Constructing The World's Longest Underwater Tunnel | Modern Wonders Of The World

The Channel Tunnel is a 50.5 km rail tunnel linking Folkestone, Kent, in the United Kingdom, with Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais, near Calais in northern France, beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover. At 37.9 km the tunnel has the longest undersea portion of any tunnel in the world.
The great engineering achievements of the modern world are more than purely functional. The visionaries who dreamed up their imposing shapes used art and science to create structures of dramatic beauty. Our bridges, dams, and skyscrapers, dominate our landscapes, as the pyramids dominated those of ancient Egypt. They're testaments to the creative genius of humankind.
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[@rubberduck4966]

Can you PLEASE use metric units for projects where metric units are Standard?

[@zillsburyy1]

reminds me of the movie DAYLIGHT

[@NeonVisual]

Tunnel to the EUSSR

[@sprint955st]

Wow how did you manage to go back in time to get this footage? And good that you downgraded the GoPro video quality to look like footage taken ‘back in the day’.

[@zillsburyy1]

is this how they do it under AREA-51?

[@joetheox1202]

1:17. It's interesting the tunnel predates air travel. New history I suppose.

[@MattBrownbill]

I wouldn't like to be on that train when an EV on board goes into thermal runaway. Not sure what they could do in that case.

[@NeonVisual]

Most EV's have batteries wrapped in Kevlar, they will only spark up if the underside of the vehicle has been damaged by grounding it on something. That's unlikely to happen while stationary on a train. Then there's petrol tanks....

[@MattBrownbill]

@@NeonVisual petrol burns much cooler and can be extinguished by starving the fire of oxygen. Thermal decomposition of a battery produces far more heat, and critically it decomposes into fuel and oxygen, so cooling is the only way to stop the reaction, and the fire extinguishing equipment in the tunnel is not designed to do that.

[@MattBrownbill]

@@NeonVisual statistics show that not to be a big problem.

[@NeonVisual]

@@MattBrownbill Lithium fires are contained within the vehicle. Petrol fires spread and destroy the entire train. Boomer logic is always wrong.

[@NeonVisual]

@@MattBrownbill Stastics show boomer logic gets most of it's misinformation from the Daily Heil.

[@Jonsku124Transit]

166 views fell off

[@King311___]

1st 🥇