As well as not really funny, that remark is not accurate. Gyrotheodolites are used by surveyors in underground mines world wide, as well as well by engineers in tunnelling operations.
A clever line, but it will have to stand in line for honours in my book, especially on this show where "spontaneously funny" is epidemic. Glad it served you so well, though. 😊
@@FreakyPete Not only in tunnelling or underground. They re used in general surveying all over the world. We even used them in the Artillery to survey the battery position and find true north quickly.
Sandi Toksvig started in the far right chair (the one Rob's sat in), then moved to the one she's sat in here, then replaced Stephen at his chair, and in a few years she will replace Alan, then eventually end up in the far left chair.
I joking said to myself "It's got to be a German. Only thing that can force a Englishman and a Frenchman to work together." Can't believe that was right.
It's a really clever piece of equipment. All it really does is ensure that a straight line is kept (accounting for earths curvature (of course)) using the relative difference in spin experienced in a gyroscope depending on latitude and the tangential angle between a perceived horizon and a projected correct horizon!
Civil engineer involved in building pipelines: we use gyros occasionally. Whenever the pipeline is far from the surface or under a wide body of water we get a gyro for the drill..it's incredibly expensive. (horizontal directional drilling) so there is a good market for it.
As an AMerican who has only seen full episodes when they are put on RUclips and discovered this show three or four years ago, what fascinated me about this clip is that I never knew Sandi Toksvig had been a panelist on the show before she became host.
@@justvin7214 I now have every episode to date! I have been binge watching the past four days and have a long way to go. It is a lot of fun and I do not notice the passing of time.
At the beginning, he says the Frenchman's name was Creuset. The final t is actually silent, so his name sounds exactly like "creuser", the french verb for "to dig". 😊 Edit: turns out I heard the name wrong, it's Cozette, and therefore it has nothing to do with dig, "creuser". On the other hand it sounds exactly like Cosette, the character in Victor Hugo's novel Les Misérables, the girl you see on the poster for the famous musical. A French novel, made into a musical in the early 80s, turned into a huge hit by the Brits. So, somehow appropriate still. 😄
In Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, he mentioned a tunnel built in Samos(?) by the ancient Greeks. One mile long and out by only a foot or two in the middle. I read this 35 years ago and I’m going from memory so I can’t confirm it. Also in Cappadocia are some amazing tunnels.
There were 2 previous tunnels that had an interesting story. In fact, they were the first 2 tunnels to start on both ends. The first is in Jerusalem (Siloam tunnel) where the tunnel was close to the surface and they could listen to the shovels and could guide the workers by the noise. The second one was made geometrically. The tunnel of Eupalinos is considered one of the great feats of the Greek Engineering. They went around the mountain with perpendicular lenghts and then constructed a similar triangle and dug in the direction of the hypotenuse. They got precise enough to the point they could hear the other tunnel in the middle of the mountain and made the connection. It served as an aqueduct and saved thousand of lives.
@@ferrumignis I mean, it's not really as simple as that, is it? I could plug a pinhole leak with the sapphire from my wife's ring. Telling her not to be angry because it's serving a valuable purpose might be factual, but it's still a bullshit excuse for mistreating something significant or valuable when I could have used something else instead. Those machines could have seen more service, got broken broken down for a monstrous amount of scrap metal, or they could have been sold to other countries wanting to perform similar civil engineering projects. "Sorry, chaps, ask the French, but if you need the usual steel electrical grounding spikes, we have a few spares."
@@bobbodaskank You have clearly never worked on huge civil projects like this. The machines would have been pretty tired by that point, and the cost of breaking them down and removing them would have been huge.
In answer to Stephen’s question. The reason they buried the British Boring Machines was because if they didn’t, when the French arrived, they would have 2 machines facing right at each other head on. Since they can’t exactly be reversed they agreed to bury the British ones (makes sense since they finished digging first) and allow the French to drive straight through.
Lots of good stuff here but: The gyrotheodolite was used to make sure that there was no cumulative error building up in the survey but the basic accuracy was down to good old precision surveying, so precise that it accounted for the light being bent by the thermal gradient between the edge and the middle of the tunnel. The accuracy was not advertised as the surveyors knew that it was far better than they had any reason to expect being about 50mm, 75mm and 150mm (up/down. left/right and length). Considering that, at the start, we didn't know where France was to that sort of accuracy, it is pretty amazing. The UK tunnelling machines were buried largely because they would have been extremely difficult to get out as they are larger than the completed tunnel. However, the machines that dug the land tunnels from Dover to Folkestone were retrieved and put up for sale.
