Transatlantic tunnel

Instead of building the wall (or as well as building the wall) Trump should build the transatlantic tunnel.

Mag lev trains carrying 1000 people running in a vacuum at 3000 mph would go from new york to london in 1.5 hours.

Constructed of prefab reinforced concrete tubes suspended by neutral bouyancy 100 meters below the waves and held in place by gps networked undersea thrusters, the tunnel would be easy to construct in dry docks at each end point and floated in to place.

The project would provide a trillion dollar boost to the american and british economies through jobs and improving the links between the 2 main financial centers of the world

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How would this make America more white?

What a fantastic waste of money.

Planes exist.

No thanks we don't need a link to Islamic euroniggers.

This idea's a good un, get yourself a shovel from B&Q and start digging.

I will join you shortly.

Why don't you leave the EU first mate. Set your goals a little lower.

No Kidding, that would exponentially increase illegals.

I don't think it would make america any more or less white.

>American """""""Infrastructure"""""""

lel

>we should sink billions of dollars into something that airplanes and ships already perform

And ships

The plane takes 7 hours. You can't commute.

1.5 hours is a daily commute

Nice try
You won't be getting rid of your rapefugees that easily

Is 1.5 hours an hour and 50 minutes or an hour and a half?

>improving the links between the 2 main financial centers of the world

Excellent. The trains can carry digital pretend money from New York to London in only 90 minutes. Cutting edge.

Wow, televisions that watch you and the UK becomes new American States

1984

bahahahahaahhahahahahahaa

You're kidding right?

Yes but physical goods and people are important too.

There is no way they'd be able to secure it. It would be terrorist target #1 and damn easy to load a boat up with enough explosives to rupture it in the middle of the atlantic where no EMS could get to it in time to save lives. It'd kill everyone currently in the tunnel easily.

would 1.6 be 2 hours or...

mercy

a-and what if a whale rams into that shit?

The part of the tunnel that is damaged would be automatically sealed off. The other trains would be halted and the passengers rescued through service tunnel.

The damaged sections would be prefabricated and easy to replace.

Next!

1.5 hours is a commute? 3 hours a day just sitting on a train. Not even getting to see cool sharks or whales. No thanks.

Whales are weaker than 3 feet of reinforced concrete

Next!

Just think of how badass it would be to have a tunnel from the United States to Europe.

No survivors

No, it's a vacuum. You can't just close a door and make everything okay again. This is how people's brains rupture.

Driving from basingstoke to london takes 1.5 hours, people do that in their cars. Sitting in a comfortable train with entertainment or sleep is hardly comparable.

Next!

Yes, you can. The pressure change would be automatically detected and fibre optic cables would carry the signal to the emergency bulkhead doors at the ends of tunnel sections.

It's actually a relatively tried and tested technology.

Next!

>commuting
>across an ocean
>not using a ballistic trajectory

a-and what if there are other deep sea creatures bigger than whales? l-like g-godzilla come up and t-touch it?

This.
ICBM can get 50 people across the globe in 90 seconds.

This. Let's assume the tube is breached and the train stopped. Without another similar train to get the location of the breach, how long would it take to get to the damaged location to rescue everybody?

If a plane crashes in the middle of the Sahara, the fastest way to get the site of the crash is another plane or a helicopter that flies slower than a plane.

Considering the difference in speeds between this maglev train and any other sea transportation, any accident or attack in the middle of the ocean would be absolutely catastrophic.

An electrical field generated around the tunnel could be tuned to discourage all kinds of sea creatures.

The outside of the sections would be painted with chemicals to repel barnacles and other moluscs.

They can also "get" an entire city!

t. American education system

Infrastructure is too expensive, better off just bringing back the Concorde and improving that.

there would actually be 2 or 3 parralel tunnels for just such an eventuality.

Also there would be service hatches every 30miles along the tunnel to allow access from the sea.

>new york to london in 1.5 hours.

Why in the name of all that's holy does anyone think this would be a GOOD thing?

We need less international travel, not more. Much, MUCH less.

The two continents are moving further apart, how do you counteract that?

Why not build a gigantic bridge?

We don't want more islam.
You don't want more niggers.

The tunnel sections would have rubber gromits sandwiched between them to allow for contraction or expansion.

Eventually after 100 years a new tunnel section would need to placed. This would all be within tolerances.

Why go london? Britain is dead.
Why go to europe at all? Why not make it across the usa.

fuck you

Transporting humans from point A to point B is an offensive waste of resources in a post VR world.

It costs far too much for minimal utility - the need to commute between two of the most expensive and electronically interconnected points on Earth is near to zero.

Even if there were a trillion dollars to go around, it'd be better spent on infrastructural projects that benefit the entire country instead of two supercities, through the rule of shrinking returns.

While it may be possible to close off certain portions of the tunnel in event of leaks and complete failure, the damage would be far too great to repair in any significant time frame, too costly, too easily caused by terrorism or by simple anchors or trawl nets.

The use of a partial vacuum increases issues with regards to passenger safety requirements vis-a-vis air-supply and escape needs - there is no easy exit from a pressurised vehicle, into a vacuum, then back into highly pressurised sea that would not compromise the entire tunnel's general safety or in the event of an emergency.

Also it would heavily impede trawler fishing and the laying of international fibre optic cable networks.

>service tunnels in a vaccuum`````````````````

Because it would be far more expensive and exposed to the elements.

The speed of the train demands a vacuum, so a tunnel is the best option, and the safest and easiest place to put a tunnel would be 100 meters below the surface of the ocean away from the effect of wind and waves.

