Why Aren't Africa And Europe Connected By A Bridge. Gibraltar Megaprojects

The first primitive bridges looked like logs tossed over water and were seen in antiquity. But with the development of technology, humanity has begun to build truly magnificent structures. An excellent example is the Danyang-Kunshan viaduct that is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest bridge in the world. Nevertheless, there are places that seem to need but not have bridges. That includes the Straits of Gibraltar that has world-wide significance.
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[@visualexpression8559]

Love the content. Hate the silence between points. It's quite discerning.

[@TheOutsideFox]

I thought I was the only one

[@vermont741]

‘Discerning’ or ‘disconcerting’?

[@voornaam3191]

Yeah. You are used to machine gun fire speakers, are you? PRRRRR PRRRRR PRRRRRR.

[@nordo.virajee]

Just to make the 10 minute mark 😉

[@whotube88]

Don't like it myself. Stopped watching.

[@rmenes]

This video has incredibly unnecessary pauses that make the video pacing terrible. I think it is on purpose to make the video longer.

[@28ernst]

10 minutes for the extra ad

[@Originalls]

@@28ernst its only 8 minutes

[@fuckedlaptop364]

@@Originalls 10 mins to increase the chances to be in your recommendation

[@fuckedlaptop364]

@@Originalls or maybe he doesnt know

[@mmdirtyworkz]

yep, irritating af, couldn't bear through the whole video, just thumbed it down

[@csjrogerson2377]

As someone who has sailed thru the Gib Straits 100's of times and knows the charted depths and currents, its blindingly bleeding obvious why there is no bridge.

[@darmillionaire]

Leave that to the Chinese. The bridge will be built.

[@csjrogerson2377]

@@darmillionaire If it ever becomes possible, which I doubt, I'd rather have the Germans build it. Some Chinese stuff is decidedly dodgy.

[@darmillionaire]

@@csjrogerson2377 China manufacturing philosophy is "No money left behind". That's why they win and have become the world's leading economy. "No money left behind" means they give you what you pay for. You pay good money, they give you the best stuff. You pay peanuts, they give you stuff that will last for a year or two. Europeans on the other hand operate on the Swiss knife philosophy. They manufacture the best they can, but will of course charge an arm and a leg for it.

[@fooferutter3001]

Swiss would charge an arm and a leg for an elegant but insufficient design featuring one off parts with no tooling or design documentation available. Yet are consumable, expensive, handmade, and fragile all the while being vital to function but could likely be replaced by "zip-ties"

[@hungatonga-hungahaapai6402]

Japan 🗾 is tectonically active, more so than Europe Africa. Yet they got bridges and highways that are impossible by design. When there's a will, there's a way.

[@MK-yc9ee]

"Why Aren't Africa And Europe Connected By A Bridge." Please no. We don't want Europe to be the same as America.

[@TriNitroT]

but, the americas aren't connected??

[@cinnamunbun]

Simply, because it's Africa. Believe me, If there was such a distance between any other continent that wasn't Africa then such a bridge would have been built ages ago

[@MettPitt]

Absolutely true. This bridge project would bring the people on to the streets to protest. For a good reason.

[@elenavs8703]

Exactly. Spain (and the EU) already have enough problems with immigration. Besides, the bridge would include a military border and it would take hours to cross, making it inneficient

[@oomz1975]

To be fair Africans dont need europeans coming over to take over again.

[@petrigrobler5901]

Fok al julle konte in afrika

[@aymananh]

Building things that escapes Moon's gravity and returns back to Earth and here we're talking about "Strong current", "3000fts" and what not.

[@TheErsatzMode]

The pauses between your sentences are too long.

[@licioussamuels]

I was looking for this exact comment.. he's just wasting time to extend the video to 10 min

[@Shermanbay]

A tunnel has one big advantage over any kind of bridge. No matter how big, wide or deep ships become, a tunnel will not be an impediment for their passage. A bridge, like so many structures (think Panama canal), can quickly become too restrictive for new ships, and a fix might be prohibitively expensive.

[@realwiggles]

It must not be that big of an advantage considering there are way, way more bridges than there are tunnels.

[@peteranon8455]

@@realwiggles The straight is nearly a kilometer deep and crosses between the african and eurasian tectonic plates.

[@realwiggles]

@@peteranon8455 cool... I'm not sure why you're telling me this.

[@realwiggles]

This is only true if you build the tunnel deep enough. You could say the exact same thing about a bridge. If you build one tall enough, a bridge wouldn't impede anything either.

[@Shermanbay]

@@realwiggles Aye, there's the rub. How tall is tall enough? The taller it is, the more expensive, so there's an incentive to not build it too tall. How can you ensure that future ships won't be taller than that? This problem doesn't exist with a tunnel.

[@TheLonelyLurker1995]

In Snowpiercer Netflix series, there was a large bridge that connects the Africa to Europe via Gibraltar. I think Bridge is very sufficient for maintenance points. Tunnels has lots of things to maintain than Bridges. On the series, Wilford, the villain, said that he had debated many times with his investors whether to build a tunnel or bridge for his train. He still, adamantly, chose to build Bridge because bridges are easy and cheap to maintain and that his luxury ark train needs to offer more scenery for his passengers. Is it true though? Regarding the maintenance?

