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Something Called "The Object" Stops World's Largest Tunneling Machine

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Cool story! Maybe this one will break the trend and yield something interesting, but my gut says it will probably wind up being some super hard rock formation of some sort :-(
 
Cool story! Maybe this one will break the trend and yield something interesting, but my gut says it will probably wind up being some super hard rock formation of some sort :-(

Agreed, but what ever it is it must be one massive mother f***er for that tunneling machine to have been stopped in its tracks.
 

A truly amazing story and as current as they get. Thanks! The mind is blown away by the sheer size in the scale of this equipment. I would imagine that every efficiency is in order within the design of such a beast. Possibly it's capabilities are only as great as what is it's intentionally engineered specific geological tasks. Due to it's energy consumption to task performance ratio it may reach maximum potential very quickly. What is a constitutional abnormality in the earth's geologically estimated resistance, in aspect to the boring energy requirement that the equipment represents, may be enough to bring the monstrosity to shut down based on heat generation alone. It's more likely IMO that the object represents something fairly mundane that was simply unaccounted for in the machinery's engineered maximum capacity.

Possibly "the object" is a means to "mystify" and just plain old distract from what are numerous reasons that the process is now at a halt. It's very odd that they would not just immediately identify the stratified obstruction to satiate funding and contractual agreements. It doesn't say much for their geological survey diagnostics apart from the object being a fragment from some monstrous meteorite. That or a big deposit of some unknown element. It would seem that the machinery itself should be safe guided by satellite sonar probing of the earth's path that it's on. Frankly, it just makes little sense for an operation of this scope and magnitude not to "know" what they are dealing with clearly prior to press unless...
 
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Wade Ridsdale said.....
So it appears that it was something as mundane as sand that slowed Bertha down.

Sand Grinds World's Largest Tunneling Machine To A Halt : NPR


Yes, maybe it was " something as mundane as sand", but did it occur to you it MAY have been put there by DEROS ????
 
So it appears that it was something as mundane as sand that slowed Bertha down.

I'm sure they said something like that after Professor Quatermass got rid of the invaders from the pit, too...
sorry m8 it just a fly, it flies like a fly, just out of focus, what season is it there.
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oops this was meant for the ghost thread, dunno how it ended up here.
LOL. Guess it didn't like being called a fly out of focus.
:D
 
this was on the page for the tunnel thing;


"Due to extensive research done by the League University of Science, diamond has been confirmed as the the hardest metal known to man. The research is as follows.

Pocket-protected scientists built a wall of iron and crashed a diamond car into it at 400 miles per hour, and the car was unharmed.

They then built a wall out of diamond and crashed a car made of iron moving at 400 miles an out into the wall, and the wall came out fine.

They then crashed a diamond car made of 400 miles per hour into a wall, and there were no survivors.

They crashed 400 miles per hour into a diamond travelling at iron car. Western New York was powerless for hours.

They rammed a wall of metal into a 400 mile per hour made of diamond, and the resulting explosion shifted the earth's orbit 400 million miles away from the sun, saving the earth from a meteor the size of a small Washington suburb that was hurtling towards midwestern Prussia at 400 billion miles per hour.

They shot a diamond made of iron at a car moving at 400 walls per hour, and as a result caused two wayward airplanes to lose track of their bearings, and make a fatal crash with two buildings in downtown New York.

They spun 400 miles at diamond into iron per wall. The results were inconclusive.

Finally, they placed 400 diamonds per hour in front of a car made of wall travelling at miles, and the result proved without a doubt that diamonds were the hardest metal of all time, if not just the hardest metal known to man. "
 


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