<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent">On Sun, Oct 18, 2026 at 3:29 PM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>This has drifted way into silly.</i></font></blockquote><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-weight:bold"></font><b>Silly </b></span><b>Indeed<span class="gmail_default" style="">!</span> Spike is proposing that a 249 mile long tunnel <span class="gmail_default" style="">(7 times longer than the longest known tunnel in the world) </span>between the Capitol <span class="gmail_default" style="">B</span>uilding in Washington<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>and the Greenbrier hotel in West Virginia was made without anybody ever noticing such a massive construction<span class="gmail_default" style="">;</span><span class="gmail_default" style=""> and then in 1992 when the </span>Greenbrier<span class="gmail_default" style=""> bunker was decommissioned that magnificent tunnel was apparently completely filled in, again with nobody ever noticing, because today there's not the slightest hint at either the Capital Building or the </span>Greenbrier hotel<span class="gmail_default" style=""> that the tunnel ever existed. I can't think of anything </span><span style="background-color:transparent">sillier<span class="gmail_default" style="">, except that Trump won the 2020 election. </span></span></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span style="background-color:transparent"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></span></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span style="background-color:transparent"><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark</span></span></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span style="background-color:transparent"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></span></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span style="background-color:transparent"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></span></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></span></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></span></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Oct 18, 2026 at 12:11 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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From: extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat<br>
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>>>…WHAT!!!  Of course there wasn't a 249 mile long tunnel between Washington DC and the hotel! Don't be ridiculous!<br>
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>>... That would be… impossible, ja?<br>
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>>... What is the longest possible tunnel please?<br>
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>...The longest possible tunnel depends on a few assumptions.  ...<br>
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