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Something Called "The Object" Stops World's Largest Tunneling Machine
Gizmodo.com ^
| 20 December 2013
| Geoff Manaugh
Posted on 12/26/2013 5:02:00 PM PST by Windflier
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To: Windflier
I have no experience with continuous miners but they are drilling through a type of conglomerate which is difficult due to the various hardnesses of the rock making up the conglomerate. If there is a rock of considerably greater hardness on one or the other sides of the drift, I can see problems. Something unanticipated anyhow.
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posted on
12/26/2013 6:09:52 PM PST
by
JimSEA
To: Windflier
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posted on
12/26/2013 6:10:20 PM PST
by
CTyank
To: Captainpaintball
We're on page 2 and no Led Zeppelin Presence reference... Guess I had too much Christmas "cheer" yesterday, so I'm a bit slow on the uptake tonight. What reference?
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posted on
12/26/2013 6:10:58 PM PST
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: Windflier
May have hit a ‘buried’ lib’s head..
(^.^)y
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posted on
12/26/2013 6:11:39 PM PST
by
Bikkuri
( those would have been affected.)
To: JimSEA
If there is a rock of considerably greater hardness on one or the other sides of the drift, I can see problems. I don't know. These TBMs have been operating all over the world in every imaginable type of subterranean environment for a very long time now.
I find it hard to believe that they're just now encountering a type of rock or soil condition that they're unprepared to handle. The technology is pretty darned advanced these days.
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posted on
12/26/2013 6:14:17 PM PST
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: Windflier
Maybe they hit a big lump of concrete, and stopped the machine when they noticed some bits of bone........and a teamsters membership card.
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posted on
12/26/2013 6:15:17 PM PST
by
Zuriel
(Acts 2:38,39....nearly 2,000 years and still working today!)
To: Bikkuri
naaa.. that’d pop like a bad fart.. nothing in it.
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posted on
12/26/2013 6:18:02 PM PST
by
cableguymn
(It's time for a second political party.)
To: Windflier
This is the most boring thread I’ve seen in nine years of FReeping.
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posted on
12/26/2013 6:21:17 PM PST
by
Nervous Tick
(Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
To: Zuriel
To: Zuriel
Maybe they hit a big lump of concrete, and stopped the machine when they noticed some bits of bone........and a teamsters membership card. Heh....
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posted on
12/26/2013 6:24:05 PM PST
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: Nervous Tick
This is the most boring thread I’ve seen in nine years of FReeping. Yet you clicked on it and even took the time to comment. Merry Christmas, Ebenezer.
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posted on
12/26/2013 6:25:14 PM PST
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: Windflier
Probably a Butt Plug that Jennifer Lawrence misplaced.
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posted on
12/26/2013 6:27:07 PM PST
by
Kickass Conservative
(Nobody owes you a living, so shut up and get back to work...)
To: Kickass Conservative
Or, a Martian Tripod Machine.
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posted on
12/26/2013 6:28:02 PM PST
by
Kickass Conservative
(Nobody owes you a living, so shut up and get back to work...)
To: Windflier
>> Yet you clicked on it and even took the time to comment.
It was a joke, son. Tunnel... boring...
Actually, the machine is quite interesting.
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posted on
12/26/2013 6:28:17 PM PST
by
Nervous Tick
(Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
To: Windflier
It is the keystone that keeps the Cascadia Subduction Zone from slipping rapidly...well, it would make a good disaster movie
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posted on
12/26/2013 6:28:54 PM PST
by
marsh2
To: marsh2
I have ignored all the stories about “the object” so far, because until they tell me what it is, I don’t really know how to comment.
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posted on
12/26/2013 6:29:52 PM PST
by
GeronL
(Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
To: Nervous Tick
It was a joke, son. Tunnel... boring... (groan :-)
Sorry 'bout that. Too much Christmas cheer yesterday. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it! LOL
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posted on
12/26/2013 6:31:26 PM PST
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: Windflier; PAR35
To: marsh2
It is the keystone that keeps the Cascadia Subduction Zone from slipping rapidly. What a concept. That's the best out-of-this-world hypothesis I've seen yet. Chief Seattle's revenge?
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posted on
12/26/2013 6:34:35 PM PST
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: Windflier
Liberal idiocy is dense. Neutron star dense. It seeps out of Seattle and coalesces under the city. Gonna need a marksteyn drill to bust through it
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posted on
12/26/2013 6:37:54 PM PST
by
armydoc
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