@gorillapaws Ultimately I wouldn’t be trying to make a tunnel, but rather a house underground. It’s just one of the many, admittedly crazy (possibly insane), ideas I’ve come up with in my life.
My curiosity often drives me to exploring avenues I probably shouldn’t. For example, my last project was an attempt at making a ferrofluid sculpture with a plasma coating… I was basically trying to mix this with this. In the end I got the ferrofluid sculpture working, but put out the electricity to my apartment building once I tried adding plasma to the mix. =} Whooops~! haha
Anyways, this underground house idea is just another form of my crazy at work.
This is how it came about:
One night I woke up from a weird dream where I was living in an underground mansion. It got me thinking; if one were willing, given time and effort, you could actually make a giant house underground. Furthermore, this entire structure could be right under anything (i.e. a tennis court) and no one would ever know it. No property taxes, immense possibility for expansion, tap an electric line here, tap a water line there and BLAMO! You got yourself the most free, interesting, and private house for miles.
Granted that’s all VERY far fetched and probably entirely outside the realm or realistic possibilities; but hey… you never know unless you try, right? This specific attempt is more just to explore the feasibility of such an undertaking single-handedly. I don’t know how deep under the courts I can actually make it. And honestly, I don’t really care if I never get any further along than I am today. Right now I’m just having fun. I like making things, I like digging, it’s something new and interesting to me, and it beats the hell out of the gym. =] I’d rather not die, or be arrested in the process though, so I’m taking precautions where I can. Hence, currently, you absolutely can not tell there’s a giant hole right where it is. I built a door and covered it with dirt. HA-ha! =J