If that can keep Elon Musk busy, I'm all for it.
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It will involve corruption and graft of your taxpayer money, tho
So business as usual then
What doesn't?
Ah yes, Elon Musk, who’s famed for the quality of his tunnels
Remember the trapped miner incident where he called someone a pedo
I think that was a trapped minor incident. The trapped miner incident happened around the same time, but didn't involve Elon.
So yeah, it was about minors (children) trapped in a cave, not miners (the profession).
But in fairness, the Chilean miners I was thinking of was back in 2010.
It was a group of kids trapped in caves. Professional divers were working to help, Musk sent a stupid submarine that could not fit anywhere. When he was told that he wasn't a genius, he called the diver a pedophile.
And remember the Tesla ventillators in 2020 that were going to save us all? Never used.
All this does, is convince me that Putin is a moron, too.
Nah, these are loyalty tests by dictators, to prove that they will follow them no matter how crazy the idea is.
He's not. Trump is old and is feeling the call of the darkness at this point (I'm sure Putin can relate). Trump is looking for legacy. Getting him on board with bullshit like this is designed to nudge him towards being more on Russia's side, namely when it comes to sanctions and aid for Ukraine.
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What I expect to happen is he'll promise it, get funding for it, do a mile of it, drop everything about it, report a higher wealth value, get into a suspicious one car crash
Given the distance required, what kind of economic payoff could be possible from such an expensive project? It's not like overland would be a cheaper transport option than Pacific shipping routes or anything. It's not just the Bering Strait being the problem with connecting the two after all, but the fact that there's nothing in NE Siberia or NW Alaska to bother connecting together. Are we making it for the polar bears maybe? Or are people going to drive the thousands of miles from Juneau to Vladivostok to sightsee?
To move military equipment.
this is to make the soviet land invasion easier….
The Soviets had no intention to invade the united states (though they did want us to have a communist revolution, but like that's just part of communism). This is all capitalist Russia
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Honestly a tunnel to northern Alaska would be an amazing trap for invading armies. There's just miles of rugged mountains before you even find a road. Then you get to deal with Canada....
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It's not like overland would be a cheaper transport option than Pacific shipping routes or anything.
I wouldn't be so sure. Shipping routes may be cheaper, but I bet they would still be longer. I think it takes the better part of a month to get goods from China to the US. I bet this takes more like a week.
this article article estimates the distance at 8000 miles to the "lower 48", presumably to Seattle. It proposes high-speed rail service to do the trip in 2 days, but I don't think that will compete at all with air passenger service . Rather, I think freight traffic will be the real winner, and 7 days is doable at 50 mph the whole way.
This is "space elevators" levels of unreasonable.
Dont forget the 2000 miles of railroad that'd need to be built, much of it over frozen terrain, and a lot of it mountainous. That in itself would be an engineering marvel even before the bridge or tunnel work.
Ok Bering Strait, so only geopolitically, geologically, and financially insane.
Like I kinda see a world where this is a good idea. If ww2 had sparked a long brotherhood between our nations and with europe a high speed rail across the tundras might be a good lower carbon alternative to flying and the Bering Strait is the most land based path between Eurasia and the Americas. Personally I'm not certain a tunnel is better than a bridge for this, but a few days train ride from cascadia to Moscow or Beijing would have plenty of takers if everyone was chill and could take a high speed train ride from Moscow to Madrid (and major cities in between) and from Beijing to Ho Chi Minh City, Seoul, Bangkok, etc. It would leave flying as really only necessary for Australia and island nations like Japan.
That's however not the world we live in, and Americans aren't clamoring to go to Russia or trade with them
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Its probably a standard Musk project. Show futuristic marketing pictures/videos of round pod-style futuristic vehicles to billionaire oligarchs and clueless politicians with a buzzword salad, until the hype brings in investors. Interest in his companies goes up, the imaginary price of the company goes up, his imaginary gold pile gets bigger.
Then pocket the money and fail miserably delivering even a fraction of the promised things.
The tunnel in Las Vegas, Hyperloop, Cybertruck, Robotaxi (still in progress afaik) Tiny House, the electric freight truck (I don't remember its name), the various Mars projects just to name a few.
Sounds like it would make Alaska a lot easier for Russia to annex one day...
Sounds like it'd be really easy to drown a whole invasion force really quick.
Surely, Russia of all countries, would understand why it's a bad idea to invade a region that is cold AF and makes logistics an absolute nightmare. *gestures broadly at WWII*
Of course, this is the same county getting their ass handed to them by Ukraine, a county 100x smaller than they are.
Russia absolutely doesn't understand that, look at maps over time of the country, their control of Siberia is not as old as you'd think. Vladivostok was ceded to Russia in the mid-late 19th century
He needs to build a tunnel to life in prison
Truer words have never been spoken.
OK, but it has to be from the east coast going across the Atlantic, and you have to pay for it all.
He can’t even build one in Vegas…
It'll certainly make it easier for Russian forces to assist our military and ICE in rounding up citizens, so there's that.
Could be neat if Detective Miller engages arthropod-robot form to offer people a ride down said tunnel, all the while reminding riders to check doors and corners.
Can we also have a tunnel dug to the moon?
secret invasion route
Honestly, I welcome them putting their army underground in an extremely obvious tunnel, it's perfectly safe and they should definitely try this
Giving it to Musk is a way of guaranteeing it will never get done. Still waiting for full self driving, Elon.
Elon is smart enough to not ride his own rockets, he too will be smart enough to not enter his own subsea tunnel. Which is a shame.
The biggest idiot in history who has zero clue about even basic engineering gets paid to build a sub oceanic tunnel through the ring of fire...
Man, life is good when you're a narcissistic serial liar
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So... This sounds like a horrible idea. The tunnel could also be sabotaged pretty easily
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Most likely there's a kickback in it for Trump.
That sounds like an immigration problem hmmmmm
Well Musk, Trump and the rest of the MAGA party are all up in Putin's ass so building a tunnel from Moscow to Washington would make perfect sense
Russia used to be a science center of the world. Shame how dumb they are now. That's what the future of the US looks like.
Looks like Mr Frog in that pic
Ketamine is a hell of a drug, hello.
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