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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: fso301
“...change cutters and resume boring but I know it isn’t so simple.”
Not so simple or cheap, especially if there’s Union labor involved.
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posted on
12/26/2013 5:33:23 PM PST
by
PLMerite
(Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
To: Windflier
Needs a HUGE tube of
42
posted on
12/26/2013 5:34:21 PM PST
by
llevrok
(Obama 2008 : "If you vote for me, you can keep your country")
To: Windflier
drain plug for puget sound?
43
posted on
12/26/2013 5:34:33 PM PST
by
TheRightGuy
(I want MY BAILOUT ... a billion or two should do!)
To: Windflier
It’s a Chinese boring machine.
44
posted on
12/26/2013 5:35:09 PM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: Windflier
They’ll have to back it up and send in minors with explosives I guess. Do some digging the old-fashioned way until they are clear again.
45
posted on
12/26/2013 5:37:05 PM PST
by
Dogbert41
(Up yours NSA !)
To: Windflier
46
posted on
12/26/2013 5:39:41 PM PST
by
BCW
(Salva reipublicae)
To: Daffynition
Is that “Snakes in a drain?”
47
posted on
12/26/2013 5:44:38 PM PST
by
EQAndyBuzz
("The GOP fights its own base with far more vigor than it employs in fighting the Dims.")
To: Dogbert41
“Theyll have to back it up and send in minors with explosives I guess.”
When I first read that, my leaky old brain read ‘minors’ and children. I thought, yeah, that’ll work.
Then I thought, hey! Why didn’t we have fun jobs like that when I was a kid!
48
posted on
12/26/2013 5:44:49 PM PST
by
Grimmy
(equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
To: Dogbert41
Not my kids they won't !!. Oh, those miners
49
posted on
12/26/2013 5:47:02 PM PST
by
Riflema
To: fso301
I tend to expect these boring machines are capable of going through solid igneous rock, albeit at a much slower rate. They never would have started the project unless their equipment had the capability of grinding its was through igneous rock. That's what makes this story so intriguing.
What could they possibly have run into that's too hard for Bertha to grind through? Or is it that they don't want to damage whatever it is they've found?
50
posted on
12/26/2013 5:48:42 PM PST
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: faithhopecharity
5 MILLION YEARS TO EARTH Movie released IN 1967 Originally seen as QUARTERMASS AND THE PIT ON BBC
London, Martian spaceship landing, Devils Lane. Tunnel construction interrupted. Then all hades breaks loose. Good movie but not seen in some time. Grasshoppers anyone?
51
posted on
12/26/2013 5:49:09 PM PST
by
V K Lee
To: V K Lee
Maybe they have his real birth certificate ?
To: Windflier
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posted on
12/26/2013 5:51:27 PM PST
by
JoeProBono
(SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
To: Windflier
What could they possibly have run into that's too hard for Bertha to grind through?Probably just a matter of having the right cutters. Sort of like the difference between a wood and metal saw.
54
posted on
12/26/2013 5:54:04 PM PST
by
fso301
To: Windflier
To: EQAndyBuzz
...not.
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posted on
12/26/2013 6:05:14 PM PST
by
Daffynition
(Make Laura Bush's *Cowboy Cookies* for Christmas! They're GREAT!)
To: 21twelve
57
posted on
12/26/2013 6:05:37 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: 21twelve
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posted on
12/26/2013 6:06:04 PM PST
by
MV=PY
(The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
We're on page 2 and no Led Zeppelin Presence reference...
To: fso301
Probably just a matter of having the right cutters. Sort of like the difference between a wood and metal saw. This ain't no amateur operation. The project's geological engineers were fully prepared to bore through the types of rocks and sediments found in that area.
Bertha is the biggest, most sophisticated tunnel boring machine on earth. If the operators only needed to change out the cutter heads, this wouldn't have made the news.
Something tells me that we're never going to get a straight answer on what really stopped the operation.
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posted on
12/26/2013 6:08:32 PM PST
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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