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China plans the world's longest undersea tunnel
UK Telegraph ^ | February 14, 2014 | Malcolm Moore

Posted on 02/14/2014 11:46:55 AM PST by C19fan

At more than twice the length of the Channel Tunnel, China's latest mega project is not short of ambition. A 76-mile-long tunnel will run between the northern city of Dalian with Yantai, on the east coast. "Work could begin as early as 2015 or 2016," said Wang Mengshu, an expert at the Chinese academy of Engineering, to the China Daily.

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TOPICS: Travel
KEYWORDS: china; infrasturcture; tunnel
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To: C19fan

All the equipment and structures supplied by Harbor Freight. What could go wrong?


21 posted on 02/14/2014 1:48:44 PM PST by theBuckwheat
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To: 556x45

it was an “adventure tunnel”. never knew what was gonna happen going through it.


22 posted on 02/14/2014 1:52:34 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: C19fan

Its amazing what we accomplished as a nation pre EPA and ESA.


23 posted on 02/14/2014 2:06:22 PM PST by Organic Panic
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To: DemforBush

Yes just look at the pictures of the Great Wall of China.


24 posted on 02/14/2014 2:17:01 PM PST by sharpee
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To: sharpee

Actually, the ChiComs managed to wreck significant portions of the Wall during the Cultural Revolution. It just had the advantage of being too big and well-built to be completely obliterated, unlike the Ming Tombs and a lot of other priceless history in China.


25 posted on 02/14/2014 4:09:38 PM PST by DemforBush (A Repo Man is *always* intense.)
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To: C19fan

If they dig deep enough they may encounter comrade obama’s chief advisor.


26 posted on 02/15/2014 5:55:37 AM PST by clearcarbon
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China has great internal construction standards.

27 posted on 02/15/2014 6:01:05 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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