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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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  • vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They built a land bridge. They even named it. Canada.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Canada is where all the illegals live

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      • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        and the fentanyl

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    • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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    • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I have to mail my glovebox gun to myself when I drive through Canada because they hate freedom.

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      • tal@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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    • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Call is “Canada”, imagine a country so blue!

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  • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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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    • WalterLego@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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      • some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        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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  • HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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.

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    • peoplebeproblems@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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.

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  • Codpiece@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Don’t forget to build one to Hawaii too.

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    • Dorkyd68@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Florida to Cuba, Cuba to Hawaii, Hawaii to Louisiana

      The food wood be amazing

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  • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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  • mEEGal@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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    • Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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.

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    • Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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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  • percent@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I understand that this is just a shitpost, but the scaling here is crazy 😆 Alaska is more than twice the size of Texas

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    • jimmux@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Now that you mention it, the projection is unusual. Is this the map they use in Texas to make it look bigger?

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    • burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      no its smaller, the map shows it is smaller

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  • NatakuNox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    We tried. Canada kept getting in the way.

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    • Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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 :::

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The Rockies did too

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  • mercano@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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  • mo_lave@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    A very modest and reasonable proposal

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  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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”.

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    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Bravo, I love this kind of ‘analogy taken too far’ creative writing =D

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  • qarbone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yes.

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

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    • N0MAD@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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.

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      • qarbone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Just more governmental waste!

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  • RagingHungryPanda@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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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    • GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m glad I checked the comments because I was going to point out the same hypothetical issue lol

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    • ChrysanthemumIndica@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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      • RagingHungryPanda@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        🫡

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  • BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Cuz the material is needed for THE WALL

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  • CircaV@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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  • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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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  • eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Alaskan lobby doesn’t want mexicans there, whether they’re new or not

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  • JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’d be a long bridge.

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  • 474D@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Perhaps not for this reason, but yes, we are stupid

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  • DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Gulf of Alaska

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    • baggachipz@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Gulf of Hawaii, it’s right there

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    • klu9@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The Straits of America!

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Buncha crackheads live there and we don’t want to provide shelter to bridge trolls

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  • Mwa@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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  • misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This is a misconception. It’s not expensive to build the bridge, it’s just prohibitive to move Alaska down there.

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  • Pacattack57@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I don’t infer what it would cost, assuming it was possible, to build a bridge to Hawaii.

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    • logan_lemmy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      About 2-4 trillion and it would technically be almost impossible to build.

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  • DrDystopia@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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  • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Mexlaska

    (I hope I’m not giving him ideas)

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  • pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You could build this, but it would be a tunnel. Actually now I want to see that for real.

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  • VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yes.

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  • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’s why the US wants access to the arctic for development … they want the oil … and a bridge to Texas

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