Bering Strait Bridge - Discovery Channel show - How it might be done?

[conjur]

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Just saw the last 10 min. or so of this. Pretty wild concept and that would be one hellacious engineering feat!

 

[Excelsior]

Sweet. There is this whole idea about connecting all of the continents so that you'd be able to drive from South Africa to the USA.

 

[AvesPKS]

Originally posted by: Excelsior
Sweet. There is this whole idea about connecting all of the continents so that you'd be able to drive from South Africa to the USA.

Now that would be one hell of a road trip!

 

[fatbaby]

now what would siberians do in alaska?

 

[Excelsior]

Originally posted by: AvesPKS

Originally posted by: Excelsior
Sweet. There is this whole idea about connecting all of the continents so that you'd be able to drive from South Africa to the USA.

Now that would be one hell of a road trip!

Hell yes!

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: AvesPKS

Originally posted by: Excelsior
Sweet. There is this whole idea about connecting all of the continents so that you'd be able to drive from South Africa to the USA.

Now that would be one hell of a road trip!

Especially if your yuppy VW [referencecing the commercial] broke down on the way...

 

[m2kewl]

wasn't there a reason why we bought alaska from the russians?

...to keep the russians off North America.

 

[cliftonite]

How can they even think of doing something like this?

 

[Ladies Man]

sure interesting idea... but it seems pretty worthless

who would really use it?

 

[ThePresence]

Originally posted by: AvesPKS

Originally posted by: Excelsior
Sweet. There is this whole idea about connecting all of the continents so that you'd be able to drive from South Africa to the USA.

Now that would be one hell of a road trip!

I CALL SHOTGUN!

 

[PowerMacG5]

Originally posted by: Ladies Man
sure interesting idea... but it seems pretty worthless who would really use it?

I agree. There really is no conceivable point in building this bridge other than saying you built it.

 

[ThePresence]

Originally posted by: KraziKid

Originally posted by: Ladies Man
sure interesting idea... but it seems pretty worthless who would really use it?

I agree. There really is no conceivable point in building this bridge other than saying you built it.

Lots and lots of trucks. It would probably be substantially cheaper to truck cargo than to fly or ship it.

 

[dionx]

Originally posted by: Ladies Man
sure interesting idea... but it seems pretty worthless

who would really use it?

there would be a road on top which would be useless other than a driving trip across a massive structure. the train inside the bridge would be useless because i dont see many commutters between the two continents anyways. however the oil pipeline within the bridge i do see as helpful in economic ways.

 

[Hector13]

Originally posted by: ThePresence

Originally posted by: KraziKid

Originally posted by: Ladies Man
sure interesting idea... but it seems pretty worthless who would really use it?

I agree. There really is no conceivable point in building this bridge other than saying you built it.

Lots and lots of trucks. It would probably be substantially cheaper to truck cargo than to fly or ship it.

I can't believe that it would be cheaper to truck something over that long distance. It would probably be like a 8000 mile trip to get from anywhere useful in russia to anywhere useful in the US.

 

[m2kewl]

Originally posted by: AvesPKS

Originally posted by: Excelsior
Sweet. There is this whole idea about connecting all of the continents so that you'd be able to drive from South Africa to the USA.

Now that would be one hell of a road trip!

imagine a Cannonball Run from tip of S America to S Africa?

Originally posted by: Ladies Man
sure interesting idea... but it seems pretty worthless

who would really use it?

illegal immigrants?

 

[PaperclipGod]

Originally posted by: dionx

Originally posted by: Ladies Man
sure interesting idea... but it seems pretty worthless

who would really use it?

there would be a road on top which would be useless other than a driving trip across a massive structure. the train inside the bridge would be useless because i dont see many commutters between the two continents anyways. however the oil pipeline within the bridge i do see as helpful in economic ways.

rofl, are you kidding?

maybe the airline industry is a foreign concept to you, but just FYI, they do millions in business every day flying people between north american and asia.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: ThePresence

Originally posted by: KraziKid

Originally posted by: Ladies Man
sure interesting idea... but it seems pretty worthless who would really use it?

I agree. There really is no conceivable point in building this bridge other than saying you built it.

Lots and lots of trucks. It would probably be substantially cheaper to truck cargo than to fly or ship it.

Truck < Plane. Ship < Truck. Train < Truck. Not sure which is cheaper, ship or train, but I'd bet ship is.

 

[ElFenix]

better question is why might it be done.

 

[tokamak]

seems impractical.

 

[dionx]

Originally posted by: PaperclipGod

Originally posted by: dionx

Originally posted by: Ladies Man
sure interesting idea... but it seems pretty worthless

who would really use it?

there would be a road on top which would be useless other than a driving trip across a massive structure. the train inside the bridge would be useless because i dont see many commutters between the two continents anyways. however the oil pipeline within the bridge i do see as helpful in economic ways.

rofl, are you kidding?

maybe the airline industry is a foreign concept to you, but just FYI, they do millions in business every day flying people between north american and asia.

yes i do know they do airline business trips between n.america and asia. but the 55 mile bridge connecting two places 55 miles apart is no where going to help local commuters in the two areas of connection. i doubt where they connect this bridge is like connecting LA to new york. they are connecting two places that arent even part of a econimic global network. anything more than 100 miles commute one way, im sure ppl would rather relocate than do 200 miles in a day. 110 miles for a round trip is maybe the limit for most commuters.

 

[PowerMacG5]

Originally posted by: Hector13

Originally posted by: ThePresence

Originally posted by: KraziKid

Originally posted by: Ladies Man sure interesting idea... but it seems pretty worthless who would really use it?

I agree. There really is no conceivable point in building this bridge other than saying you built it.

Lots and lots of trucks. It would probably be substantially cheaper to truck cargo than to fly or ship it.

I can't believe that it would be cheaper to truck something over that long distance. It would probably be like a 8000 mile trip to get from anywhere useful in russia to anywhere useful in the US.

Trust me, cargo ship will be a lot cheaper. My father owns a trucking and rigging business, and a job like that would require oodles and oodles of money. Remember truckers can only go (I think) 6 hours legally without stopping; a ship can go nonstop.

 

[ThePresence]

Originally posted by: dionx

Originally posted by: PaperclipGod

Originally posted by: dionx

Originally posted by: Ladies Man
sure interesting idea... but it seems pretty worthless

who would really use it?

there would be a road on top which would be useless other than a driving trip across a massive structure. the train inside the bridge would be useless because i dont see many commutters between the two continents anyways. however the oil pipeline within the bridge i do see as helpful in economic ways.

rofl, are you kidding?

maybe the airline industry is a foreign concept to you, but just FYI, they do millions in business every day flying people between north american and asia.

yes i do know they do airline business trips between n.america and asia. but the 55 mile bridge connecting two places 55 miles apart is no where going to help local commuters in the two areas of connection. i doubt where they connect this bridge is like connecting LA to new york. they are connecting two places that arent even part of a econimic global network. anything more than 100 miles commute one way, im sure ppl would rather relocate than do 200 miles in a day. 110 miles for a round trip is maybe the limit for most commuters.

I travel 75 miles each way to work.