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That I could dig to China
Technically you could. It would be a marvel of engineering and would cost billions of dollars, and you couldn’t go through the center of the Earth, but technically it is possible
Do we have the technology to do that considering the increasing heat, gravity, and magnetic force as one goes deeper? I feel like anything we could do would involve lots of nukes that would basically destroy the planet in the process.
Nobody said how deep the runnel has to be. Could be just below common tunnel depth.
There’s a reason we don’t have a tunnel between North America and Europe. Don’t think we’re there yet.
A Bering Strait tunnel/ bridge network has been proposed, and it wouldn’t cost too much for the US to build. Only a few billion dollars, which Congress can sneeze and accidentally spend that much. The real issue is that connecting The US and Russia with the interstate highway system has political problems that seem to be insurmountable at the current time.
I personally would support the plan. That would allow the US to deploy HIMARS systems to the Ukrainian forward fronts in Siberia and Chukotka.
Edit: if such a highway network were to be completed, it would theoretically be possible to drive/ take trains to get from anywhere in North America to anywhere in Europe, Africa, and Continental Asia. Connecting South America, and Australia would be the challenges at that point.
A few billion? Vancouver BC is spending that on an new sewage treatment plant.
How could a tunnel like this be built and functional for a few billion? Perhaps hundreds of billions… maybe.
You’ve got me there!
Old people were always old
There was a place by the beach call Helenback.
My siblings and I in the car: Where are we going?
Mum (shouting): Hell and back!
I was an adult before I realised it had another name.
When I was very young, my dad told me we were going to Miami. I thought he said “my Ami”, which I assumed was a word for some kind of relative, like Auntie, Granny, etc.
I thought that dogs were boys and cats were girls. No idea why.
Its funny, my niece made it to like 8 thinking that aunts were adults and uncles were kids. She had one young uncle, and me. Called me “Auntie Phanto.” I still haven’t lived it down.
Troy is that you?
Dogs = boys due to energetic, clumsy and loud.
Cats = girls due to classy, well-behaved and quiet.
I’d guess it would be a trend similar to saying girls play with dolls and boys play with action figures.
classy, well-behaved and quiet
Except when they decide not to be, of course. Or when they’re in heat.
my niece made it to like 8 thinking that aunts were adults and uncles were kids
This fits well with the accidental mild misandry in Catholic school when we learned about differences between men and women. One of the books we had to read said something like “men consistently outperform their female counterparts at making almost miraculously stupid decisions”
I believed that peas were the pupa of something similar to a butterfly or a moth. I refused to eat peas for years because I felt so bad eating little baby critters. I think my aunt might’ve “encouraged” me to think that.
They are suspiciously similar in color and conceptually to Metapod the Pokémon
Had to watch a YouTube video about Metapod to know what you were talking about. I don’t think Pokemon existed when I was a kid but Metapod isn’t a million miles away from what I imagined.
The big stereo speakers in my living room contained tiny orchestras
When I was six years old or so, my sister called me a “cosweb” and told me it was the worst thing ever. I completely believed her for a long time.
Only a cosweb would think it’s not real.
Having legit flashbacks right now…
That the Gulf War was in the Gulf of Mexico. It was the only one I knew!
That’s adorable, and I now wanna know if you’re referring to 1993 or 2001
By 01 I knew better!
See! Not all Americans are totally ignorant about geography! Just most of us!
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I was a child! I promise! As an adult I know there are many gulfs! Probably! Somewhere! XD
Oh I get it. I really didn’t get why The Great Lakes weren’t called Seas. I happened to have a globe in the hallway because my parents house has more bookshelves than walls.
They really oughta be called seas, those fuckers are huuuuge. Childhood me woulda agreed with you. Maybe. We did live next to the Atlantic Ocean, but I think if the argument was “Can’t see the other side” me would have accepted this as what an ocean or sea should be.
That was my argument back then. Someone eventually explained to me that lakes are freshwater and seas are saltwater, so that made that make sense.
That my parents knew what they were doing, made good choices, and were reasonable people.
No, no, … and no.
That I’d grow up to eat candy, collect baseball cards, play video games, and read comic books.
No (type II diabetes runs in my family), no (wtf is a baseball card anyway), no (video games were replaced with homework permanently), and — well, actually — yes.
