I wonder if this can be built

[Hellion]

:devil They are actually thinking about building a world highway,so you can drive completely around the planet.I do not see how this is feasable,and the amount of money and time it would take to complete such a project. For example the largest bridge to be built will span the Straits of Gibralter,the towers of this bridge will be 3000 feet high,yeah this would be neat,but can it ever be built,share your opinions.

[Wounds Within]

If you build it, they will come.

[Mikielikesit]

Anything is possible it will just take lots of money and man power and they will have to figure in all the weather issues with spanning large bodies of water but yeah they can do it .......boy won't that be a hell of a drive

[Onyx]

It would be amazing if they could, but seems to me storms would erode it too badly and knock it down.

I love the Discovery Channel! I tape stuff on there to watch later, seems the best ones air at night when I have to be asleep.

It's about the only thing I watch anymore. My favorite is Mythbusters.

[The_Dark]

I could see it... Most of the highway would be on land... with major and minor bridges... I can see one in Alaska connecting to Syberia... I'm just not sure where in the hell they would cross the Atlantic...

[Marblez]

Could they? Probably. Technology and physical capabilities are advanced enought hat it COULD happen.

Would they? I don't think so. Not yet anyway. There would not be enough benefit to justify the costs.

Should they? Hell no. What a waste. Why would I drive to Alaska to get to Siberia to get to France?? I can fly there in a matter of hours.

[Wounds Within]

I have heard of such a thing in the works, but I had not heard of it being a actual highway.

It was said to be more of a train system, much like a subway and as froyn stated, it would indeed be run underwater for the most part, miles underwater in fact. Also It would be run by some sort of vacuum effect so that way there would be no friction and you can reach great speed.

[Marblez]

Oh yeah, that would be quite inexpensive too - except for the maintenance.

Ever wondered what it would be like to ride in one of those tube carriers at the bank drive through? Yeah that's it.

I actually have. It was an amusement ride. I was locked into a ball shaped compartment which was inside a vertical tube. The tube was sealed and air pressure was increased in the bottom, the only escape for the air was around the sides of the ball as it crested the top. It was OH SO cool. I wouldn't have believed what 1 pound of air pressure could do.

[Vater Araignee]

Simply put, if they started tomorrow by the time it was completed we would by using arrow cars making roads a thing of the past.

[soothsayer]

It's just not feesable.

[Wounds Within]

like to ride in one of those tube carriers at the bank drive through

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That is a perfect example of what it may be like.

[Head Wreck]

i remember the chunnel being afeat of engineering.

and that was only across the english channel, people have been known to swim the channel.

never mind the engineering NIGHTMARES of constructing a train tube which is essentially wire tagged down.

lets see. nightmares...

train depresurisation (we are talking hard vacuum here)

tube flooding

tube fractures.

alien invasion.

power usage

deep sea storms

krackens

train lag

materials technology.

the size of air pump needed to create the initial vacuum in the tube

fires (on train)

power outages (esp if train is at midpoint)

[Hellion]

http://www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk/lea.../IM.1504_es.jpg

[Hellion]

http://www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk/lea.../IM.1504_es.jpg

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:devil This is one of the computer images that they showed.

[cptdeath]

look at how far along we are just on this thread. allready identifing potentiol problems and coming up with great theroy for methods of procedure.

see even if someone contributes in a negative fashion they still contribute.

you think if we can get this far without really trying would'nt you agree it's worth an attempt and you wouldn't try unless you planned to finish in the first place.

i think they should do it.

we need an easy way to clear out dammeged or flooded tubing sections and a way to prevet total loss on one incident.

maybee a manual cable as a fail safe to retrieve the train in a power outage or somthing. or a back up electomagnetic propulsion system like a rail gun but only if the tube loses compression on one end or the other. the system would automatically propel the train the opposite way of the pressure loss to escape a colapsing tunnel quickly. you could even have a fail safe that when water hits one end of the train it flairs out to surf on the crashing water as long as we can figure out how to make it. a computer controlled surfing train with weird fins that unfold and function automatically and adjust to the water and tunnel around it.

what about the people that sit at different stations all over the world if the have to they might blow a section of tunnel at a certian angle at they precise time for they speed of the train the explosion and the water pressure and temperature all calculated at once like the terminator to safly edject the train into the ocean where it will surf to the surface and use level three thunder shock on the kraken till it flees.

:tear

then the people on the super america mega highway will through there garbage over the side down at our train floating in the water and laugh as they drive there cars around the planet on dubs.

[Hellion]

:devil I'm all for the bridge,be one hell of a scenic view,not really fond of tunnels.Plus the depth of the straits is too deep. (my opinion.

[n0Mad]

Those damn kraken.

I think it'd be better to just put jet engines on a Dragon Turtle and build a nightclub on it's back to pass the time during travel.

[ZhukovCodeslinger]

just great... now even more poor sucky people could walk or drive to the USA in their hoopties....

[oversimplification]

Thats the main problem the Western Nations are having right now... poor people from the 3rd world who move in, dont want to learn the language or assimilate... and then get all mad when they cant get good jobs.... so they decide to become terrorists to pay infidels back... cause it sure isnt possible it could be their own fault they still suck... [/oversimplication]

[Wounds Within]

lets see. nightmares...

train depresurisation (we are talking hard vacuum here)

tube flooding

tube fractures.

alien invasion.

power usage

deep sea storms

krackens

train lag

materials technology.

the size of air pump needed to create the initial vacuum in the tube

fires (on train)

power outages (esp if train is at midpoint)

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what about the deep sea creatures that have not been discovered yet? Scientists suggest that some are 4 times or larger the size of the blue whale. (for those keeping score, the blue whale is the largest animal to "ever" been discovered to live on earth)

that would be a nice family vacation. You and your family are traveling along the peaceful tube, miles under the ocean and then you get swallowed by an animal larger then the empire state building ......... good times.

[Head Wreck]

i think that was covered in the term kracken (after an english poem about a sea creature who wakes only on the fires of armageddon)

gah. i had to learn that poem and recite it all in year 7 english (11 years old)

[Wounds Within]

after an english poem about a sea creature who wakes only on the fires of armageddon

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ahhh yes

I have never really heard it called this term before.

[Hellion]

:cheerful :devil My!,has this subject changed(walks away laughing)LOL!

[pomba gira]

Sure it could be done... just a matter of engineering. The problem, as with so many other things, is getting people to cooperate. The legal and political problems are much more likely to prove insoluble than the engineering ones.

and... the Kraken of legend is commonly believed to be based on sightings of giant squid. Jack Vance has a great Kraken novel, I think it's called "Blue World"... looong out of print but most Vance is findable on eBay & such.

[Head Wreck]

Alfred,Lord Tennyson : The Kraken

Below the thunders of the upper deep;

Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea,

His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep

The Kraken1 sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee

About his shadowy sides: above him swell

Huge sponges of millennial growth and height;

And far away into the sickly light,

From many a wondrous grot and secret cell

Unnumbered and enormous polypi2

Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.

There hath he lain for ages and will lie

Battening upon huge seaworms in his sleep,

Until the latter fire3 shall heat the deep;

Then once by man and angels to be seen,

In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.

Alfred,Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) 1830

[DarkRacer]

Nothing is impossible, just not done yet... by me:cool :devil