would it be impossible to build a bridge from the west coast to hawaii?

Answer 1

Not impossible to build, but impractical. It would be subject to weather conditions and be a traffic hazard to boating on the Pacific. With it being over a thousand miles long, how often should you have drawbridges to allow shipping through? How many rest areas? Where would you build floating towns? The logistics are enough to give you a headache before you get to the engineering aspects.

Answer 2

Never ask an Engineer if something is possible, because they will always find a way to do it. Certainly a bridge could be made, but there is no economic reason to do so. The hazards are too discouraging. You would need to have floating gas stations, and can you imagine if your car broke down.

The project would be extremely costly, but the trip across the completed bridge would be even more expensive than flying. Maybe you should invest in personal flying cars, like in Back to The Future.

Answer 3

Yes it is possible,but it will have to be a floating bridge anchored by steel ropes to the bottom of the sea.the best way is to make a floating train tunnel submerged to about 150 feet so that there is no wave action and it wont affect the navigation of other sea going vessels .the train can theoretically travel at 5000 mph in vacuum.and you could reach Hawaii in 45 minutes from start to end.real travel time will be about 25 to 30 minutes You will have two locking chambers at each end train will enter the chamber and locked and the air will be sucked out then the gate to main tunnel will be opened and train will run the main gate to tunnel will be closed and air let into the lock chamber.But the cost will be so high that it can be only made on paper or computer.Good question any way.

Answer 4

An engineer-- which I am not-- might, I am guessing, say that it may be possible to do it, but, first, will the bridge stand up under the tremendous pressures sometimes generated by periods of ocean turbulence and hurricanes, and, secondly, would such a bridge be practical to use? Bridges must be anchored in something. A bridge to Hawaii crossing thousands of miles of deep ocean could not, with any known material or technology, be anchored to the bottom of the ocean, must therefore rest on pontoons, which float on the surface at whatever level, would move in response to hurricane-volume winds and underwater disturbances. Only a material with strength greater than steel and piability and "stretchability" greater than rubber would endure the stress and strain. Think: the moorings on the bridge in Hawaii and California would have to bear this entire load, but, if they were strong enough to do it, the bridge also would have to be pliable and flexible enough to bear up under the stresses along its thousands of miles without breaking.. Cars (unless perhaps with steel wheels held tight to the bridge via electromagnetism) would be jostled off the bridge over the cumulative stress during turbulent periods. In the event of breaking or unmooring, the cost of re-attaching would be far more formidable than investing in a fleet of ships and dispensing with the bridge. (I'm just guessing. I'm anxious to hear what somebody who knows something about it will say to the proposition. I wonder if it is perhaps more possible than it appears to me, a layman.)

Answer 5

Not "impossible", but impractical; Apart from the ridiculous cost, the bridge would have to be built in such a way that it grew a little each day to account for the movement of the different tectonic plates that Hawai'i and the West Coast are sitting on.

Answer 6

yes, first of all, no one would drive on a bridge that far.
-itd be too expensive.
-how do u build a bridge that touches the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean?
-Too many storms or waves would come and knock cars off the bridge or just the bridge itself.
-Why dont people just fly or use a boat?

Answer 7

Yes... It is absolutely possible. Plans are in the works right now!

It will begin construction as soon as they finish construction on the elevator to the Moon.

Answer 8

Probably not impossible, but if it were probable, it would have already been done by now. Not to mention....what about gas???

Answer 9

impossible. forget the cost it just wouldn't stand

Answer 10

it is too expensive and it is not possible because this is a modern world and know air crafts and roads are more valuable ok