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lleeder
10-13-2007, 12:38 PM
This round goes to tunnels (http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/13/tunnel.fire/index.html)
TeeBone
10-13-2007, 01:26 PM
How high is the bridge and how long is the tunnel?
Also, is the tunnel under water or through rock?
sailor
10-13-2007, 02:05 PM
staten islanders
scottinnj
10-13-2007, 02:43 PM
Bridges bug me more then tunnels.

Unless the tunnel has a train track in it.

Then the tunnel is scarier then the bridge.
Chigworthy
10-15-2007, 11:48 AM
The lower deck of a bridge has tunnel-like properties. I was on the Richmond bridge this morning, and the son of a prick blocks the XM signal now that they renovated it.
Judge Smails
10-15-2007, 11:59 AM
HOLY FUCKING MOTHER OF GOD!!!!!!!!

http://www.roadstothefuture.com/M3/MMMBT_N_Aerial.jpg
Furtherman
10-15-2007, 12:21 PM
I'd take my chances in a tunnel anyday over a bridge. Wait... that sounds wrong.

Anyway, after seeing that bridge drop outta nowhere in seconds in Minneapolis, and reading about how old our bridges are around here (read up on the Tappan Zee bridge and you'll think twice about going over it), I'd feel a little bit safer in a tunnel, where it started collapsing, I'd have a chance to run out.
DolaMight
10-15-2007, 12:28 PM
Tunnelbridgers are scary.
TooLowBrow
10-15-2007, 12:28 PM
you can skip the bridge and tunnel and still get killed on a ferry
http://wwwimage.cbsnews.com/images/2003/10/15/image578310x.jpg
Chigworthy
10-15-2007, 12:28 PM
Yeah, but if a tunnel collapses and Stallone isn't anywhere to be found, you're fucked. I can swim a lot better than I can dig through concrete with my bare hands.
Marc with a c
10-15-2007, 12:31 PM
I think spiders are scarier then bridges or tunnels.
Furtherman
10-15-2007, 12:32 PM
Yeah, but if a tunnel collapses and Stallone isn't anywhere to be found, you're fucked. I can swim a lot better than I can dig through concrete with my bare hands.

No, I'd be OK because Stallone would run into the control center and notice me on one of the tunnel camera screens when no one else, whose job it is to notice, would see me. :dry:
Furtherman
10-15-2007, 12:33 PM
I think spiders are scarier then bridges or tunnels.

What about a tunnel full of spiders?
Marc with a c
10-15-2007, 12:35 PM
What about a tunnel full of spiders?

Oh no.

Where is this tunnel?
TooLowBrow
10-15-2007, 12:35 PM
What about a tunnel full of spiders?

or a spider full of tunnels!
Furtherman
10-15-2007, 12:36 PM
It's one of the ones that lead to & from Brooklyn. I forget which one. But it's one of them. Maybe two.
Marc with a c
10-15-2007, 12:37 PM
'Tunnel of spiders' sounds like a terrible movie.

Edit: I bet sam jackson would do it though.
Furtherman
10-15-2007, 12:39 PM
'Tunnel of spiders' sounds like a terrible movie.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Wolf_spider_tunnel.jpg/645px-Wolf_spider_tunnel.jpg
Marccccccccccccccccccc
Marc with a c
10-15-2007, 12:41 PM
Crap. I can't come back in this thread now.

Thanks.
Chigworthy
10-15-2007, 12:46 PM
Crap. I can't come now.

Thanks.

He REALLY dislikes spiders.
buzzard
10-15-2007, 01:14 PM
http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z82/a1958wil/tc3.jpg
http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z82/a1958wil/tc1.jpg

this bridge scared me when I was a kid..I knew people that tossed sheep off it.







BBBBBBBBbbbbbbbAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!:nono:
Chigworthy
10-15-2007, 02:34 PM
Is "tossing sheep" Oregonian for jerking off?
Mullenax
10-17-2007, 08:53 AM
Railroad tressels scarier than bridges and tunnels when walking- you could fall through, or a train could come and you'd have to hang on... yeesh
FUNKMAN
10-17-2007, 08:55 AM
http://images.eonline.com/eol_images/Profiles/20061003/244.bridges.todd.100306.jpg
topless_mike
10-17-2007, 08:58 AM
i'd rather be on a bridge than a tunnel.
at least with the bridge, you stand a chance (except for mothman prophecies).
how many bad tunnel movies have been made?
A.J.
10-17-2007, 09:07 AM
The King Fahd Causeway between Saudi Arabia and Bahrain spans 15 miles across the Persian Gulf. (There are plans to build one between Bahrain and Qatar which will be 27 miles long.)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/King_Fahd_causeway_satellite.png/800px-King_Fahd_causeway_satellite.png
topless_mike
10-17-2007, 09:13 AM
The King Fahd Causeway between Saudi Arabia and Bahrain spans 15 miles across the Persian Gulf. (There are plans to build one between Bahrain and Qatar which will be 27 miles long.)



no, this wont ever be a bomb target.
sr71blackbird
10-17-2007, 12:14 PM
HOLY FUCKING MOTHER OF GOD!!!!!!!!

http://www.roadstothefuture.com/M3/MMMBT_N_Aerial.jpg

THAT looks like a disaster waiting to happen! What engineering genius thought of that??
sr71blackbird
10-17-2007, 12:17 PM
Why was it even necessary? Look at this...

http://www.roadstothefuture.com/M3/MMMBT_S_Aerial.jpg

Why go through the trouble to make that short point below water? I do not see an advantage.
EliSnow
10-17-2007, 12:26 PM
Why was it even necessary? Look at this...

http://www.roadstothefuture.com/M3/MMMBT_S_Aerial.jpg

Why go through the trouble to make that short point below water? I do not see an advantage.

According to this website (http://www.roadstothefuture.com/I664_VA_MMMBT.html), the reason appears to be to accomodate shipping traffic:

The current shipping channel above the deepest part of the tunnel, has 800 feet of horizontal width and 45 feet of vertical depth below the average low-tide water level; and the tunnel was designed and built deep enough to allow for a future enlargement of the shipping channel to 1,000 feet of horizontal width and 55 feet of vertical depth below the average low-tide water level.
sr71blackbird
10-17-2007, 12:44 PM
I guess building the bridge higher at that point would have been more costly? It doesn't look like the water would have to raise too much to flood that tunnel.
EliSnow
10-17-2007, 12:57 PM
I guess building the bridge higher at that point would have been more costly? It doesn't look like the water would have to raise too much to flood that tunnel.

If that happens, they have a huge one of these at the bottom of the tunnel:

http://cathielippmanmd.com/news/images/Volume04/bright-plug.jpg
drusilla
10-17-2007, 12:59 PM
i guess since i live on an island bridges never bothered me. neither have tunnels, but i can understand why they would seem scarier to some. especially after seeing daylight. i think i would rather take my chances on a bridge after watching that.


the chesapeake bay bridge-tunnel is another one of those wacky combinations. i guess when went over it once as a kid i thought it was the coolest thing ever. http://www.cbbt.com/
Chigworthy
10-17-2007, 03:23 PM
That underwater section of the bridge is a shipping channel, for super carriers and such.
sr71blackbird
10-17-2007, 04:16 PM
If that happens, they have a huge one of these at the bottom of the tunnel:

http://cathielippmanmd.com/news/images/Volume04/bright-plug.jpg

If you pulled out a plug from an underwater tunnel, wouldn't water flood IN? Just sayin...
EliSnow
10-18-2007, 03:36 AM
If you pulled out a plug from an underwater tunnel, wouldn't water flood IN? Just sayin...

No, obviously there's a huge drain that goes down and would empty the water into a huge empty pit.

Geez, there's no talking engineering and science with some people.
sailor
10-18-2007, 03:39 AM
No, obviously there's a huge drain that goes down and would empty the water into a huge empty pit.

Geez, there's no talking engineering and science with some people.

don't forget the forced air entering at each end of the tube, causing high pressure from the inside the tunnel. you could punch a hole up to 1.5'x2' and they would not have to pull the plug for over 25 minutes. it's all in the papers they filed prior to construction.