05-25-2008, 01:19 PM | #1 (permalink) |
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'Tunnel' links New York to London!
Hardly anyone knows that a secret tunnel runs deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean. In May 2008, more than a century after it was begun, the tunnel has finally been completed. An extraordinary optical device called a Telectroscope has been installed at both ends which miraculously allows people to see right through the Earth from London to New York
and vice versa. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7415911.stm and http://www.tiscali.co.uk/telectroscope/home.php Nice to see art installations breaking boundaries and bringing people together. |
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05-25-2008, 01:38 PM | #4 (permalink) |
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Hain, the magnification required to do that with glass optics only would be ruinously expensive, and the maintenance would be near impossible. At least, I think so. Either way, I cannot fathom how it actually works when you get it down to the "nuts and bolts."
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05-25-2008, 01:50 PM | #7 (permalink) | |
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05-25-2008, 02:08 PM | #9 (permalink) | |
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05-25-2008, 02:15 PM | #10 (permalink) | |
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05-25-2008, 02:19 PM | #11 (permalink) | |
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It's Skype with a fictitious Jules Verne-esque back story. |
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05-25-2008, 02:21 PM | #12 (permalink) |
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It's not about the technology. It's ART. Jeez. Suspend your disbelief and be five again for a half a second.
This was done by the same group that walked a gigantic baby doll marionette and a huge mechanical elephant through London. Amazing stuff. |
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05-25-2008, 02:29 PM | #14 (permalink) |
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I'm not saying it's not cool. It really, really is. I love Jules Verne. I've got his collection, leather-bound in my shelf behind me.
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05-25-2008, 03:21 PM | #16 (permalink) | |
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05-25-2008, 03:33 PM | #17 (permalink) | |
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05-25-2008, 11:19 PM | #19 (permalink) | ||
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So one again:
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05-25-2008, 11:24 PM | #20 (permalink) |
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Steam is apparently in my brain. What?
Is this a veritable "two cup-and-string" system linking London & New York?
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05-26-2008, 09:43 AM | #22 (permalink) | ||
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