Transatlantic Tunnel- So, if you could take the train from New York and in less than an hour reach London, would you do it? What if you had to make the journey through a tunnel 150 feet under the Atlantic? And on a magnetically levitated train traveling at 5,000 mph?
City in a Pyramid- Imagine a self-sustaining pyramid-shaped city in the air. And imagine that it is built by robots and with little help from human workers.
Subways in America- How do you overhaul one of the nation's oldest and most traveled subway systems without shutting down a city for several years? New Yorkers are finding out.
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[Extreme Engineering][S1][E07]_Building Hong Kong's Airport.avi
Building Hong Kong's Airport- In the 1990s, Hong Kong undertook one of the largest civil engineering projects in history when it decided to build a new international airport 16 miles out to sea.
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[Extreme Engineering][S1][E05]_Bridging The Bering Strait.avi
Bridging the Bering Strait- For the first time since the ice age, there could be a bridge across the Bering Strait linking Asia and North America. First, engineers must learn to deal with 55 miles of violent seas and crushing ice over the Arctic Ocean.
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[Extreme Engineering][S1][E08]_Holland's Barriers To The Sea.avi
Holland's Barriers to the Sea- Most of Holland is below sea level, the nation a drainage basin for three major rivers. Its people have fought back against floods since the Middle Ages. But now, they have massive, computer-controlled sea barriers and dams doing the trick.
Boston's Big Dig- How do you put a new, 10-lane highway 120 feet below downtown Boston without succumbing to crumbling earth, and without endangering the buildings and people above? It's happening right now.
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[Extreme Engineering][S1][E06]_Tunneling Under The Alps.avi
Tunneling Under the Alps- How might Europe be different if the great land barrier of the Alps could easily be traversed via tunnels?
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[Extreme Engineering][S1][E10]_Widening The Panama Canal.avi
Widening the Panama Canal- For nearly a century, one of the world's most important waterways has let ships make a commercially critical shortcut between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. But many of today's ships are too big for the man-made canal. Can it be widened?
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