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On 4/19/2025 1:22 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> xkcd: Anchor Bolts
>     https://xkcd.com/3078/
>
> I want to see the drill.  The largest earthen drill in the world to date
> is less than a couple of hundred feet in diameter.
>     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_(tunnel_boring_machine)
>
> That bolt shaft has got to be at least a mile in diameter.  Maybe a
> hundred miles in diameter, the scale is difficult to ascertain.
>
> Explained at:
>     https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3078:_Anchor_Bolts
>
And somehow made of something that CANNOT melt....

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I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
dirty old man.

Lynn McGuire wrote:
> xkcd: Anchor Bolts
>     https://xkcd.com/3078/

It seems that people are listening to the repeated warnings of the "Stop
Continental Drift" society.

About time.


William Hyde

On Sat, 19 Apr 2025 15:22:08 -0500, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

>xkcd: Anchor Bolts
>    https://xkcd.com/3078/
>
>I want to see the drill.  The largest earthen drill in the world to date 
>is less than a couple of hundred feet in diameter.
>    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_(tunnel_boring_machine)

Let's see if a link that works can be provided:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_(tunnel_boring_machine)>
well, that was easy.

This was quite a saga, starting with the efforts of WDOT (the
State-level DOT, as Aurora/Hwy 99 is a State Highway) to convince
voters to replace the viaduct with a tunnel. This enhanced the view,
and so the value, of a group of people living downtown at the expense
of a beloved landmark. Notable was the "coincidental" release of an
animation showing what would happen to the viaduct in a major
earthquake. What would happen to the tunnel, underground and next to
Elliot Bay (and so a whole lot of water) was somehow not explored.

>That bolt shaft has got to be at least a mile in diameter.  Maybe a 
>hundred miles in diameter, the scale is difficult to ascertain.
>
>Explained at:
>    https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3078:_Anchor_Bolts

Really big lasers?
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Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

On 4/20/2025 11:17 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Apr 2025 15:22:08 -0500, Lynn McGuire
> <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> xkcd: Anchor Bolts
>>     https://xkcd.com/3078/
>>
>> I want to see the drill.  The largest earthen drill in the world to date
>> is less than a couple of hundred feet in diameter.
>>     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_(tunnel_boring_machine)
>
> Let's see if a link that works can be provided:
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_(tunnel_boring_machine)>
> well, that was easy.
>
> This was quite a saga, starting with the efforts of WDOT (the
> State-level DOT, as Aurora/Hwy 99 is a State Highway) to convince
> voters to replace the viaduct with a tunnel. This enhanced the view,
> and so the value, of a group of people living downtown at the expense
> of a beloved landmark. Notable was the "coincidental" release of an
> animation showing what would happen to the viaduct in a major
> earthquake. What would happen to the tunnel, underground and next to
> Elliot Bay (and so a whole lot of water) was somehow not explored.
>
>> That bolt shaft has got to be at least a mile in diameter.  Maybe a
>> hundred miles in diameter, the scale is difficult to ascertain.
>>
>> Explained at:
>>     https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3078:_Anchor_Bolts
>
> Really big lasers?

Maybe some of the lasers that we use to shoot ICBMs coming in from space
as documented in the awesome "Real Genius" movie with Val Kilmer.  Gonna
need a lot of those really expensive one shot cartridges though.

Lynn

On 4/21/25 3:53 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> On 4/20/2025 11:17 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
>> On Sat, 19 Apr 2025 15:22:08 -0500, Lynn McGuire
>> <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> xkcd: Anchor Bolts
>>>     https://xkcd.com/3078/
>>>
>>> I want to see the drill.  The largest earthen drill in the world to date
>>> is less than a couple of hundred feet in diameter.
>>>     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_(tunnel_boring_machine)
>>
>> Let's see if a link that works can be provided:
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_(tunnel_boring_machine)>
>> well, that was easy.
>>
>> This was quite a saga, starting with the efforts of WDOT (the
>> State-level DOT, as Aurora/Hwy 99 is a State Highway) to convince
>> voters to replace the viaduct with a tunnel. This enhanced the view,
>> and so the value, of a group of people living downtown at the expense
>> of a beloved landmark. Notable was the "coincidental" release of an
>> animation showing what would happen to the viaduct in a major
>> earthquake. What would happen to the tunnel, underground and next to
>> Elliot Bay (and so a whole lot of water) was somehow not explored.
>>
>>> That bolt shaft has got to be at least a mile in diameter.  Maybe a
>>> hundred miles in diameter, the scale is difficult to ascertain.
>>>
>>> Explained at:
>>>     https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3078:_Anchor_Bolts
>>
>> Really big lasers?
>
> Maybe some of the lasers that we use to shoot ICBMs coming in from space
> as documented in the awesome "Real Genius" movie with Val Kilmer.  Gonna
> need a lot of those really expensive one shot cartridges though.
>

Hey! Great reference: Real Genius is one of my favorites; it fits the
somewhat quirky parts of my sense of humor perfectly.

Tony