The 'North Entrance' on Dover's Western Heights consists of a blocked-off road tunnel and the skeletal remains of two single-lane bridges. Hardly the stuff, one might think, to be worth risking life and limb for...
created by jorolat | 18 wks ago | updated 14 wks ago 272 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
It seems that China is in mission to break all world records, biggest, highest, tallest, fastest, every thing all going to be in China, whether it is poulation or technolgy, or humanrights."Construction teams digging the world's longest water diversion tunnel completed their...
UPDATE MARCH 8th: I'm happy to report that things are looking up for the Sleeper family - it looks like they'll be getting private financing to keep their family "cave", after all. Here's an...
The first tunnel under the Yangtze River is now open to traffic in central China, under a three month trial. The tunnel is 3.6 km long and is part of an effort to not only relieve traffic congestion, but also to...
created by amyjudd | 44 wks ago | updated 44 wks ago 170 views | 13 recommendations | 2 comments
Is poor construction the cause of this collapse?Sadly it looks like this could be the problem with designers and contractors being held.Update 11/17/2008 0548 PST"Update 11/17/2008 0548 PSTBEIJING (AFP) – The...
created by reno_fog | 51 wks ago | updated 50 wks ago 280 views | 12 recommendations | 2 comments
"MIDEAST: HEBRON TUNNEL, HAMAS PROTESTS, THREATENS PNA (ANSAmed) - GAZA, OCTOBER 15 - There is a risk that the cooperation underway on the West Bank between Palestinian and Israeli security forces will spark a revolt by the Palestinian people against the PNA of Abu Mazen...
Dormice are an endangered species so they are getting tunnels to help them cross roads in the UK so they can reach new habitats and breed easier.They are even getting 'his and hers' tunnels to suit the...
created by amyjudd | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 541 views | 4 recommendations | 9 comments
" It is not unusual for the body politic of the US, being unbridled in its practice of free market capitalism with all its inherent temptation to make a fast buck, to go periodically through such viral epidemics, the most deeply embedded in memory being the catastrophic...
The fire is out and trains were running again, an now a Eurostar train has stalled in the Channel Tunnel."A passenger train from London to Paris was halted briefly in the undersea Channel Tunnel linking England...
created by mchawk | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 454 views | 33 recommendations | 15 comments
Cardiac arrest patients will lend invaluable insight into near-death experiences in a large study that will span across 25 hospitals and include 1,500 survivors within the US and UK. Many individuals report seeing a white light or tunnel or having an out of body...
created by Terri Potratz | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 176 views | 2 recommendations | 4 comments
The Channel Tunnel, which reopened yesterday after a fire, has now been reported to have reached temperatures of 1,800 degrees."The fire, which broke out on Thursday on a France-bound freight shuttle train...
created by amyjudd | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 304 views | 14 recommendations | 2 comments
UPDATE: 9:30AM PSTService remains suspended as officials gauge the full extent of the damage.UPDATE: 4:10PM PSTSome injuries have been reported and hundreds of passengers have been left stranded." Eurotunnel...
" As to global annihilation, I’m stumped. Most of us wouldn’t recognise a strangelet if it casually devoured us in the street There’s a slim chance –...
created by Federsavage | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 97 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"An Australian physicist says a science experiment which begins in Switzerland today is a major milestone in the history of scientific discovery. Scientists have built a 27-kilometre long underground circular tunnel that houses the Large Hadron Collider, which will allow...
Testing if the Beam goes round (27km)What happens, if anything goes wrong? now or years later ?US contributed $ 531 million to the experimentIf anything goes wrong, means the BigBang beam gets out of control,...
created by SOLARLIFE | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 958 views | 9 recommendations | 12 comments