Why do dudes dig them?
I personally have never had the urge (partly because I’m too lazy, and partly because I tend to be claustrophobic). Keith and Carolyn Henson, founders of the L-5 Society (and before they divorced) had tunnels under their house and lot in Tucson, which was quite a feat, considering the hardness of the caliche there.
I love digging tunnels, so I guess this means I’m normal.
Some men play golf, some dig tunnels.
I don’t dig (I don’t really play golf much, either) but I have my hobbies – flying, sailing, search and rescue, bringing health care to the disadvantaged….
Ahh but Doc, do you have a hobby tractor?
Nah. I have a 42hp work Kubota
Life is short but you still have time to dig some holes.
Yep. My favorite is the one I dig near the gate, labeled ”census worker”
I had never heard of this until now.
Other than Keith and Carolyn, neither had I.
It all starts when you are tiny human and you dig your first hole. It is similar to fort building. How many dudes build shacks in the woods?
There are a fair number of documentaries about people who do this and some of the tiny house youtube channels have tours of subterranean houses.
From a space nerd perspective, it is all good research.
https://www.youtube.com/user/kirstendirksen/search?query=cave
When I was five or six visiting relatives in southern California, my brother and cousin and I decide to dig a tunnel in their backyard.
I had never realized how much work it was digging a hole. I lost interest in the project long before my aunt came to the back door and wanted to know what we thought we were doing.
Your aunt missed out a lot by not encouraging you, your brother and cousin’s earth-moving acumen.
She could have directed you to digging up soil for raised garden beds, making a composting trench, planting fruit trees or other food-generating projects.
There’s a climate advantage to being underground. The temperature regulates.
Tunneling is one thing. The more fascinating is rise-mining. Whereby you gather your ladders together and go more or less straight up.
Then there’s sinking. Needs an air winch, pumps, and a hoist. A bit more strenuous, although rising is hard too, but at least the rock falls down.
God filled the ground with vast treasure. It is our manly duty to dig it out.
“God filled the ground with vast treasure. It is our manly duty to dig it out.”
Who knows what will be found!
Why do men dig tunnels? Well… “All that effort to get out, and now he has to spend the rest of his life trying to get back in.”
I am a dwarf and I’m digging a hole! Diggy, diggy hole! Diggy, diggy hole!
https://youtu.be/ytWz0qVvBZ0
Secret underground evil scientist lairs.
Duh.
“a proclivity for systems and rule-based life”
This explains so much about me.