Pffft... Texas is way closer to Alaska.
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Gulf of Hawaii!!!!!
BUILD THE BRIDGE
BUILD THE BRIDGE
BUILD THE BRIDGE
Back when I lived in alaska they had a proposal to build a bridge across the water from the most densely populated part of the state to open unused land. It was shot down as the “bridge to nowhere” in a smear campaign.
I completely understand not wanting to spend hundreds of millions of federal dollars on a small town... But now that the GOP is liquidating our taxes to enrich the billionaires, I feel like any expenditure that benefits the paupers in any way is a sound investment... Also, that ferry has fucked me a few times. A bridge would be so cool.
A bridge from New Mexico to Alaska!? They'll do anything to ignore the genocide!
And here I thought the Alaska-Siberia Bridge would be the first to be rebuilt.
They built a land bridge. They even named it. Canada.
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Mrgoomoos is alreading bring the fentanyl. A little goes a long way.
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.
I have to mail my glovebox gun to myself when I drive through Canada because they hate freedom.
In Canada's defense, that is in significant part, handguns. If you keep a long gun with you, as long as it doesn't hit their 10,000 J (7375 ft-lbs) muzzle energy limit
and if it's in your glovebox, I assume that whatever you have isn't doing that
and doesn't hit their specific restrictions on upper receivers, you're probably okay.
A NATO 5.56 mm rifle round looks like it has a muzzle energy of about 1.8 kJ.
That'd let you carry an elephant gun.
If you want a semi-auto rifle...goes looking
Looks like they exist in 500 Auto Max.
https://gunsamerica.com/digest/big-horn-armory-ar500/
I imagine that one of those would be okay. Looks like the ammunition is sold in Canada.
EDIT: If you want something that you can shoot one-handed, maybe a short bullpup rifle with a barrel of at least 470mm (~18.5 in), which is apparently their "handgun"/"not-handgun" divider.
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.
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?
A suspended bridge can be really flexible. Or make it out of ropes, like in the Indiana Jones movies.
Don’t forget to build one to Hawaii too. That’s where the delicious pizzas grow, right?
And why didn't they just call it the Gulf of Hawaii? That would've been a lot less controversial.
We tried. Canada kept getting in the way.
I understand that this is just a shitpost, but the scaling here is crazy 😆 Alaska is more than twice the size of Texas
Now that you mention it, the projection is unusual. Is this the map they use in Texas to make it look bigger?
Because there’s a country between the Mainland and Alaska. Any bridge would need to be negotiated with Mexico.
I'd pay to see someone asking random americans in the streets about this
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.
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.
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.
Ultimately the plan of course backfired, Mexico was fine chilling inside Alaska (Alaskans and Mexicans had even taken to calling it "Mexicalaska") and this upset the rest of the US and caused riots all over the country for weeks... and unfortunately for architects of the Alaska Ambush, Alaska was not big enough to dilute the corrosive bigotry of Texas in order for Alaska to keep it down permanently.
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.
Not with that attitude! What has become of us? We used to do big things like put monkeys on the Empire State Building.
I'm glad I checked the comments because I was going to point out the same hypothetical issue lol
I was really hoping for this level of engineering pedantry and sensibility, thank you.
Yes.
But unrelated to this. Which is silly; just do a ferry, dumkopf.
Alaska is gonna become Canada’s 11th province. So a bridge ain’t happening.
It appears to my eye that the red line goes from around Arena NM to ~Ciudad Cuauhtemoc Mexico.
That's about 235 miles.
The current longest bridge is Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge in China which is 102 miles, but the majority of that is over land.
However, since the map put Alaska in the middle of Mexico.....
We TOTALLY could.
Buncha crackheads live there and we don't want to provide shelter to bridge trolls
I wonder what it would cost, assuming it was possible, to build a bridge to Hawaii.
That's why the US wants access to the arctic for development ... they want the oil ... and a bridge to Texas
Because America doesn't have enough money to build the bridge they are saving it to get 6 trillion luxury cars and houses /s
Gulf of Alaska
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