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▲ looperhacks 2 hours ago

lowercase m. 15 meters, not 15 million tunnels :D

If you're interested in secret tunnels, check out Colin Furze on Youtube!

▲shagie an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Relatively secluded and private, Seymour Cray was also a tunneler... he wouldn't have been making videos about it

The story about him in Time at the time: https://web.archive.org/web/20080521163217/http://www.time.c...

    For Cray, the excavation project is more than a simple diversion. "I work when I'm at home," he recently told a visiting scientist. "I work for three hours, and then I get stumped, and I'm not making progress. So I quit, and I go and work in the tunnel. It takes me an hour or so to dig four inches and put in the 4-by-4s. Now, as you can see, I'm up in the Wisconsin woods, and there are elves in the woods. So when they see me leave, they come into my office and solve all the problems I'm having. Then I go back up and work some more."
And an article someone wrote later... https://michael-starobin.squarespace.com/blogcontent/digging...
▲Freak_NL an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I wasn't impressed by the 15 metres, but it turns out that is the maximum depth reached, not the length of a tunnel.

▲tecleandor an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah, I though it was 15 meters of length, not that impressive... but it is 15m underground and '... 1,300 square feet of underground space, including tunnels and storage rooms'.

▲mrwh 42 minutes ago | parent [-]

It's very UK to give depth in metric and area in imperial

▲curiousObject 5 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

not 15 million tunnels :D

That traditionally would be described as “a maze of twisty little passages, all alike”

▲hidelooktropic 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Thank you. I definitely read this as million.

▲wincy 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If you’re instead interested in a book about a house with 15 million tunnels, read House of Leaves!

▲wafflemaker an hour ago | parent [-]

This is a very scary horror, tho the book (like other books by the author) is published in a very quality way.

▲Scubabear68 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I read it as 15 million tunnels too, was very confused. Thank you!

▲kzrdude an hour ago | parent [-]

I figured 15 meters tunnel is not worth mentioning, so had to be 15 miles.

▲triceratops 28 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The most important comment on this article.

▲foobarian an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That is still an impressive water table. I wish ours was that low :-)

▲librasteve 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

oops … sorry … now fixed