Tunnel Boring Machine Completes Hole Under Niagara Falls 193
abhatt writes with news that "Big Becky," a 4,000-ton tunnel boring machine, has finished chewing through over 10 kilometers of rock underneath Niagara Falls, Ontario, a project that's been underway since 2006.
"The 10.2 kilometer tunnel is 14.4 meters in diameter. Big Becky ate through 1.6 million cubic meters of rock to reach her goal. That’s enough rock, officials said, to fill the Rogers Centre in Toronto. And the cement used to line the tunnel would build a sidewalk stretching from Windsor to Quebec City. ... The project took longer and cost more because Becky ran into unexpected conditions. She’s designed to go through solid rock, but encountered a stretch of loose, crumbling material that was unsuitable for tunneling. That forced a long and expensive detour."
No, I'm not going to RTFA just to find out (Score:3, Funny)
"Rogers Center"s? (Score:2, Funny)
Slashdot is an American site, we don't need any Metric measurements like "Rogers Center"s. How many Libraries of Congresses can it fill?
Booooring. (Score:2, Funny)
I always said Canadians were boring.
I'd tell you, but... (Score:5, Funny)
...it's boring.
Re:worst article ever (Score:5, Funny)
What do you mean, why they built the tunnel. It's a tunnel. You've got to build tunnels.
Re:worst article ever (Score:2, Funny)
Re:No, I'm not going to RTFA just to find out (Score:5, Funny)
I guess you believe you have concrete reasons to be annoyed but your rant has likely cemented opinions that you're over-sensitive.
Re:The reason (Score:5, Funny)
Looks like it's time to build a wall. Anyone know where I can get some cheap labor?
Detroit.
What, too soon?