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Why doesn't the US build a bridge here to connect Alaska to the mainland? Are they stupid?

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Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Gork@sopuli.xyz⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Cuz the material is needed for THE WALL

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  • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨36⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    And why didn’t they just call it the Gulf of Hawaii? That would’ve been a lot less controversial.

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Because then they couldn’t sell their precious Alaskan cruises.

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  • 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.

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  • vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They built a land bridge. They even named it. Canada.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Canada is where all the illegals live

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      • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        and the fentanyl

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    • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I have to mail my glovebox gun to myself when I drive through Canada because they hate freedom.

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    • 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.

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    • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Call is “Canada”, imagine a country so blue!

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  • Codpiece@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Don’t forget to build one to Hawaii too.

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    • Dorkyd68@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Florida to Cuba, Cuba to Hawaii, Hawaii to Louisiana

      The food wood be amazing

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  • 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?

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    • 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.

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      • 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.

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  • 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.

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    • 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.

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  • mEEGal@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’d pay to see someone asking random americans in the streets about this

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    • 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.

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    • 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.

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  • CircaV@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Alaska is gonna become Canada’s 11th province. So a bridge ain’t happening.

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  • 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.

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    • ChrysanthemumIndica@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨50⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      I was really hoping for this level of engineering pedantry and sensibility, thank you.

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      • RagingHungryPanda@piefed.social ⁨47⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        🫡

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  • 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”.

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    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Bravo, I love this kind of ‘analogy taken too far’ creative writing =D

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  • 474D@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Perhaps not for this reason, but yes, we are stupid

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  • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Mexlaska

    (I hope I’m not giving him ideas)

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  • eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Alaskan lobby doesn’t want mexicans there, whether they’re new or not

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  • DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Gulf of Alaska

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    • baggachipz@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Gulf of Hawaii, it’s right there

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    • klu9@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The Straits of America!

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  • 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.

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  • VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yes.

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  • 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

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  • cephus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Because a bridge that long would be prohibitively expensive, gosh.

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  • Battle_Masker@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Apparently they are, cause the people of New Mexico voted No on that

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