18 thoughts on “Tunnels”

  1. Some men play golf, some dig tunnels.

    I don’t dig (I don’t really play golf much, either) but I have my hobbies – flying, sailing, search and rescue, bringing health care to the disadvantaged….

  2. It all starts when you are tiny human and you dig your first hole. It is similar to fort building. How many dudes build shacks in the woods?

    There are a fair number of documentaries about people who do this and some of the tiny house youtube channels have tours of subterranean houses.

    From a space nerd perspective, it is all good research.

  3. When I was five or six visiting relatives in southern California, my brother and cousin and I decide to dig a tunnel in their backyard.

    I had never realized how much work it was digging a hole. I lost interest in the project long before my aunt came to the back door and wanted to know what we thought we were doing.

    1. Your aunt missed out a lot by not encouraging you, your brother and cousin’s earth-moving acumen.

      She could have directed you to digging up soil for raised garden beds, making a composting trench, planting fruit trees or other food-generating projects.

  4. There’s a climate advantage to being underground. The temperature regulates.

    Tunneling is one thing. The more fascinating is rise-mining. Whereby you gather your ladders together and go more or less straight up.

    Then there’s sinking. Needs an air winch, pumps, and a hoist. A bit more strenuous, although rising is hard too, but at least the rock falls down.

    God filled the ground with vast treasure. It is our manly duty to dig it out.

    1. “God filled the ground with vast treasure. It is our manly duty to dig it out.”

      Who knows what will be found!

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