The Insane Plan to Build a Europe to Africa Tunnel

[redhidinghood]

Even if the tunnel/bridge was feasible, you wouldn't be connecting europe and africa; you would be connecting europe and Northe Africa. People underestimate the Sahara desert. Its pretty much a huge ocean dividing the African continent in 2.

[meneither]

0:49 it didn't affect history that much, the Mediterranean is easy to cross, the Sahara is a bigger hurdle.

[DemonzSlayer]

Reallifelore: This is why this continent is often names 'World Island'

I have never heard of that in my life

[SwissMedi]

Fun fact: The bridge of Messina became a meme in Sicily

[airwicku]

There's a train from Rome to Sicily, it's just that the train itself is loaded onto a ferry

[cameosix]

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[sskuk]

Who would win:
• one of earths biggest infrastructure projects connecting two entire continents
• one little earthquake

[peterroberts]

Most trade is done through sea travel so it's not that big of a deal

[deptusmechanikus]

I have literally never in my life heard it called AfroEurAsia or world island. Growing up we were told that Eurasia is a single continent, because there's no distinct geographical boarder between them, but Africa is only connected to Eurasia through a narrow strip of land with a channel through it, just like central America with Panama channel, so it is a separate continent

[arnoldbuskftw]

The most shocking thing in this video, is the fact that Italy has not yet built a bridge connecting Sicily

[finnishdoomguy]

*Doesn't hear Skillshare in the start of the video*

"impossible."

[HisShadow]

Seems like a massive amount of financial investment for no real benefit. Until Africa become a larger portion of the economy it isn't a sound investment.

[GamesCooky]

The real question is: "Who would want to pay for something like this?"
It's probably cheaper for that country to just export by ship.
Also i'm pretty sure this would make illegal immigration a bigger problem than it already is.

[AlexHand]

I feel like the last thing Europe wants right now is an easier way to get there from North Africa.

[almerindaromeira]

If the refugee crisis taught me something is that most of Europe whishes that the Mediterranean was bigger

[Noobsaibot]

0:12 - North and South America are physically connected too. Just impassable by vehicles at this time. Be interested to see some theories to get over the Darien gap. Capurganá in colombia is only 50km across water to Playa Bobalito (also Colombia). Perhaps Panama can slice a road over to Capurganá from Santa Fé? There's another video :)

[georgs.]

If they used brilliant, the bridge would have been built.

[chrisryedk]

It would be a huge waste of money to build something like that, bridge or tunnel. There's simply no economic incentive to do so as seen from the European perspective. It would also further escalate the problems of migrants fleeing the African continent

[FingeringThings]

Europe: *Thinks about going to Africa again*

Africa: Oh no

[otverbruggen]

Next video: the insane plan to drain the Mediterranean with Toyota Corollas