Atlantic tunnel

[Sirblair]

Was watching discovery channel yesterday about amazing engineering or something,

Saw this one plan where they were looking at building a train tunnel from america, across the atlantic and onto gb, and onward to france,

The plan itself involved giant tunnel lines and also a train that didnt run on a track ( electromagnetism to reduce track friction to 0 ) and so the train could then be capable of travelling speeds equal or faster than the speed of a bullet,

This meant the journey of new york to Great Britain would take around 55 minutes, ( think it took 4 hours on a supersonic concord ),

Why have i ranted on about this?? My question is......

If one of the tunnel section was to break due to the moving of earth plates, could the train out-run the flooding? =S

I mean i dont think i've ever heard anyone talk about the speed of water unless its in a controlled system with pressure to move it at the required speed,

random i know but thought i would put some life back into this forum lol

[Provectus]

Whilst reading that I was thinking "and if the tunnel breaks...", nice for people 10 years or so after it's completed, but **** off would I be willing to use it (assuming I had reason to) for a good few years until I'd seen it hasn't collapsed.

[Sirblair]

Lol yea and it ended by saying "Engineers has said they have comtemplated every error that could go wrong......but they must still expect to deal with the unexpectable".........yea cause thats a easy one to do.....

Just one of those plans that look good on the back of a pizza box until you have experts having a look at it