text:  Well, of course, the Earth would just bypass those stitches quite easily. Yes, the forces, were they really serious about that? The stitches, yes, they were serious about that one. Was there any reason to believe that anything like that could actually be done? Well, from an engineering standpoint, I've always been asked, what's the difference between what an engineer does and what a geologist does? And I said, well, I brought it down to this. A geologist goes out into the hills,