Can you imagine the cost to build, no matter what route they used? What about the train fare? Man, this futurist planner is really in left field.
2007-11-24 23:20:15 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
and also, would the route through Newfoundland to Greenland and then on to Ireland and Scotland make it any easier or closer to possibility?
2007-11-24 23:38:39 · update #1
BTW
Would that mean that more and more Americans would he here visiting the UK. If such a tunnel were to be built, this wouldn't change the UK or Europe would it? I mean, we wouldn't lose our identity?
2007-11-25 00:17:27 · update #2
Its just rubbish-the Atlantic is extremely deep, and the ocean floor is covered in canyons and uneven terrain-totally unsuitable for tunneling-and what would be the point when you can fly or sail?
2007-11-24 23:28:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is a program on Discovery Science channel that covers this topic. It seems that the technological know-how is ready, but the cost would be prohibitive. Btw, it would not be an 'underground' tunnel. It would be an underwater tunnel that is tethered to the ocean floor. The tunnel itself would be emptied to a vacuum with an airlock at each end. That would allow a maglev train to travel without friction to decrease the amount of travel time. It was a cool show. Too bad we'll all be dead before it's built!
2007-11-25 07:45:11 · answer #2 · answered by Mike 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That Indian guy can't claim the idea. Sci-fi authors like Harry Harrison - A Transatlantic Tunnel - Hurrah, were writing about this decades ago.
I tihnk the idea is best left to science fiction. The future of transatlantic travel is like to be sub-orbital hypersonic planes.
2007-11-26 18:46:38 · answer #3 · answered by lunatic_asylum_seeker 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's a small problem called the Mid Atlantic Ridge which is where two of the earth's plates meet and a depth of around 6000 metres to contend with so he's probably talking through his turban.
2007-11-25 07:37:17 · answer #4 · answered by ashkirkian 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Too costly, and impossible to make safe - a maintenance and security nightmare. The only viable way to cover that distance has always been, is now, and will be forever the two man canoe.
2007-11-25 07:25:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It sounds very improbable. The ocean is already the most efficient means of transportation. Why spend the money to connect and maintain two points; and, which two points would you connect?
2007-11-25 07:36:43 · answer #6 · answered by n2s.astronomy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As strange as it may seem, all things are possible. This might be hundreds of years into the future, but it could happen.
2007-11-25 07:23:48 · answer #7 · answered by Beau R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can say its possible but not likly and not in our life time!!!
2007-11-25 07:23:16 · answer #8 · answered by joseph6902000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No...too open for terrorism..
2007-11-25 07:23:06 · answer #9 · answered by doobydoo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hmmmmmmmm maybe thats a lie....
2007-11-25 07:23:39 · answer #10 · answered by ChrisCT 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