WEBVTT
Kind: captions
Language: en

1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.420
I find it very easy to get excited about infrastructure.

2
00:00:03.420 --> 00:00:07.280
It's humanity taking our greatest skills, our science, our engineering,

3
00:00:07.280 --> 00:00:09.920
and using it to bend the world to our will.

4
00:00:09.920 --> 00:00:14.040
Now I'm in Tromsø in Norway, that is the Polaria Aquarium behind me --

5
00:00:14.040 --> 00:00:17.100
it's really disappointing by the way, the seals didn't even do Kiss from a Rose --

6
00:00:17.100 --> 00:00:22.020
and I'm in indebted to Rob Stradling on Twitter for pointing out this.

7
00:00:22.360 --> 00:00:25.380
This is the Tromsø tunnel system.

8
00:00:25.380 --> 00:00:30.580
So what, you say, it's just a tunnel. Well, yes it is, but what it actually is is a massive series of tunnels

9
00:00:30.580 --> 00:00:33.340
connected by roundabouts underground.

10
00:00:33.340 --> 00:00:38.400
Now, I realize that to my American viewers just the concept of a roundabout in itself might be mindblowing,

11
00:00:38.400 --> 00:00:41.020
but a roundabout underground?

12
00:00:41.020 --> 00:00:43.680
That actually takes the congestion away from the surface,

13
00:00:43.680 --> 00:00:50.600
that is essentially every 1970s sci-fi city planner's dream come true, actually in place and working?

14
00:00:50.600 --> 00:00:52.860
Well that is something rather cool,

15
00:00:53.280 --> 00:00:58.700
and that is something that you might not have known and that I certainly didn't.

16
00:01:01.300 --> 00:01:03.300
[Translating these subtitles? Add your name here!]