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This relates to FEMA and those document repeatedly mention disaster recovery. It certainly makes sense to have Walmart involved in disaster relief as they already have a supply line and infrastructure in place. I don't see how that relates at all to a special forces exercise; in fact there are a number of reasons why closing stores would make no sense at all. A closed Walmart is going to be of no military use as far as supplies go.
And once again, why would the military spend untold billions of dollars building secret tunnels and have the entrances at discount department stores mostly staffed with minimum wage workers many of them disgruntled?
That's on top of the whole project being very, very close to impossible.
Never said Wal-Mart built the tunnels.
originally posted by: In4ormant
a reply to: Greathouse
and also to a reply to: Greathouse
Because Jade Helm is all paranoid BS. The Navy and others did the same thing years ago off the east coast simulating aggressive coastal landings and Florida was declared hostile on op maps for the exercise. People grasp at anything. I suppose the military needs to start sending out programs detailing everything so our enemies can stay current on our tactics.
originally posted by: In4ormant
a reply to: Ultralight
Just so it will muffle the sound of you mindless drones all regurgitating the same unfounded drivel.
originally posted by: theMediator
"they plan to hire 100 000 US veterans over 5 years"
Walmart to spend 50 billion products made in America
All very interesting and disturbing at the same time...
originally posted by: AreUKiddingMe
Judging from the amount of flags, there's at least 14 very gullible people right now that have read this.
This is laughable to say the least. The "tunnel map" if anywhere near correct, is showing thousands of miles of tunnels..my guess is FIVE thousand miles. Sitting here laughing my butt off while I'm typing this. If you have ever driven or traversed the country you would realize how incredibly unrealistic this would be. Does anyone know the manpower it would take to accomplish such a feat? How many years? The incredible lengths that would have to be gone to to make sure local communities didn't know? Not to mention thousands of tunnel diggers who would have to keep totally silent, no cellphone pics, no talking about it, not even when they were totally drunk at the neighborhood bar? Or is there another conspiracy somewhere that the tunnel builders were acquired from some other source and left no trail, no truckloads of dirt anywhere, not even on Google maps? What an incredible feat of human engineering! This is better than the Great Pyramids! All for what? Tell me again? To connect Walmarts? Excuse me while I go laugh uncontrollably for a bit!
Method and apparatus for tunneling by melting US 3693731 A Abstract A machine and method for drilling bore holes and tunnels by melting in which a housing is provided for supporting a heat source and a heated end portion and in which the necessary melting heat is delivered to the walls of the end portion at a rate sufficient to melt rock and during operation of which the molten material may be disposed adjacent the boring zone in cracks in the rock and as a vitreous wall lining of the tunnel so formed. The heat source can be electrical or nuclear but for deep drilling is preferably a nuclear reactor.
originally posted by: AllenBishop
This horse has already been beaten about 8 ways from Sunday.
www.abovetopsecret.com...
The idea of thousands of miles worth of tunnels, is not just absurd, it's intellectually dishonest.
I'll sum up my responses from the other thread:
1) Too expensive
2) Personnel requirements too large
3) Technically unfeasible.
I've got a bridge in Brooklyn I'll sell y'all, if you're interested.
originally posted by: AllenBishop
a reply to: PublicOpinion
Don't be disingenuous.
Of course, there are underground structures in the United States. Cheyenne Mountain, The Greenbriar, Mt. Weather, etc.
The Black Budget is $50bil, annually.
Also, those links are great, but they provide not one single iota of evidence that there are underground tunnels connecting grocery stores.
Without some sort of evidence, this entire topic is akin to urinating up a rope.
Tunnelling is not a magical endeavor, where a robotic earthworm just pushes through the ground, and a smooth, buttery ring of glass is left behind, and instead of slurry, it leaves a trail of pixie dust, and fairy whispers.
Boring machines do not have forward observation of the extracted materials. Because of this, continuous soils/materials testing would have to be performed using indirect observations/analysis along the entire corridor of the project.
The purposes of these observations is to determine the composition of the medium being tunneled through. Boreholes would have to be cored periodically along the corridor of the tunnel. Certain mechanical properties of the medium(soil,rock, etc.) would have to be determined. These properties include compressive strength, tensile strength, shear strength, hydraulic gradients, water flows, chemical contents, soil pressures, excavability, adhesivity, seismicity, subsidence, mineralogical content/grain distribution and porosity, water content/saturation degree/permeability coefficients, etc. etc. etc. etc.
Soils/rock have inherent mechanical strengths. There is a maximum limit to the amount of shear strength through material cohesion/friction/natural stresses. This is determined through the Mohr-Coulomb theory.
Again, you cannot just throw a scorching hot-tipped device in the ground, and have it magically erase the tunnel face. Civil engineering projects are slightly more involved than just, "Well, Timmy. You reckon that's a good direction to send the magical tunnel boring machine? Yessir, I do. Sounds good. Fire her up, and set sail for the next Walmart down yonder!"
Deny ignorance much?
The point of the Jade Helm exercise is to assess the ease with which communities can be infiltrated and subverted, correct?