What If We Could Build Bridges Between Continents?

Bridges have brought people together for thousands of years. They've challenged us as engineers, created trade routes between countries, and have allowed us to conquer some of Earth's most difficult landscapes, such as mountains, ravines, rivers and lakes. But what about oceans? Could we build bridges between continents? Where would we build them? How would they work?

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[itzempatheticschannelmega_]

2020: What if we build bridges between continents
3020: What if we build bridges between planet's

[gigajoker]

Earthquake and tsunami: im about to end this bridge whole career

[ValveMiri]

Imagine if your car broke down on the bridge and you was forced to walk.

[dolangdl]

Please do a “what if mirrors** didn’t exist”

**or anything that shows reflection


[edit because i think i should rephrase what i meant]

“What if: there was no such thing as a ‘reflection’?”
Or
“What if: you can’t see your own reflection”

(idk i just had a weird thought of what if there was never a way to know what my face looked like lol)

[patriotenfield]

Well I used to have a dream of building a bridge between Earth and Moon when I was a kid

[Jimmy_Asawa]

"Bridges have brought people together for thousands of years."

Yes, by using only one porter.

[sabriB]

Coronavirus : 👀

What If : "bRiDgEs bEtWeEn CoNtInEnTs"

Coronavirus : Noice 😂😏👏🏽💯💅🏽

[KRONOS-yhcd]

2020: building bridges between two continents.
3020: building bridges between two planets.
4020: building bridges between two solar systems.
5020: building bridges between two galaxies.

[abdulhaq]

"From Sydney to Singapore?"


New Guinea, East Timor & Indonesia : am i a joke to you?

[jimredo]

The continents are all moving, how would you prevent the bridges from constantly cracking apart?

[jirehemanuel]

1:51
From Sydney to Singapore

Indonesia : Am i a joke to you?

[SciFactsYT]

Completely random fact: Across the world, cheese is the food that’s most likely to be stolen. 🧀

[InfinityGaming]

Nobody:

Literally nobody at all:

Not even area 51:

That one thirsty kid: FIRST

[kiralochanel]

what-if: let's build bridges between continents
Turkey: hold my ayran *builds 3 bridges between Europe and Asia*

[timhutchinson]

3:24 I'm sorry, what were we talking about again??

[thomaschenlin]

"where would we build the bridge: sydney to singapore?"
"Even build chain bridge from northen australia through VARIOUS ISLAND, to singapore" 5:25

Indonesia: "ok bye."

[VijaySharma-lkmb]

3:25 the best stats in the whole video👌👌

[libansheikh]

There is no point to this vid. The continents are moving over thousands of years and it will break the bridge as the continents force will be way to strong

[anuragtumane]

Building bridges across continents would be an ambitious move, however the cost and resources involved would be extremely high.

[moonknight]

What if we never got the industrial revolution?