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So, I'm under the mountain tunnel ceiling? Is an arch comparable to a tunnel? One is only the top part and one is the top and bottom.
Comment by Pseudoboss11 at 23/07/2014 at 17:55 UTC
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What if you were in a donut hole? Would you be in the donut?
It would be a very different experience to be buried alive on a mountain rather than driving through a tunnel.
And, biologically, it makes sense to call our digestive tract "outside" of ourselves. Our immune system, for example, doesn't give two humps what's in our stomachs, as shown by all the delicious ecosystem that lives in our gut.