[@jaybee4577]

😂 I am pretty sure both sides don’t want a bridge connecting them together.

[@Lorlornyo]

Basically

[@user-nc8wd9ix4c]

Especially europe. Africans outnumber europeans by alot

[@sm3675]

@@user-nc8wd9ix4c it didn't used to be that way until Europeans didn't have children and Africans had a lot of children

[@hrishabkumarsharma1355]

@@sm3675 more developed countries tend to have fewer children because of higher quality of life

[@tellienatan5991]

@@hrishabkumarsharma1355 no it's not high quality of life to die in a retirement home than with your children and grandchildren. They're just brainwashed into being too individualistic to even think about having a baby. Europeans blame immigrants are making them the minority in their own country, but since there is a gap in the labour force and therefore are governments not so anti migration, people will come in search for a better life.

[@whynot3442]

It's not an engineering problem, it's a sociopolitical and economic problem. The two continents are not friends, they are not equal partners, one feels like the other is a parasite. That's all.

[@Shaggy-8392]

Yep, Europe is definitely a parasite. Sucked the wealth, resources and humanity from the rest of the world. And being racist about it.

[@flotr6465]

@@Shaggy-8392 ahhh the racist card, the victim card. How about the fact that the phone or PC and the advance structure that provided you with technology and cozy life, so you have time and means to write bulls...t here, instead of running after gazelles or water to survive...maybe. Yeah, all of these are because Europe and the white men.

[@Shaggy-8392]

@@flotr6465 - take your phone back (built with the help of Chinese, Indian, Japanese and God knows what else minorities that emigrated to USA and europe) and give us back our wealth. We also gave you the tools so you could reach the stage you have but thats a freebie from us.

[@flotr6465]

@@Shaggy-8392 What wealth? The one in the ground that you have no clue existed or what it was? The one that became of value because white people knew what to do with it? If it was possible i would gladly gave back all that "wealth" and put you back in the stone age where you ("us") was before white people found you ("us"). So that after a while you could appreciate the civilization white people gave you. Everything in life have a price that must be paid, CIVILIZATION does HAVE a PRICE, and you payed with what you have. Do you think you miss leaving in a hut at 45C, no food, no water, diseases and be eaten by a lion? Go back "home" and stay there, don't come here where the evil white man is.

[@wealthraphael9507]

On point

[@Pinopley]

I love all the random 4 second pauses to get the video over 10 minutes

[@KevinChernenkoff]

Awesome video! But the pauses in speech were painful to listen to... I think the floating bridge island with water tunnels is the most interesting idea.

[@saadsd4374]

I don't think Europe would like to undertake such a project. One of the main reasons is illegal immigration;, lots of young Africans immigrate illegally already. Imagine if they have a bridge; it would become easier for them. I live in Morocco, which is the country that would connect Spain with Africa if that bridge was ever to be constructed, and I can tell you that the construction would create problems for both Africa, because it would lose many of its youths, and for Europe, which would have to deal with more illegal immigrants.

[@johann.9271]

I agree. There is no benefit here, or they would've done it long ago. Europe does not need a bridge that will expedite the import of illegals. They're already struggling with landcrossings from Asia and goody-goody "activists" who pick them up on their makeshift crafts and deliver them to Europe. The Netherlands especially, I know from experience, have had more than enough of Moroccans. The cultural differences and criminal element it brings isn't "enriching" at all, as some will make you believe. Anyway, I'm not PC at all, I just say it as I see it.

[@RomilCPatel]

They could connect the Ceuta side of Spain with Europe, so illegal immigration isn’t an issue.

[@PrettyLittleDitty2089]

@@RomilCPatel they will still do the same if that thing happens

[@PrettyLittleDitty2089]

I used to live in Casablanca 4 years ago. Love the people & their hospitality, but it kinda bugs me to see a bunch of Illegal African immigrants camping on Morocco in order for them to store the border going to Spain.

[@ireen9671]

@@user-B476 Its both Middle Eastern Countries with same culture and they are strictly enforcing the laws so they abide but it fearing the consequences. These illegal crossing happens mostly in the case of different continents or different cultures where laws depend on EU. So it's totally different for Europe which will have increased illegal immigrants.

[@BlindMango]

I remember as a kid seeing an episode of Extreme Engineering on Discovery channel which talked about an idea of a massive bridge that was both cable-stayed and suspension and being so fascinated with it, I thought the bridge design was so cool too!

[@NikoBellic04]

Öresundsbron

[@pdhproductions9606]

Bay bridge crossing

[@TheAbderaman]

Discovery channel ingineering the impossible 2002 i remember it the project is awesome

[@glike2]

The Eugene Tsui floating bridge concept with wind and tidal energy seems like a good combination to cross the Gibraltar straight. It's only a matter of time before there is a better crossing.

[@jasonderby7635]

yea but wtf was he wearing? i couldn't trust someone dressed like that

[@sanchoodell6789]

I've got an excellent idea about traversing the *Straits of Gibraltar.* Why not have high speed ferries or Catamarans? They could also take motor vehicles as well as passengers. Far cheaper than building a bridge or tunnel.

[@TheGreatLordDufus]

I believe they do run some the world's fastest ferries across the straight, although that may be between mainland Spain and Spanish enclaves on the Moroccan coast. There certainly are ferries between Gibraltar and Morocco, and Spain and Morocco, as well - I'm not sure if they are as quick.

