Share this comment
She must have learned them 40-50 years ago, when traveling the CCCP as a young GDR-student. So, classics. The other was more appealing to German physic-students (she got a PhD): When the BAM (or the transib) got built, there was discussion: build just one track or two tracks. "Well, we start building from both ends, if the rails do not m…
She must have learned them 40-50 years ago, when traveling the CCCP as a young GDR-student. So, classics. The other was more appealing to German physic-students (she got a PhD): When the BAM (or the transib) got built, there was discussion: build just one track or two tracks. "Well, we start building from both ends, if the rails do not meet, it will be two-tracks." (Sorry, re-re-re-translating from memory from an interview she gave SPIEGEL in German).
I head a version of this one as a Soviet bid to build the tunnel under the English Channel: we'll start to dig from both ends; worst case scenario, you'll have two tunnels.
Funny thing is, this is actually how they did dig the tunnel in the end.