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What if the Only Way is Down? Subterranean Survival Opportunity

posted by martyb on Friday May 10 2019, @12:57AM   Printer-friendly
from the Mars/Moon-Ho!-Can-you-dig-it? dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Phys.org:

"We are coming to a point in our history in which we need to start looking for more space," Han Admiraal, a civil engineer with over two decades of experience in underground space, told AFP on the sidelines of this year's World Tunnel Congress.
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"Underground spaces could easily be used for growing crops," he said, as he toured the cavernous Bourbon Tunnel, dug deep under the Italian city of Naples as a potential escape route for King Ferdinand II of Bourbon after the 1848 riots.

Scientific developments in areas like aquaponics—where vegetables and fish are farmed together—could help relieve the pressure on the food supply chain, and dramatically cut transport costs if such new farms were situated under cities.

Isn't excavation expensive?

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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday May 10 2019, @11:03AM (1 child)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Friday May 10 2019, @11:03AM (#841781) Journal

    I am a freemason. I have never seen world leaders shaking hands or hugging (which would only be done in one case for somebody who has been raised to Master Mason, and in one other for a Master Mason who is made the Worshipful Master of a lodge, but those would never be done in public) in a masonic fashion.

    There is a sprinkling of masons who are world leaders, but they're in smaller countries in Africa and South America.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 10 2019, @01:56PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 10 2019, @01:56PM (#841823)

    There is a sprinkling of masons who are world leaders, but they're in smaller countries in Africa and South America.

    Well, I'm not sure that's what you wanted to say … sounds like the perfect material for conspiracy theorists.

    I guess you were just referring to the leaders of those smaller countries.