[@jmf.490]

The narcotraffickers already use high speed boats lol

[@lovellesokan9107]

Do not be fooled. NOt connecting was intended. They prefer to make nuclear weapons. yeaaaa right ...propaganda..

[@pinkmandymoo]

The long pauses really ruin this, can’t finish the video. Such a shame

[@Silobajer]

Title and topic off this video was on point. I think you’re voice is perfect for a educational/entertaining video it is, however the awkward pauses or spacing between sentences was unbearable to me. Doing a better job Incorporating the images you’re trying to show in with what should be the main attraction (speech/talking) would be amazing and I think the potential of this channel is massive. That’s why I took the time to actually give feedback. Hope the comments feedback helps you grow your channel.

[@YouCuberHD]

he paused in an effort to do the 10 minute video thing to get an extra ad

[@bliskin8847]

If they built a bridge, it would constantly look like world war Z with hordes of people trying to run across illegally into Europe.

[@jinhuichen8964]

the simple reason: The Strait's depth ranges between 300 and 900 metres, too deep for building a bridge.

[@PascalGienger]

AFAIK the main problem here is that the African tectonic plate and the European one are not connected. So the bridge would eventually break. If you look at other bridges or tunnels like Eurotunnel, öresund-Bridge etc they are all on the same tectonic plate, thus the endpoints are not moving in relation to each other.

[@michaelely2161]

Technology can't solve the social problems such a connection would make - but it could create a new ones that none of us has even considered.

[@franciscopascua2554]

jajajja jque deciaaaa

[@solomonmuriza9223]

Anti tech..

[@nanapate]

in those big pauses i got my degree, got married and had 2 kids

[@jimflowers6455]

Why would Europe want to be connected to Africa?

[@R2jromany]

I love it. Why are your keep stopping? I keep thinking the video is over and at one point I went to another video because of the silence between points

[@202_user]

Answer: We (europeans) just don't want a bridge between Europe and Africa.

[@graphics8492]

Once upon a time there was no North America.. Once upon a time there was no South America.. Once upon a time there was no Australiya... European are the people went there and settle down.. Europeans are People actually captured whole world are the people who are talking about illegal settlements 😁😁😃😀

[@aladin7339]

@@graphics8492 genocide *** and butchered **** the native populations not just settle

[@djb-illy8471]

Lol

[@rediettadesse2828]

@@graphics8492 they took russia , Australia northern in southern America continents ..

[@NymaMargaret]

Coming from the same people that invaded the entire world and took Africans captive while destroying the remaining of their lands and cultures

[@masonupton1326]

Bro sounds like he’s reading a PowerPoint in front of the class. 😂

[@glike2]

Your audio pace is perfect, thanks!

[@ghrocker99661]

I haven't even watched the video yet. I'm going to go out on a limb and say the strait of Gibraltar is really, really, really, really, really, really fucking deep. That's why

[@onewxrldmusic7303]

No bridge or tunnel is necessary. Let alone the ecological cost and risks. The solution is simple. All you need is big ships shuttling between the two points lets say every 15 minutes. Some ships can carry passengers and cars, some others can carry merchandise. Problem solved.

[@vanjanja]

That silence between words drives me crazy :D

[@xlr8nguy]

Have they looked at the mooring systems that deep water rigs operate? All that is needed is a few mooring systems to hold it in place. It can also expand with the tectonic plates. Build partial dams on each side to create electricity with roads leading to the bridge. The mooring systems can be high enough to allow ships to travel under the bridge.

[@TheKeksadler]

In case anyone is curious, there is at least one pause every ten seconds. In fact, there's a lot of the video you can just skim in 10-second increments and hear basically nothing for several skims.

[@udontknowme7798]

Tunnels that are 30-40 meters below the surface, so ships can pass safely. These must be anchored very well in both directions, so that there is no movement in the two tunnels, as in the floating oil / gas rigs in the petrol industry, one in each direction, but interconnected, with emergency exits between them, and they can evacuate upwards to large floating rescue towers that must be every 250 meters of the tunnel

[@jimbobeire]

You have to account for submarines as well. lots of military traffic into and out of the Med.

[@voornaam3191]

@@jimbobeire Submarines love watching sonar screens. When a submarine crashes, he has foolly earned that.

[@jimbobeire]

@@voornaam3191 OP has proposed floating tunnels anchored like oil rigs. You think the multiple underwater cables securing each section of tunnel aren't going to cause an issue?

[@udontknowme7798]

@@jimbobeire Did I say each section? I don't think so. And those rescue tower's doesn't needs to be every 250 meter's, there had to be at lest one ore maybe two streach on 500m+ for ship traffic. There will maybe come a undersea bridge like that in Norway in a fjord where there goes hundreds of cruise ship everey summer. And there are sure submarine traffic as well.

[@udontknowme7798]

@@jimbobeire Inside Norway's $57bill highway here on KZbin

[@arnaudgerard1971]

I don't think you're gonna dig 3000 feet deep and the currents probably too strong to suspend a floating tube, so this part is most likely going to be "bridged". For the other parts I don't know, if it will be ever possible to really build such a thing.

