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Some themes have always have been popular in 快猫短视频. Space, environment, quantum stuff 鈥� we cover them week in, week out. Other reporting beats are less prestigious. Take tunnels, for example. But check out the archive, and you鈥檒l quickly realise hardly an issue goes by without some reference to these hard-to-define holes: from moles to the Large Hadron Collider, 快猫短视频 has always loved a tunnel.
In March 1965, the British Aircraft Corporation used our pages to entice people to work in one. As the era of faster-than-sound commercial flight approached, the company was looking for engineers to get busy in its supersonic wind tunnel 鈥渟ituated in pleasant country鈥� in Lancashire.
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By March 1981, Concorde, the most famous fruit of that supersonic research was flying successfully, but alas unprofitably, and our faith in British technological prowess had stalled. , we explained that it was no longer a 鈥渂lack art鈥� but 鈥渁 sophisticated business using lasers, computers and closed-circuit television鈥�. Not that you鈥檇 know it in the UK, where 鈥渟ewers are in a shocking state,鈥� complained our writer Piers Harding (deputy editor of Tunnels and Tunnelling). 鈥淏ritain has lost its tunnelling lead,鈥� he thundered, 鈥渂ecause its firms have not tried hard enough to win work abroad.鈥� Warming to the then-familiar theme of Useless UK, he continued: 鈥淏ut in addition to their own torpidity, British tunnellers owe their decline to the Japanese genius for improving anything by applying the most advanced technology to it.鈥�
Scathing stuff, and if we couldn鈥檛 even keep our sewers in order that probably explains why the Large Hadron Collider was built somewhere else. In 2005 we were discussing the fantastical claim that particle collisions in the LHC鈥檚 tunnel could create the right conditions for a black hole. Nonsense, we reckoned, before going on to explain what might really happen as temperatures of 鈥渁bout 2 trillion kelvin would be achieved鈥�. None of that would be possible without tunnels, though. No wonder we love them so.
