Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/05/07/why-no-one-is-going-to-build-a.html
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That’s all quitter talk my friend.
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Because unlike the Chunnel between two of Europe’s largest cities, a Bering Straight bridge/tunnel will cross some of the least useful parts of both America and Russia.
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DC to Paris, now that would be one hella road trip.
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Why stop there, Tierra del Fuego to Cape Town!
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Two words: Floating Hyperloop.
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Yup. There’s basically nobody living there.
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If some TGOP’er can figure out how to screw the US taxpayer on this project, they’ll TRY to build it, I guarantee it.
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How about
Natal, Brazil to Monrovia, Liberia
instead?
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Climate change should fix that up for us… Or possibly not depending on how the ocean currents work out.
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If you thought THIS was mind-blowing, wait’ll you see my new video about why no one’s built a 1200-foot skyscraper at the exact center of the Sahara desert – even though taller buildings already exist!!
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While more useful I think it might be too far.
Distance between Natal brazil and Monrovia Liberia.
Natal, BR: -5.7950; -35.2094
Monrovia, LR: 6.3005; -10.7969
Miles: 1878.28
Can’t do it.
There is no land road connection between North and South America.
The Darien Gap is a stretch of rain forest so swampy and pestilential that nobody has built a road through it, even today.
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Well that’s just silly. Not many people live in Tierra del Fuego.
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I hear there is an expert swamp drainer in Washington.
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I am fully in favor of sending him to this swamp.
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What about an elevated rail bridge for an improbably long self-sufficient luxury train that also doubles as a metaphor for the oppressive class system?
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Lets build a bridge there too!
Simple answer. No one wants one.
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Two more words: hell yeah!
