Extreme Engineering - SE1E05 [part2/5] - Bridging the bering strait

[harolze]

What is point of such bridge. Sea transport is cheaper than trail. Better use money for larger Panama channel.

[bhstone1]

@vvysoc or how much more Bush spent on bombing Iraq, a country that posed zero threat to us.

[gabor1991]

Ther Russians have green lit this project in August! :D

[vladan1021]

They gonna build railway tunnel... Which is much better idea..

[ishamj1]

@vladan1021 a highway would be a good idea, but, a bridge would be a bad idea. reason being is that if a bridge was built, it wouldn't stay up for 3 months because of the beating it would get. so if they built a link, a highway link would be a good idea as well as rail and oil, it would need to be tunnel and since it is only 55 miles, it wouldn't be that much to maintain.

[vladan1021]

@ishamj1 highway? are you going to use snowmobile or something to go from Yakutsk to Anchorage? how are you going to maintain thousands of miles of road in tundra? the only reasonable solution is rail track.. no highway is needed. if you want to bring car across you load it on the train and get off at the other continent

[no1reallycaresabout2]

This bridge would be cool to drive across, tho I think to save money, they should ditch the road and do something similar to what they do in the Channel Tunnel, where they let u load ur car on to a high-speed train

[ishamj1]

@no1reallycaresabout2 or, they could just build a highway and railway tunnel and not worry about a bridge.

[no1reallycaresabout2]

@ishamj1 Ventil8ng the highway tunnel would B a major issue. MayB just have a tunnel and have trains transport ur car across like in the Chunnel

[no1reallycaresabout2]

@no1reallycaresabout2 But I agree, a tunnel wouldn't B subject to as severe weather conditions

[graham640]

the above comment is correct they spend millions on wars would you not be better investing it in this wonderful bridge money can be got for war and violence but not to mantain a bdidge

[tnguyen318]

Earth is no Longer Blue as it once was. All the Bridge Building has polluted the waters. Drilling in the polar regions have changed Earths Climate. We need to Stop Now!!

[graham640]

@tnguyen318 how has bridge building contaminated the water on our earth you stupid fool waht ever about exploration destroying it join the real world of today you fool

[tnguyen318]

We need to dig and drill causing ground pollution. Cement is made using Factory Chemicals causing cancers and tumors. Steel rusts in Water. Algae is collecting underneath these concrete and wooden bridges infecting our fishes. Water is dirty from construction and building. OiL is leaking everywhere.

[TheJCJexe]

Maybe in a 100 years or so.. Im sure something like this would e built.

[Gage84]

This project is feasible, but would be highly expensive and probably an engineering milestone.

[John94098]

@Gage84, definetly an engineering milestone.

[bodie9991]

Would be a magnet for terrorist attack with the great economic importance of the bridge. Not saying it shouldn't be done though.

[tehn00bpwn3r]

If there were mega cities each side then I'd say that it's a good idea.

[BennyB5555]

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 about driving to South America for shits and giggles but I would probably get caught up in Central America somehow.

[AndyHDTVB]

What happen if your car run out of gas in the middle????? just build a railway track across it........make things a lot easier

[Coolpachito]

Then "they'll" build 'borders' along the Alaskan coast line......

[Theuf28]

5 billions dollards, thats like 2% of the war budget in USA... my point is made i think.

[srizzharizz]

this is somethin outa this world.. proof of human mind power..

[formart68]

future skies...

[bradybrian76]

All the questions below this are answered in the rest of the parts. ffs

[extrasystole]

As a car lover and road trip enthuasiast i think it's still safer and cheaper to use planes for crossing that strait from russia to canada and opposite.

But road trip around the world thanks to this bridge connecting world's highways would be the greatest trip of a life that i would do. Problem is that it would be insanely expensive...

I am sure they'll never build it. They'll dig a tunnel only for pipeline. Who needs transcontinental subway weh you have planes.

[mulattoraver]

Ridiculous idea drempt up by people that don't spend enough time outside of their urban fishbowl.

1. What taxpayers are going to pay to build and maintain this thing?

2. Who is going to pay to rescue the people that get stranded?

3. What is are the economic gains of connecting Siberia to Alaska?

4. Who is going to pay for the infrastructure leading up to the bridge?

5. What vehicle could travel from the last gas station in Alaska to the first available on in Siberia on one tank?

[criticalmass181]

Would it A) not make sense to make the pylons with an ice cutter type edge, to get the ice to break, and go around, and B) to backfill as far as possible, with fortified fill, such as used to make storm barriers at marinas, prior to building a bridge???? Just thinking outside the square. If you can cut out the Suez canel, then you can fill in the same amount.

[mugwamp4]

@criticalmass181 thats apparently what they envisage..... the base would be a huge 8 or 10 pointed star that would crack the ice up over a larger surface area....even so this is a stupid idea....as they say from nowhere to to oblivion....

[stoazen]

reasonably there would be no highyway, just rail, which is way, way lower maintenance

[infusion3sinaxis]

Lmao, at 05:10 a van goes right into the water.

[TheFatalforce]

@SmokeandMirrors13 your right

[MrMosinNagant]

105 million dollars......its better than the 12trillion of the transatlantic tunnel

[claudelebel55]

@MrMosinNagant 105 billion (not million) or about half the cost of the war in Iraq but costs always overun ....

[CheRii789]

At 5.22 the guy says the slabs "grow to monster proportions" yet they complain about Global Warming? .. Doesn't make any sense.

[mazczan]

if the people from the past made the pyramid then, i think our technology this time can do that too. but i think this can be used only for economy because people might be scared to travel that far + they will spend more than the plane ticket.

[minicoopers11]

Icebergs are not an issue in the Bering strait. The waters are relatively shallow. Ice floes are the issue here.

[JamesCunnyy]

i bet immgrants are loving this easier way to immgrate lol

[pijushimf]

its realy Extreme engg,

[TheCraxy333]

hey tard nugget it 50 miles not 1000 tard.

[rhyno6]

@TheCraxy333 Open your ears at 0:50. He references the "thousands of miles of highway leading up to the bridge on either side." And my comment was about the highway, not just the bridge. Pay attention, son.

[rhyno6]

And who's gong to maintain these thousands of miles of highway? Snow and ice removal, repairs, repavings, accident response, etc....

[kalasnikov47]

@rhyno6: Are there not enough unemployed people in the world?

[themilanxperience]

@rhyno6

Hey, theres an unemployment problem right? Well, presto, you just made like a bazillion government-paid jobs.

[ACMILAN7CL]

@rhyno6 Chuck Norris of course.

[kuffkuff]

great.good stuff

[umudderfr]

because 90% of an icebergs mass is underwater stupid

[MichaelJimson]

Since icebergs float on water, why don't build a tunnel?

[SawViking]

i was thinking the same. like the one they propsed on "transatlantic tunnel". it would be like 200 billion dollars.

[downrightignorant]

wow shaking bridges