China Laughs at the West: Builds a 120 km Undersea Tunnel While Others Argue About Small Bridges

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Earthquakes? Managed, Not Feared

Naturally, the project comes with serious technical challenges. The tunnel will pass through a seismically active zone. China’s approach is pragmatic: advanced monitoring systems, watertight safety compartments, and modern construction techniques are built into the design.

In contrast, large infrastructure projects elsewhere often stall due to environmental reviews, political infighting, or legal challenges. China, by comparison, pushes forward with capital, engineering, and speed. The contrast is striking. While many ambitious infrastructure plans remain stuck on paper in other parts of the world, China is preparing to break ground on a tunnel forty times longer than projects that have been debated for decades.

8 Deaths of Actors on the Set

It is generally accepted that the profession of an actor is prestige, success and unheard of popularity. But sometimes, in addition to crowds of fans and lots of money, actors have to face dangerous situations that can overtake them right on the set. Well, if they get off with a couple of abrasions and a fright, but the stories of the cinema are known and such cases when the actors did not come out of the set alive ...

Coronavirus for the Good! The Extraordinary Effect of Quarantine on Nature …

Now many people compare the coronavirus pandemic to World War. In just a few months, global quarantine managed to stir up the economies and health systems of many countries, but at the same time significantly affected the environmental situation in the world. “The planet is being cleared!”, shout scientists and ecologists from all sources. How exactly does this process occur and in what way is it manifested? We will talk about the positive impact of quarantine on nature in today's selection of facts ...

55-year-old Woman Has Bright Tattoos All Over Her Body! Photos

Today we are ready to throw tomatoes at everyone who says that after 50, life is already gradually coming to its logical conclusion and all that remains to be done by men and women at this age is to nurse their grandchildren and dig a vegetable garden. But no! And today's heroine, a grandmother from Germany, will easily prove it! It's never too late to live, and even more so to live brightly and richly, the way she does it ...

Ingenious Everyday Inventions: 17 Ideas

Every day, people around the world face many inconveniences in using familiar things. Fortunately, at the same time, other people invent ingenious devices that simplify a human’s life. It is about such necessary, but very simple at first glance, things and ideas that will be discussed today ...