[meteorite-list] Subterranean Rumblings

From: Sterling K. Webb <kelly_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:23:46 2004
Message-ID: <3E6D47BA.9DD3ED35_at_bhil.com>

Hi,

    SciFi laser drills useless for tunnels. Rock vapor turns back into rock when
it cools, thus occupying the same amount of space it did before you blew a
gigawatt vaporizing it! Unless you could figure out a way to vent the plume of
3000+ degree rock vapor to the atmosphere before it condenses... But I figure
somebody would notice the pillar of fire and the rain of fresh rocks.
    Of course, Florida is just old rotten coral reefs underneath. You could
probably tunnel through it with a sharp penknife, as long as you didn't mind
being underwater as well as underground. Maybe Florida is just sinking... er,
settling. Settling sounds better.


Sterling
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Rosemary Hackney wrote:

> Not to mention...subterranean drills that use lasers to vaporize rock to
> connect military bases to each other by series of tunnels, so that
> unimpaired rapid deployment can take place.
>
> Rosie
Received on Mon 10 Mar 2003 09:19:39 PM PST