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I'm referring to the one connecting London to New York. I think it's a
great idea especially the non stop express trains. And the toilet facilities and other accomodations will be of the same high standards we've come to expect on the London underground. |
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![]() "Avenger" wrote in message news:9dDXh.10252$Fs6.8303@trnddc03... I'm referring to the one connecting London to New York. I think it's a great idea especially the non stop express trains. And the toilet facilities and other accomodations will be of the same high standards we've come to expect on the London underground. lol! i think you have been watching tooooooo mucho Doctor Who. |
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On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
In article , (MCP) wrote: "Avenger" wrote in message news:9dDXh.10252$Fs6.8303@trnddc03... I'm referring to the one connecting London to New York. I think it's a great idea especially the non stop express trains. And the toilet facilities and other accomodations will be of the same high standards we've come to expect on the London underground. lol! i think you have been watching tooooooo mucho Doctor Who. Google Maps maybe? That's Le Havre to Boston. And it's not marked as a a tunnel. tom -- For me, thats just logic. OTOH, Spock went bananas several times using logic. -- Pete, mfw |
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On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 07:14:13 GMT, Avenger
wrote in 9dDXh.10252$Fs6.8303@trnddc03: I'm referring to the one connecting London to New York. I think it's a great idea especially the non stop express trains. And the toilet facilities and other accomodations will be of the same high standards we've come to expect on the London underground. You can buy the design study he http://www.amazon.co.uk/Transatlanti.../dp/0575071346 -- Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration, Brunel University. ] Room 40-1-B12, CERN KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty". |
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![]() "Avenger" wrote in message news:9dDXh.10252$Fs6.8303@trnddc03... I'm referring to the one connecting London to New York. I think it's a great idea especially the non stop express trains. And the toilet facilities and other accomodations will be of the same high standards we've come to expect on the London underground. The Discovery Channel had a programme about the Transatlantic Tunnel. In the last week, we've seen another previous fictional rail tunnel unearth itself (Berring Strait tunnel). Perhaps, the Transatlantic Tunnel is next... |
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Toby wrote:
"Avenger" wrote in message news:9dDXh.10252$Fs6.8303@trnddc03... I'm referring to the one connecting London to New York. I think it's a great idea especially the non stop express trains. And the toilet facilities and other accomodations will be of the same high standards we've come to expect on the London underground. The Discovery Channel had a programme about the Transatlantic Tunnel. In the last week, we've seen another previous fictional rail tunnel unearth itself (Bering Strait tunnel). Perhaps, the Transatlantic Tunnel is next... You cannot build tunnels across continental plates. A Bering Strait bridge is the answer; one platter can rest upon rollers with each end on different continents. It would still require good maintenance and the platter would have to be replaced regularly but it is not impossible. D. ======================= Women have spent the last 30 years proving that men have been right for the last 30 centuries. ======================= |
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On 25 Apr, 08:14, "Avenger" wrote:
I'm referring to the one connecting London to New York. I think it's a great idea especially the non stop express trains. And the toilet facilities and other accomodations will be of the same high standards we've come to expect on the London underground. There was a marvellous 1972 SF novel called "A Transatlantic Tunnel Hurrah!" by Harry Harrison, (an Anglophile American) in which he depicts a kind of parallel-universe situation where the British Empire still exists and contains the American colonies. Captain Augustine Washington and Sir Isambard Brassey-Brunel (descendant of Isambard Kingdom Brunel) get together to link the heart of the British Empire with its far-flung Atlantic colony in North America. The tunnel is like a 3,000 mile long series of upside-down Clifton Suspension Bridges where the cables have te resist the bouyancy of the submerged tube... Probably out of print long ago. It was called "Tunnel through The Deeps" in the USA. |
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On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 01:19:15PM +0000, Dr Ivan D. Reid wrote:
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 07:14:13 GMT, Avenger I'm referring to the one connecting London to New York. I think it's a great idea especially the non stop express trains. And the toilet facilities and other accomodations will be of the same high standards we've come to expect on the London underground. You can buy the design study he http://www.amazon.co.uk/Transatlanti.../dp/0575071346 That has been my on-the-****ter reading material for the past couple of weeks. It's jolly good fun. -- David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist I don't do .INI, .BAT, or .SYS files. I don't assign apps to files. I don't configure peripherals or networks before using them. I have a computer to do all that. I have a Macintosh, not a hobby. -- Fritz Anderson |
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On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Dustbin wrote:
Toby wrote: "Avenger" wrote in message news:9dDXh.10252$Fs6.8303@trnddc03... I'm referring to the one connecting London to New York. I think it's a great idea especially the non stop express trains. And the toilet facilities and other accomodations will be of the same high standards we've come to expect on the London underground. The Discovery Channel had a programme about the Transatlantic Tunnel. In the last week, we've seen another previous fictional rail tunnel unearth itself (Bering Strait tunnel). Perhaps, the Transatlantic Tunnel is next... You cannot build tunnels across continental plates. A Bering Strait bridge is the answer; one platter can rest upon rollers with each end on different continents. It would still require good maintenance and the platter would have to be replaced regularly but it is not impossible. How do you interface the track running across it at the ends, though? tom -- never mind your fingers, i've got blisters on my brain |
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