May 15, 2006

Break Out The BFG

The search for locations for a second Doom movie is over.

Posted by gerv at May 15, 2006 8:52 AM
Comments

Nice, definetly does look like a Doom map.

But what is that??

Posted by: Patrick at May 15, 2006 12:46 PM

I think, from the copyright text at the bottom and the pictures, that it's the insides of a dam.

Posted by: ant at May 15, 2006 1:14 PM

That's a TBM. Tunnel Boring Machine. A least a few of the last pictures are. It looks like it has built a tunnel connected to some sort of water resevoir.

You can see the digging teeth on the front of the TBM on one of the last pictures - looks like a six-pionted star/snowflake. And you can see more TBM pictures at www.lovat.com

I'm just headed down to a tunnelling site in Southern California similar to this one. In fact, I'm programming a new grout mixing plant, that will feed a TBM on the project, right now. I take advantage of Firefox SVG abilities to build graphical grout production reports for the TBM's grout and silicate mixing feed equipment. So, you might bump into a Firefox if you're ever running around in those DOOM tunnels!

Posted by: mawrya at May 15, 2006 8:46 PM

thats the g-cans tunnels under tokyo - its a flood management system...

http://www.boingboing.net/2004/11/21/gcans_massive_underg.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-Cans_project

Posted by: james at May 15, 2006 9:33 PM