# Holy geez I knew it! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 7, 2003, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-geez-i-knew-it/159648 "2003-03-07T04:01:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Thomas\_Stearns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Thomas\_Stearns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thomas_Stearns)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-geez-i-knew-it/159648/1 "2003-03-07T04:01:29Z")
[http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fl20030301a1.htm](http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fl20030301a1.htm) I’ll bet you a million dollars the Japanese figure out how to transform Tokyo into a giant robot right before the aliens attack us. ---
**Author:** ![Eternal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@Eternal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eternal)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-geez-i-knew-it/159648/2 "2003-03-07T07:43:39Z")
I bet it’s the Yakuza. I hope so, because I really like saying Yakuza. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-geez-i-knew-it/159648/3 "2003-03-07T07:58:58Z")
Ah, the Japanese now have crackpot conspiracy theorists, too. Our cultures keep converging. ---
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-geez-i-knew-it/159648/4 "2003-03-07T08:52:05Z")
If he is indeed a kook, at least he’s found something cool to be kooky about. ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-geez-i-knew-it/159648/5 "2003-03-07T14:14:07Z")
he’s probably not as kooky as you think. you’d be surprised how much secret underground stuff accrues under major cities and just gets forgotten about. I found out about six months ago that there is a HUGE cold-war bunker comple under our offices. ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-geez-i-knew-it/159648/6 "2003-03-07T14:18:08Z")
[http://www.rareserials.com/images/phantom-empire3.jpg](http://www.rareserials.com/images/phantom-empire3.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-geez-i-knew-it/159648/7 "2003-03-07T14:22:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by garius \* > \*\*he’s probably not as kooky as you think. you’d be surprised how much secret underground stuff accrues under major cities and just gets forgotten about… \*\* Sure, but why can’t it just be that? Why does it have to be part of some vast sinister conspiracy? These types of people never cease to amaze me. I like the part about the Diet (Parliament) library being closed to the public and press. It can’t be THAT hard to get some member of the Diet, or a staffer, to find out what’s there! Unless they are ALL part of the conspiracy… ---
**Author:** ![TeleTronOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4af34b/32.png) [@TeleTronOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeleTronOne)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-geez-i-knew-it/159648/8 "2003-03-07T14:30:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Thomas Stearns \* > \*\*[http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fl20030301a1.htm](http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fl20030301a1.htm) > > I’ll bet you a million dollars the Japanese figure out how to transform Tokyo into a giant robot right before the aliens attack us. \*\* Well if there’s a secret underground city beneath the current Tokyo, does that mean that it’s really NEO-Tokyo, and that it will blow up in a spectacular display of animated pyrotechnics (possibly with the aid of giant robots) before the neo-neo-tokyo is built and turns into a giant robot to fend off the aliens? ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-geez-i-knew-it/159648/9 "2003-03-07T14:50:49Z")
Oh i agree - i very much doubt there’s any kind of conspiracy. at least as far as i’ve noticed with regards to stuff in London and the UK its more a case of either: 1. The underground chamber/bunker/alien cloning facility/tube line was built and forgotten about so long ago that the paperwork on it has long since turned to dust. Or its buried so deep in files that companies/organisations/governments just don’t have the time or manpower to find it and dig it all out again. 2. The thing did once have some kind of super-secret purpose but its just that no-one ever got round to declassifying it. 3. The thing has no use now - but the government/organisation is reluctant to make it too well known _just in case_ it becomes useful again. This applies particulary to the British government - which hoards old buildings/premises/bunkers etc. like most people hoard pennies. 4. Whatever work undertaken was never actually completed - so although what exists looks bizarre, there was a perfectly reasonable explanation at the time (this often applies to tube lines). But no one is still alive/sane who actual remembers what that purpose was orignally. As an example of this, i remember reading about a perfectly formed man made underground mini-network of tunnels in wales that had consiparacy nuts buzzing round it like flies - the government denied knowing anything about it, so did the local colliery etc. etc. - until one VERY old miner pointed out that it was some kind of practice area from 80 years past that he remembered working on as a boy. (sorry no cite - i just remember my housemate at the time being one of the nuts) ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-geez-i-knew-it/159648/10 "2003-03-07T14:53:12Z")
Nah, it’s just the Gates to Hell. Nothing else to see here, folks, move along. ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-geez-i-knew-it/159648/11 "2003-03-07T15:00:53Z")
[Entrances to Hell in and around the UK](http://www.entrances2hell.co.uk/) My nearest is [Famras](http://www.entrances2hell.co.uk/page277.html) 😃