[@scottbrenham1341]

To build a bridge to gap that would have been a challenge and wasn't possible they also did not know how deep the waters were and It goes back to ancient times they did not calculate construction like that size. Instead the African continent was separated by 3 scenarios the northern area was settled by modern day Egypt both west and to the east that is the middle east countries both areas expanding settlements. The middle area is primary blacks with alot of forest and wilderness the south side has some European settlers mixed in etc. Now with technology and construction things could change though. Imagine bridging the usa to Europe how long it would take plus too much money. if they did

[@Savan_Triveda]

I live in Europe and I tell you I'm happy there's no bridge between Europe and Africa.

[@jalajchaturvedi1]

I don't think Europe needs a bridge for going down the hole to be honest. It already is in the process of becoming an Islamic Hub.

[@Tiltrotortech]

Currently, the world's deepest oil platform (the Perdido Platform in the Gulf of Mexico) sits in 8040ft of water with a deck 875ft above the water level. A string of similar platforms across the strait and connected by road decks could easily overcome the depth issue of the strait. Drilling platforms are also designed to handle rough seas. The decks would have to be able to articulate at each platform (in a controlled fashion of course) to account for plate drift and storm surge, but we have the technology now for that. Additionally, the decks would be plenty high enough to clear all shipping traffic as the world's tallest ships barely reach 300ft keel-to-mast. As with most bridges, the corrosion from seawater would probably be one of the largest issues. The Perdido platform cost $3 billion, but for the strait, you would not need the facilities required of a drilling platform and thus the cost per platform would be lower, and the weight of the unnecessary facilities could be replaced with larger, sturdier road decks.

[@celestineifiorah7103]

Insightful piece

[@CulturedThugPoster]

There is no interest in such project because the African side would become a giant refugee camp and the European side would become a giant relocation/repatriation camp. As far as Europe is concerned it's a big smelly turd no-one wants to touch.

[@princexl33840]

@@CulturedThugPoster thanks for the wonderful comment and good observation.

[@princexl33840]

Very deep and impressive comment.

[@KB-ke3fi]

@@CulturedThugPoster Kind of like the U.S. southern border right now.

[@francoisdvanderwesthuizen6772]

A bridge over the strait at its narrowest point will mean that the pylons will be very tall, but if you build it some 10 miles to the side of the atlantic ocean it will be around a 3rd of the height and the bridge will be longer, but it will be a more realistic option...

[@ItsMeAnn628]

I’m on team “get rid of the unnecessary pauses throughout your videos” team.

[@MrPoornakumar]

View Gibraltar as an asset - for the ships connecting Black Sea ports (via Dardanelles - Marmara Sea - Bosporus) to anywhere in the world. If there is ever a need to "bridge" Gibraltar, have a ferry-ship that can carry half a million ton container cargo, with deep water ports on both the sides of Africa & Europe. This ship can even ferry a hundred cars & trucks per trip.

[@fil2337]

100 years ago, when europe still had african colonies the problem was indeed geography, but today the only problem is geopolitics

[@azaniatutoria]

U very intelligent

[@klachingmacgaming8400]

@@azaniatutoria ITS NOT INTELIGENS HE JUST KNOWS IT

[@wandiledlamini2591]

Says the guy who doesn’t even live in Africa

[@fil2337]

@@wandiledlamini2591 I dont need to live in Africa, I live in Europe

[@wandiledlamini2591]

@@fil2337 don’t talk about a continent that you don’t live in cause you don’t even know what’s going on in the African continent

[@TrueSighted]

Maybe a floating bridge under tension. You could do it by creating a micro section that had what we would think of as a raised bridge section, large enough to let ships pass, and light enough to still be supported, but that could have basically a ship passing tunnel for ships to pass. Tension lines above the max hight, and also stretching below, deep enough to allow ships to pass without incident, but also allowing even tension. As long as theres more than enough buoyancy, it would support all the added weight, and cars, and as long as it was under proper tension and torsion strengths, it would still be able to deal with swift water, even allowing for water passage by archways under sections of the bridge. We have enough technology now days, it could be possible. And you wouldn't have to worry about placing pylons in the deep sections of the canal. Only supports to anchor it, and long extra supports under and over to allow for the tension to run along the bridge. Far simpler task than fighting all that pressure with a tunnel, or dealing with trying to cast pylons in the deepest parts of the straight. It would be expensive, and likely a huge undertaking though. But I think it could be done with a little ingenuity and out of the box thinking. If the will was there.

[@kevinianallen]

Random clips from Cape Town South Africa which is Thousands of miles away made me smile...

[@TXGhost91]

Giving large pause breaks just to squeak to 10 minute mark for more ads, I am sure people love that.

[@maxmiller7584]

Very interesting topic but bruh the pauses in your delivery are killing me lol. You good fam?!?

[@Ul.B]

The Strait of Gibraltar crossing is a bridge or tunnel spanning the Strait of Gibraltar that would connect Europe and Africa. The governments of Spain and Morocco appointed a joint committee to investigate the feasibility of linking the two continents in 1979, which resulted in the much broader Euromed Transport project. In January 2021, it was reported that the UK and Morocco would discuss building the crossing between Gibraltar and Tangiers.

[@Daniel-nt5gh]

it is an impossible project nowadays, to make a tunnel at that depths and make it usable for trucks and trains it can't have more than a 7% inclination, to get that inclination and such depths the tunnel would be need to start at least 200km away from the strait on both ends.

