To dear Husky:
Pls try going to "Google" (basic one is enough, no need for Google Earth) and zoom in on the "Ramar Bridge" area. You will find a few things:
1. The Ramar Sethu is broken at Pamban, where there is a rail bridge (maybe also a road bridge now) that is about a mile long. The depth is quite a bit there. Surely there is no land connection, and has not been for ages.
I suppose it was sacrilegious for that bridge to be built, OVER the Ramar path, but there is no other way for ppl to get across to Rameswaram.
2. The sandbank apparent on space images appears to be the edge of a sort of high plateau in that whole Palk Bay region. Beyond, the sea gets much deeper.
There <i>are a lot of breaks in that sandbar, probably some already as deep as 12 meters</i>[B] or whatever the SSC is going to be. So there IS NO CONTINUOUS surface there, and has not been for ages.
3. Putting in a 300m wide, slightly deeper channel there does nothing, not nearly as disruptive or sacrilegious as building the Pamban bridge and having ppl Pu into the Pamban from the fine Indian Railways trains that pass across a few times every day.
4. There is already some sort of artificial (meaning built in past 50 years) breakwater beyond Rameswaram, probably since the cyclone of 1965 that completely changed the topography. After the cyclone the place was cut into some 3 different islands, with strong currents in the channels in between. Like I said, NO continuous path from the Ayodhya or KishKindha to Lanka.
Millions of people clim up to Sabari Mala every year. Very holy place. Why is this sacrilege allowed? Shouldn't all travel be banned there too? They even have ELECTRIC LIGHTS there, haraam! haraam!
Yeah, I know, all just facts. Can't allow those to interfere with political posturing.
As for the "need" for the SSC to allow shipping through, rather than go 350 km (must around SL, well, there is no NEED for the Suez Canal or the Panama Canal, or airports or seaports or anything else, come to think of it.
All they are proposing to do here is to build a sustainable canal, with a RELIABLE depth chart so that ships can go through. You won't be able to see this channel where it crosses the "Ramar Bridge". GOOGLE won't be able to see it either, and neither will
NASA. IOW, you won't know about it unless someone tells you it's there, and then you have to take their word for it.
Of course, you had no idea that there WAS such a thing at all, apparently..
Extending the "logic" of the propoaganda against the SSC, should one not ban and break down all the bridges across the Ganga?
Shouldn't it be haraam to dredge the port of Kolkatta since that is cutting into the Holy Ganga?
Shouldn't ppl at least quit going "Pu" into the Holy Ganga? If all these are halal, what's the big deal about a 300m wide shipping channel through a region where no one except the LTTE has any reason to go these days?
Dog-in-the-Manger is the Angreji term for those opposing this project on such bogus grounds.
Pls try going to "Google" (basic one is enough, no need for Google Earth) and zoom in on the "Ramar Bridge" area. You will find a few things:
1. The Ramar Sethu is broken at Pamban, where there is a rail bridge (maybe also a road bridge now) that is about a mile long. The depth is quite a bit there. Surely there is no land connection, and has not been for ages.
I suppose it was sacrilegious for that bridge to be built, OVER the Ramar path, but there is no other way for ppl to get across to Rameswaram.
2. The sandbank apparent on space images appears to be the edge of a sort of high plateau in that whole Palk Bay region. Beyond, the sea gets much deeper.
There <i>are a lot of breaks in that sandbar, probably some already as deep as 12 meters</i>[B] or whatever the SSC is going to be. So there IS NO CONTINUOUS surface there, and has not been for ages.
3. Putting in a 300m wide, slightly deeper channel there does nothing, not nearly as disruptive or sacrilegious as building the Pamban bridge and having ppl Pu into the Pamban from the fine Indian Railways trains that pass across a few times every day.
4. There is already some sort of artificial (meaning built in past 50 years) breakwater beyond Rameswaram, probably since the cyclone of 1965 that completely changed the topography. After the cyclone the place was cut into some 3 different islands, with strong currents in the channels in between. Like I said, NO continuous path from the Ayodhya or KishKindha to Lanka.
Millions of people clim up to Sabari Mala every year. Very holy place. Why is this sacrilege allowed? Shouldn't all travel be banned there too? They even have ELECTRIC LIGHTS there, haraam! haraam!
Yeah, I know, all just facts. Can't allow those to interfere with political posturing.
As for the "need" for the SSC to allow shipping through, rather than go 350 km (must around SL, well, there is no NEED for the Suez Canal or the Panama Canal, or airports or seaports or anything else, come to think of it.
All they are proposing to do here is to build a sustainable canal, with a RELIABLE depth chart so that ships can go through. You won't be able to see this channel where it crosses the "Ramar Bridge". GOOGLE won't be able to see it either, and neither will
NASA. IOW, you won't know about it unless someone tells you it's there, and then you have to take their word for it.
Of course, you had no idea that there WAS such a thing at all, apparently..
Extending the "logic" of the propoaganda against the SSC, should one not ban and break down all the bridges across the Ganga?
Shouldn't it be haraam to dredge the port of Kolkatta since that is cutting into the Holy Ganga?
Shouldn't ppl at least quit going "Pu" into the Holy Ganga? If all these are halal, what's the big deal about a 300m wide shipping channel through a region where no one except the LTTE has any reason to go these days?
Dog-in-the-Manger is the Angreji term for those opposing this project on such bogus grounds.