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 ...
Stargate.
The Tommyknockers.
meteor
another freep news scoop
Maybe it is the Tommyknockers’ ship.
Are they logged in?
Here in MA I the late eighties one of these giant boring machines got stuck I would say around 100 feet from my grandmothers front door.
If the drill didn’t get stuck we would have never known about the giant tunnel deep below our street.
The worker’s couldn’t “un-stick” the drill so thye had to close down the street for Many months and dig a GIANT hole to pull it up.
Man, Was That hole was DEEP....
Pretty cool. Kids with big toys. Seems like it would take a train to unstuck/unstick[?] it. I think I need a train sometimes with my ford.
Is Prof. Quatermass running the dig???
Osama’s heart? Wait...that’s hard enough, but not big enough....hmmmm.....
This Martian ship
http://doyouremember.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/WarOfTheWorlds_126.jpg
Or this model Martian ship
http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~rfisher9/Main_Page_files/wp_t1_800x600.jpg
Are they digging through fill there? Might be an old hulk of a sunken ship.
How did Grandma get to and from her house?
The vault holding the real birth certificate?
The Mother of all Starbucks coffee beans!
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