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On 5 Jan 2005 11:51:10 GMT, (Nick Maclaren) wrote:
In article ,
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but there wasn't a channel tunnel in 1974, or was there a secret one
we didn't know about?
There was one in 1874! It wasn't complete - which doesn't stop the
government planning how to blow it up if it were ever completed.
It would need a bit of foresight to anticipate a tunnel and the
invention of the atom bomb :-)
No foresight needed for the first - look up the history of the
tunnel - it was first proposed in the 18th century and preliminary
work started in the 19th.
The atom bomb was also speculated in the 19th century, but I now
forget the reference. Anyway, you don't need one to blow up a
small construction like the tunnel, nor even modern explosives;
ordinary gunpowder will do.
Regards,
Nick Maclaren.