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Looks like you missed this. Paragraph 7: > Some residents said they believe, or want to believe, that a piece of old Seattle, buried in the pell-mell rush of c
by scotth 13y ago
Looks like you missed this. Paragraph 7:
> Some residents said they believe, or want to believe, that a piece of old Seattle, buried in the pell-mell rush of city-building in the 1800s, when a mucky waterfront wetland was filled in to make room for commerce, could be Bertha’s big trouble. That theory is bolstered by the fact that the blocked tunnel section is also in the shallowest portion of the route, with the top of the machine only around 45 feet below street grade.
- incision 13y ago>"Looks like you missed this." Or not. When I read this yesterday, knowing nothing of Seattle history I felt a lot like what the parent is expressing because of the quoted bit. The article spends 1200 words basically forcing speculation on "the object" (So ominous!) and casting a load of preemptive ("want to believe") doubt on an obvious explanation. It's the scripted "reality" TV analog for news - manufacturing suspense from the mundane. That said, I do hope "the object" is in fact an alien spacecraft.