How about a bridge between Turkey and Hungary?
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That's just called a fork.
If you see a fork in the road...
By god you’ve just solved world hunger!
Is this what the tunnel jews were working on?
Connecting New York and York?
Whoa, this might be bigger than all of us.
Nope, connecting Zeeland, Netherlands with New Zealand.
As a Georgian, I approve of this project.
I like how it is completely ambiguous to which Georgian you are.
But I like to think you are a time traveler from Britain in the 1700s.
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Because the world cannot allow Georgia Prime to be reconciled. They would be to powerful.
We split them for a reason.
We can get Elon to dig it.
I don’t think we can. He would use it for financial speculation, ~~fire~~ lay off half of the workers, build a barely useful prototype that cannot withstand a baseball, and charge people for blue marks that they’d use while attempting to travel in the tunnel. Elon’s a rich kid that has wasted his father’s emerald mine money. https://stuyspec.com/article/elon-musk-is-hopelessly-incompetent
Why build a tunnel when you could just rename a place somewhere closer and pave a road?
That solution is Russian af
Because it is less fun
Wouldn't want to drag the European Georgia back 200 years 😂
While we’re at it, let’s connect the two Parises. Or the three—they do call Atlanta the Paris of the south (is that Atlanta? Seems…wrong. I’ve been to Atlanta. And Paris. I see no resemblance.)
Two Paris's? I'm sure they are more than 2.
Fault lines mostly. And Lava.
They clearly do not understand the magmatude of such a project.
It would get so hot that you'd "pop pop!"
Pop what?! What are they trying to to say?!
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Anyone have an idea how long that is?
4.7 cm
So...huge?
Damn. I thought I could get the job done, but the requirements are the double to what I have.
At least as long as a banana
10,152 Km between Atlanta and Tbilisi, and ChatGPT gave the pseudocode below as an explanation, which I didn't double check before making this comment!
# Coordinates for Atlanta, Georgia, USA
atlanta_coords = (33.7490, -84.3880)
# Coordinates for Tbilisi, Georgia (country)
tbilisi_coords = (41.7151, 44.8271)
# Calculate the straight line distance through the Earth
geopy.distance.great_circle(atlanta_coords, tbilisi_coords).km```That's wrong, it calculates the surface distance not the distance through the earth, while claiming otherwise. From the geopy.distance.great_circle documentation:
Use spherical geometry to calculate the surface distance between points.
This would be a correct calculation, using the formula for the chord length from here:
from math import *
# Coordinates for Atlanta, West Georgia
atlanta_coords = (33.7490, -84.3880)
# Coordinates for Tbilisi, Georgia
tbilisi_coords = (41.7151, 44.8271)
# Convert from degrees to radians
phi = (radians(atlanta_coords[0]), radians(tbilisi_coords[0]))
lambd = (radians(atlanta_coords[1]), radians(tbilisi_coords[1]))
# Spherical law of cosines
central_angle = acos(sin(phi[0]) * sin(phi[1]) + cos(phi[0]) * cos(phi[1]) * cos(lambd[1] - lambd[0]))
chord_length = 2 * sin(central_angle/2)
earth_radius = 6335.439 #km
print(f"Tunnel length: {chord_length * earth_radius:.3f}km")
A straight tunnel from Atlanta to Tbilisi would be 9060.898km long.
Depends what the great circle function does. But chances are it gives you the arc length between the two points, which would give you the shortest distsnce between them on the surface of the earth.
If you wanted the distance through the earth you would need to work put the central angle of that arc, then use that to work out the remaining edge of the triangle formed between the two cities and the centre of the earth.
I believe it would be a 45 (actually 42) min journey under gravity power only?
(Assuming frictionless travel in a vacuum...)
At first I read Gravy Train and I was excited.. But then I saw Gravity... but I still want the Gravy.
I mean, you could fill it with gravy, then it would be a gravity gravy train 😆
United Lands Of Georgias! ULG! #georgiaSonmymind
Georgia phase tunneling
I think the better question is why did Russia allow the US State of Georgia to annex land in that area? Did no one think about the transportation issue before hand!?!
Welcome to Meta-Georgia
It goes all the way back to the 20th century nut and peach export conspiracy between the state of MAGAty Taylor Greene and the righteous nation of Georgia. MTG land was worried about having an even larger nut population if these exports were exchanged.
As someone from twenty minutes south of MTGs district I'd like to point out that nearly every district (minus the one north) touching hers is firmly blue and she only gets elected because every rich and rural town in the area has been gerrymandered to fuck into one district. Certain parts of Georgia are deep red but the only reason she gets elected is fucked up maps.
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That's a 2d picture. You only dug a ditch, at best.
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