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# I have spent the past 3 minutes trying to think up why this would be a bad idea....
and I can't come up with one.
(I helped save b3ta! The magic of chutney Shakes it like an Instagram filter!, Fri 12 Feb 2010, 11:04, archived)
# :D
smoke filled tunnels, stairs to get down to and up from, quicker to walk than take a narrow boat, etc etc. And as for the locks you'd need... sorry for being literal, just as soon as my brain started it couldn't stop
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Fri 12 Feb 2010, 11:05, archived)
# Pah! piddling details
If the Victorians had thought like that, we'd never have invented anything ;D
Some kind of air extraction / filteration system, and of course improved speedy narrow boats, and moving tavelator walkways that whizzed you along! See, Isambard KB eat yer heart out!
(I helped save b3ta! The magic of chutney Shakes it like an Instagram filter!, Fri 12 Feb 2010, 11:07, archived)
# my brain is thinking a turbine system
that moves the water along taking the boats with them.. while tidal generators reharvest ..at least some of the energy along the route.

EDIT: screw the narrow boat.. just have rubber tires :D
(I helped save b3ta! arrangedletters, Fri 12 Feb 2010, 11:14, archived)
# they could be towed by eels
(I helped save b3ta! twig Save 6 Music, Fri 12 Feb 2010, 11:17, archived)
# electric eels!
who get tormented and pissed off by their low hourly wage and release electricity that we then harvest!!

AND SAVE THE WORLD!



(I helped save b3ta! arrangedletters, Fri 12 Feb 2010, 11:22, archived)
# you could have metal wheels
and make the boats run along some sort of electrical track!

Oh.
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Fri 12 Feb 2010, 11:34, archived)
# make sure the water is heavy
and stock it chock full of paladium. cold fusion the fuck out of it.
(I helped save b3ta! arrangedletters, Fri 12 Feb 2010, 11:38, archived)
# Would passengers have to lie on their backs and "walk" the barges through the tunnels?
Might be fun, to begin with...
(I helped save b3ta! Fresh Water Mole loves his baby boy more and more every day, Fri 12 Feb 2010, 11:06, archived)
# oh yes!
with the feet on the ceiling.
(I helped save b3ta! Holly Would long wheel based tranny, Fri 12 Feb 2010, 11:24, archived)
# Yeah fun until you get tramp jizz on you face
(I helped save b3ta! @><|= w0nu!) or cunt to my friends, Sat 13 Feb 2010, 11:08, archived)