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The Transatlantic Tunnel

Discussion in 'Travel Forum' started by Salty, Mar 8, 2018.

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  1. David Kent

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    Hm. Some say Americans don't speak English. My wife says, they are only colonials.
     
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    Colonials that whooped Lord Cornwallis, who have better bacon, and a president with a killer comb-over.
     
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    True! We actually speak American -
     
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    Still only colonials and better bacon? I doubt it.
     
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    How do you think we have remained a republic for nearly 242 years? Better bacon!
     
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    And who serves beans for breakfast? My goodness, man! Going through the day as a methane factory is no way to live.
     
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    You have a good point. Just look at Canada, their bacon is just ham and look at the direction they're going in.
    ;)
     
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    And who does serve beans for breakfast?

    I think there was a C&W song that said something like, "I'm eating bacon and beans every day, I'd just as soon be eating prairie hay." which shows how good your bacon is. (and beans)
     
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    Baked beans are part of the Full English. However I always pass them up (along with the fried tomato) and ask for extra mushrooms instead
     
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    I prefer pizza to beans for breakfast. As far as prairie hay being better, the Puritans' servants in Massachusetts complained because they had to eat lobster so often.

    As to the OP: This is an intriguing idea. I don't think anyone would want to spent more than a day in a tunnel, but Elon Musk's Hyperloop idea (vehicles traveling at 700 mph, roughly 1100 kmph) would cut it to a few hours. That would put it on par with the late Concorde. However, a tunnel would be more efficient because it could provide an endless stream of passenger and freight traffic (allowing competition with slow sea transportation), reducing the cost significantly.

    The technical and cost problems have yet to be solved, but there seems to be no reason they can't. Of course, by then teleportation may have made such a tunnel obsolete.
     
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    I have only had a full English once, and that was on a ferry to France. With our ticket we got one breakfast plus one free. It had hash browns which I don't think are English. I don't know who invented them, but they needn't have bothered.
     
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