[@Ul.B]

@@Daniel-nt5gh With respect, this statement is not true. The Strait of Gibraltar is 10 km wide at its narrowest point. The maximum width is 44 km. The English Channel is 34 km wide at its narrowest point. Nevertheless, it was possible to build a tunnel here. The project is not impossible, but based on the current status it remains rather improbable.

[@Daniel-nt5gh]

@@Ul.B You talked about making a tunnel, if you want to keep a 7% inclination with 1000meter deep, you will need at least to start digging 200 or 300 km away off the strait in both directions. A bridge it is not possible because the currents and the deep sustentation that would need to be build at again 1000meters deep. You don't know what you are talking about. The maximum depth at the Eurotunnel is 75 meters, so is a total different breed.

[@Ul.B]

@@Daniel-nt5gh A modern multiple unit can already manage gradients that are well over 7 per mill, so the assumed 7 is out of date. By the way, a line up to 25 per mill is not considered a line with steep gradients. Even a freight train can still manage a gradient of 12 per mil. So far, a tunnel of 34 km has been assumed. The claim with the 200 or 300 km ditch is abstruse nonsense that is far from common sense.

[@Daniel-nt5gh]

@@Ul.B Modern trains AKA high speed trains can't handle more than 1,5%. 7% is too much for cargo trains, and only special funiculars can handle 12%.. OTOH the strait is no good for constructing anything, the European and the African tectonic plate have the joint there, and besides earthquakes, the hardness of the rock is too much, and never has been build a transport tunnel 1000 meters deep.

[@sutsokunthealifetv]

Awesome video

[@RobertMihalache]

Excellent video. Thank you

[@mgreg8134]

maybe because it would sit right over the the dividing line between the African and European tectonic plates.

[@tomatomoussin9134]

The forces of the current flow and swells between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean see at Gibraltar is very strong therefore making it difficult conditions for reeking up a bridge, also to know that the African plat and the eurasienne plate are not stable enough. We do have the Suez Canal for transportation and it is more suitable to build a bridge above the canal to transit from Europe to Egypt.

[@peterevenhuis2663]

There are bridges crossing the Suez. The problem are the unstable countries to the north.

[@predator1739]

@@peterevenhuis2663 because of the USA . America wants to contain EU and euro

[@amusanolugbenga3677]

@predator. How does this even make sense in this context

[@balesjo]

I kept wondering if the issue of the African tectonic plate moving northwards against the Eurasian plate would be addressed. Even slow creep mounts up over time which could affect the structural safety of a tunnel or bridge. Not to mention those occasional pesky earthquakes.

[@benchapple1583]

Why doesn't Gibraltar have a bridge? Because we don't want 500 million Africans to cross it.

[@stephenbunn2150]

The Bridge would be like Zombie apocalypse, millions fighting, attacking vehicles trying too get into Europe.

[@Dvoglavi_Arapin]

Why would anyone attack vehicles entering Europe? Why would they fight?

[@stephenbunn2150]

@@Dvoglavi_Arapin not very clever are you, just look at all the immigration problems though out Europe 😉

[@sunderbans]

I'm definitely team bridge, but honestly I feel an under sea tube might be more feasible in this situation. It would need to go along the bottom, and over the extremely deep section of the ocean.

[@Totto87]

The problem is the logistics and safety, both during construction and after it opens. If something happens in the middle, like a car or road-train fire, where it would be at maybe 2000ft/600m it would be catastrophic and probably do so much damage to the tunnel structure that it would be closed off for a long time. The currents in an out of the strait would further complicate it. I think a bridge would be the best solution although it too would be extremely costly and difficult to make safe. I'm glad I'm not the chief engineer getting the task of designing any form of connection over the strait.

[@srinivasanchetty11]

The another problem is with the tectonic plates

[@gumelini1]

The Chinese subway road where thousands of people drowned in their cars after a sudden flood immediately comes to mind

[@predator1739]

@@gumelini1

[@predator1739]

@@gumelini1 The Henan provincial government issued a press release today alleging that since the 16th, torrential rain has affected a total of 9.3058 million people in 137 counties and 1,373 townships in Henan Province, with 58 dead and 5 missing (56 dead and 5 missing in Zhengzhou City). , 1 person died in Kaifeng City, 1 person died in Luohe City). 814,900 people were evacuated, 1,141,100 people were urgently transferred and resettled, and 444,100 people needed emergency living assistance; the affected area of ​​farmland was 735,000 hectares

[@zepwafels]

I didint even watch the vid and I can give you a summary to that question: It is not in Spain's (any by extension the EUs) nor Morocco's interest to do so. Illegal migration would skyrocket to Spain (thus to the EU), and the Moroccan youth would disappear from Morocco. A bridge would bring no economic positives for the EU. Even without the migration aspect, you would be building a bridge into the literal desert.

[@elenavs8703]

Exactly, thanks for explaining. We already have enough immigrants from Morroco

[@katieluv8422]

lol Britain does a fine job of preventing illegals from crossing through the chunnel. One of many reasons it wants to leave the EU.

[@withy4045]

It would bring no economic positives for Africa too Not just Europe

[@MrKane101111]

I actually quite like the pauses. It gives me a moment to enjoy the footage.

