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Subject: Underground Things.                 Jan. 21, 2008.

Here is a discussion on things found under our ground.

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Does a strange world exist beneath our feet? Strange
legends have persisted for centuries about the mysterious
cavern world and the equally strange beings who inhabit it.
More UFOlogists have considered the possibility that UFOs
may be emanating from subterranean bases, that UFO aliens
have constructed these bases to carry out various missions
involving Earth or humans. Belief in a subterranean world
has been handed down as myth, tale, or rumor down the
generations from all over the world. Some of these stories
date back to ancient times and tell tales of fantastic
flora and fauna that can be found in the caverns of ancient
r-ces. Socrates spoke of huge hollows within the Earth
which are inhabited by man, and vast caverns which rivers
flow.
A legendary large cavern supposedly exists below Kokoweef
Peak in southwestern California. Earl Dorr, a miner and
prospector, followed clues given to him by Indians. He
entered Crystal Cave in the thirties and followed a passage
down into Kokoweef Mountain until he attained a depth of
about a mile. There, he entered a large cavern which he
proceeded to explore for a distance of eight miles. At the
bottom of the cavern, a river flowed, rising and falling
with the lunar tides, and depositing black sands rich in
placer gold along its banks. One day, crazed by fever, Dorr
used dynamite to seal shut the entrance to his fabulous
cavern, and started a legend that still lures men to seek
the fabled wealth below Kokoweef. Nowhere is the belief in
a subterranean world more prevalent than with the Indians
of North America. The
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Hopis believed they emerged from a world below the earth
through a tunnel at the base of the San Francisco peaks
near Flagstaff. There are also legends about mysterious
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Mount Shasta in northern California. The mountain is said
to have housed a ra-e of surviving Lemurians who built a
sanctuary in the depths of the earth to escape the
catastrophes which befell them. These Lemurians allied
themselves with space travelers who built a saucer base
inside the mountain. Whether ancient cities exist in
caverns below the earth is anyone’s guess, but it’s a fact
that g-vernments have built underground tunnels and
facilities for a variety of reasons. The Chinese, Russians,
Vietnamese all built subterranean tunnels and bases. It
shouldn’t come as a surprise that America has been building
its own underground world.
An elusive report in the August 7, 1989 edition of U.S.
News and World Report, reveals the s-cret plan to carry on
go-ernment in case of a disaster. The plan is called
"Continuity of Gove-nment" or COG. The article stated that
COG is the govern-ent’s ultimate insurance policy should
Armageddon ever arrive, providing the program runs
smoothly. In 1982, a new sec-et agency, the Defense
M-bilization Planning Systems Agency was created and
reports to the P-esident.
In the event of a n-clear attack, special teams equipped
with w-r plans, mi-itary codes, and other essential data
would accompany each designated presi-ential successor to
sec-et command posts around the country. Besides the
presi-ent, another 46 key officials named in the Joint
Emergency Ev-cuation Plan JEEP would be evacuated. There
are 50 of these underground command post bunkers located in
10 different regions of the country, and each is linked
with others via satellite or ground-wave relays. The U.S.
Air F-rce sponsored research in deep underground
construction as early as 1958. The R-ND corporation carried
out this research, and published proceedings from
symposiums held on the subject of construction methods and
equipment, utility installation, and the use of nucl-ar
bursts to produce underground cavities. A great concern to
underground construction engineers was the problem of
ventilation. They considered it advisable to take into
account all types of ventilation contamination, and not
just ra-ioactive fallout.
Underground works included ingresses, egresses, and
accommodations. The first two are generally provided for
by shafts or tunnels, while the third requires larger
openings, such as halls, chambers, cells, vaults, or other
open spaces. Many problems in design and construction are
common to all three, but the problems associated with the
larger openings in the rock, required for accommodation
purposes, are generally more complex and difficult than
those for the smaller openings of tunnels or shafts.
