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What IF We Dug a Tunnel Through Continents

Imagine what it would like be if you could wake up in your new yourk city appartment at 7:00 am, and make it to your job in London, England by 9:30 in the morning. That would be a possibility if we dug tunnels between continents. Just try not to get sick. Believe it or not, something like this is possible.

But, how do we make a tunnel like this? And how much would it cost?
Here's what would happen if we dug tunnels through continents!
There is a tunnel like this. It's called the Channel tunnel or a Chunnel. And in just about 35 minutes, you can drive from england to France. Without it, you'd have to take either a ferry or a plane. Compared to what we'd be building, the Chunnel is tiny just over 50 km. Our Tunnel would be over 5500 km, if we wanted to go from New York to London.
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So how would we make our tunnel?

Let's use the Channel Tunnel as an example of what our tube might look like, to give us some context. The Channel Tunnel took six years to build, and it also took decades of planning before that. As for the price? If we were to build another Chunnel today, it would cost a whopping 13$ billion. Okay now multiply these numbers by 100, as that's how much bigger our tunnel would be, and you get the idea. This thing would take incredibly long time, and would cost a ridiculous amount of money. But lets assume we've got all this covered, and we have unlimited amount of money. If we tried to avoid all the water and went underneath the seafloor, we'd have to bore through the ground from England all the way to America. This would take an incredibly long time. And there's always the possibilty that the tunnel we built more that 5,000 metres (16,404 ft) underwater would cave in from the ocean pressure. Instead the best way to make the tunnel might be like this.

Tunnel

You would make one massively long, 5,500 km tube and put it over the ocean.

Then, using anchors, you would drag the tube down about 45 metres.
Constructio using anchors
You  would then secure the tube using wires tied to the ocean's floor. Okay now that we have our tunnel, what do we fill it with? Will we drive through it? We'll be taking a train. That might sound old- school than using a car, but this won't be just a regular train. To travel through our tube so quickly, we'd need to use vactrains. This system would essentially act as a vaccum that would take all of the air out of the tube. This would allow the train to travel at incredibly high speeds due to there being little or no air resistance. Not only that, but our train would also be levitating, using high powered magnets or with air, kind of air hockey table. Where my Canadians at? 
After propelling the train forward with a high powered engine, it cruise for hundreds, if not thousands of kilometres, since there's no fiction to stop it. With this little air resistance, the vactrain can go up to 8,000 km/h. But we won't be going that fast, as that could be incredibly dangerous. Not just for train but for your physical well-being. Instead, you'd be going about 2,000 km/h, which is almost double the speed of sound. But don't be too alarmed by this. Your body should be able to handle it just fine.
After all the Concered passenger jet flew this fast for years before it was decommissioned. 
So it is possible that we'll see a pipe that connects across the Atlantic Ocean one day, as long we have enough money, time and resources. Now imagine that this supersonic train actually exists, and we could casually travel from Europe to America in just under an hour. Think about how industry, our economy, and travel would change.

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