Rise of the Underminer!
They would have been better off it they started with a Miata or an E30.
Them things dug the Chunnel.
One is in downtown Miami now, digging access tunnels to the Port of Miami. Truck traffic into the Port is insane, and it actually sounds like a good idea.
I am incredibly doubtful they track them via GPS... Silly reporter.
Why don't they dig in a straight line? I could show them how. Bloody Limeys......
Osterkraut wrote: I am incredibly doubtful they track them via GPS... Silly reporter.
probably because the average reporter doesn't know how grav-mag based orienteering works, and the fact that you can't get a satellite signal underground
cwh wrote: One is in downtown Miami now....
Isn't Miami like 3 ft. above sea level? How can that not hit water?
Dan
914Driver wrote:cwh wrote: One is in downtown Miami now....Isn't Miami like 3 ft. above sea level? How can that not hit water? Dan
My thoughts exactly...I'm sure they've thought of that, though. Otherwise...oops.
914Driver wrote: Isn't Miami like 3 ft. above sea level? How can that not hit water?
FAA Identifier: MIA
Elevation: 9 ft. / 2.7 m (surveyed)
Naaa, they have plenty of room...
914Driver wrote:cwh wrote: One is in downtown Miami now....Isn't Miami like 3 ft. above sea level? How can that not hit water? Dan
It might be making its own cement tube as it travels. IIRC some of that trpe of work was done in "The Big Dig" through Boston harbor.
Yep. These badboys can go under ze sea.
I used to work for a paving company owned by an international conglomo, and the company digging in Miami was under the same conglomo. I was told by some reliable (mostly) people up the chain that the best way they had found to tunnel in the wet sand was to FREEZE THE SAND AHEAD OF THE DIGGER using liquid Nitrogen. 
It's been a while since I had that conversation, but that's what he understood they were doing, and it was all hush-hush outside the company as it was a new process
And yes, it does lay concrete pipe dried in behind it.
MIA may be 9 feet up, but the Port is zero feet above.
Someone is putting two large drainage tunnels in San Fran using something which looks similar to that thing. I saw it near candlestick park.
Man, I want one of those. I would dig all under a city and plant charges everywhere, then pop up from my vast tunnel empire in the middle of a major public square, wearing a lab coat, welding gloves and goggles, wielding a Tesla coil death ray in one hand and the detonator remote in the other, and laugh maniacally while the mayor personally brought me all the gold. Muahahahaha!
Maybe it's a good thing I can't afford one.
Besides being one of my favorite cartoons as a young lad, Underdog was years ahead of its time. Here, the molemen demonstrate just such a device, albeit on a slightly smaller scale...
That's creepy.
I hope the Underminer gets into the next Incredibles movie...
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