Tunnel Under Bering Strait

The traveler's pipe dream — the ability to travel across 3/4ths of the globe, from the bottom of Chile to the top of Canada, down through Russia, into Asia, dipping into Europe, then down the Middle East to the bottom of Africa • is finally within reach:

Russia has unveiled an ambitious plan to build the world’s longest tunnel under the Bering Strait as part of a transport corridor linking Europe and America via Siberia and Alaska.

The 64-mile (103km) tunnel would connect the far east of Russia with Alaska, opening up the prospect of the ultimate rail trip across three quarters of the globe from London to New York. The link would be twice as long as the Channel Tunnel connecting Britain and France.

The $65 billion (£33 billion) mega-project aims to transform trade links between Russia and its former Cold War enemies across some of the world’s most desolate terrain. It would create a high-speed railway line, energy links and a fibreoptic cable network.

The idea of a tunnel under the Bering Strait is a century old. I can only imagine the alternate Cold War that would have resulted if there'd been a route directly to Russia from the US, or the alternate World War III that might have broken out, with the front line being the suboceanic defense of the 65 mile long tunnel.

Russia plans $65bn tunnel to America [Times Online] (Picture? Awesome Google Image Result, but otherwise totally inappropriate. What 'Dark Tunnel' could the homosexual spy possibly be referring to?)