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China considers building a rail link to America: 8,000-mile journey would take less than 2 days
Daily Mail ^
| 05/17/2014
| Wills Robinson
Posted on 05/17/2014 7:14:49 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
FEATURES:
* Route would begin in north east China and run through part of Siberia
* Would then use 125-mile tunnel to travel under the Bering Strait
* It would resurface in Alaska, head across Canada and finish in the US
* Would be 2,300 miles longer than the Trans-Siberian Railway
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posted on
05/17/2014 7:15:53 PM PDT
by
SeekAndFind
(If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
To: SeekAndFind
"217mph"
Unlikely to be achieved.
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posted on
05/17/2014 7:16:18 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: SeekAndFind
And this makes sense how?
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posted on
05/17/2014 7:16:32 PM PDT
by
Kackikat
To: SeekAndFind
Environmentalists are likely to rail about it.
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posted on
05/17/2014 7:17:46 PM PDT
by
chajin
("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
To: SeekAndFind
Willie Green’s Wet Dream.
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posted on
05/17/2014 7:18:52 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: SeekAndFind
Leavin’ on that midnight train to China.
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posted on
05/17/2014 7:19:15 PM PDT
by
MUDDOG
To: SeekAndFind
Talk about back to the future...
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posted on
05/17/2014 7:20:27 PM PDT
by
Delta Dawn
(Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
To: SeekAndFind
This would cross through the tectonic plates that make up the earthquake-prone “Ring of Fire”, correct?
I’m not a geologist or a civil engineer - is there anyone here with the actual credentials to say whether or not this would be a irresponsible design risk?
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posted on
05/17/2014 7:20:34 PM PDT
by
Yossarian
To: Kackikat
It would only make sense for transporting goods. It is far more efficient to send things by rail than truck or train.
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posted on
05/17/2014 7:22:14 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
To: Yossarian
Sure would. There are still plenty of hot springs in the Bering Land Bridge area, which indicates hot magma underneath. That would be a nightmare of a way to die, with your tunnel boring machine breaking into a magma chamber.
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posted on
05/17/2014 7:25:19 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: SeekAndFind
In 2011, a $65billion tunnel between Siberia and Alaska was given the go-ahead in an effort to bridge the Bering Strait.I didn't hear about that one.
To: SeekAndFind
An earthquake in the Bering Strait, part of the Pacific Rim “Ring of Fire” could be awfully messy.
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posted on
05/17/2014 7:26:14 PM PDT
by
upchuck
(Support ABLE, the Anybody But Lindsey Effort. Yes, we are the ABLE!!)
To: Olog-hai
Sure would. There are still plenty of hot springs in the Bering Land Bridge area, which indicates hot magma underneath. That would be a nightmare of a way to die, with your tunnel boring machine breaking into a magma chamber.
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posted on
05/17/2014 7:26:18 PM PDT
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dfwgator
To: SeekAndFind
After the earthquake when water shoots out of both ends of the tunnel, who will obama blame?
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posted on
05/17/2014 7:27:59 PM PDT
by
Octar
To: SeekAndFind
Might make sense, might not. But, this is the kind of big thinking we used to do when we were a great nation.
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posted on
05/17/2014 7:29:21 PM PDT
by
keat
To: SeekAndFind
I was once on the BART in San Francisco. Under the bay, the lights flickered and the train began to slow. You could see fear on the faces of virtually everyone. A little while later, people began to show signs of panic.
Fortunately, everything turned out all right.
But an tremor or earthquake thousands of feet under the Pacific Ocean could kill a whole bunch of people. Or, what if there is a catastrophic health problem such as am heart attack or stroke under down there? On a train, you can get emergency medevac. Be no such thing in the Pacific Ocean.
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posted on
05/17/2014 7:31:04 PM PDT
by
righttackle44
(Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
To: SeekAndFind
Yeahh right. Even if it were buildable, what train could sustain an average speed of over 167 mph for two days? (167 mph = average speed achieved when traveling 8,000 miles in 48 hours.)
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posted on
05/17/2014 7:31:07 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: SeekAndFind
obama has already referenced this project as a Transcontinental Ballistic Railway...
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posted on
05/17/2014 7:33:52 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
05/17/2014 7:36:54 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus)
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