• Lena@gregtech.eu
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    21 hours ago

    Easy, you make a tunnel underwater, get some sponges and get rid of the water

  • tomiant@piefed.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    9
    ·
    1 day ago

    I work with these tunnels and while I am not involved directly in their construction I can say that it takes quite an effort going through all the nooks and crannies and stocking supplies in crates and locked containers like ammo, anti radiation pills, random junk, low tier armor, and fruit that never goes bad.

  • ameancow@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    10
    ·
    2 days ago

    It’s even worse when you take the time to learn how they’re made, and then you realize just how very far you are from being able to even comprehend the basics of such an operation. The amount of money, time, equipment, resources and training for something as simple as a goddamn overpass is staggering.

    Our whole system is so incredibly complicated and fragile that it’s reassuring at least we pick the very best, smartest and most qualified leaders to manage all this.

    Wait, I’m being told that we do the exact opposite of that. Welp.

    • The Picard Maneuver@piefed.worldOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      2 days ago

      it’s reassuring at least we pick the very best, smartest and most qualified leaders to manage all this.

      Reminds me of that episode of Futurama: “Fortunately, our handsomest politicians came up with a cheap, last minute way to combat global warming.”

  • pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    89
    ·
    3 days ago

    It’s actually really fucking cool, for ones like this they cast them in concrete sections, seal the ends, float them out, and sink them into place! Practical engineering made a video about

  • credo@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    57
    ·
    edit-2
    3 days ago

    “Hey you!”

    Me?

    “Yeah you. Get over here and build this tunnel.”

    *picks up shovel

  • starik@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    30
    ·
    3 days ago

    That’s the great thing about our species. You never have to do it alone or figure it all out for yourself. Just following instructions will get the job done, and if you contribute an incremental improvement to the process, you’ve gone above and beyond.

    • Test_Tickles@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      2 days ago

      I’m glad they started putting up No Helicopter signs at the entrance to the tunnel near me. I think the local henchmen got so used to chasing people through them that they would sometimes get distracted and absent mindedly take the tunnel on their commute to work.

  • devfuuu@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    15
    ·
    3 days ago

    It was aliens. We clearly don’t have the technology so the ancient people who created this obviously had external help. Have you seem how huge these blocka are? Insanity.