[@shadowphoenixx1249]

He really tried to get this over 10 minutes🤣

[@samirmuhammad1781]

Because Europe wants to keep its distance from Africa Also, it would be challenging and expensive 😂

[@MrAmhara]

Politics. It's nothing to do with "Europe" in general but Morroco and Spain. There is tension for several reasons. A major problem is that Spain occupies a former Spanish colony in Africa call Western Sahara. Also Spain occupies small enclaves belonging to Morroco.

[@Daniel-nt5gh]

@@MrAmhara it is an impossible project nowadays, to make a tunnel that deep and make it usable for trucks and trains it can't have more than a 7% inclination, to get that inclination and such depths the tunnel would be need to start at least 200km away from the strait on both ends. Will Morocco pay for that? We could be talking about National gross product of Morocco of 100 or 200 years just to build his part. I think building castles in the air is a much more realistic project.

[@MrAmhara]

@@Daniel-nt5gh There are other options.

[@Daniel-nt5gh]

@@MrAmhara Yes, Ferries. What do you consider other options?

[@TF-km2ls]

@@MrAmhara Spain is not occupying Western Sahara, and Ceuta and Melilla and the other enclaves are rightfully Spanish

[@lkj974]

I actually think the floating option is the only realistic option without invoking alien super technologies. Or a bridge with sections on pontoons. The floating tunnel diameter could be reduced by having alternating streams of one-way traffic. Reducing the diameter of the required tube would make the engineering exponentially easier. The difficulty (among many) with the bridge approach is that modern bridges need to be hundreds of feet above the water because cargo vessels are super sized now. The city of Portland Oregon and Vancouver Washington have come up against this requirement when trying to replace aging bridges over the Columbia and Willamette rivers. For that and other reasons the city of Portland has pretty much ceased to be a port city which has really hurt the local economy and farmers in the interior of the state. You would think that shipbuilders and bridgebuilders would talk to each other, but it seems they don’t.

[@companyoflosers]

a floating bridge is not an option. cargo ships that take goods in and out of the Mediterranean would no longer have a way through. that would put a HUGE dent in the world economy.

[@mmikael281]

@@companyoflosers Floating bridge doesn't haw to float sea level. One could think that by combining the structure of a few oil rigs, the bridge could be built either high or under a sea of tunnels.

[@nwachukwugodsgiftchuks1174]

You guys forget about the most pressing challenge.... The tectonic plates an it's attendant shocks, plus the the two opposing sea currents.

[@priestesslucy3299]

@@companyoflosers a bridge can float on floating supports rather than being contiguous floating structure

[@TnRsPower]

We can put and fix huge pipes that can cross cars ?

[@alispeed5095]

The random silence after each statement feels strange

[@keyaar3393]

Great content... Nicely explained... Maybe a stupid question - but do they have a ferry service in place?

[@indetigersscifireview4360]

They have water taxis from Algeciras to Morocco. The bridge or tunnel would make things more accessible because you don't have to cross in a ship which is more subject to bad weather and heavy seas. But I don't think we should be so quick to build either a bridge or tunnel. Some things should just be left alone.

[@Juan-g8y]

Of course

[@donaldclifford5763]

Maybe a floating tunnel, like they are building in Norway. It could be limited to rail transport, fully automated. Passenger and vehicle transport could be done by ferry.

[@realwiggles]

Thereby solving nothing

[@katieluv8422]

The problem will always be the subduction between the African and European continents. Just ask Italy. It's an geologically active area with earthquakes and volcanoes. Any construction would have to account for a centimeter drift ever year, which would devastate fixed underwater tunnels and underground tunnels. The floating tunnel is your best bet with adjustable beachheads. What is being proposed in Norway is going to be the blue print for Gibraltar. But how do you handle emergencies and long term degradation in salt water? That is why we need a working tunnel to study.

[@dadsmidnightcreation6794]

they will never build a bridge their did you not hear what he said at the beginning the suaz canal runs through their it's to important for ship travel you bellend

[@katieluv8422]

@@dadsmidnightcreation6794 Most bridges allow for both ship and vehicle travel, especially the floating tunnel they are doing in Norway..

[@reinokarvinen8845]

We need a wall. Not a bridge

[@the_one1001]

This is such a no brainer and very surprising why in 2023 we don’t have this bridge constructed as of yet…

[@kemoyinkai6034]

Love the idea for the video, and you have a great voice for this kind of video but I couldn't finish it. The pauses between sentences is killing me, they are so unnecessary, just keep speaking. Was it to get the video over 10 minutes or something? Check out some other channels like real life lore or Kurzgesagt and pay attention to their transitions/speech. Not trying to be mean, just like your video topics, but the pauses make listening a bit painful. Good luck!

[@davianoinglesias5030]

I also couldn't finish the video 😅I'm going through the comments to see if anyone else is mad about the long pauses

[@lust4bass]

Or we could just leave the Straits as they are .... why always want to be doing something?

[@Davidsavage8008]

It would require a floating bridge that connected by a pivoting suspension archway in the middle connecting both countries , in order to flow with both directional current flows in and out of the straights .

[@shubhamarutwar9396]

guy tried his hardest to make it 10m

[@rockbutcher]

Look at the migration issues now and imagine what would happen if a land bridge was built between the two continents.

