Okay debunkers, is this real?

[Goober Mcfly]

www.atlantictunnel.com

Heard about this on the radio yesterday. I know it was April Fool's Day, but the website is still active and it's very well done...

Anyone know if it's real?

</I doubt it, but I figured I'd ask>

 

[DenWa]

While the website is very well done I have my doubts. Why have we never heard of this project? I did a lookup on www.whois.net and the site was created on March 12, 2004. They also list an individual as the registrant of the site. For a huge project like this, there would be most likely an organization or coporation name listed as owners of the site, and at the very least there would be a fax number on the contact info. The website is based in London. Why on Earth would a transatlantic super-train go to New Jersey???????

DW

 

[The Doctor]

Enter the contest.

</self-explanitory>

 

[Perry Mason]

I have heard of it before.

It does seem fantastic, but Jules Verne's novels just about 100 years ago seemed fantastic then, too... and we have gone miles beyond what he fantasized in very short order.

But similar technological feats have been accomplished before... did you know, for example, that the first Trans Atlantic Telegraph Cable was completed and used in 1858?

Perry

 

[Cardinal Fang]

Clearly Fake.

There was an interesting Documentary on TLC in November that described the problems associated with just such a venture. It is being contemplated but thus far our level of engineering cannot cope with the problems that would arise.

1. The unevenness of the sea bottom.
2. Elevator's necessary to get people that far into the earth.
3. Air supply to something that massive underground.
4. Emergency measures in case of any accident.
5. People's fear of being buried alive.
6. Buying out Alien's patent on the idea.

Nice website though.

 

[Anais North]

Goober, smarten up! Googling "Oxygill" or "Dr. James Orrmrod" is a good start.

 

[impala77]

I have heard of it before and i think i saw the same documentary about it not to long ago but i do believe that the web site is a fake.

 

[Goober Mcfly]

Goober, smarten up! Googling "Oxygill" or "Dr. James Orrmrod" is a good start.

I get nothing.

 

[gamblor]

I also saw the documentary and believe that one day it may become a reality, but the website states a launch date of 2009. I highly doubt that.

 

[Anais North]

AH HA!

I get nothing.

That's my point buddy. Or did you literally mean you get nothing...

 

[Captain Biggles]

This reminds me of the joke about the two Irish brothres who bid on the Channel Tunnel project.... they turn up with just two shovels and the plan that one would start digging in Dover and the other in Calais, then they'd meet halfway.

But what if you miss each other? they were asked.

"Ah and jaysus, that way you'll be getting two tunnels for the price of one" was the reply.

 

[Goober Mcfly]

Re: AH HA!

That's my point buddy. Or did you literally mean you get nothing...

*cries*

 

[Dr Watchsom]

There was a movie made about a tunnel under the ocean a long time ago, dont remember the name but I believe it was one of thouse 60s B sci fi flicks.

 

[Anais North]

history

the website states a launch date of 2009. I highly doubt that.

Conceived as early as 1715, the Chunnel's construction was started in 1987 and it opened for business in 1994. So yeah, an Atlantic tunnel seems like a long undertaking.

</strangely fascinated by underground tunnels>

 

[Anais North]

Re: Re: AH HA!

*cries*

(@) (@)


*Anais tries to cheer Goober up*

 

[johnnyhandsome]

These are the same people that owned the BRE-X company a few years back. Also the same people that built the monorail in Springfield.

 

[johnnyhandsome]

I can just envision a collision with a giant Spermwhale.