THE TIME TUNNEL - A BOONDOGGLE?
In the pilot episode of Irwin Allen’s “The Time Tunnel” (1967) Senator Clark is flown to a mysterious research base in the middle of the desert. The desert is absolute flat, with no building or structures nearby. A car arrives and takes him to the complex - which is underground - an opening in the desert floor appears and the car drives down a ramp.
There, project scientist Dr. Douglas Phillips (Robert Colbert) gives the Senator a tour. He shows him:
Eight buildings built underground, explains each is 800 floors with over 12,000 working in each structure.
That’s only 15 people assigned to each floor.
A complex of 800 floors is estimated to be 11,200 feet deep or over 2 miles underground.
Compare that to the deepest underground structure today in China (the Jinping Laboratory) - only 1.5 miles!
What do all those people do? Those structures are rarely seen after the pilot and at the most maybe 2 dozen employees are ever shown. No wonder the Senator was investigating a potential boondoggle at the Tax Payers expense!