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From: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: The Tunnel (spoiler, but you'll probably never see the movie)
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Date: Wed, 6-Feb-85 22:57:25 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  6 22:57:25 1985
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Reply-To: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader)
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Summary: Funny you should mention that...


Me:

> >Last weekend I saw the 1935 movie The Tunnel, also titled The Transatlantic
> >Tunnel.  ...  For a 1930's sf movie, it wasn't that bad -- but there
> >were some nice howlers.  ...  ONE BILLION metric TONS of spoil
> > that you have to dispose of...  was simply ignored!

ran@ho95b.UUCP (RANeinast):

> And just think of their surprise when they tunnel through the
> Mid-Atlantic Ridge!  Ever tried tunneling through an *active* volcano?

As a matter of fact, this is exactly what happens!

The British tunneling crew encounters a region of extreme heat, and
they figure it's probably a volcano, but they go ahead anyway.  Disaster
does not strike, and minutes later*, they emerge into safer temperatures
and immediately break through and link up with the American crew!

  *when you're digging a transatlantic tunnel, you have to drill fast...

So even though the authors* couldn't've known about the Mid-Atlantic
Ridge, they not only put in a volcano, but in the right place!

  *Screenplay by Kurt Siodmak --both the German and the English movies--
   from a 1913 German novel by B. Kellermann.

Mark Brader