Building a straight line through anything has been possible for thousands of years, building a tunnel that goes under a very deep body of water and then up the other side is very difficult. The amount of course corrections alone through various types of rock and soil for 25km each makes the fact that they were only 30cm out absolutely staggering.
@@krashd I didn't say it was impossible. Clearly it was. But that doesn't mean it was easy, or, after thousands of years, that we know how they did it. There are many examples of engineering in the ancient world that we have no clue how they did it, but the fact they exist proves it was possible. No impossible engineering feat have ever been discovered, because they are, well, impossible.
Yeah, but apart from building an underground aquifer through a mountain, starting at each end and meeting in the middle with an error of less than a foot... what have the Romans ever done for us?
The Frenchman said Ah..this would make a great wine cellar..the Englishman said Ah..this would make a great beer cellar,the German said Ah...now we can REALLY invade Britain this time..!
I thought they would just magnetise the drills to make them meet. One small issue was raised when they both chose the same polarity of magnet, which is why there's a few loops in the middle of the tunnel.
A year late in response, but... you're welcome! ( I actually wrote and added those subtitles myself back when RUclips supported community subs. It was just a way to while away an evening but I'm glad they did good for someone. :) )
I'm reasonably sure that the construction area had a rule about hard hats required by everyone. Superman, no matter how impervious he is, would follow that rule to set a good example.
Really? "Series X, Episode X?" Seriously? I can't believe they'd [INSERT LAZY ACTIVITY HERE]! It really makes me want to [INSERT REPRIMANDING ACTION HERE].
this reminds me of playing Wurm Online, we were trying to connect two mineshaft tunnels. we didn't have any of the tools to make this easier, such as compasses, or maps, or anything of the sort. so we just spammed the fart emote and eyeballed it via stereo surround sound. the Fart Sonar tech came through and our stripmines were shortly joined after.
I watched a documentary about this earlier this week it was so interesting. Even though the French's machines were slower but they were water proof unlike the British's.
Honestly, when Stephen said names of the French and English workers I ws sure that he just made up one very English name and one very French name. But those are real names of those two workers.
Reminds me of the theories about the people digging the tunnels in the ancient Levant- possible they dripped water through the gaps in the earth above and the diggers followed the line of water
I guess the tunnellers knew that key lesson from history: Only the Germans can bring the English and the French together (Edit: Wow, thanks for all the thumbs up!)
Gyroscopes are and have been used in for subs and the like for years. Also for missiles. Look up Ring Laser Gyros and Fibre Optic Gyros. Wonderful bits of kit.
I'd have thought they just dug the entire tunnel from one side. So there's no chance they'd bog it up. But it is of course twice as fast to dig both sides at once. And nice for both countries to have contributed.
@@MijmerMopper Obviously overall, regardless whether you're digging one or two, you could still bog it up if you had no accuracy whatsoever. The whole point is that joining two requires absolute PERFECT accuracy. While with just one it wouldn't matter if they dug all the way from England to France and was the slightest bit off from where the French would've started their tunnel. lol Oh no! Now we gotta put the tracks a few feet to the left. Sacré bleu! lmao
3:59 just like how the trans- continetal railroad was linked futher west, as half of the workers where laying rails with geological difficulties in the rockies mountain range..
I never thought I would ever hear and see a Scotsman speaking English in a German accent.. although in truth I've never really thought about it before.. Lol
Don't people remember the two Welsh ex miners who won the original bid by miles! £5000!! Dai and Will explained that the bid included the ferry ticket and the cost of two picks and two shovels. Why the Ferry ticket they were asked, to which Dai replied that as Will spoke a bit of French he would travel over to France and Dai would go to Folkestone. They would mark direction lines and start digging towards each other until they met in the middle? "What happens if you miss?" they were asked. "Well" said Dai & Will together, " in THAT case you'll have a 'Twofer'!" "A Twofer!?" Yes said Dai ... Two fer the price of one!" 🤪🤪😆😆😆
The British drilling rig was buried beneath the middle tunnel so that the French rig could be driven through to Folkestone and turned around to drill the two 12.5m diameter running tunnels. The middle maintenance tunnel was used to access both running tunnels during the projects construction.