[@omineol9897]

its way harder to control thousand of miles of border than to protect one single entrance for a bridge

[@gastonnina1902]

Spain has a very little tip of land on the african side, heavely guarded. If you are able to land your feet on that ground you can claim political shelter immediatly, a bridge wouldnt change anything.

[@abb8375]

The most pertinent commentary !

[@aymananh]

Well, a century ago this would have been a luxury for europeans. Bringing Africans to sell in the market, with less travel cost.

[@kevinb814]

@@aymananh And long before that it would have a nice luxury for the Muslim Arab slave traders to take millions more White European slave's

[@morpheus6394]

Please use the metric system, only 2 countries on the planet use imperial.

[@manazarhussain-official4429]

Amazing videos

[@watchman2866]

When you look at a map, nature might do it naturally. It would only take a combined shift in land or seabed movements, Africa and Europe, UK and Europe, Alaska and Russia, India and ShrLanka, and the Islands between China and Australia. We shouldn't be so confident about the current boundaries of the nations.

[@appleducky5234]

cool theory: I've heard that many mountain boarders that are moving all the time.(Swiss/Italy, India/Himalayas) Over 50 years passes and the one peak grows to be higher than another. There are many people who commute daily/weekly by ferry across the strait when will the strait of Gilbralter close naturally due to tectonic activity?

[@jz4774]

@@appleducky5234 yall are way underestimating the time scale of tectonic activity. The African plate only moves about an inch a year, the straight of gibralter is around 560000 inches. Lets just assume it only takes 300k years. For reference, modern humans have only been around about 300k years.

[@peternorman2563]

Well that would be a disaster ! It would end up with just one way traffic.

[@Eargasm4all]

Sounds about right!

[@MrMaboboz]

What about the other way with mineral resources being looted out of Africa?

[@nelsonchinasamy9857]

@@MrMaboboz then take your mineral resources and do something with it, don't sit on it . Manufacture and sell the product, not the raw ore. Right now if you didn't sell the raw ore you will not have any food at all to eat. Fact my friend, Africa needs to convert her resources. Your resources mean nothing without being turned into a usable product.

[@MrMaboboz]

@@nelsonchinasamy9857 I'll be sure to pass that message to all corrupt African leaders and the dodgy multinationals they are in bed with. Wish me luck!

[@MrMaboboz]

@@BondJFK Because I'm just sat on my arse doing nothing eh?

[@josephthibeault9919]

The number of freeloaders heading for Europe would be disastrous.

[@Deontjie]

Yep.

[@fireice9019]

Because Europeans didn't spend the last 500 years doing the same in Africa... so conceited.

[@Deontjie]

@@fireice9019 In that 500 years Europeans constructed Cape Town. The most beautiful city in all of Africa. A city whereto thousands of Africans migrate / flee to every week.

[@fireice9019]

@@Deontjie Arabs also constructed cities in the Iberian peninsula. You don't hear them towering over Europeans on KZbin comments.

[@Deontjie]

@@fireice9019 Of coarse they constructed many cities. Some not even credited to them yet. But they do like to brag about it.

[@philhogan5623]

"Hey, let's build a tunnel that crosses an active fault line between two continental plates thousands of feet below sea level. What could possibly go wrong?"

[@tomas.lambert]

My man really putting 2 sec pauses after each sentence to get to those 10 min 😂

[@johnnylopez5123]

Bridge: beautiful and practical, but probably a future problem if tall cargo boats are created. Tunnel: not touristic, too deep and not very attractive, but boats can travel on top of the waters. Either option very challenging

[@Daniel-nt5gh]

it is an impossible project nowadays, to make a tunnel at that deeps and make it usable for trucks and trains it can't have more than a 7% inclination, to get that inclination and such depths the tunnel would be need to start at least 200km away from the strait on both ends.

[@reineh3477]

@@Daniel-nt5gh it isn't 900 m deep 10 m from the coast. You can probably start a few km away on both sides.

[@Daniel-nt5gh]

@@reineh3477 LoL, do you seriously think that? It doesn't matter if the 900 m depth is not just from the shore, what it matters is that it has to be reached at some point.

[@reineh3477]

@@Daniel-nt5gh most of it will be under water. Also my country is far from flat and we have trains. I doubt that you need more than 20km on each side.

[@Daniel-nt5gh]

@@reineh3477 This is a waste of time, you don't understand the concept behind the argument.

[@carginfer2353]

I like the floating bridge idea with submerged parts.

[@TheSchiffReport]

me too...hat chinese engineer was brilliant....

[@butterfacemcgillicutty]

In The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C Clarke the main protagonist is an architect who created a bridge across the straight of Gibraltar.

[@kashattack]

This wouldn't get much political or public support in Europe. Spain and Italy already face huge problems with controlling illegal African migration so I don't imagine they would be in favour of something which would make illegal migration to their countries even easier.

[@lastyhopper2792]

1000 miles = 1609.34 km 5000 miles = 8046.72 km, just as a reference in case he mention miles again

[@larsrons7937]

Ferry. Being from a maritime nation (Denmark) I would go for the ferry option (even though we have constructed our own bridges).

[@udontknowme7798]

Hva, tar du ferge over Storebelt, Lillebror og Helsingør Helsingborg?

[@voornaam3191]

@@udontknowme7798 What? You don't mention the Hirtshals-Kristiansand Bridge? Just kidding...

