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China May Build an Undersea Train To America

Posted by Soulskill on from the just-drill-through-the-planet's-crust dept.

New submitter howtokilltime sends this news from the Washington Post: "China is planning to build a train line that would, in theory, connect Beijing to the United States. According to a report in the Beijing Times, citing an expert at the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Chinese officials are considering a route that would start in the country's northeast, thread through eastern Siberia and cross the Bering Strait via a 125-mile long underwater tunnel into Alaska."

3 of 348 comments (clear)

  1. Re:What an idea by WhiteZook · · Score: 5, Funny

    Terrorists use plate tectonics now ?

  2. Re:What an idea by BasilBrush · · Score: 5, Funny

    Come on now, it's not that remote. Putin said he could see Alaska from his house.

  3. Re:Yes yes, of course by Hognoxious · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you need a long tunnel, you just join two short ones together with duct tape. If you need a longer one, use three, and so on. Hence the mathematical term, proof by induction.

    Kids today, with all their fancy-pants book-learnin'. If we'd listened to all the people who'd said it couldn't be done there's be no fusion power stations or cities on the moon.

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    Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."