OK, but it has to be from the east coast going across the Atlantic, and you have to pay for it all.
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.
Now you can travel from america to russia in only 8 days
He needs to build a tunnel to life in prison
He can’t even build one in Vegas…
Personally? By hand? Please?
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
That will be great when the first earthquake undoes the tunnel
So I have to ask the obvious now, where is this tunnel? It’s out there already built
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.
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
If that can keep Elon Musk busy, I’m all for it.
It will involve corruption and graft of your taxpayer money, tho
So business as usual then
What doesn’t?
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….
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…
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
they worked a lot on boats but couldn’t make them fast enough to get across…. a tunnel would work a lot better
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.
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
Sounds like it would make Alaska a lot easier for Russia to annex one day…
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
Sounds like it’d be really easy to drown a whole invasion force really quick.
It’ll certainly make it easier for Russian forces to assist our military and ICE in rounding up citizens, so there’s that.
