Spyke

It's actually really fucking cool, for ones like this they cast them in concrete sections, seal the ends, float them out, and sink them into place! Practical engineering made a video about

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My dad's a retired civil engineer and I got to see how all this worked when he did one back in the day. I got to see the individual sections being built and then got to walk through the tunnel after the sections had been connected and before they were ready for traffic.

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lemmy.world

“Hey you!”

Me?

“Yeah you. Get over here and build this tunnel.”

*picks up shovel

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lemmy.ca

Actually not too far from how they built tunnels in the 19th century.

Hmmm.... water is leaking in that one, shut it down get out the shovels again and we'll try to build better one that doesn't leak.

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That’s the great thing about our species. You never have to do it alone or figure it all out for yourself. Just following instructions will get the job done, and if you contribute an incremental improvement to the process, you’ve gone above and beyond.

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sopuli.xyz

Fun fact: The word ‘boring’ comes from the tedious work of drilling a hole by hand.

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It was aliens. We clearly don't have the technology so the ancient people who created this obviously had external help. Have you seem how huge these blocka are? Insanity.

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It's only a matter of time before someone has to fly a fighter jet through this to stop a nuke launch.

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I'm glad they started putting up No Helicopter signs at the entrance to the tunnel near me. I think the local henchmen got so used to chasing people through them that they would sometimes get distracted and absent mindedly take the tunnel on their commute to work.

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it's reassuring at least we pick the very best, smartest and most qualified leaders to manage all this.

Reminds me of that episode of Futurama: "Fortunately, our handsomest politicians came up with a cheap, last minute way to combat global warming."

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piefed.social

I work with these tunnels and while I am not involved directly in their construction I can say that it takes quite an effort going through all the nooks and crannies and stocking supplies in crates and locked containers like ammo, anti radiation pills, random junk, low tier armor, and fruit that never goes bad.

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Easy, you make a tunnel underwater, get some sponges and get rid of the water

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You reached the end

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