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The World's Longest Tunnel
Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday April 18, @09:25PM
from the disaster-movie-soon-to-follow dept.
United States News
fusconed writes "Bloomberg reports that the Russian government is proposing to
build an underground tunnel between Russia and Alaska for transporting goods,
electricity and natural resources. The tunnel would be twice as long as that
between the UK and France. The $10 $12b cost is not something to be
overlooked, but Russia claims the benefits would pay it off in 20 years. It
would take 10 to 15 years to build, but being an Alaskan, it sounds good to me!
"
Never Going to Happen
(Score:5, Insightful)
by Shihar (153932) on Wednesday April 18, @09:39PM (#18791637)
The whole idea is silly beyond words. WHY on Earth would you connect two
nations, both of which have many viable ports, with a massive tunnel to their
least populated and most distant parts?
The link between France and England makes sense. The tunnel spits people out
very close to densely populated zones and provides access to the rest of Europe
with a few hours (or less) of train rides. The link between Russia and the US
would spit people and goods out as far as you can possibly get them from
populated zones. The cultural benefits would be almost nil as it makes no sense
to fly a few hours from the lower 48 states, land in Alaska, then take a train
ride to the middle of nowhere Russia. You might as well just fly the whole way
and go somewhere more interesting then frozen wastelands. If you want to ship
goods to the US or Russia, you are better off just to load up a boat.
The whole idea is stupid.
Re:Never Going to Happen
(Score:5, Insightful)
by manekineko2 (1052430) on Wednesday April 18, @10:10PM (#18792021)
I love the attitude common on Slashdot where posters come up with extremely
obvious criticisms to new ideas posted on Slashdot, and then in an extremely
conclusory manner dismiss the entire idea/project as stupid or silly. It's as
if they assume that their intellect is so mighty, that surely whatever trivial
criticisms they have to make have never been thought of by high ranking
professionals whose job is to think about the project.