Surprised the Brit's didn't name their machines, as I thought it was a tunneller's tradition. Here in Melbourne Australia, a new rail tunnel is being dug/bored and the machines are named.
@@AtheAetheling For the new tunnels we are currently building for HS2, yes we have named them. Most surprisingly we haven't named them after Royals either, since that seems to be a common theme at the minute with UK infrastructure (Crossrail, the Second Severn Bridge and the Dartford Bridge all got rebranded in this style, for example). But yeah, leaving the Chunnel TBMs unnamed is a bit unusual for us, really.
There's a fascinating interview with that guy, actually. He doesn't care about home users using it for free, because businesses will try to keep themselves above-board by registering. If everybody's using it at home, as soon as the boss shouts out "anybody know how to open a rar?" somebody will recommend it.
Does anyone else wonder how certain things are made eg large Hadron collider? How do you make a machine to detect something you haven't discovered yet?
I don't know about detecting something that hasn't been "discovered" yet. But if you have a couple of, maybe competing, theories about sub-atomic particles, and the theories predict that those particles behave in certain ways when you smash things together at a certain speed, then you know to build a machine that smashes things together at that speed.
They're detecting physical particles. Just because you've never seen it, doesn't mean it doesn't release energy when it slams into something. In this case, the something they're running into is a detector that records energy.
That ”we have sold two” will always be the most spontaniously funny thing I have ever heard!!
The delayed reaction from everyone in the room 💀
As well as not really funny, that remark is not accurate. Gyrotheodolites are used by surveyors in underground mines world wide, as well as well by engineers in tunnelling operations.
A clever line, but it will have to stand in line for honours in my book, especially on this show where "spontaneously funny" is epidemic. Glad it served you so well, though. 😊
@@FreakyPete Not only in tunnelling or underground. They re used in general surveying all over the world. We even used them in the Artillery to survey the battery position and find true north quickly.
The germans always bringing french and britain together
muskatDR ^Underrated comment
(as far as a comment with 84 likes can be called "underrated" of course)
If they had had it in 1940, it would have brought them together with us.
In ww1 and ww2
NICE
Lewis Hampson
Oh damn we've got a genius over here.
"ve 'ave zold two" i'm dead
Kills me every time, and I've seen this bit at least 20 times.
Did you hit?
“All done vere vell!” 😂😂😂
German is my second language and that was surprisingly accurate - and definitely hilarious.
Do not macke fun off uz we are zuperior
I read the question and thought "if the choice is between the English and the French, this is QI so the answer will be the Germans."
I was thinking exaftly the Germans too :D
Same
OriginalPiMan i was thinking a swiss engineer
I guessed Americans
OriginalPiMan i thought shouting
Sandi Toksvig started in the far right chair (the one Rob's sat in), then moved to the one she's sat in here, then replaced Stephen at his chair, and in a few years she will replace Alan, then eventually end up in the far left chair.
Marcus Cross surely they're all on the far ri- sorry, wrong reference.
That's Bailey's seat, he won't budge.
And maybe, maker willing, at some point of that journey she'll get a laugh. *fingers crossed*
She was always funny and interesting as a panelist so I knew she'd be the same as host.
She must have misunderstood the rules and thought this is musical chairs
I joking said to myself "It's got to be a German. Only thing that can force a Englishman and a Frenchman to work together." Can't believe that was right.
That last joke was perfect
Pepys I wasn't paying attention. It went in one ear and out the other.
Pepys If only that were true for the Indian engineer
Ending the video on that joke was masterful
It was the one and only time that Fred McCauley has ever been funny.
grahamlive they were referring to Rob's joke right at the very end, not Fred's joke
Rob's french little sigh at 04:00 is perfection
It's a really clever piece of equipment. All it really does is ensure that a straight line is kept (accounting for earths curvature (of course)) using the relative difference in spin experienced in a gyroscope depending on latitude and the tangential angle between a perceived horizon and a projected correct horizon!
Simples!
Tristram Keats man, sweet.
I'd like you in my party
How do the flat earthists explain that!
floooooooooooooooood The same way they explain everything else. With ignorance.
Civil engineer involved in building pipelines: we use gyros occasionally. Whenever the pipeline is far from the surface or under a wide body of water we get a gyro for the drill..it's incredibly expensive. (horizontal directional drilling) so there is a good market for it.
