Gork@lemm.ee to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 4 months agoIf a tunnel boring machine were installed facing downward in a cemetery, you wouldn't need to expand the cemeterymessage-squaremessage-square54fedilinkarrow-up1117arrow-down117file-text
arrow-up1100arrow-down1message-squareIf a tunnel boring machine were installed facing downward in a cemetery, you wouldn't need to expand the cemeteryGork@lemm.ee to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 4 months agomessage-square54fedilinkfile-text
Just have it drill downward, put some more dirt on the coffins, add another layer of coffins, and repeat!
minus-squareDrownedRats@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down4·4 months agoNa, too wasteful. Instead, just cement everyone into one of those concrete arches that tunnel boring machines poop out behind them and turn those corpses into tunnels. You still get to be buried but you’re also doing something useful in death!
minus-squareBytemeister@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkΕλληνικάarrow-up1·edit-24 months agoThat would create weak concrete in the exact place you absolutely do not want weak concrete.
Na, too wasteful. Instead, just cement everyone into one of those concrete arches that tunnel boring machines poop out behind them and turn those corpses into tunnels. You still get to be buried but you’re also doing something useful in death!
That would create weak concrete in the exact place you absolutely do not want weak concrete.