34:32 PM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Smokin' Joe
Might be a little ruckus on the other side of the cattle guard over that... Might be a few expletives unleashed :)
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posted on
01/02/2014 7:58:15 PM PST
by
The Cajun
(Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert......Nuff said.)
To: 21twelve
Now that is big time interesting.
Sounds like they reduced the possible size of whatever it could be.
Ain't no big, monster boulder, it would seem.
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posted on
01/02/2014 8:03:26 PM PST
by
The Cajun
(Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert......Nuff said.)
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To: The Cajun
I have been reminded that in the new, gentler, oil patch, it is frowned upon to go all R. Lee Ermey on some worm, >ahem<
trainee, for some ridiculous and dangerous screwup.
Things just aren't what they used to be.
(wasted talent abounds)
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01/02/2014 9:05:20 PM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Windflier
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posted on
01/17/2014 8:43:03 AM PST
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
To: Hillarys Gate Cult
Looks like as of yesterday, they still havent started drilling again from this obstruction. If the obstruction were really just a pipe, I think the TBM would have chewed through it without even noticing.
There's a Freeper who posts to these threads who was in charge of building the TBM for the Chunnel project. Even he's stumped by this.
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posted on
01/17/2014 9:05:06 AM PST
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: Windflier
Hughmongous diamond from outer space, deposited a billion years ago, by the Galactic Federation, as a deposit to stake their claim to the planet once a semi-intelligent species arises to find the deposit. I expect they will be showing up soon, to claim their planet. Of course, the democrips and republicants will assist them in swallowing it up, so long as the overlords allow them to remain in power for a few more years while harvesting equipment is put in place beneath our feet.
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posted on
01/17/2014 9:14:36 AM PST
by
MHGinTN
(Being deceived can be cured.)
To: Daffynition
That picture of the culvert with rattlesnakes. That one you took?
That’s quite something.
To: MHGinTN
Hughmongous diamond from outer space, deposited a billion years ago, by the Galactic Federation That's about as plausible an explanation as anything else we've heard. I mean, these TBMs grind through basalt and granite like butter.
Our resident TBM builder thinks the answer lies in human error of some sort.
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posted on
01/17/2014 9:56:51 AM PST
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: RinaseaofDs
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posted on
01/17/2014 11:14:22 AM PST
by
Daffynition
("If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right." ~ Henry Ford)
To: Windflier
A wrench dropped in the gears perhaps?
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posted on
01/17/2014 11:30:38 AM PST
by
MHGinTN
(Being deceived can be cured.)
To: Windflier
Actually, I suspect it is an old ship sunk in the bay that was there before being turned into land. Probably sank through silt and had more silt compacted on top of it.
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posted on
01/17/2014 11:33:17 AM PST
by
MHGinTN
(Being deceived can be cured.)
To: MHGinTN
Actually, I suspect it is an old ship sunk in the bay that was there before being turned into land. Probably sank through silt and had more silt compacted on top of it. Makes sense, but it would have to have sunk through 80 feet of muck to be in front of the TBM. Good theory.
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posted on
01/17/2014 5:10:22 PM PST
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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