I love a good comic book, graphic novel, and/or animated series.
Yeah, I’m starting to ween my son off of video games. Everything that isn’t video games is “boring” for the mere fact it’s not a video game.
I’m in my 50s and playing plenty of videogames… There’s a path forward
Does the work you do, if you still work for a living, follow you home? And, if you have children, are any of them still in need of your assistance for feeding, bathing, and/or toileting?
I’m really looking forward to being in my mid-50s. My youngest will be approaching 10. By then, I should be able to reintroduce video games to my life at that point.
My work never ends and always demands more. I’ve just learned to shut it off and ignore it nights and weekends unless I have an ever critical deadline. Yes my child is an early tween and pretty self sufficient…that and a tough opponent in Super SmashBros. I’m in a pretty happy place
That all large salty bodies of water were called “the mediterranean sea.”
I had real trouble understanding why “The Great Lakes,” weren’t called The American Seas until I found out that Seas were large salt water bodies that aren’t large enough to qualify as Oceans. Some more arbitrary bullshit as far as I was concerned.
And I mean The Superior Sea, The Huron Sea, The Michigan Sea, The Erie Sea, and The Ontario Sea.
That enough hot water bath could work just as well as sunbathing for getting a tan. Hey, both things can burn your skin, it’s perfectly logical!
The crust on bread had more nutrients than the center. My dad didn’t want to cut my crusts off lol.
My uncle always swapped the words breast and best so my cousin mixes them up sometimes to this day. He said ‘breast friend’ at his brother’s wedding
The crust doesn’t, but for the love of all that is good and scientific, stop peeling your veggies people! Carrots and potatoes especially. Almost all the nutritional value is in the skin of those two, and probably most other, other than peanuts, legumes.
Just remember to thoroughly wash the skin, and cut out any “eyes” on the potatoes or potential small scale rotting. Pesticides aren’t something that your gut wants anything to do with.
Almost all the nutritional value is in the skin
Uhhhh, you might want to look that one up. For some veg, there is more fibre in the skin, but that’s about it.
I’m a chef that has studied nutrition as much as I can, for green and leafy veggies that is absolutely true, but those aren’t the ones that people normally skin.
The legumes that I specifically pointed out have a ton of vitamins that concentrate in the skin specifically, and those are the “vegetables” that the layman has a tendency to skin. The center is mostly starch and sugar.
Right. Carrots and potatoes are legumes now are they? The commenter replied to you summarised it for you, and you don’t know as much as you think you do.
My mom told me that Dad went to work to make money, and I actually expected to see money making machines when I visited him at the office.
I imagined work as a building with a big neon sign out front that said “work”.
Plot twist: OPs father actually works at the United States Mint (but in an office job)
Unfortunately, he worked in a school district setting the routes busses take.
Oh dear. I hope for his sake that he understood polynomial expressions, otherwise he was constantly being berated for “his stupid decisions,” by parents that also didn’t have any data to back them up.
That my family cared about me and supported me.
There absolutely can, and in many cases should, be a difference between your blood family, and your adult family.
The former was chosen for you. The latter should only be chosen by you. I can easily tell you that excising certain siblings, aunts and uncles, and a specific cousin, from my life, my life has far less stress than it used to in my 20s. Now that I tell people that “this is my boundary, try to cross it at your own peril,” and actually hold the line, I have far more family than what I was born into.
Traffic lights were hand operated.
The small town where I grew up had one pedestrian traffic light for crossing the main road. There was a small brick shed next to that traffic light with no windows and a little door. When I was little I was convinced that was an operation’s center where someone worked to turn the lights red or green.
In reality it was a power substation for the neighborhood, but I was seriously convinced that behind that door was a man looking at a TV screen and operating the traffic light at the right moment.
When we went to a larger town nearby, where there were traffic lights without a convenient mysterious building nearby, I told myself that the traffic light people were most likely working under ground, peeping through the drains.I… was good at making up answers for myself instead of just asking my parents.
City Planner: Hey, I’m just reviewing the plans for the traffic light control shed and that there’s no way for the guy inside to see what the traffic’s doing outside.
Architect, who forgot that windows exist: Err… that’s for … well… it’s to ensure the safety of the operator during road rage incidents … They’ll be using CCTV to watch everything. Of course I know about windows haha…
