If it looks like this, we're in big trouble.
Posted on 12/19/2013 6:04:53 PM PST by Theoria
A secret subterranean heart, tinged with mystery and myth, beats beneath the streets in many of the world’s great cities. Tourists seek out the catacombs of Rome, the sewers of Paris and the subway tunnels of New York. Some people believe a den of interstellar aliens lurks beneath Denver International Airport.
Now Seattle, at least for now, has joined that exclusive club.
Something unknown, engineers say — and all the more intriguing to many residents for being unknown — has blocked the progress of the biggest-diameter tunnel-boring machine in use on the planet, a high-tech, largely automated wonder called Bertha. At five stories high with a crew of 20, the cigar-shaped behemoth was grinding away underground on a two-mile-long, $3.1 billion highway tunnel under the city’s waterfront on Dec. 6 when it encountered something in its path that managers still simply refer to as “the object.”
The object’s composition and provenance remain unknown almost two weeks after first contact because in a state-of-the-art tunneling machine, as it turns out, you can’t exactly poke your head out the window and look.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
What’s a Tommyknocker?
Damned Cthulhu cultists are more zealous than those Ron Paul supporters....
(Good one! ROTFLMAO!)
Sauron
If it looks like this, we're in big trouble.
It’s the Predator mother ship.
Left NY and went to Seattle.
Somewhere in all that fill there is a locomotive.
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Where is your tagline from? I’ve been trying to remember the source of that line for about a year.
A Stephen King book about a buried object.
Mo the bartender on the Simpsons.
I get the sense she was drawn to them for some odd reason.
Fancy lawnmower, huh? Somebody’s going to be PO’ed about mowing down the lavender.
Thank you. It’s been driving me crazy.
Bertha’s nemesis: 119-foot steel pipe'Highway 99 contractors revealed Friday what’s been blocking Bertha, the giant tunnel machine: The obstruction is steel pipe, left buried by a state groundwater study in 2002.'
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