Corcaigh Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 "The vision of Victorian engineer Alexander Stanhope St George had finally been realized. On Tuesday a drill bit emerged from the banks of the Thames, completing the transatlantic "tunnel." In all its optical brilliance and brass and wood, there stood the Telectroscope -- a 37 feet long by 11 feet tall dream of a device allowing people on one side of the Atlantic to look into its person-size lens and, in real time, see those on the other side via a recently completed tunnel running under the ocean. (Think 19th century webcam. Or maybe Victorian-age video phone.)" http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/05/22/scope.project/index.html Of course there isn't an actual tunnel, just teh internets connecting two HDTV cameras, but it's a nice idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinsOrlando Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 I wanna moon it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techboy Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 Of course there isn't an actual tunnel, just teh internets connecting two HDTV cameras, but it's a nice idea. Boo! I want an actual tunnel! Boo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corcaigh Posted May 22, 2008 Author Share Posted May 22, 2008 Boo! I want an actual tunnel! Boo! OK, for you it is an actual tunnel, you just can't get inside it to prove it. You have to believe and trust the visual 'evidence'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen-like Todd Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 Boo! I want an actual tunnel! Boo! You lack faith in the tunnel gods? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corcaigh Posted May 22, 2008 Author Share Posted May 22, 2008 I wanna moon it Be careful. http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/03/10/game_defeat_mooning_incident/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fifty Gut Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 wake me when I can drive from America to Britain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen-like Todd Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 wake me when I can drive from America to Britain I'd much rather take a supersonic maglev train through a vacuum sealed transatlantic tunnel. Although, I suppose evacuating the tunnel of air would fudge with the mach # quite a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techboy Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 OK, for you it is an actual tunnel, you just can't get inside it to prove it. You have to believe and trust the visual 'evidence'. Much better, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjah Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 OK, for you it is an actual tunnel, you just can't get inside it to prove it. You have to believe and trust the visual 'evidence'. Either photons travel through an underwater cable, or electrical charge travels through an underwater cable. :whoknows: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thiebear Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 So now we got the "Man" watching us from overseas too? Jeeez Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corcaigh Posted May 22, 2008 Author Share Posted May 22, 2008 So now we got the "Man" watching us from overseas too?Jeeez Not the "Man", it's Aunty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corcaigh Posted May 22, 2008 Author Share Posted May 22, 2008 Either photons travel through an underwater cable, or electrical charge travels through an underwater cable. :whoknows: Or satellite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjah Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 Or satellite The press describes it as "transatlantic broadband." But that could mean a lot of things. Maybe they're bouncing the signal off the Moon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hokie4redskins Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 How is this any different than teleconferencing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen-like Todd Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 How is this any different than teleconferencing? The whole thing is entirely lost on you, isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corcaigh Posted May 22, 2008 Author Share Posted May 22, 2008 How is this any different than teleconferencing? Since when have you done teleconferencing with a 37 foot brass telescope? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hokie4redskins Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 The whole thing is entirely lost on you, isn't it? I should've said video conferencing. Point is, this might be the most pointless fulfilled dream in history. Not exactly sure how people seeing each other in "real time" across oceans is newsworthy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techboy Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 I should've said video conferencing. Point is, this might be the most pointless fulfilled dream in history. Not exactly sure how people seeing each other in "real time" across oceans is newsworthy. It's not really a fulfilled dream. It's an artist's performance piece. Read the article again. Of course only part of this story is true.St. George is an artist in Britain who does have a grandfather -- minus the great prefix -- named Alexander. And the transatlantic tunnel is really a transatlantic broadband network rounded off on each end with HD cameras, according to Tiscali, an Italian Internet provider handling the technical side of the project. As for the Telectroscope -- well, it was a fanciful idea that, according to St. George, came about from a typo made by a 19th-century reporter who misspelled Electroscope -- a device used to measure electrostatic charges - as Telectroscope. "The journalist also misunderstood what it was about and wrote in the article that it was a device for the suppression of absence," said St. George. "The accidental hope captured their imagination and lots of people at the end of the 19th century thought it was a great idea." The Telectroscope captured St. George's imagination five years ago when he began pondering how to do a project on the childhood fantasy of digging a hole to the opposite side of the Earth. And because the artist also happens to have an expertise in Victorian chronophotography -- a precursor to cinematography -- he had a slight idea of where to look for the proper equipment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corcaigh Posted May 22, 2008 Author Share Posted May 22, 2008 I should've said video conferencing. Point is, this might be the most pointless fulfilled dream in history. Not exactly sure how people seeing each other in "real time" across oceans is newsworthy. It's a tourist attraction. It's a piece of art. It's history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen-like Todd Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 I should've said video conferencing. Point is, this might be the most pointless fulfilled dream in history. Not exactly sure how people seeing each other in "real time" across oceans is newsworthy. Sigh... rather unimaginative, are we? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corcaigh Posted May 22, 2008 Author Share Posted May 22, 2008 Sigh... rather unimaginative, are we? He has a point ... I mean what about those people who travelled around the world by balloon in less than 80 days. What's the point when a jet aircraft can do it in much less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen-like Todd Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 He has a point ... I mean what about those people who travelled around the world by balloon in less than 80 days. What's the point when a jet aircraft can do it in much less. I mean really... how many times did Steve Fossett crash while trying to balloon around the world? Idiot should have just taken Continental. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techboy Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 What do you guys mean around the world? Is that just a figure of speech for across the world, like one side to the other? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hokie4redskins Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 You two are missing the point, woefully. This is about as artistic or "imaginative" as the millions of video conferences that take place daily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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