dated Sept 1973
7 miles a day (nominal) x 365 days per year x 50 years x ??? number of nuclear subterrenes worldwide
Multiply 127,750 miles times the number of subterrenes you estimate have been operating concurrently, world wide, since 1973.
My bottom line
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The earth must be completely riddled with tunnels, tunnels, everywhere, level after level. Interconnecting every continent, under all the oceans and lakes and rivers, provisioned with who-knows-what in enormous quantities. Site of international contention and probably subterranean warfare for 50+ years. Site of all kinds of nefarious doings. Can you imagine tunnelling and coming up in somebody else's tunnel? No, they are all mapped out and sounded and their extent and ownership is well known, just as agencies track satellites to know where each one orbits and what kind of space debris they may encounter. It's a whole 'nother netherworld down there.
Black budgets? If there's a Secret Space Program (which I believe likely), then there's certainly a Secret Underground Program.
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Roger that.
Fren points out that there would be some incognito, unauthorized tunnels (just as there was a rogue submarine...) I argued that surely /ourguys/ have tech to detect and map ALL tunnels including rogue ones.
Thinking of scripture about the bottomless pit and the evil that comes up out of the ground to harm mankind. Revelation Chapter 9:
9 And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit.[a] 2 He opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft. 3 Then from the smoke came locusts on the earth, and they were given power like the power of scorpions of the earth. 4 They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any green plant or any tree, but only those people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads. 5 They were allowed to torment them for five months, but not to kill them, and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings someone. 6 And in those days people will seek death and will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them.
7 In appearance the locusts were like horses prepared for battle: on their heads were what looked like crowns of gold; their faces were like human faces, 8 their hair like women's hair, and their teeth like lions' teeth; 9 they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the noise of their wings was like the noise of many chariots with horses rushing into battle. 10 They have tails and stings like scorpions, and their power to hurt people for five months is in their tails. 11 They have as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon.[b]
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The 'locusts/scorpions' might describe something for which no words existed when the text was written: perhaps robots, nanobots, genetically engineered organisms, weaponized drones, etc. The 'sting' could be injuries inflicted biologically.
Not claiming to know any certain answers, just throwing this out for comment -- or to be ignored.
Wondered about rock volumes too. No answer.
Ventilation ... if they have free energy tech, all bets are off ... they could extract atmospheric gases from rock and essentially "make" air and recycle CO2.
I dunno - just spitballing.
The tunnels clearly DO exist, unquestionably.
Engineering minds want to figure out all the details. We don't really need the details for plausibility because the proof-of-concept examples are already proven to exist. But would like to work out as much as we can about how it was/is done.
>Pray ... "For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known."
Indeed.
Movies & media "entertainment" do (fore)shadow what (they) do and intend to do. I've creeped muhself out here...
World Net Daily reports:
Is Electoral College done for? Bypass faces sudden headwinds
Scheme would void Constitution's plan to pick presidents'
A plan to bypass the Electoral College, transferring the power to elect presidents to heavily populated cities and states such as New York and California, is facing sudden headwinds.
Sixteen states have joined the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, an agreement to give the state’s Electoral College votes to the presidential candidate who has the most votes nationally.
But two states recently rejected it, and now voters in Colorado will be asked if they want to give away their influence in future presidential elections.
The compact has 196 of the 270 votes needed in the Electoral College to elect a president.
Election expert Hans von Spakovsky of the Heritage Foundation explained why Maine and Nevada recently rejected the compact.
Maine legislators killed it by vote and Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak shot it down.
Von Spakovsky said that abiding by the compact would mean “agreeing to ignore what the majority of voters in their state decides when it comes to who they believe should be president.”
“The National Popular Vote effort was started by a frustrated Al Gore elector after the 2000 election, and the progressive left has poured huge amounts of money and resources into lobbying states to adopt the plan,” he said. After Hillary Clinton’s loss in 2016, the compact gathered even more steam.”
Donald Trump won 304 votes in the Electoral College in 2016 to Hillary Clinton’s 227, while Clinton received more popular votes nationally.
Von Spakovsky pointed out that the nine most populous states contain 51 percent of America’s population.
“Under the National Popular Vote compact, a candidate could spend her entire campaign in big cities in California, Texas, Florida, and New York in order to win the election. States like Maine and Nevada wouldn’t even make the list of campaign stops,” he said.
Now, one state in the compact may end up backing out.
Colorado joined the NPV movement this year based on the wishes of a Democratic majority in the state House and Senate, and a far-left Democrat in the governor’s office, Jared Polis.
But an organization called Coloradans Vote has announced it has more than enough signatures to put the issue on the election ballot and give voters a chance to repeal it.
“We had 185,000 signatures as of last week and packets are coming in droves every day,” said Rose Pugliese, a Mesa County commissioner and organizer for Coloradans Vote, in a report in the Denver Post.
About 124,000 signatures are needed.
The states that have joined the compact along with Colorado are Washington, Vermont, Rhode Island, Oregon, New York, New Mexico, New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts, Illinois, Hawaii, Delaware, Connecticut and California.
The courts haven’t resolved lawsuits that allege the move changes the Constitution without the amendment process.
A number of states used the system early in the nation’s history. But it was criticized for being manipulated to the benefit of local politicians and fell into disuse.
The Supreme Court has ruled that the appointment of presidential electors belongs to the states.
https://www.wnd.com/2019/07/is-electoral-college-done-for-bypass-faces-sudden-headwinds/