COULD THIS BE THE GOLD?
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Allegedly, there is a tunnel that runs from the Vatican to Jerusalem that is sixty feet wide and forty feet tall. That's where the gold was stored.
and 1400 miles long???
There are 5,000 mile long tunnels under Tibet. I would not be surprised if there are similarly long tunnels under the Atlantic.
I should have read this first. I just made this comment.🤪
Bullshit! Where did the hundreds of cubic miles of spoil go?
Do the math…
I did the math. A 1400 mile tunnel 60x40 feet is 12,670,000 cubic feet. It would take over 11,000 tunnels that size to create a single cubic mile of waste. Spread over a good sized area, it wouldn't be noticeable.
Why do people say "do the math" when they never have, and their answers are so utterly wrong?
OK, I'll show my work...
40 ft * 60 ft == 2,400 ft**2 (area of the tunnel face)
1,400 mi X 5,280 ft / mi == 7,392,000 ft (length of the tunnel in feet)
7,392,000 ft * 2400 ft2 == 17,740,800,000 ft3 (area of the base X
height == volume of a
rectangular prism)
147,197,952,000 ft3/mi3
17,740,800,000 ft3 / 147,197,952,000 ft3/mi3 == 0.12 mi3
that's right around 197,120,000 truckloads of spoil.
I'm pretty sure that an eighth of a cubic mile of rock and dirt and almost 2 million truckloads would be easily noticed.
We are, of course, disregarding the true length of the tunnel, the volume of any vertical drifts, the difficulties of tunneling under the sea, the amount of cribbing needed and whatever means necessary to control water infiltration into the bore.
As you see, I did do the math and a little tiny bit of engineering.
It's still bullshit.
So I'm correct. It was only .12 cubic mile, not the outrageously inaccurate figure you quoted. Spread out, that amount of dirt and rock would not be noticed, especially in Israel where there's a lot already.
So you did fail in math the first time, and when you show your work, you get the result I did. Amazing. Not.