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From: ran@ho95b.UUCP (RANeinast)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: The Tunnel
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Date: Mon, 4-Feb-85 13:37:52 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb  4 13:37:52 1985
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Organization: AT&T-Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
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>Last weekend I saw the 1935 movie The Tunnel, also titled The Transatlantic
>Tunnel.  (It's a British remake of a 1933 German movie.  All prints of it
>were believed lost.)  For a 1930's sf movie, it wasn't that bad -- but there
>were some nice howlers.

>Like... you're digging a tunnel, depicted as about 30-40 feet in diameter,
>from London to New York.

>                          Even if the rock has
>only 2.5 times the density of water, that's ONE BILLION metric TONS of spoil
>(some miles below sea level, too) that you have to dispose of... this was
>simply ignored!

> Mark Brader


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

-- 

". . . and shun the frumious Bandersnatch."
Robert Neinast (ihnp4!ho95c!ran)
AT&T-Bell Labs