Submitted 3 weeks ago by Gork@sopuli.xyz to [deleted]
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Yes. VERY. I have encountered three people in the wild who actually believe that Alaska is an island. The best time was when I was traveling with my kid and they said we were from Alaska to a group of people in an elevator. One of the kids in the elevator said “can you drive to Alaska?”. the mom told then her , “they can’t drive to Alaska because it’s an island! and that’s why there at the airport!” To which the DAD replied “ARE YOU FREAKIN SERIOUS? WTF.” 
That was pretty good.
I’ve done that to my ex wife in public a couple of times.
I learned that someone being hot does not compensate for stupid.
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?
A suspended bridge can be really flexible. Or make it out of ropes, like in the Indiana Jones movies.
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.
Don’t forget to build one to Hawaii too.
Florida to Cuba, Cuba to Hawaii, Hawaii to Louisiana
The food wood be amazing
And why didn’t they just call it the Gulf of Hawaii? That would’ve been a lot less controversial.
I’d pay to see someone asking random americans in the streets about this
Pfft. We all know that map isn’t official.
The reason you can’t build that bridge is because Alaska is farther southwest near Hawaii, and there is a big wall around them.
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.
We tried. Canada kept getting in the way.
We wouldn’t have that problem if they would just voluntarily surrender their sovereignty and become the 51st state smh
::: spoiler Hopefully I don’t need the /s but here it is anyway :::
The Rockies did too
I understand that this is just a shitpost, but the scaling here is crazy 😆 Alaska is more than twice the size of Texas
Now that you mention it, the projection is unusual. Is this the map they use in Texas to make it look bigger?
no its smaller, the map shows it is smaller
Because there’s a country between the Mainland and Alaska. Any bridge would need to be negotiated with Mexico.
A very modest and reasonable proposal
During the Mexican-American War the US secretly bribed Alaska to sneak up behind Mexico and eat Mexico in one big gulp.
Then the US put Alaska in a box to quarantine it because it started to get sick. This is what you see illustrated on many maps because it was historically a very important moment to US geography.
Eventually Alaska got too nauseous, threw Mexico back up and crawled back on top of Canada.
What a lot of people don’t realize though is what made Alaska so sick wasn’t Mexico, it was that Alaska mistook Texas for part of Mexico and took both Mexico and Texas in one bite, and it was only the extreme toxicity of Texas that made Alaska so queasy. Mexico was fine chilling inside Alaska. Alaskans and Mexicans had even taken to calling it “Mexicalaska”.
Bravo, I love this kind of ‘analogy taken too far’ creative writing =D
Yes.
But unrelated to this. Which is silly; just do a ferry, dumkopf.
The have a ferry system called the Alaska Marine Highway System but for some dumb reason they leave out of Washington state in the northwest.
Just more governmental waste!
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.
I’m glad I checked the comments because I was going to point out the same hypothetical issue lol
I was really hoping for this level of engineering pedantry and sensibility, thank you.
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Cuz the material is needed for THE WALL
Alaska is gonna become Canada’s 11th province. So a bridge ain’t happening.
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.
Alaskan lobby doesn’t want mexicans there, whether they’re new or not
That’d be a long bridge.
Perhaps not for this reason, but yes, we are stupid
Gulf of Alaska
Gulf of Hawaii, it’s right there
The Straits of America!
Buncha crackheads live there and we don’t want to provide shelter to bridge trolls
Because America doesn’t have enough money to build the bridge they are saving it to get luxury cars and houses /s
This is a misconception. It’s not expensive to build the bridge, it’s just prohibitive to move Alaska down there.
I don’t infer what it would cost, assuming it was possible, to build a bridge to Hawaii.
About 2-4 trillion and it would technically be almost impossible to build.
Yes, and how convenient I know a guy who has a bridge to sell as well!
Because then they couldn’t sell their precious Alaskan cruises.
Mexlaska
(I hope I’m not giving him ideas)
You could build this, but it would be a tunnel. Actually now I want to see that for real.
Yes.
That’s why the US wants access to the arctic for development … they want the oil … and a bridge to Texas
vk6flab@lemmy.radio 3 weeks ago
They built a land bridge. They even named it. Canada.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Canada is where all the illegals live
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
and the fentanyl
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
Hey, Canada is on top and Alaska is on the bottom, it’s even in the picture.
But what people don’t get is that the scale of the map means that bridge would have to be half as tall as New Mexico, which is like at least 5 miles, and also there’s no way the bridge would support the weight of the entire United States. C’mon people.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I have to mail my glovebox gun to myself when I drive through Canada because they hate freedom.
tal@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
In Canada’s defense, that in significant part, handguns. If you keep a long gun with you, as long as it doesn’t hit their 10,000 J (7375 ft-lbs) muzzle energy limit — and if it’s in your glovebox, I assume that whatever you have isn’t doing that — and doesn’t hit their specific restrictions on upper receivers, you’re probably okay.
A NATO 5.56 mm rifle round looks like it has a muzzle energy of about 1.8 kJ.
That’d let you carry an elephant gun.
If you want a semi-auto rifle…goes looking
gunsamerica.com/digest/big-horn-armory-ar500/
I imagine that one of those would be okay. Looks like the ammunition is sold in Canada.
wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Call is “Canada”, imagine a country so blue!