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What we have here is a bridge gap. And, Mr. President, we must not allow a bridge gap.
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What we have here is a bridge gap. And, Mr. President, we must not allow a bridge gap.
It takes more than peasants with shovels to successfully put a man on the moon, and most certainly Mars.
If the Chinese DID try to get to Mars on today's technology, chances are they won't get whoever they send back.
You must crawl before you can walk, and you must walk before you can crawl.
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I'm not familiar with that proverb.
Is likely by Confucius.
You must crawl before you can walk, and you must walk before you can crawl.
50 miles.
And that is not longest bridge ever.
It is the worlds longest bridge over water.
The longest bridge is the Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge.
At 164,800 m or just over 102 miles.
Hate to disappoint you but the shortest point between the US and russia is 3 miles. Little diomede and Big diomede islands straddle the border between american and russian waters in the bearing sea and are only 3 miles apart.
The problem with the Bering strait bridge is making a pylon that can withstand the drifting ice bearing down on it every year.
But it would make for an interesting roadtrip, potentially from South-Africa or Portugal to Tierra del Fuego.
That is absolutely not a problem if you think about efforts to build roads connecting this bridge from the both sides to Russian and American mainlands. And railroads, too.
[ErrorBeep] Wrong! :lol:
I watched a program called "The Bering Strait Bridge" a few weeks ago (on Discovery or National Geographic). Building the roads is no problem with current technology, but at this time there's no way to build a safe bridge there.