Extreme Engineering - SE1E05 [part5/5] - Bridging the bering strait

[goodkovpower]

it would be much easier to raise the sea bed level. Simply dump a large pile of rocks and all the world's trash.... And there you go, Eurasia and America are connected :)

[UltimateRT]

Wait 50 million years and build a road, fool!

[VobisPacem]

omg.. if it's so hard, then just don't f****ing build it. geez.

[vvysoc]

could you nuke an oncoming huge ice

[piazzola08]

thanks

[PS3Cruore]

Sure it sounds good, but who would really benefit? If I, living in Europe, wanted to visit USA, i'd take a plane, not drive for 10 days straight through a deserted wasteland. Same for transport, must be much better to just ship stuff. Only thing I can see useful is a super high speed railway or sth

[tnguyen318]

Has there been proof for safety on any of the engineering we did? Even steel will bend and break against the Laws of Nature. Water is powerful Its an entire ocean.

[beneluxify]

If this huge ice-chump is detected, why not then drill a houle in the ice and drop a bomb.

[BennyB5555]

It would be strange seeing a sign that reads:

"Leaving USA now entering Russia"

[BennyB5555]

@Jessicatg2008 - Cont: I have thought about driving to South America for shits and giggles but I would probably get caught up in Central America somehow. lol

[BennyB5555]

@Jessicatg2008 - Yes I agree with you. I remember watching this shortly after the war started. Things are much different now and people are...trying at least to be more practical. As far as being able to drive around the world (except major island nations and Australia) we technically can drive from Alaska to South America but who really does? Just because "they" say it will connect the world with a "super highway" it doesn't mean people will actually do it. Who would want to? I have thought ab

[JessicaTG2008]

Nice idea, but realistically will never be built. The only reason to even build this would be to tap into the huge oil reserves. This isn't about convenience or travel or anything other that oil. A project that will cost 100+ billion dollars and take decades to build is not the answer the US apparently needs today to help feed its uncontrollable need for fossil fuel. It would be far less costly, time consuming and safer to simply use tankers to transport it in the long run.

[nealogz]

they should prohibit travels during winter. or they should invent a thing that enables the peers to shrink below the ground of the water during winter thus preventing the ice to hit it. LOL HAHAHAHAHA!

[ZombieKurtCobain]

yeaaaah, forget that....just build a tunnel. Way easier.

[ladysavala]

Projects such as this are needed to produce jobs and kick start our economy.

[vk45de]

@ladysavala It's gonna crash right back down when we find out it doesn't work.

[shinjide213]

They should mount some kind of self operating system that fires huge pellets to break up the ice into less threatening sizes

[lFlash4]

not gonna happen... space age is closer... ima fly across that mother in a decade or two... where the fuck is my hover car you promised by 2010 America? Where!!!

[yazpaul]

I thought their worst case scenario looks something like this 6:08 I thought a killer whale lol..

They showed the whale first I thought it will hit the bridge and destroy it hahaha... XD

[Pyrotyde]

haha =P

[N00bcrunch3r]

@yazpaul

Yeah, I thought that too!

[GhostInTheShell29]

I think the bridge is a great idea.

If we get our economy back on track, and globally at that.

But till then, and maybe till technology progresses some more its not feasible.

even if it is doable.

[7olusegun]

The real terrorists are probably waiting to destroy the gigantic project they are planning to build (e.g. across the straits) in order to greatly advance a police state.

[slvrangel4]

Who would pay for this? the american people? and who would benefit? and man...destruction of the bridge = 100's of deaths, environmental distruction, man I bet there's powerful people just licking their chops...build this, so it can be destroyed!

[rhyno6]

And who would be this bridge control and condition response for this bridge? U.S. on one side and Russia on the other? How would all of that responsibility be divided and still ensure that the bridge is getting all of the attention is needs? Nobody's going to be interested in this much financial responsibility with the added cost of maintenance and monitoring.

[rhyno6]

The idea of steel cables holding the sections together is not new. That's how the Sydney Opera House was built.

[korgho5757]

this film was semi retarded. its obvious that conical piers will withstand collisions better than vertical no need for experimentations. it is ages old knowledge.

with the huge iceberg why not simply destroy it ere it meets the pier.

[Topnotch121]

ur retarded.