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The World's Longest Tunnel
fusconed writes "Bloomberg reports that the Russian government is proposing to build an underground tunnel between Russia and Alaska for transporting goods, electricity and natural resources. The tunnel would be twice as long as that between the UK and France. The $10 — $12b cost is not something to be overlooked, but Russia claims the benefits would pay it off in 20 years. It would take 10 to 15 years to build, but being an Alaskan, it sounds good to me!"
In Soviet Russia... tunnel digs you!
Come to cold, barren Alaska...it's not Siberia!
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
They've already moved 27 armies into Kamchatka and surrounding territories, but then they discovered that the world maps that they were working on weren't totally accurate. Now they find out that they need to create an actual line connecting to Alaska to enable their attack. It's pretty brazen of them to ask us for help.
So in 15 years we can attack Kamchatka from Alaska with 3 dice?
...Alaska is Senator Ted Stevens home state...
I guess this brings a whole new meaning to "a series of tubes"!
Thanks,
Mike
Sweet - when I visit Alaska one day I'll be able to take the "Bridge to Nowhere" on my way to the "Tunnel to Siberia."
Sounds like a good trick for the ruskies to get us to pay for most of it then threaten to take back Alaska. Wow, you said that and my Risk instincts told me to start building up troops in Alaska...
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Is there any reason to believe this will actually be so?
... I have a tunnel to sell you.
If you believe that
Ironically, the word ironically is often used incorrectly.
seriously, how awesome would it be to stick the family in the SUV in florida and wind up in beijing? or berlin?
"oh look a sign... next gas station, 1200 km"
"daddy i got to goes to the bathroom"
"not now honey, your pee will freeze to your dick or the polar bears might get you"
"mommy, jessica is drooling on me!"
"tell jessica we'll leave her at genghis khan's firecracker shack when we get to ulan bator if she doesn't knock it off"
"honey, all this mcdonald's drive thru serves is skinned uncooked dog"
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Sounds like a good trick for the ruskies to get us to pay for most of it then threaten to take back Alaska. Wow, you said that and my Risk instincts told me to start building up troops in Alaska...
ha-ha! While you weren't looking I just took Greenland!
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Just edit the wikipedia entry. Then things will be much more reasonable!
Ground troops, you say? Through a tunnel between Asia and North America?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061387/
If you can run an operating system in a virtual machine I don't see why you can't do the same with a train.
I wonder what they are the rest of the time.
If they're engineers at least some of the time, then it doesn't really matter if they're politicians for the rest of the time.
Max.
Reminds me of conversations I had with a mate in the navy:
"So, how's life on the boat?"
"It's a ship dammit - a SHIP!!"
Moreover its a tunnel from nowhere to nowhere. OK, I'll be honest, from one piece of ice to another.
Looks like it's only about 60 miles with a nice little island halfway in between.
Any bets on the number of bars, gas stations, IHOPs and whorehouses clever entrepreneurs can fit on that nice little island?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eupalinian_aqueduct Why don't you try your scroll wheel and read the whole Wikipedia article. It explains exactly how they did it.
If a job's not worth doing, it's not worth doing right.
He's a subscriber to the dead scroll no-sees.
Engineers aren't infallible. I work with a bunch of them and one in particular was, I'm sure, put on this earth to test my patience. She doesn't build tunnels... she makes me want to go live in an abandoned one.
Couldn't stand the weather
It seems that nobody else wants them.... so, rather than try to steal some other system, we just claim this unwanted, outdated system for ourselves!
Trains can go a lot faster than that. Even British trains can manage 125mph.
To Moscow I presume, or it wouldn't be very relevant...
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Yeah, but the English and the French hate each other, the Americans and the Russians.... Oh, wait, nevermind.
They will simply fly everything to one end of the tunnel, load it up on rail cars and go through the tunnel on rail. Then, at the other side, load it back up on the air transport for the rest of the trip.
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