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2007-01-28 India-Pakistan

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Posted by john 2007-01-28 06:48|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 New Austrian tunnelling technique
Makes sense, being diggers and all.

Posted by Shipman 2007-01-28 07:12|| 2007-01-28 07:12|| Front Page Top

#2 2 km in three years. 9 km to go.
They will need to dig 4 times faster to complete the job in 2009. That new TBM better be good.

Posted by john 2007-01-28 07:29|| 2007-01-28 07:29|| Front Page Top

#3 They will need to dig 4 times faster to complete the job in 2009

With the paleo mole-men, it would be done very quickly, I've heard they were very good at burrowing, being some kind of lemmings variants.

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-01-28 07:48|| 2007-01-28 07:48|| Front Page Top

#4 2010 should see 40 trains ply on the tracks to and from the Valley.
Double track, I sincerely hope.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-01-28 08:12|| 2007-01-28 08:12|| Front Page Top

#5 Damn, Austrian, never mind. Lord Ima gotta get these things lazered.

Posted by Shipman 2007-01-28 09:57|| 2007-01-28 09:57|| Front Page Top

#6 Wondered that, Ship when I saw your first post. Of course, who am i to pick at other's nits?

Posted by BA 2007-01-28 11:39|| 2007-01-28 11:39|| Front Page Top

#7 What's the line on how soon one of the portals is shut by an explosive once it opens? And is there anybody willing to bet there won't be simultaneous attacks on both ends, sealing in any number of trains / people?

Posted by USN, ret. 2007-01-28 21:02|| 2007-01-28 21:02|| Front Page Top

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