And why didn’t they just call it the Gulf of Hawaii? That would’ve been a lot less controversial.
Why doesn't the US build a bridge here to connect Alaska to the mainland? Are they stupid?
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WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 36 minutes ago
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 21 minutes ago
Because then they couldn’t sell their precious Alaskan cruises.
mercano@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Because there’s a country between the Mainland and Alaska. Any bridge would need to be negotiated with Mexico.
vk6flab@lemmy.radio 4 hours ago
They built a land bridge. They even named it. Canada.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I have to mail my glovebox gun to myself when I drive through Canada because they hate freedom.
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 4 hours 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.
Codpiece@feddit.uk 2 hours ago
Don’t forget to build one to Hawaii too.
Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Florida to Cuba, Cuba to Hawaii, Hawaii to Louisiana
The food wood be amazing
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 hours 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?
WalterLego@lemmy.zip 32 minutes ago
A suspended bridge can be really flexible. Or make it out of ropes, like in the Indiana Jones movies.
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 23 minutes 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.
HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world 4 hours 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.
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 2 hours 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.
mEEGal@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I’d pay to see someone asking random americans in the streets about this
Serinus@lemmy.world 40 minutes 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.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 3 hours 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.
CircaV@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
Alaska is gonna become Canada’s 11th province. So a bridge ain’t happening.
RagingHungryPanda@piefed.social 3 hours 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.
ChrysanthemumIndica@discuss.tchncs.de 50 minutes ago
I was really hoping for this level of engineering pedantry and sensibility, thank you.
RagingHungryPanda@piefed.social 47 minutes ago
🫡
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 hours 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”.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
Bravo, I love this kind of ‘analogy taken too far’ creative writing =D
474D@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Perhaps not for this reason, but yes, we are stupid
jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
Mexlaska
(I hope I’m not giving him ideas)
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Alaskan lobby doesn’t want mexicans there, whether they’re new or not
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Gulf of Alaska
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
Gulf of Hawaii, it’s right there
klu9@piefed.social 2 hours ago
The Straits of America!
pennomi@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
You could build this, but it would be a tunnel. Actually now I want to see that for real.
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 hours ago
Yes.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
That’s why the US wants access to the arctic for development … they want the oil … and a bridge to Texas
cephus@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Because a bridge that long would be prohibitively expensive, gosh.
Battle_Masker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 hours ago
Apparently they are, cause the people of New Mexico voted No on that
BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 14 minutes ago
Cuz the material is needed for THE WALL