They also have good use in mines.
We have sold two! Kills me every time...
As an AMerican who has only seen full episodes when they are put on RUclips and discovered this show three or four years ago, what fascinated me about this clip is that I never knew Sandi Toksvig had been a panelist on the show before she became host.
Sandi has been a panelist 17 times before she became the host.
@@justvin7214 I now have every episode to date! I have been binge watching the past four days and have a long way to go. It is a lot of fun and I do not notice the passing of time.
@@Monkofmagnesia Welcome to my world...
At the beginning, he says the Frenchman's name was Creuset. The final t is actually silent, so his name sounds exactly like "creuser", the french verb for "to dig". 😊
Edit: turns out I heard the name wrong, it's Cozette, and therefore it has nothing to do with dig, "creuser". On the other hand it sounds exactly like Cosette, the character in Victor Hugo's novel Les Misérables, the girl you see on the poster for the famous musical. A French novel, made into a musical in the early 80s, turned into a huge hit by the Brits. So, somehow appropriate still. 😄
And the Englishman was called Fagg. The second g is not pronounced, and it means to drill into a dark and dirty hole.
@@tiffanywetherspoon420 yikes tiff
@@Octopop2010 Don't knock it 'til you try it
no it's not silent
He said the wrong name or didn't articulate enough, the name of the French worker was Philippe Cozette.
www.thoughtco.com/the-channel-tunnel-1779429
ENGLAND: We've done 10 meters today. How far have you gone.
FRANCE: Yeah same.
German accent caught me off guard
French one got me
German Accent will now issue a punishment to you for being off guard
The French apologized for being late and gave the excuse of "I would have been here sooner but my rock was so hard."
Rumour has it they surrendered just as it started, so had to catch up.
3:35 points should have been awarded for that "Great Escape" reference.
and he also mentioned the 'Wooden Horse" escape that was from the same Camp.
In Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, he mentioned a tunnel built in Samos(?) by the ancient Greeks. One mile long and out by only a foot or two in the middle. I read this 35 years ago and I’m going from memory so I can’t confirm it. Also in Cappadocia are some amazing tunnels.
That last joke was in such poor taste but it really managed to connect.
Yeah, that joke was right on the edge
That my fellow RUclipsr, was a excellent follow up joke, haha!
No, but if asked if he hit or not made it hilarious! :)
Looks like the f#*king pc police are here. Lighten up buddy, this is a TV show for gods sake.
Sometimes, you need to take a shot in the dark and hope you don't die up there on stage.
Gyroscopes are such an underrated invention, with a properly aligned gyro you can tell your positive and relative movement in any frame of causality.
more of a discovery then in invention. But they are very handy things . :-)
There were 2 previous tunnels that had an interesting story. In fact, they were the first 2 tunnels to start on both ends.
The first is in Jerusalem (Siloam tunnel) where the tunnel was close to the surface and they could listen to the shovels and could guide the workers by the noise.
The second one was made geometrically. The tunnel of Eupalinos is considered one of the great feats of the Greek Engineering. They went around the mountain with perpendicular lenghts and then constructed a similar triangle and dug in the direction of the hypotenuse. They got precise enough to the point they could hear the other tunnel in the middle of the mountain and made the connection. It served as an aqueduct and saved thousand of lives.
Geez, those clever greeks
To defend the British, the burrowed machines serve a valuable purpose: they act as a mid-tunnel electrical grounding.
bullshit excuse
@@carlosandleon It's neither an excuse nor bullshit, it's a simple fact. Not as simple as yourself, obviously.
We normally use a metal rod hammered into the ground for ground. I don't see how the machine does a better job.
@@ferrumignis I mean, it's not really as simple as that, is it? I could plug a pinhole leak with the sapphire from my wife's ring. Telling her not to be angry because it's serving a valuable purpose might be factual, but it's still a bullshit excuse for mistreating something significant or valuable when I could have used something else instead. Those machines could have seen more service, got broken broken down for a monstrous amount of scrap metal, or they could have been sold to other countries wanting to perform similar civil engineering projects. "Sorry, chaps, ask the French, but if you need the usual steel electrical grounding spikes, we have a few spares."
@@bobbodaskank You have clearly never worked on huge civil projects like this. The machines would have been pretty tired by that point, and the cost of breaking them down and removing them would have been huge.
