What if there was an EARTH METRO RAIL? (Geography Now!)

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[TheNougathorn]

falling asleep on that metro could cause serious problems

[samyrandome]

"Man I'm so excited I'm finally visiting Florida"
*falls asleep*
"Welcome to Jerusalem, your fee is of 10.000 dollars."

[radughita]

Imagine missing your stop and ending up in Africa

[tracksidefilms]

This train are all stationed in one nation...



The imagi-nation



Sorry...

[cottonprint]

Earthquake: Im gonna ruin this worlds career

[Timerpoint]

One thing to destroy the whole idea;

Tectonic plate movements.

[Austin.]

The tectonic plates are always moving so as time goes on the rails would fall in.

[AS-mwpw]

They could probably make a European one

[TomKellyXY]

Japanese Shinkansen (bullet trains) certainly rival domestic air travel already. In many cases, it is faster than flying if you factor in the additional time to transfer to the airport, with check-in and security procedures. Travelling by train is convenient, you don't need to book a specific departure time, there is no limit on luggage weight, and you arrive in the centre of your destination city. They don't come cheap though and tickets can be more expensive than budget airlines.

Shinkansen rail lines can go between islands, such as between Kyushu and Honshu and the newly opened Hokkaido line (March last year). However, these are very expensive to build and can only be done where passenger demand is high. High speed rail uses a different gauge railways and need an entirely separate new tunnel as it cannot pass through the same tunnel as regular trains. They're also experiencing the issues with noise, their speed is restricted in urban areas due to noise (this is also why the Concorde flew over the ocean).

So could high-speed be built between countries? Well, yeah if there are land borders and good diplomatic relations, China is building a bunch right now with the "One Belt One Road" modern day Silk Road ambitions. Over long stretches of ocean? Nope, not any time soon if the immense undertaking of the Seikan tunnel to Hokkaido is anything to go by (which took over 17 years to build under 23.3km of ocean floor).

[crystaleght]

just ignore the fact that tectonic plates won't play a role in this and make all of this completely impossible

[GeographyNow]

Just a little bonus before the Indonesia episode tomorrow! Super important announcements at the end especially for you STUDENTS.... Stay tuned!

UPDATE: WHOA I LITERALLY did not even notice the Canada Image had Alaska in it at 6:45 LOL BAD PICTURE ! Oh well video is already up I can't take it out.

[lxt]

1:52 train to busan


edit: 1 yr later so much likes

[APH]

His pronounciation of that Spanish/Portuguese island/archipelago was insanely awesome.

[criskity]

Taiwan wouldn't want Chinese using Taiwan as a stepping stone to Japan and Korea.

[pivotcat]

Hey, if you want more fillers between episodes or April fools ones, why not cover fictional geography, like the nine regions of Westeros, Tamriel, the world of Lord of the rings, ect.
Would be pretty cool to watch.

[andrewthummel]

imagine if I missed my intercontinental stop.

[jacoblombardo]

If there was a world metro system? I would never have to beg and talk my dad into going to Rome.

[janwald]

Tectonic plates: *Am I joke to y'all??!*

[NainaSaheli]

I do love to watch these "What if..." videos and imagine how our Earth could look like in the future or alternative history... Fascinating!

[palmtree]

I wonder if these videos are to avoid making the Israel episode? (I'm kidding I love this stuff)