This is awesome. If this was completed, you could take a train from Boston to London. It'd take the better part of a month, but you could do it.
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
edit: Oh, and I need to interject the following: Don't let anyone who worked on the Big Dig anywhere near this one. Demos fucked around with this message on 04-21-2007 at 01:58 AM.
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I can't find the link at the moment, but there's that huge dam going up in China that's pretty impressive in its size. Supposedly it will be viewable from space along with the great wall.edit: Oh, and I need to interject the following: Don't let anyone who worked on the Big Dig anywhere near this one.
That is the Three Gorges Dam, and yes it is on big mf-ing dam. The Wikipedia entry on it
I will say, a tunnel make alot more sense than a bridge that they have been toying around with for years. I think it would greatly alter commerce, the amount of freight that could go by train instead of slow sealift or costly air-lift.