Re: Terraforming the Moon

From: Morituri-|-Max (newage_at_sendarico.net)
Date: 02/21/05 

Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 01:17:03 GMT

daestrom wrote:
> "habshi" <habshi@anony.com> wrote in message
> news:4219255c.1561625@news.clara.net...
>>> The idea of a tunnel
>> under the Atlantic (for example) is not new- science fiction of the
>> 1880's.<
>>
>> i dont think that would be possible , as the pressures would
>> be too high . However there is no reason why there should not be
>> underground rail tunnels across the continents say 200ft deep
>>
>
> And being 200ft underground instead of on the surface provides what
> sort of benefit??
>
> Does this benefit justify the extreme cost of tunneling across a
> continent?? Obviously the folks digging tunnels professionally don't
> think so.

Yep, habshi seems to ignore the fact that the early crews who laid railroad
tracks across the continent had to detour around certain obstacles, and
those tracks were ON the surface, not 200 feet down. I wonder if habshi
recalls the difficulties the crews in new york ran into laying subway
tunnels under the city, much less the whole continent.

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