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mrbluze writes:
"Projected to cost around US$37 billion, China has resurrected plans for an underwater tunnel 123km in length, Daily Mail reports that 'the tunnel will run from the port city of Dalian in northeastern Liaoning province to Yantai city in eastern Shandong, slashing travel time to 40 minutes.'
China first announced plans in 1994 to build the tunnel, at an estimated cost of $10 billion, with completion set before 2010. But 20 years on, the project remains stuck in the planning stage. The project has also been proposed at the annual session of China's parliament every year since 2009.
A world wonder, or just another pipe dream?"
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I'm not a robot like you. I don't like having disks crammed into me... unless they're Oreos, and then only in the mouth.
-- Fry
(Score: 3, Funny) by chromas on Sunday February 16 2014, @04:58PM
This is where refugees will get their uncensored Internet—the underground series-of-tubes.
(Score: 1) by mrbluze on Sunday February 16 2014, @07:00PM
And we can be sure that if those tubes leak, they'll fill up with prawn.
Do it yourself, 'cause no one else will do it yourself.
(Score: 3, Funny) by chromas on Sunday February 16 2014, @09:02PM
Mmm, hardcore prawnography.
(Score: 3, Funny) by combatserver on Sunday February 16 2014, @08:38PM
Everyone is behind schedule--I haven't heard of a single person "digging a hole to China" that has completed the project. They all seem to stop at hot-tub installation depth.
I hope I can change this later...
(Score: 1) by unitron on Monday February 17 2014, @01:37AM
...to see if anybody in either of those cities had any desire to go to the other one?
something something Slashcott something something Beta something something
(Score: 1) by stroucki on Monday February 17 2014, @01:46AM
The 8 hour ferry already saves massive travel time, and how many people actually want to go to Yantai from Dalian?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 17 2014, @01:54AM
It's still less money than the 2-week long party that is going on right now. At least they'll be left with something useful at the end of it...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 17 2014, @04:58AM
... in the great escape: they're digging tunnels!
(Score: 1) by kwerle on Monday February 17 2014, @01:18PM
A tunnel in China is not being built.
This is not news. This is un-news. This is the kind of fluff crap that I never want to see.
Upon completing the tunnel, I would not mind seeing an in depth on the tech used to build the tunnel and interesting engineering solutions. But only barely. It's a freaking tunnel.
None like this, please.