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World's Longest, Deepest Tunnel Is Officially Open

Posted on 6/1/16 at 4:57 pm
Posted by SlowFlowPro
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Posted on 6/1/16 at 4:57 pm
Let the vagina jokes commence



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Swiss engineer Carl Eduard Gruner first imagined it in 1947: a massive tunnel, unprecedented in length, buried a mile and a half under Switzerland's symbolic Gotthard mountain range.

Nearly seven decades later, after redesigns, political disagreements and the long, slow work of drilling beneath the Gotthard massif, as it's called, Gruner's dream is complete.


*ETA: i edited the pic from the article to another b/c a male dancer is being mistaken for a female one
This post was edited on 6/1/16 at 5:03 pm
Posted by Breesus
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Posted on 6/1/16 at 4:59 pm to
Another Ashley Graham thread?
Posted by SundayFunday
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Posted on 6/1/16 at 5:00 pm to
Did you just post bewbs?
Posted by Dan Bilzerian
..on my yacht or jet.
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Posted on 6/1/16 at 5:00 pm to
Dancers performed at its opening?

Hell, I thought that was a scene from the new Ghostbusters.
Posted by LSUBoo
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Posted on 6/1/16 at 5:00 pm to
I am shocked and appalled that the picture you posted is real and not photoshopped.

What. The. frick?
Posted by That's BS
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Posted on 6/1/16 at 5:00 pm to
That's definitely boobs. Enjoy banland.
Posted by SEClint
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Posted on 6/1/16 at 5:01 pm to
Rex is unbanned?
Posted by SlowFlowPro
Simple Solutions to Complex Probs
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Posted on 6/1/16 at 5:01 pm to
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Did you just post bewbs?


Posted by whit
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Posted on 6/1/16 at 5:02 pm to
We can post tits now!?!?
Posted by 777Tiger
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Posted on 6/1/16 at 5:04 pm to
quote:

Did you just post bewbs?



that's a man baby!
Posted by RockAndRollDetective
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Posted on 6/1/16 at 5:05 pm to
Kanye dumped Kim?
Posted by slackster
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Posted on 6/1/16 at 5:07 pm to
quote:

The $12 billion project was completed on time, The Associated Press notes.


That's one way to put it.
Posted by jrodLSUke
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Posted on 6/1/16 at 5:08 pm to
quote:

The $12 billion project was completed on time, The Associated Press notes.

With a B. I bet the ROI makes total sense. Thanks, socialism.
Posted by upgrayedd
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Posted on 6/1/16 at 5:09 pm to
Posted by jrodLSUke
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Posted on 6/1/16 at 5:12 pm to
Ah, here it is...

quote:

The high-speed rail running through the tunnel will make the train trip between Zurich and Milan about 45 minutes shorter, cutting it to 2 1/2 hours.


Only $267 million per minute saved.
Posted by slackster
Houston
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84991 posts
Posted on 6/1/16 at 5:34 pm to
I mean saving 45 minutes on a 3 hour trip is a pretty big deal. A 38-mile long tunnel is impressive for that amount of money. We could have had 12 fighter jets for the same price.
Posted by northshorebamaman
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Posted on 6/1/16 at 6:11 pm to
Came to make a joke about Paiges vag but it's been beat to death already.
Posted by rasczak
Member since Feb 2013
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Posted on 6/1/16 at 6:32 pm to
In the mid 70's, I drove through the Sonnenberg tunnel. It was very interesting. So maybe there is a secondary purpose behind the tunnel.
Sonnenberg Tunnel
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Based on a federal law from 1963, Switzerland aims to provide nuclear fallout shelters for the entire population of the country. The construction of a new tunnel near an urban centre was seen as an opportunity to provide shelter space for a large number of people at the same time. The installations that allowed the tunnel to be converted into a fallout shelter cost around $32.5 million, of which approximately $5 million were borne by the municipality of Lucerne. The shelter consisted of the two motorway tunnels (one per direction of travel), each capable of holding 10,000 people in 64 person subdivisions. A seven story cavern between the tunnels contained shelter infrastructure including a command post, an emergency hospital, and a radio studio. The shelter was designed to withstand the blast from a 1 megaton nuclear explosion 1 kilometre away. The blast doors at the tunnel portals are 1.5 meters thick and weigh 350 tons.
Posted by udtiger
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Posted on 6/1/16 at 6:42 pm to
Please tell me that the unofficial name is "your Mom"
Posted by mikrit54
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Posted on 6/1/16 at 6:50 pm to
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World's Longest, Deepest Tunnel Is Officially Open


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