I don't care if the people coming are white or nonwhite--I don't want them here, period. We don't NEED them here.

We need a moratorium against all immigration into this country, period, full fucking stop. No more migrants, no more tourists, no more immigration, no more refugees, no asylum seekers. Want to see our country? Plenty of videos on Youtube and you can probably find a documentary somewhere to watch, pop some popcorn and spent a night in binging on National Geographic or something, it's cheaper and easier than coming here in person would be. family here? Pay to fly them out to you to visit. Don't like the situation at home? Stay home and change it or go elsewhere. We're full. We're not a welcoming people and we have no place for you.

what if all three fail?

You didn't address the issue of rescue speed. If all the trains are disabled, the only way to get the equipment required for a complicated underwater rescue to the middle of the Atlantic is by boat. By the time it gets there, everybody will have suffocated to death.

why would the us want a direct portal to the islamic capital of europe?

Thermal expansion and lateral differential movement between the segments is a much bigger problem than continental drift which is in the order of 10cm/year.

Linear thermal expansion coefficient for concrete is 14.6e-6 m/K.

For a 1 degree change in temperature across a 4000 mile tunnel - that works out at around 95metres of difference in length.

this can succeed where concorde failed hehe

What if they dump their niggers and spics in londonistan, imagine the shitstorm.

>yes because, since we're cucked, the rest ought to be cucked as well
astounding logic m8

No method of transport is entirely without risk.

The channel tunnel has presented a perfect target for terrorism since it opened but so far no loss of life has occured.

The precaution of passenger security checks and three tunnels for redundancy is sufficient.

Trains would carry an emergency oxygen supply sufficient to allow time for rescue in the worst eventualities.

>The project would provide a trillion dollar boost to the american and british economies through jobs and improving the links between the 2 main financial centers of the world

The thing I hate about all this is how everyone expects the US to fund such projects. If you are willing to spend the equal amount then we can talk. We don't want this to be another NATO where yuropoors never Foot the bill

Yurotrash pay denbts

A highway between Alaska and Russia is much much more likely. because of distance. New York to London would be much better served by a supersonic passenger jet

Flexible sections are more than sufficient to counteract the thermal expansion and continental drift.

>gps networked undersea thrusters
>gps
>undersea

You don't understand how gps works, do you? (hint, radio waves don't propagate through water)

t. former US Navy submarine quartermaster

This is another interesting point, and why would be more feasible. Putin and a few Russians have said they would build the entire roadway from the Pacific to the border of Poland and the US would just have to build the actual bridge

'instead of the wall'

fuck off kike.

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There would be bouys transmitting the signal from the surface.

thats dumb when for 2 years USA GDP you could do it subterranean

You'll be lucky to find a gasket that can accommodate those sorts of loads.

Keep in mind an SFT tunnel has never actually ever been constructed.

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imbecile

If any republicans are worried this might increase the tax, don't worry Trumps got you covered. Since social security/medicare is a burden, they will be gutted to develop this project.

We could only hope SS gets gutted sooner rather than later.

>running in a vacuum at 3000 mph

Say goodbye to your internal organs turning into jelly from the immense G forces.

I'm already paying as much as I can, I can't survive off of tint fish and potatoes (it's pretty good)

it would also take all the world's concrete production for several years

No, fuck off with your niggers.

what if a tanned londoner decides to wear a special backpack?

G forces do not apply in a vacuum. If they did our astronauts would be puddles of goo after a 20,000 mph loop of the earth

this is probably bait

Burger education....

>tfw houston goy
That's sort of average here.

lol
LOL

Too lazy to google what 3000mph are in km/h.... 5000-6000? Dunno.
That would be possible but unpleasant.
Most likely they would go just mach ~1-2 for a short time. Acceleration and deceleration would be required to reduce sudden shifts in g-forces.

It simply mean that no fatshits are allowed.
Which would make SJW angy and all the landwhales would storm a train cart to protest against mucism, patronicism, cisms in general and fatty shaming.

Then they all die because their bodies get crushed under their own weight.

And in the end we can say "See? it wasnt your bones being heavy afterall"

Hahahahahahahaha thats a good joke

badass like having a tunnel from great britain to europe, through wich all the shitskins can invade

Everyone drowns to death
Yay

You can't be this stupid.

I mean, it's possible, we just cannot allow it to continue.

Literally what?

>now rapefugees have a direct connect between islamic Europe to North America

How about no

Only if the British agree to call it the Trump Freedom Tunnel.

>American intelligence

The tunnel would be quite long. They like to travel in waves.
So combining these two things.... just cut the power for the trains so they march on foot and then drown them all.
Wouldnt even need to damage the tunnel for this, with proper planning beforehand.

>a direct connect between islamic Europe to North America
you know there's sea between Uk and Europe right?
Have you ever looked at a map before?
fucking leafs

>held in place by gps networked undersea thrusters
But what about the Russian hackers?

Seems cool, but would be retardedly expensive and a huge target for terrorists.

It would become an immediate target for snack bars.

>lets increase our debt
>o hey, China, sure! We'll let you build this!

Obama pls go

i'l pass on having a land connection to the muslim loving europeans. keep your sand niggers to yourselves. we have enough real niggers and taco niggers to deal with already

>the transatlantic tunnel.
pls no.
no.
just no man
NO

I think you are just making a joke about hours being not metric enough… r-right?

Good luck creating a tunnel full of vacuum that can cope with thermal expansion.
>pro tip you can't with modern materials and construction techniques