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Engineering. As good as it gets, folks.

Or is it?


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This is Professor T.Y. Lin's design, the foremost bridge-building expert in the world.

Here's an OverView.

Big challenges. Diminished-returns, what with the weight of the structure ... just to hold up a MAXIMUM TRUCK WEIGHT of a few tons.

You see, you can only have a concentrated mass under a certain WEIGHT LIMIT on a bridge. ANY BRIDGE. Any roadbed, too.

Then, there's wind.
Current.
Collissions with ships against the 3Towers.

Projected cost: $15Billion. That's all. Approx. 10-years to build.

Of course, by the time they make yet ANOTHER appointment to TALK about TALKING about it, the cost triples ... quadruples ... quintuples ... before their next meeting to TALK about TALKING about ...

... talking. :roll:

Meanwhile, some 'genius experts' want to do a 'BIG DIG' ... :roll:
-- that's right -- a tunnel -- like what is under the English Channel, with massive trains carrying cars, because there is no way to vent the car's exhaust, so the massive-trains are electric, consuming vast amounts of power.
-- which would cost 20x more
-- take 20x's longer
-- and during a power-outtage, people suffocate and possibly drown, because tunnels leak. ALL TUNNELS LEAK and have pumps running constantly to keep them dry.
-- and don't forget all the NONSTOP TALKING ABOUT TALKING! :roll:

What's the solution? Cables disintegrate unless constantly PAINTED ... over and over and over and over. NONSTOP PAINTING on ALL BRIDGES. The 'best of the best of the best' bridge cabling, if NOT painted, would disintegrate in a decade and the bridge would collapse.

See this:
It's a NearSpace gas-bag, holding 2,000 pounds about 30-miles above the surface of the planet -- where there is NO WEATHER.

Now look at this:

That's a 100-ft diameter balloon that stayed in NearSpace, above weather, for 8 YEARS.

That's right ... EIGHT YEARS ALOFT. From 1960 to nearly 1969!

Remember 'diminishing returns'? You see, with massive bridges, you have to hold up a bridge-deck that is so massive, you are essentially constructing to hold up construction.

FORGET THE DECK. Okay?

That design, although if built we'd learn alot, is even MORE SPECULATIVE than what I am proposing RIGHT HERE.

ATHENS TO CAIRO.

That's right. Sound familiar? Perhaps, if you're about 28,000 years old. ;)

We could EASILY do the same over the Straight of Gilbralter, too.

The point is, SMALLER ... no sea-bed towers AT ALL. You send a 'shuttle' acrossed, with a few cars or trucks at a time, one after another, as rapidly as an amusement park roller-coaster, the 'suspension' provided from ABOVE.

SIMPLE. Cost alot LESS, too.

Now, what about those cables? They propose a fiberglass bridge-deck and steel cables. Well, as I've said MANY TIMES, the strongest substances on earth are NATURAL mixed with epoxies -- composite-fibers, that is -- but with natural 'stuff' instead of a concoction of very expensive to produce 'stuff.'

Terrorist attacks? What about it? EVEN IF IT HAPPENED, there would be far too many gas-bags to 'take out.' Let's not talk about 'war scenarios' because in war, EVERYTHING is 'demolishable.'

So, no painting -- no massive decks -- no sea-floor anomolies and seismology to worry about -- wind is irrelevent -- and the cost is fractional.

We are NOT talking about super-highways with billions of cars an hour!

We're talking about something that could be accomplished in a YEAR ... not decades ... could be started NOW ... not after thirty years of talking about talking about TALKING.

Eventually, those 'lofting-systems' in NearSpace can attach to a Tuned Mass Damper in space ... keeping the cabling-system TAUGHT, thereby eliminating the need of gas bags.

SIMPLE. Cheap, too.