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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: Windflier
Wouldn’t it depend on how long ago it sunk? The silk muck must be variable depending upon time of siltification(?).
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01/17/2014 5:43:29 PM PST
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MHGinTN
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To: MHGinTN
Wouldnt it depend on how long ago it sunk? I suppose so, but the conditions would also have to have been just right for a ship to sink through 80 feet of muck. I've never heard of a shipwreck doing that anyway. Can they?
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01/17/2014 5:50:57 PM PST
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Windflier
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To: Windflier
Uh-oh. Only one thing explains that. They've hit the force field of a buried ancient spaceship. They hit the lack of something, namely somebody else's much bigger and more technologically advanced tunnel. I'm betting on the space bugs.
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01/17/2014 5:54:38 PM PST
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Sirius Lee
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To: Windflier
If the silt is agitated the heavy object would ‘settle’ into the silt further and further.
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01/17/2014 6:09:42 PM PST
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MHGinTN
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To: MHGinTN
If the silt is agitated the heavy object would settle into the silt further and further. I think it would take an awful lot of seismic activity over a very long time for a whole ship to sink 80 feet into the muck. Who knows? I guess it's possible.
Per the latest, they're supposed to be getting a team to inspect what's in front of the cutter head. It's gonna be interesting to see what the hold up is, no matter what it turns out to be.
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01/17/2014 7:54:37 PM PST
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Windflier
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