We should build a suspension bridge linking North America and Europe

01/14/04 | Destro

[Destro]

We should build a suspension bridge linking North America and Europe

As we ponder going to the Moon again and to Mars, I started to think of projects we Americans can do that can better our lives and the planet.

I propose a suspension bridge be built starting from St. John's in Newfoundland, Canada terminating in Galway, Ireland with a connecting bridge from Belfast to Scotland and on into Europe. This Atlantic Euro-bridge would have two levels of 8 lanes per level and would be able to accommodate freight trucks, passenger vehicles and possibly a freight and passenger train.

The bridge would pay for itself over time via a toll fee.

The airline industry and the ocean freight industry may not like this mover of people and goods but it would be a boon to mankind and to commerce.

It would also help the economically depressed areas of New Foundland, Ireland and Scotland.

[Indy Pendance]

And then there's this masterpiece.

Tacoma Narrows Bridge

[appeal2]

A sky hook.

[xJones]

It would be a deeply-moored floating tunnel with a vacuum inside the tunnel with a hypersonic train that goes through it.

Well, let's line up the test gerbils.

[Indy Pendance]

I'd like to see a prison on the moon. Just think, no guards needed.

[Walkingfeather]

suspended from what? the ocean is miles deep and the waves canb reach 40 feet

[Calvin Locke]

Does anybody realize how rediculously far a drive that would be.[?]

I met a couple that drove from Jo'burg back to England. And wasn't there a couple of guys trying to drive from the UK to Japan last year? (World Cup fanatics).

[Indy Pendance]

Not going to happen, we're in global warming doncha know. Algore will remind us tomorrow, on New York's coldest day in decades.

[Mike Darancette]

The countries that the bridge connects should pay for it. The bridge doesn't connect to the US.

[appeal2]

It should be a floating bridge like in a Japanese Tea Garden, in fact we could have Japanese Restaurant pit stop with a Tea Garden too. Then we would have a draw bridge where the boats needed to cross it. BTW what happens when there's a one hundred car pile up right in the middle of the bridge, 1200 miles away from land. Who's tow truck has jurisdiction. If you call triple A would it still come for free? Obviously this bridge could only work with smart cars and it would have to be a smart bridge.

What happens when it needs to be repaved? You think our highway workers are bad, wait till you see socialist highway workers. At least with ours, 5 of them sit around and have a coffee break while 1 or 2 work. In Europe none of them work. Did you hear about the road crew in NYC, they were working on the FDR Drive and went to pickup a six pack in their backhoe. A very economical means of transport indeed.

One final word, I thought tolls were imposed only temporarily until the road/bridge paid for itself and then they would go away.

[Paul C. Jesup]

Check out the Discovery Channel's Extreme Engineering. Someone is already designing that as an underwater tunnel-bridge-highspeed-train-system.

[navyblue]

Way too big a project. Better try it in the Pacific. Build a tunnel under the Bering Strait. Railroad connection through Alaska to Siberia and Europe.

And hey! Ireland is not a depressed area. It has the hottest economy in Europe.

[Destro]

So why did the first American telephone wire cables follow the same path? FOllowing your logic we would never have had transcontinental telephone service.

[Consort]

Pontoons

[Destro]

Gotcha! Thanks! I do my best off the wall thinking when it is below zero and snowing!

[Destro]

floating peirs!!!!!! no drift!!

[xJones]

Algore will remind us tomorrow, on New York's coldest day in decades.

Yes, I saw that thread also. From Drudge Report. Somebody really should get a good picture of la Gore standing there like a brass monkey.

[Destro]

Like America does not have any of those wack Imams? Hell the CIA/State Dept imported thousands of them into the States when they were our allies aganist the Evil Empire.

[AAABEST]

LMAO. Too funny, thanks for the absurdity.

Your post just convinced me that it's time for bed. Where do you guys come up with stuff?

[Indy Pendance]

And to think, that dork could have been our president.

[Destro]

What's even funnier is this post will get several hundred replies.

On it's way!