In answer to Stephen’s question. The reason they buried the British Boring Machines was because if they didn’t, when the French arrived, they would have 2 machines facing right at each other head on. Since they can’t exactly be reversed they agreed to bury the British ones (makes sense since they finished digging first) and allow the French to drive straight through.
So was it the French one that Sandi would have seen by the road?
Lots of good stuff here but:
The gyrotheodolite was used to make sure that there was no cumulative error building up in the survey but the basic accuracy was down to good old precision surveying, so precise that it accounted for the light being bent by the thermal gradient between the edge and the middle of the tunnel. The accuracy was not advertised as the surveyors knew that it was far better than they had any reason to expect being about 50mm, 75mm and 150mm (up/down. left/right and length). Considering that, at the start, we didn't know where France was to that sort of accuracy, it is pretty amazing.
The UK tunnelling machines were buried largely because they would have been extremely difficult to get out as they are larger than the completed tunnel. However, the machines that dug the land tunnels from Dover to Folkestone were retrieved and put up for sale.
"Helloo? Are you there?
We are here!"
Oh sorry we've gone past you!"
😂😂😂😂
It’s amazing how sad I felt when Stephen spoke about the British making their machines burrow themselves into the earth 😆 Pixar has done its job
“Did he hit?” Brutal!
So quick with the last line! Brilliant!
Scripted
"Gyrotheodolite" is the name of my Alan Parsons Project cover band.
The Romans built an underground aquifer through a mountain, starting at each end and met in the middle with an error of less than a foot.
Wonder how many people died for it to happen
Building a straight line through anything has been possible for thousands of years, building a tunnel that goes under a very deep body of water and then up the other side is very difficult. The amount of course corrections alone through various types of rock and soil for 25km each makes the fact that they were only 30cm out absolutely staggering.
@@krashd I didn't say it was impossible. Clearly it was. But that doesn't mean it was easy, or, after thousands of years, that we know how they did it.
There are many examples of engineering in the ancient world that we have no clue how they did it, but the fact they exist proves it was possible.
No impossible engineering feat have ever been discovered, because they are, well, impossible.
Yeah, but apart from building an underground aquifer through a mountain, starting at each end and meeting in the middle with an error of less than a foot...
what have the Romans ever done for us?
@@derekscanlan4641 hahaha 😆
I read Birdsong ages ago, have to read it again, forgot how good it was
I’m on a QI marathon and Stephen seems to look different in every video regardless of the date the episode was recorded
That last joke was fucking savage... good bant
The gyrotheodolite wasn't invented solely for the channel-project though - it was in use since 1949...
In short: "Ve have zold zavven!"
4:48
I was waiting for the following inevitable question.
A frenchmen, an englishmen and a german walk into a tunnel
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randomisedjacob
If nobody was there to hear them did they make a sound?
The Frenchman said Ah..this would make a great wine cellar..the Englishman said Ah..this would make a great beer cellar,the German said Ah...now we can REALLY invade Britain this time..!
Three Germans walk out of the tunnel
I thought they would just magnetise the drills to make them meet.
One small issue was raised when they both chose the same polarity of magnet, which is why there's a few loops in the middle of the tunnel.
QI | Who Made Sure The Channel Tunnel Met In The Middle? 0847am 1.8.23 dont hurry back was the cry!
I saw the TBM in the factory when they were building it what an amazing machine.
The problem is that when the German brought up the gyrotheodolite to the tunnel, there was a man there who said, "Vere is your licence?!"
The French and the English once more unified with the help of Germany xD
Thank you for the subtitles.
A year late in response, but... you're welcome! ( I actually wrote and added those subtitles myself back when RUclips supported community subs. It was just a way to while away an evening but I'm glad they did good for someone. :) )
"Did he hit?" Caught me so off-guard
"Did he hit?" LMAO
I'm reasonably sure that the construction area had a rule about hard hats required by everyone. Superman, no matter how impervious he is, would follow that rule to set a good example.
Really? "Series X, Episode X?" Seriously?
I can't believe they'd [INSERT LAZY ACTIVITY HERE]! It really makes me want to [INSERT REPRIMANDING ACTION HERE].
