| The Telectroscope
Posted: 6/1/2008 11:52:15 AM | Ok I use Tiscali as my ISP and I wouldn't have found out about this without it, but I have to ask has anyone actually been to see this thing in London?
Apparently according to the blurb and i quote
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.
Now what I don't get is that apparently this tunnel which apparently connects London and New York has taken over a hundred years to complete, and yet the actually Telectroscope will only be on display till the 15th of june...
So anyway has anyone seen it or is it really a load of baloney....and if it is real, what the heck are they gonna do with a tunnel that connects London with New York when it's finished being a display?? | |
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Posted: 6/1/2008 11:56:58 AM | turn it into a road, and charge people 1000's of pounds to drive through it? | |
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Posted: 6/1/2008 11:58:23 AM | Are you really this gullible, or just taking the piss?
I wouldn't beleive i nless I'd walked down it. It simply isn't possible with current technology. | |
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Posted: 6/1/2008 12:02:54 PM | | if we were allowed to post links on here I would post you the site with pictures and all, but thats what I want to know, has anyone actually been to visit it in london or even new york?? | |
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Posted: 6/1/2008 12:09:42 PM | "In reality the Telectroscope was installed by Artichoke and is the brain child of London based artist Paul St George. Sadly there is no real tunnel between London and New York; instead the Telectroscope uses broadband internet to relay real time video images between the two cities. And while it's probably not going to challenge Skype it's a really nice idea. "
http://digitaledge.excite.co.uk/news/2278/Telectroscope-links-London-with-New-York | |
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Posted: 6/1/2008 12:13:13 PM | I think it is quite possibly a load of b0llocks to be honest.
So apparently they started digging in 1907 presumably with shovels,and 100 years later they emerge at the other end,without anybody ever catching wind of what they are doing?....Bloody unlikely.
Plus with this telectroscope do da..they had no idea it even existed 100yrs ago so why would they even have started the blinking tunnel in the first place?.And if you start viewing with the dumb thing one end,prescisely how long would it take for the image to be transported along that distance?.
The words dont be so silly spring to mind.
But hey maybe im just uber sceptical and it really does exist. | |
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Posted: 6/1/2008 12:16:16 PM | just googled it and it seems that its a piece of art that uses fibre optic cable
looks quite convincing though  | |
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Posted: 6/1/2008 2:47:16 PM |
miraculously allows people to see right through the Earth from London to New York
well wat would you see other than a whole lot of water, fishes and im guessing not an awful lot else... | |
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Posted: 6/1/2008 3:06:02 PM | If we were allowed to post links on here I would post you the site with pictures
We are allowed to post links on here (but not to href them...).
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/telectroscope/home.php
Now what I don't get is that apparently this tunnel which apparently connects London and New York has taken over a hundred years to complete
You seriously believe it's a real tunnel? and that it's been kept secret for 100 years?
and, even if it were, that such a significant creation would be handled by the Internet Service Provider of Morons?
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Posted: 6/1/2008 6:18:40 PM |
And if you start viewing with the dumb thing one end,prescisely how long would it take for the image to be transported along that distance?.
The words dont be so silly spring to mind.
speed of light 1 sec = 186,000 miles/sec distance between new York and London 3471 miles so ,get calculator out ,god I'm such a geek 0.053 of a second I think
but agree you got to be pretty gullible to swallow that story . | |
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Posted: 6/1/2008 6:26:14 PM | Well lets hope there really isn't a tunnel.
A phrase I like to remember is this.
"The Atlantic Ocean is wonderful. It's so big and so wide. And thank god because America is on the other side" | |
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Posted: 6/1/2008 10:58:05 PM |
just googled it and it seems that its a piece of art that uses fibre optic cable
Now that makes sense!
You seriously believe it's a real tunnel? and that it's been kept secret for 100 years? wouldn't be the first time something has been covered up as such.
But still my original question remains....
has anyone actually been to visit it in london or even new york | |
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Posted: 6/1/2008 11:37:47 PM |
wouldn't be the first time something has been covered up as such.
The point people are trying to make is that you saw this and beleived it without thought or question. A mere second or two of thinking about it would have shown you that it makes no sense at all, and simply isn't possible. Look at the channel tunnel, a mere 26miles long, how many trucks were going in and out of it? the tunnel head site was a mile square! the spoil created about half a mile square of new land reclaimed from the sea. How do you propose to hide the digging of a THREE THOUSAND MILE LONG TUNNEL????
That leaves aside the technical aspects, which simply aren't possible either.
Hence the gullible bit. | |
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