"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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On 5 Jan 2005 11:51:10 GMT, (Nick Maclaren)
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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.

Impossible.
The structure of the atom was only discovered well into the 20th
century, and the energy equivalence of mass was only suggested in
1905.

Anyway, you don't need one to blow up a
small construction like the tunnel, nor even modern explosives;
ordinary gunpowder will do.

True.

Franz