Posted on 05/01/2017 7:04:20 AM PDT by SandRat
BFD.
It’s a shame to waste a perfectly good tunnel.
Not that i know what the heck it could be used for :)
Looks like a job for a gopher cannon.
It is a big deal. Those tunnels are used to smuggle drugs. Each time one is found they fill it with concrete and the cartels just dig around the concrete. Maybe we should dump nuclear waste in them
If trump gets the wall finished.. I can say good enough. Of course.. he is walling the dreamers in and telling them not to worry. Amnesty.. they get to keep cashing in the welfare checks without paying taxes, without any penalty whatsoever.
I was posting ideas awhile back about border wall designs and one of them was about first using a tunnel boring machine to make a single wide tunnel first under the wall, not so much for vehicles but you could have roaming robots in it, mostly its a sensor tube and a base for the wall. For defense it can use non lethal gas or tear gas, or sound, or microwave.
That would rock!
I’m sure Mexico could have been bought.
That was coming soon...
Did you ever make a cannon out of a tube and some hair spray?
You take a tube big enough to hold a tennis ball
Seal off one end, put a tennis ball into the other (make some sort of stopper so it does not go all the way down.
drill a hole a few inches about the bottom (sealed) end. Spray in a good amount of hair spray, and light it with a match.
You would be amazed at how far up you can get something to go.
We did this with a metal pipe and some M-80’s (the old GOOD kind) The tennis ball went up so far we could not see it. We thought it was gone. After what seemed like a good 20 or 30 seconds, this thing come flying straight down with a Whoosh and WHOMP onto the ground.
We must have hit the absolute sweet spot on the first attempt because on the next attempts we just blew up the tennis ball. We ran out of M-80’s before I could experiment with some wadding.
Uuse that tunnel as a concrete foundation, or use it as a small underground bunker( with reinforcement of course but hey use it against these gophers) with sensors so they don’t dig on the side of the old tunnel. Heck bring in the coal, silver miners/engineers and they’ll have a lot of fun with this. Too early for my imagination right now.
Another suggestion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIMfir6r1Rc
Why do most ASSUME that Trump’s designers are only building on the surface? Consider that he has commented on using a construction method like parking garage precast sections that can be over 50 feet long. So, if the design uses these, the wall can still be 30 feet high with 20 feet embedded into a foundation below that.
Maybe Elon Musk can buy the tunnels and move them to LA as part of his proposed underground highway project.
So you like drugs?
No need for costly remedies.
Fill the tunnels with a inexpensive renewable resource.
New and improved sewage sludge, fresh from the wastewater treatment facility .
And, it’s biodegradable.
Uniparty traitors aren’t going to find a wall.
I vaguely recall that the Germans used tunnel-detection tech back in WW2 to guard their stalags. Even back in the Dark Ages a noble under seige sometimes asked one of his men to put a shield to the ground and listen for sounds.
I suspect that modern tech can catch the sounds / etc. very effectively at low cost IF we have the will to use it. Might even be how this one was detected just after it reached the border.
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