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Re: 1958 Crisis in education

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From: Kerr-MuddJohn
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2018 20:17
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On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 06:21:58 GMT, Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:

> On Wednesday, July 18, 2018 at 9:19:28 AM UTC-6, JimP wrote:
> 
>> The Bering Straight Bridge is brought up from time to time about
>> connecting North America with Asia.
> 
>> The problem is the ice pressure as the ice exits the Arctic Ocean and
>> heads into the Bering Sea. The bridge supports would crumble.
> 
> I don't really see the point in even *attempting* to address the
> technical challenges of a Bering Strait bridge, unless the political
> situation changes so that we have a reliably friendly nation across
> it. 
> 
> Of course, if a Bering Strait bridge is impractical, so much more so
> would be bridges going from Quebec to Baffin Island and thence to
> Greenland and thence, perhaps connecting a few more dots of land on
> the way, to France and the continent of Europe. Now, *that* would
> unite most of the world's industrialized democracies!
> 
> John Savard
> 

Pure fantasy; what's needed is a Trans-Atlantic Tunnel. Hurrah!

-- 
Bah, and indeed, Humbug.
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