[Destro]

Could we? Should we?

[Moonman62]

Why don't you get together with Willie and make it a rail line instead?

[kingu]

Those North Atlantic squalls would be an interesting technical challenge to overcome. Perhaps you could put the rest stops and hotels under water, to protect them from the weather.

Don't forget to put the twinkly lights on the top of the towers!

[Elliott Jackalope]

I think a suspension bridge for rail traffic across the Bering strait would make a LOT more sense. Take a look at a map of the globe, flattened out, as seen from about a thousand miles above the North Pole. Notice anything? Once you see that perspective you'll realize that a rail link between the new world and the old world would be relatively easy to build, and would serve to connect the entire planet via rail. Goods could be shipped pretty much anywhere to anywhere via this link.

[AAABEST]

Could we?

No we couldn't. The Atlantic is several miles deep at some points.

Were you doing bong hits when you came up with this "idea"?

[dubyagee]

but it would be a boon to mankind and to commerce.

Or a *BOOM* depending on who decides to blow it up first. 8 * (

[Plutarch]

The new SF-Oakland Bay Bridge is 2 miles and costs 2.6 billion.

Your bridge would span, what, 2000 miles? At a conservative 1 billion per mile over open ocean, that would be 2 trillion dollars, which is roughly the GDP of Germany.

Ships would still be competitive with rail and trucks.

Flying would be more competitive than driving for passengers.

No one care whether the Newfies are less economically depressed.

I wouldn't count on such a bridge being built.

[jwalsh07]

Would you mind if I opt out?

First of all I have no desrie to build a bridge to socialism in mine or any other lifetime. Second of all, I have for the past decade watched with awe as the Big Dig in Boston, Mass rang up the bell for a cool 15 billion, maybe ten billion or so overbudget and that was jsut a small tunnel.

I don't want to seem negative but I would like for me and mine to be exmpted from paying taxes for this and in return we promise not to drive to France.

[hollywood]

A more practical and feasible 'big' project would be our own 'Panama Canal', that could run along the southern border from CA to TX. Once that's done, build another along the northern border from WA to ME. Dump all the excavated dirt in France, just for the hell of it.

[MrJingles]

"We should build a suspension bridge linking North America and Europe"
"Well, good luck with aaaaaaall that..."

[dead]

It's probably too late, but could you put a diving board in the middle for Spaulding Gray?

[m18436572]

All I can think of is the hellish traffic jams.

[cyborg]

[Doctor Stochastic]

Single span?

Still easier than the elevator to the Moon.

[Travis McGee]

We should build it from pure unobtainium, from harvested asteroids. That would make it more economically feasible.

[crz]

Over the Bearing Straits? Will happen sometime in the not to distant years. That will be your bridge to Europa. As to, if I would like to see it done? Nope!

They already have plans to lay a pipeline across the straits I hear. Lots of oil to be had in Siberia.

[I'm ALL Right!]

Build it...then paint a huge bullseye on it, as it will become the number one terrorist target in the world.

[Loyalist]

A tunnel across the Bering Strait might be technically feasible, but I can't see it becoming economically viable. Nonetheless, here's S. Berliner's Bering Strait Tunnel page.

[hedgetrimmer]

What, open up another route for the illegals to get in?

[thoughtomator]

All it would take is one jihadist to turn your trillion-dollar bridge into the least-travelled road on earth.

[manfromlamancha]

They're actually going to do it from Alaska to Russia, via the Bering Strait.