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crickleymal
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7 years ago

I don't know if anyone's been looking at the new series on Yesterday (Tuesdays 8pm). They did a bit on a dam in Italy (Vaiont Dam) which didn't fail but the surrounding rock did under hydrostatic pressure causing a huge piece of the surrounding mountain to fall into the lake causing a tsunami which killed 2000 people.

The dam is still there undamaged. However I noticed on the shots of the dam looking downstream that there were a number of entrances in the cliffs roughly level with the top of the dam.
http://www.traveliciousmemories.com/2013/10/vajont-dam-disaster-50-years.html

Anyone any idea what they might be?

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NewStuff
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7 years ago

It's a road tunnel.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@46.268142,12.3286854,3a,75y,193.71h,88.43t/data= !3m6!1e1!3m4!1sEGsXRIuYtP2XF_5w8D9STg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

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crickleymal
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7 years ago

I'll take your word for it, thank link won't work on my pc at work. There are holes on both sides of the valley some of which are round rather than square

Malc.
Rusted and ropey, Dog eared old copy
Vintage and classic or just plain Jurassic
All words to describe me.

NewStuff
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7 years ago

It's just a google maps link to inside the road tunnel. If you look at the picture you linked, and (when you can) the fencing in some of daylight windows in the tunnels, it matches up.

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RichardB
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7 years ago

It wants to turn into a mail link for some reason. If you strip off the "mailto:" and insert a colon after the "https" it works.

NewStuff
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7 years ago

Yup, I don't know why AN wants to parse it as an email link, it's pasted as a URL. I suspect Simon will sort it out quick-sharp.

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4737carlin
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7 years ago

If you move along the tunnel to the next window you can see a memorial and a lot of smaller plaques on the wall.
Sounds like a good series this

sinker
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7 years ago

"4737carlin" wrote:

Sounds like a good series this

It is a VERY good series, excellent in fact....and that is coming from a person who generally thinks that television is a brain sucking, soul destroying work of Satan.

Another good one is 'Impossible Railways'.

https://yesterday.uktv.co.uk/impossible-railways/article/6-worlds-most-incredible-railways/

Yma O Hyd....

royfellows
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7 years ago

"sinker" wrote:
a person who generally thinks that television is a brain sucking, soul destroying work of Satan.

O enlightened one

My avatar is a poor likeness.

Morlock
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7 years ago

#10

All of the "impossible" programs have one thing in common, they've all proved to be possible!;D

legendrider
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7 years ago

#11

"sinker" wrote:
television is a brain sucking, soul destroying work of Satan.

Nonsense!

have you any idea just how much I've learned about sharks and Nazis?? :thumbup:

hagw MARK

festina lente[i]

Coggy
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7 years ago

#12

Exactly, tv is great ! I now have an anvil and the beginnings of a home forge after watching 'Forged in Fire'

if eight out of ten cats all prefer Whiskas
Do the other two prefer Lesley Judd ?

Blober
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7 years ago

#13

You may even catch my cameo appearance in impossible railways :lol:

FILTH - Think this is a playground? Think again...

sinker
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7 years ago

#14

"Blober" wrote:
You may even catch my cameo appearance in impossible railways :lol:

I was looking out for you 😉

Yma O Hyd....

crickleymal
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7 years ago

#15

"Coggy" wrote:
Exactly, tv is great ! I now have an anvil and the beginnings of a home forge after watching 'Forged in Fire'

Same here. We're all becoming armchair blacksmiths in our house. You can hear shouts of "It's not hot enough to quench" and similar advice from us when it's on.;D

Malc.
Rusted and ropey, Dog eared old copy
Vintage and classic or just plain Jurassic
All words to describe me.

legendrider
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7 years ago

#16

Knock yourself out..... :thumbsup:

[photo]115218[/photo]

MARK

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Roy Morton
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7 years ago

#17

Sinker wrote -

As for television being 'the brain sucking, soul destroying work of Satan', I think cartoonist Robert Crumb, has it neatly sewn up in this sketch. :lol:

🔗115219[linkphoto]115219[/linkphoto][/link]

"You Chinese think of everything!"
"But I''m not Chinese!"
"Then you must have forgotten something!"

AR
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7 years ago

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"Coggy" wrote:
Exactly, tv is great ! I now have an anvil and the beginnings of a home forge after watching 'Forged in Fire'

Careful - you may end up like me with a garage full of bits of scrap, two anvils and two hearths!:lol: I need a larger garage....

Follow the horses, Johnny my laddie, follow the horses canny lad-oh!

ttxela
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7 years ago

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"legendrider" wrote:

Nonsense!

have you any idea just how much I've learned about sharks and Nazis?? :thumbup:

hagw MARK

Why not combine the two....

https://www.amazon.com/Nazi-Sharks-Mario-Xavier/dp/B01N1POPE2

legendrider
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7 years ago

#20

... err.. probably because of the reviews, for one? :lol:

MARK

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