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Why doesn't the US build a bridge here to connect Alaska to the mainland? Are they stupid?

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    Alaska is gonna become Canada’s 11th province. So a bridge ain’t happening.

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      Because there’s a country between the Mainland and Alaska. Any bridge would need to be negotiated with Mexico.

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        Canada is where all the illegals live

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        and the fentanyl

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          That would be a very long bridge, probably too long to biuld. Notice the size of lake Ponchartrain by New Orleans, which is 24 miles. This would be a bridge hundreds of miles long. It's likely not feasible, sadly.

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          I was really hoping for this level of engineering pedantry and sensibility, thank you.

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            I'd pay to see someone asking random americans in the streets about this

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            To be fair, ambushing anyone on the street, out of context, is extremely likely to get a dumber answer than normal.

            This would make a good study, actually. Ambush people on the street and quiz them. For the control group, quiz them immediately, on the street. For the experimental group, take them to a more relaxed location, allow them to sit, give them a minute or two to get collected, quiz them and measure the difference from the control group. You can do it with easy, medium, hard questions.

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              And why didn't they just call it the Gulf of Hawaii? That would've been a lot less controversial.

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                It's because Alaska has migratory patterns, that's why it's sometimes southwest of Texas, other times it's right next to California.

                How are you going to build a bridge that moves that far, dumbass?

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                A suspended bridge can be really flexible. Or make it out of ropes, like in the Indiana Jones movies.

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                  A suspended bridge can be really flexible. Or make it out of ropes, like in the Indiana Jones movies.

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                  Alaska doesn't like being tethered, it will just buck around and turn the whole Pacific into a churning gyre. The wildness would have to be beaten out of it first. Don't worry though, that's being worked on.

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                    Because then they couldn't sell their precious Alaskan cruises.

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                      and the fentanyl

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                      If you watch Fox News then yes but if you actually look at the figures, it’s fucking nothing

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                        Cuz the material is needed for THE WALL

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                          If you watch Fox News then yes but if you actually look at the figures, it’s fucking nothing

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                          I think they were speaking ironically.

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                            Yes, and how convenient I know a guy who has a bridge to sell as well!

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                              It appears to my eye that the red line goes from around Arena NM to ~Ciudad Cuauhtemoc Mexico.

                              That's about 235 miles.

                              The current longest bridge is Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge in China which is 102 miles, but the majority of that is over land.

                              However, since the map put Alaska in the middle of Mexico.....

                              We TOTALLY could.

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                                I wonder what it would cost, assuming it was possible, to build a bridge to Hawaii.

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                                  That'd be a long bridge.

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                                    This is a misconception. It's not expensive to build the bridge, it's just prohibitive to move Alaska down there especially while changing its border projection neatly.

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                                      We tried. Canada kept getting in the way.

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                                        Because America doesn't have enough money to build the bridge they are saving it to get 6 trillion luxury cars and houses /s

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                                          Yes.

                                          But unrelated to this. Which is silly; just do a ferry, dumkopf.

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