Operation and maintenance of underground installations
can also pose special problems.
Huge boring machines with large-diameter disc-grinders
are used in constructing tunnels. Tunnels are needed to
link one accommodation area to another, or one facility to
another.
The English Channel project is the largest engineering
project in Europe, and will link France and England through
a three-tunnel railway. The eleven boring machines used in
the project are so large and so long that they were
assembled in underground areas 65 feet high. Six of the
machines are digging the submarine tunnel between the
Dover Strait and Pas de Calais and five are digging the
land tunnels leading away from the channel to aboveground
terminals. The front of the boring machine contains
tungsten-tipped picks that workers guide with the use of
laser projections on video screens. These boring machines
are like huge, steel-encased worms. Sealed in each machine
are teams of 35 men who line the cavity of the tunnel with
concrete and guide the muck down the track.
The machines bore the hole, remove the earth, and pave
the inside of the tunnel with precast concrete segments.
The digging face of the machine is a 95-ton, 28-foot-6-inch
diameter disc, divided into cutting blades. The borer is
300-feet long. The September, 1983 Omni ran a picture story
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a nuc-ear tunnel-boring machine developed at Los Alamos.
The machine burrows through deep underground rock, heating
it to a molten state (magma), which cools after the
Subterrene moves on.
The result is a tube with a smooth, glazed lining that
can be used for the high-speed transport shuttles that link
the sub-base complexes.
Interestingly enough, an inventor named Charles K-empen
has invented a
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composite pipe that has enormous tensile strength.
Kaempen has developed an undersea transportation tube
that uses his unique system of lock coupling and merely has
to be laid on the sea floor, obviating the need for
excavating and tunneling. He has made a proposal to Spain
to link Spain and Morocco using his new tube technology.
Tunnel boring is undergoing a boom according to a recent
article in the Wall Street Journal (Dec. 12, 1990).
Susan N-lson, director of the American Underground Space
Association is quoted in the article as saying, "There is
simply a lot more interest in the world these days in
tunneling and use of the underground in general."
It says the underground is crowded with go-ernment-funded
mega-projects and proposed projects. The Spanish want to
put a tunnel through the Pyrenees and bore a road to
Morocco on the African coast. The Norwegians want to burrow
under the fiords. The Japanese are toying with tunneling
through to South Korea.
The Canadians are building a tunnel from New Foundland to
Prince Edwards Island. In America, there are 87
public-works projects planned in the next three years
alone. Bear in mind the fact that these are all classified
as civil engineering projects. Where civil engineering goes
today, mi-itary engineering has already gone yesterday. In
1959, the Ran- Report carried photos of the giant Tunnel
Boring Machines (TBMs). Large scale mili-ary engineering
projects may have made extensive use of these machines
since the fifties. Tunneling is getting a boost because of
the increasingly crowded global landscape. Planners in
Northern Italy are burying stretches of a freeway in a
tunnel to avoid cutting a road through historical important
forest and farmlands.
Mr. Russell J. M-ller of the Colorado School of Mines and
director of the Center for Space Mining in Boulder,
Colorado, is working on studies to determine the
feasibility of putting space bases and cities underground
on Mars and on the moon. Of course, someone from somewhere
else may have already beaten Mr. Mi-ler to the punch.
Informants have told us that underground facilities
utilize transport tubes to shuttle workers to and from
work. This is more than a subway. These tube trains use
high technology. It isn’t surprising, then, to learn that
Frank P. D-vidson of the Mass-chusetts Institute of
Technology has a plan to unclog the airways by designing
electric "wingless airplanes" that hurtle across continents
and oceans in sealed tubes or tunnels that are essentially
frictionless vacuum chambers.
Perhaps he should meet with Dr. Kaempen and consider
using his composite pipe as the tube.
Underground diggers have their own society called
"Moles," who find talk of tunneling and tunnels spicier
than most of us surface dwellers.

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John Winston.  johnfw@mlodel.com
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