Of course, a ton of the rest of the world's ecology would get screwed up, but so what?

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"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Is the Texas State Legislature aware that the annual cost to replace the stolen road signs is going to bankrupt the project?

Yeah, but we could go catfishing in Albuquerque!

So far as Texans are concerned, if you need a road sign to know where you are, you shouldn't be there.

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A Bering Strait Bridge is a better idea.

I'm a big road history buff...but this sounds vaguely ludicrous. I thought I saw something like this lampooned before and after looking around I found it again....

U.S. protests Mexi-Canadian Overpass

Hardball!

You can't outrun, the strongarm of the law.

- Doodler murderizing Kenny Rogers.

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yeah, angering the second largest congresional delegation is always a good idea. (well I think its second)

What the heck is with all the zombie threads the last few weeks. its not even october

What's a zombie thread?

"But nobody seems to want to live in urban areas--thus the suburbs. The more you tax the city center--the more people leave, and the more the city runs down. Birmingham is a horrible example. Here in Alabama, some fools are trying to build a domed stadium, and have a light rail system that I promise you no one will use."

I live in the B'ham Area.....The local Politcos are suffering from some kind of strange psychosis, they are foaming at the mouth to make this stadium, while the rest of the problems are ignored.....I do not know exactly what the cause might be, but this particular bit of excess is the central axis and "mystic mainspring" of the local politcos...

I once went to a meeting concerning the former main line of the ACL RR to Atlanta, and using it to run high speed between BHM and ATL....Those who wielded power at the time were not interested....."What's wrong with I-20???" etc....Now they have found religion and want to use the rail solution, about 50 years too late, IMHO...

Dale in Ala

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I've been aware of it for some time now. It is big gov. and bad news from the word go. They talk about having overpasses and cross overs only every 20 miles - turning a round trip to the neigbor across the highway into a half hour or more ordeal, confiscating land in the hundreds of thousands of acres. And ulitmately, it's consolidating travel infrastructure into a small chokepoint capable of easily being destroyed or held by a small force.

It's a 100 billion $ boondoggle with serious amounts of compaign contributions. It's done in a time when land transportation costs are rising to become far less efficient than sea transportation.

Perry, a former democrat who became a republican around the time the tide was turning against the dems, has been quite the dissappointment inside the repub party. After doing a halfway decent job as ag secretary, his venture into the gov. seat has resulted in many things disliked by both dems and repubs.

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The Leif Ericson Cruiser

We would be better off if the trains were of the air-cusion type anyhow.

Looks like it may happen.

http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story...-8712739c.html

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I'd rather it be a Bering Strait Bridge.

Legs!

re the Bering Sea transit (bridge/tunnel).. the one thing I've never seen addressed in any study is plate tectonics. All other engineering matters aside, as I recall, such a transit would be crossing from one plate to another - and there IS relative motion involved. Sure, it's generally slow and fairly predictable, but it seems to me it would be devilishly difficult to design around.

Sam - I hope that's not serious suggestion - that's what they said about the Colorado River (more or less). Now, Colorado farmers effectively can't use that river, most urban communities in Colorado have water restrictions - yet people who chose to live in a desert (for all intents and purposes) are free to use as much of that water as they wish - for pretty much anything they wish.

And a huge portion of the water is piped over the mountains to California, to the point where (I could be wrong) the river never makes it to the ocean at all. Everything downstream is essentially a complete waste (but no, that matters not - it's Mexico)

If you divert sigificant water from any source, there WILL be an adverse affect downstream. Without looking up any population figures, I'd guess that 50 million is just about the number of people affected by the Mississippi - south of Memphis.

Intersting. Was listening to NPR the other day and they did a story about the remaining members of the Branch Davidians. According to them, this Trans Texas corrider will be directing crossing their old Mount Caramel site near Waco and they are convinced it's all part of some sinister plot to bury any memory of the events there. Yeah. Like anyone is really ever gonna forget.

Naw, they're wrong (as usual).

The strategic component of the corridor is to move, as quickly and efficiently as possible, the immigrants to Canada.

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Immigrants or partners?

right, adding 10% to our economy and adding 400% to our welfare rolls will make us a stronger economy.

I hope that tunnel gets built.

Here they come...

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and I bet someone one stands to make that second half of the cost.

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I'm of like mind. Remember the laser disc? It was the highest technology available. Nothing could top it, and on the horizon was nothing to even compete.

Laser discs lasted about 6 months while every high school in the country bought enough to pay off the research. After those few months cds became popular and DVDs were starting to break out.


LASER DISCS ARE THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE!!!

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