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[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 53 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Please liberate Alaska first! kitty-cri-screm

[–] WizardOfLoneliness@hexbear.net 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Can you imagine? I can. I bet the chinese would build a superbridge through the Bering Strait if Alaska were part of china

*for trains

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Thats wildly impractical and an ecological-engineering nightmare. Which is why, funny enough, third-positionist duginists/larouchites fucking love the idea.

Just for people to get an idea for how wild of an idea it is, hop on Google maps and just look at how much untouched wild lands, swamps, tundra, etc. Are between Anchorage and Wales (AK), then the length between the Alaskan-Russia peninsulas in the Bering sea, then the amount of wild lands, swamps, and tundra between Naukan to Heihi. It's a wild amount of kilometers to cover via train!

[–] DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Socialists get one big dumb infrastructure project, as a treat.

[–] WoodScientist@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

Fine I'm claiming it. We're building a mile-tall colossus of John Brown.

[–] WizardOfLoneliness@hexbear.net 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Would it be difficult and stupid? Sure, but after a century of triumphs the peoples' republic will need new challenges rat-salute-2

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Honestly would be better to just invest in green aviation or nauticsl technology and just travel conventionally

[–] WizardOfLoneliness@hexbear.net 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You're going to be riding the 1000mph hyperlev to Beijing through the worst storms the Bering strait has ever seen and YOU'RE GONNA LIKE IT BUDDY

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just stick me in one of those billionaire submersible at that point

[–] WizardOfLoneliness@hexbear.net 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

you're gonna eat advanced chinese treat technology on the dining car and you'll be forced to say "wow"

[–] WizardOfLoneliness@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

better sure, but more... triumphant? Nah

[–] Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

hear me out: a high-speed train pontoon bridge from Shanghai to San Francisco, connected to CAHSR

this is how we connect Beijing to Bakersfield inshallah