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Submission + - The first segment of the Fehmarnbelt megatunnel project is placed.

Qbertino writes: The Fehrmarnbelt Tunnel is a European construction megaproject building a tunnel between Denmark and Germany, crossing the Fehmarnbelt in the Baltic sea. The first segment of the tunnel has now successfully been placed in its designated spot. This is a yet unseen next-level engineering feat achived by the Danish Sund & Baelt construction company. It took 14 hours and used a massive pontoon ship built specifically for this project. The tunnel segments are 217 meters long, weigh more than 73.000 metric tons and have to be placed within a tolerance of 3mm. The tunnel will eventually consist of 89 of these segments, be 18 km long and connect the Danish city of Rodby with the German island Fehmarn with five individual tunnel tubes, 2 for cars, 2 for trains and one rescue & maintenance tunnel. Crossing time will be reduced from a 45 minute ferry crossing to 7 minutes by train or 10 minutes by car and cut the travel time between the German city of Hamburg and the Danish Capital Kopenhagen down to 2,5 hours. The projects planned completion is set for the year 2029. German news Tagesschau has some details and a neat animation showing details, the German technews site heise.de has some further details.

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From a biological standpoint, sex isn't a simple binary that is determined by one specific factor. It's a number of related things that most animals have one or the other common set of, but there are always a significant number of individuals who have a mix.

There is also a social aspect, which is very toxic at the moment. Also, it's "transgender people", "transgenders" is not a real word.

Comment Re:Do the home owners (Score 1) 141

Presumably the homeowner is required to provide an internet connection. The servers will have a consumer grade connection, hopefully with unlimited bandwidth but possibly in violation of commercial use rules that many ISPs have. They may not appreciate latency spikes when the homeowner does some heavy downloading.

There was a similar scheme in the UK a few years back, where they wanted to use the waste heat from the server to supply hot water. Most people have a central heating system that heats and circulates water. I'm not sure what happened, probably long dead because it's not very financially viable. At least these guys can just dump a crate by your house, although they will still need power for it. Probably want a wired network connection too.

Comment Re:So, nothing really new here (Score 1) 44

Hitler's personal doctor had Jewish heritage. Dosed him up on addictive, mind altering drugs.

Supremacists are not above using people. It's the end goal that they focused on, not how they get there. It's at a racial level too, there can be outliers that don't undermine their beliefs.

Comment the clogging problem (Score 1) 56

Seawater is a corrosive microbial soup, and I'm seeing that they will have it constantly circulating around through the entire structure. It will even be driving their turbines. An ecosystem of wildlife will grow in there and eventually clog it all up. I assume they've got it plated with biocides but that will eventually be defeated.

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