H, 11
is there even a season x yet
horny turtle you’ve sunk my battleship
@@PomegranateStaindGrn lmao🤣🤣
Actually I was Eric Radcliff, a surveyor Par Excelance. Mr Fagg was the instrument that opened the Surveyors expert guidence.
QI has a wonderful bit about the gyrotheodolite which was used to line up the tunnels to meet.
Brilliant as always
"did he hit" - brilliant
1:16 did he just spoil me the book I’m currently reading?!?! 😱
What is the name of thr book
Tomaž Iskra Birdsong by S. Faulks
Let me know who let their bomb off when you finish it
@@SchlumberttheHumble Someone let's a bomb off when you finish the book?
I always thought no good would come from all that reading.
1:31 Brydons pronunciation of Superman is amazing
this reminds me of playing Wurm Online, we were trying to connect two mineshaft tunnels. we didn't have any of the tools to make this easier, such as compasses, or maps, or anything of the sort. so we just spammed the fart emote and eyeballed it via stereo surround sound. the Fart Sonar tech came through and our stripmines were shortly joined after.
When he said how did they met in the middle who besides me thought the middle man would be a great answer the wrong one but a great one
I watched a documentary about this earlier this week it was so interesting. Even though the French's machines were slower but they were water proof unlike the British's.
The French were pessimists. We were pretty sure we wouldn't need to tunnel underwater.
Honestly, when Stephen said names of the French and English workers I ws sure that he just made up one very English name and one very French name. But those are real names of those two workers.
Reminds me of the theories about the people digging the tunnels in the ancient Levant- possible they dripped water through the gaps in the earth above and the diggers followed the line of water
Good idea if there is no ubiquitous ground water. And a single fracture system, going in the desired direction. So maybe it's a "desktop idea".
I guess the tunnellers knew that key lesson from history: Only the Germans can bring the English and the French together
(Edit: Wow, thanks for all the thumbs up!)
Yes, hahaha xD
kaboom138 so THAT'S WHAT THEY NEEDED TO NOT HAVE BREXIT
Lets not bring politics here
If there were Academy Awards for RUclips comments...you'd lose, of course, because those awards shows are all shit. But you still get my vote.
Thanks!
The Chunnel is within soft chalk (like Cliffs of Dover) with millions of tons of sea water above.
"We have sold two!"
Couldn't the same device be used for helping the submarines to navigate (to keep straight course)? Or is it already being used for that purpose?
Gyroscope compasses are used in ships and airplanes (before the advent of GPS)
Not accurate enough. Also you have the drilling and the fact that it's underground to keep in mind...
Gyroscopes are and have been used in for subs and the like for years. Also for missiles.
Look up Ring Laser Gyros and Fibre Optic Gyros. Wonderful bits of kit.
In his book Red Storm Rising (great book) Clancy has his Submarine navigator say: “all I need is a map and a stopwatch“.
1:35 Shout out to that one lady who lost her shit when they zoomed in!
Rob Brydon, savage as hell lol.
I'd have thought they just dug the entire tunnel from one side. So there's no chance they'd bog it up. But it is of course twice as fast to dig both sides at once. And nice for both countries to have contributed.
It also doesn't fix the needed accuracy. If the one side bogs up even a little bit you end up having a tunnel that doesn't connect on the other side.
@@MijmerMopper Obviously overall, regardless whether you're digging one or two, you could still bog it up if you had no accuracy whatsoever. The whole point is that joining two requires absolute PERFECT accuracy. While with just one it wouldn't matter if they dug all the way from England to France and was the slightest bit off from where the French would've started their tunnel. lol Oh no! Now we gotta put the tracks a few feet to the left. Sacré bleu! lmao
Dara O'Briain did an amazing bit about the poor digger that got left behind. I think it's on Crowd Tickler. #pooroldchuggy
Shame he's ridiculously unfunny
what was the book alan was talking about?
Birdsong, by Sebastian Faulks.
darthwillem thanks!
1:31 Bloody Fathers for Justice get everywhere these days
“Ve hav sold two, ya” ahahahah😂😂😂
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrotheodolite
So many good accents!
3:59 just like how the trans- continetal railroad was linked futher west, as half of the workers where laying rails with geological difficulties in the rockies mountain range..
Genuinely was expecting Alan to say ‘Blue Whale’
"Ve have sold two!" 😂😂😂😂😂
It's great that Alan Davies mimes every joke he does. If he hadn't shouted after saying shouting, I would not have known what a shout was.
