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Kolya on 24/4/2006 at 21:47

They are building a new underground station near to my place. And looking down that hole was like something out of Bladerunner. (Picture me dancing around the building site like a ten year old wailing a digicam.)
(http://www.schwarzsilber.de/apix/goingunderground.jpg)

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More pics:
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TTK12G3 on 25/4/2006 at 00:24

That's some major engineering. It sort of reminds me of that huge underground subway project in Greece when they implemented that huge drill. It looked really cool. This looks a little bit "cleaner and prepared" than the project in Greece, but still very interesting.:thumb:

io organic industrialism on 25/4/2006 at 02:13

that's some badass/beautiful shit

Vasquez on 25/4/2006 at 06:27

Yes, strangely beautiful :) But I'm reminded more of The Island than Blade runner.

ataricom on 25/4/2006 at 06:49

I guess I'm in for a real treat then! I've never seen Blade Runner, and I rented it tonight (along with Total Recall). I looove this kind of engineering/construction stuff.

tungsten on 25/4/2006 at 06:52

Cool.
When I visited a major tunnel construction (done by drilling, loading explosives and cleaning the debris. Classic but with modern drills and transport) I finally understood why one of the Alien movies ended in the cargo bay with that yellow robot. I instantly wanted to make a movie with one of those multi-armed robots:

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http://www.swissinfo.org/xobix_media/images/keystone/2005/keyimg20050428_5730096_1.jpg or

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Also: you might visit these here:

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(http://www.g-cans.jp/intro/07photo/index.html) here

Kolya on 25/4/2006 at 10:04

Heh, cool site. That one vertical tunnel... THX1138? :cool:
I have never seen The Island, maybe I should then. My mentioning of Blade Runner was more directed at the bleak, dark future and size contrasts depicted in it, Ataricom. But where the movie really shines is with it's art déco sets and film noir characters. Ah anyway, I'm sure you'll love it. :)

LesserFollies on 25/4/2006 at 16:31

That *is* cool. Anything underground like that gives me the shivers. Like the thought that there's a network of abandoned, 100-year-old sewer tunnels underneath NYC, which drives me nuts.... And city digging often turns up interesting archeological bits, old walls and structures (though that causes the whole enterprise to grind to a costly halt.)

Kolya on 25/4/2006 at 16:47

Yeah that happened a few times already. It seems like everytime a digger turns around here they find some Roman fortification. Sometimes you just want to say: Hey the Romans wouldn't mind if you razed that old junk.

TenTailedCat on 26/4/2006 at 10:45

My mate was into all that urban exploration stuff, there's a whole community of people who ferret around in construction tunnels, abandoned asylums, transit tubes, storm drains and the like and put pictures/stories online.

You can find one of the best websites (http://www.infiltration.org/) Here, but there are dozens out there.

I'm too lazy/scared to go piss-arsing around in access denied areas myself, but I love reading about their exploits

edit: There's a particularly interesting article about exploring a subway tunnel which is in the middle of being built (http://www.infiltration.org/transit-sheppard.html) here