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The comment is making fun of a proposal Boris Johnson once made about building a bridge from Scotland to Northern Ireland, which is considered borderline physic
by emptyfile 6y ago
The comment is making fun of a proposal Boris Johnson once made about building a bridge from Scotland to Northern Ireland, which is considered borderline physically impossible as far as I understand.
- DaiPlusPlus 6y agoBridge, yes. Tunnel, no. It’s very feasible and practical from a civil-engineering perspective, but the economic value of a road connection between NI and Scotland has not been demonstrated to outweigh the economic cost of its construction.
- Chris2048 6y agoInfact: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/14/rail-bosses-revive-plan-to-build-tunnel-from-scotland-to-northern-ireland https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/14/rail-bosses-...
- arethuza 6y agoEven more fun: the relevant area of sea has had one million tons of explosives dumped there as well as chemical weapons and even some radioactive waste: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort%27s_Dyke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort%27s_Dyke
- rusk 6y agoWhat’s feesible? The tunnel or the bridge? I’d heard the tunnel wasn’t possible due to the particular geography of the channel. But a bridge? Now that I’d be interesting I seeing. There used to be a giants causeway across there in mythical times ...
- onei 6y agoThe bridge is unfeasible because the channel is around 200m deep in places which makes it crazy expensive. I also found a couple of references to nuclear waste in the trench, but that might have been for another site.
- rusk 6y agoBoth of which I was aware of but I heard that some kind of suspension design would work. The tunnel is infeasible because there’s a very deep trench there, and that as you mentioned is filled with all sorts of nasty stuff.
- anonymousDan 6y agoI believe the latest proposal would swerve to avoid the trench.
- DenisM 6y agoFloating bridge is a thing tho https://www.wired.com/2016/04/takes-keep-7700-foot-floating-bridge-doom/#:~:text=Washington's%20love%20of%20floating%20bridges,from%20an%20engineering%20perspective%2C%20crap https://www.wired.com/2016/04/takes-keep-7700-foot-floating-....
- rjsw 6y agoThere was a suggestion that he was trying to do a bit of SEO to distract attention from another bridge [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_Bridge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_Bridge
- bacheaul 6y agoI hadn't heard of this one. That and the brexit bus/cardboard box bus SEO hacking suggestion makes something of a pattern.
- mattlondon 6y agoThere is talk of floating tunnels. I believe they have done similar things in Norway when they need to go across fjords which are about 1km deep on places.