Grow up
A snide that hides is despised
trevor unswin I thought it was pretty good
Vee haf sold too !
That last joke 😂😂😂
Poor Chuggy! 😢😢😭
I never thought I would ever hear and see a Scotsman speaking English in a German accent.. although in truth I've never really thought about it before.. Lol
THanks.
"Who Made Sure The Channel Tunnel Met In The Middle?"
Me: "A middleman."
This is why we always bring Dotty back from the caves. Rock & Stone!
A young sally gunnell, whilst playing the fiddle
Patent on the gyroscopic theodolite ran out in 1978. A top end model with GPS costs $140,000.00 !
Don't people remember the two Welsh ex miners who won the original bid by miles! £5000!!
Dai and Will explained that the bid included the ferry ticket and the cost of two picks and two shovels. Why the Ferry ticket they were asked, to which Dai replied that as Will spoke a bit of French he would travel over to France and Dai would go to Folkestone. They would mark direction lines and start digging towards each other until they met in the middle?
"What happens if you miss?" they were asked.
"Well" said Dai & Will together, " in THAT case you'll have a 'Twofer'!"
"A Twofer!?"
Yes said Dai ... Two fer the price of one!" 🤪🤪😆😆😆
Ah poor Col Barog, at least the tunnel and a station is named after him on a UNESCO Heritage Line. So not too bad at the end
I was expecting someone to make a middle management joke.
The British drilling rig was buried beneath the middle tunnel so that the French rig could be driven through to Folkestone and turned around to drill the two 12.5m diameter running tunnels. The middle maintenance tunnel was used to access both running tunnels during the projects construction.
Please don't comment on things you clearly have no knowledge of.
Surprised the Brit's didn't name their machines, as I thought it was a tunneller's tradition. Here in Melbourne Australia, a new rail tunnel is being dug/bored and the machines are named.
That surprises me too, as the Brits will usually take any excuse to name anything.
@@AtheAetheling For the new tunnels we are currently building for HS2, yes we have named them. Most surprisingly we haven't named them after Royals either, since that seems to be a common theme at the minute with UK infrastructure (Crossrail, the Second Severn Bridge and the Dartford Bridge all got rebranded in this style, for example). But yeah, leaving the Chunnel TBMs unnamed is a bit unusual for us, really.
" turn left. You are under the sea".
Quite interestingly a gyro theodolite would be needed for each tunneling machine being used. between. Or a boy on a bike to race between.
Haven't watched this yet but I can tell you who made sure the Tunnel met in the middle. The Germans.
Seems to me that a gyroscopic theodolite would also be handy for underground mining operations.
Why did I read theological gynecologist
@@the_linguist_ll That is a different kind of cave exploration.
Technically I've heard that the machines that have been burrowed on the English side were to provide an electrical ground...
Regarding tunnelling under enemy positions, investigate the tunnelling they did in the Battle of Messines.
Check out the site on Google Earth. Start at N 50.771126°, E 2.864958° and follow a line of circular ponds running almost due North for about 3km.
“Please make a U-turn… you are under the sea.”
Well they sold two more of the devices than RARlab has been able to sell WinRAR licenses.
There's a fascinating interview with that guy, actually. He doesn't care about home users using it for free, because businesses will try to keep themselves above-board by registering. If everybody's using it at home, as soon as the boss shouts out "anybody know how to open a rar?" somebody will recommend it.
4:26 the best part
"only 300mm or so out"
*holds hands 3mm apart*
Does anyone else wonder how certain things are made eg large Hadron collider? How do you make a machine to detect something you haven't discovered yet?
they had built particle colliders before, just nothing on that scale...
@@lewistaylor2858 How did they build them?
@@michaellavery4899 I'm sorry I couldn't tell you, I know next to nothing about them.
I don't know about detecting something that hasn't been "discovered" yet. But if you have a couple of, maybe competing, theories about sub-atomic particles, and the theories predict that those particles behave in certain ways when you smash things together at a certain speed, then you know to build a machine that smashes things together at that speed.
They're detecting physical particles.
Just because you've never seen it, doesn't mean it doesn't release energy when it slams into something.
In this case, the something they're running into is a detector that records energy.
It was actually a Swedish invention that was sold to the Norwegians!
the simpler solution is that they should have both started in the middle
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