[@nsleepwalker]

There are lots of ferries between Spain and Morocco already. Works well so far.

[@rodneypalman3054]

tunnel connected to a fly over connected again with a tunnel , looks like the best option

[@kolliemmorlu7333]

Great idea, I love it all.

[@haotichar]

Use metric system so the rest of the world understands you.

[@martinpattison8916]

What particularly annoys me is when they convert something that "is approximately 5k" to "about 3.1miles" - suggests a higher level of precision than is warranted.

[@jbones360]

Wow that’s very fascinating. A Dam between Gibraltar and Morocco would be ideal but hardest to muster into existence. Pumping excess water from the Mediterranean into the Sahara would effectively terraform the planes (with desalination - and some way to dispose of the brine). That could at least be an interesting setting for an alt history sci-fi novel.

[@jacobwhogivesadamn1893]

In the show man in the high castle. The nazis win ww2 and actually do this exact thing in Africa.

[@juanantonio3487]

Would be funny doing it in Gibraltar and Spain closing the border to put pressure in Gibraltar in order to take it back.

[@robertofratello5203]

It would be an economical and environmental catastrophe. Sea Life Will be almost wiped out by increased salinity in the Mediterranean. All ports Will become unusable at the same time. Rain cycle could be impacted. And the new Land would likely be mostly useless for agricolture for at least some decades. It would Just be the Aral Sea 2.0 at a much larger scale

[@jacobwhogivesadamn1893]

@@robertofratello5203 I mean just addressing the ports part. The Panama Canal goes up and down in elevation. They could definitely still use the ports. The Sahara is also extremely nutrient rich. And this would help to remove water scarcity for the billion or so people on the continent.It would be an absolutely massive undertaking and would very have a down side like the fact that it might kill the Amazon but all projects have pros and cons.

[@intothemultiverse1033]

That’s just what Europe needs.

[@Stevvvve]

Taking weird pauses to make the video longer just ruins the entire video

[@JapieCroukamp]

With new technology becoming available for tunneling - I am on team tunnel!

[@iMadrid11]

An udersea tunnel would produce the least environmental impact. But building a tunnel that deep using current technology isn't possible yet. I'm betting they would find an engineering solution in the future.

[@user-ci7vu7eo9w]

we dont need conection with africa

[@mfra959]

Tunnel is maybe 5 times more expensive than bridge But btw, i disagree with this project

[@danbrownellfuzzy3010]

I was with you until they said you're putting the tunnel through 2 seismic fault zones.

[@companyoflosers]

because the shipping that goes through the straights has been deemed more important that people's ability to travel. a bridge would mean large cargo ships would have to funnel through a section of the bridge with enough clearance for them to fit through. the way things are now there is no struggle to enter the Mediterranean no matter how many ships are passing through. with a bridge that wouldnt be the case. the value of the cargo already moving through is more valuable monetarily and affects more countriy's economies that just spain and Morocco who are the only two that stand to gain from a bridge vs ALL the countries sending and receiving cargo through the straights who's ship would be delayed. plu add that if theres a narrow section where the bridge is high enough for ships to pass, there will be a toll to go through which will impact the cost of the goods moving through. while it may sound like a good idea, it negatively impacts too many others to consider it worth doing for how much it would cost.

[@danbrownellfuzzy3010]

The funneling of ships happens quite visibly at the Golden Gate. You can see another ship at 10 or 15 minute intervals, and a big long line of them going out to sea. Any supertankers stay way offshore, I was told SF Bay size craft do the middle man route when they transport bulk fluid

[@DaleDix]

I don't know why Africa would want to be connected to Europe.

[@fullplates]

I’ll never forget driving across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge tunnel that spans across more than 28 kilometres and wondered why the Gibraltar Strait never had a such a structure even though it’s exactly half the length. Must be to keep Africans away from Europe.

[@sizwe.amabaso732]

I love how Europeans are making decisions for Africa without even involving Africans🙂 good times

[@malakies5]

We have money 😂🤣

[@abshaar13]

@@malakies5 No offense, butmoney you stole from Africa?!

[@hatilee6638]

Call upon China to construct whether it is a tunnel channel or a bridge and surely it shall come to reality.

[@Visiontech]

Put me down for Team Tunnel! Thanks for the education on this video.

[@ffggddss]

I think I have to be on Team "None." Building either a bridge or a tunnel, over/through unprecedented water depths, across a tectonic plate boundary, sounds like a project asking for doom. Fred

[@davidstokes8441]

Why hasn't it been built - because it is not economically, politically, ethnically nor religiously beneficial or practical for Africa not Europe.. To do so would just prove how insanely arrogant the human species is.

[@collins1972]

Allow the Chinese and they will build the bridge in no time

[@ebisagemechu]

The reason that the Eropeans didn't suport the project is more of political than technical. This days more advanced long oversea bridges that crosses 100s of miles is being constructed. The fear of Eropeans is, if the brigde is constructed, they can easily be flooded by African immigrants.

[@robertmoore1963]

Spain does not want a bridge to Morocco: the migration from Africa is a huge problem now, with a bridge it would be hell. Plus, there is also the huge problem of trafficking: humans (From Africa seeking greener pastures, young European women towards Africa), car parts (you can multiply your profits by 10 selling a BMW in parts), drugs and arms.