If that can keep Elon Musk busy, I'm all for it.

All this does, is convince me that Putin is a moron, too.

Ah yes, Elon Musk, who’s famed for the quality of his tunnels

What I expect to happen is he'll promise it, get funding for it, do a mile of it, drop everything about it, report a higher wealth value, get into a suspicious one car crash

Personally? By hand? Please?

Given the distance required, what kind of economic payoff could be possible from such an expensive project? It's not like overland would be a cheaper transport option than Pacific shipping routes or anything. It's not just the Bering Strait being the problem with connecting the two after all, but the fact that there's nothing in NE Siberia or NW Alaska to bother connecting together. Are we making it for the polar bears maybe? Or are people going to drive the thousands of miles from Juneau to Vladivostok to sightsee?

That will be great when the first earthquake undoes the tunnel

Ok Bering Strait, so only geopolitically, geologically, and financially insane.

Like I kinda see a world where this is a good idea. If ww2 had sparked a long brotherhood between our nations and with europe a high speed rail across the tundras might be a good lower carbon alternative to flying and the Bering Strait is the most land based path between Eurasia and the Americas. Personally I'm not certain a tunnel is better than a bridge for this, but a few days train ride from cascadia to Moscow or Beijing would have plenty of takers if everyone was chill and could take a high speed train ride from Moscow to Madrid (and major cities in between) and from Beijing to Ho Chi Minh City, Seoul, Bangkok, etc. It would leave flying as really only necessary for Australia and island nations like Japan.

That's however not the world we live in, and Americans aren't clamoring to go to Russia or trade with them

Its probably a standard Musk project. Show futuristic marketing pictures/videos of round pod-style futuristic vehicles to billionaire oligarchs and clueless politicians with a buzzword salad, until the hype brings in investors. Interest in his companies goes up, the imaginary price of the company goes up, his imaginary gold pile gets bigger.

Then pocket the money and fail miserably delivering even a fraction of the promised things.

The tunnel in Las Vegas, Hyperloop, Cybertruck, Robotaxi (still in progress afaik) Tiny House, the electric freight truck (I don't remember its name), the various Mars projects just to name a few.

Sounds like it would make Alaska a lot easier for Russia to annex one day...

He needs to build a tunnel to life in prison

OK, but it has to be from the east coast going across the Atlantic, and you have to pay for it all.

He can’t even build one in Vegas…

It'll certainly make it easier for Russian forces to assist our military and ICE in rounding up citizens, so there's that.

Giving it to Musk is a way of guaranteeing it will never get done. Still waiting for full self driving, Elon.

Could be neat if Detective Miller engages arthropod-robot form to offer people a ride down said tunnel, all the while reminding riders to check doors and corners.

Can we also have a tunnel dug to the moon?

secret invasion route

The biggest idiot in history who has zero clue about even basic engineering gets paid to build a sub oceanic tunnel through the ring of fire...

Man, life is good when you're a narcissistic serial liar

Elon is smart enough to not ride his own rockets, he too will be smart enough to not enter his own subsea tunnel. Which is a shame.

That sounds like an immigration problem hmmmmm

Well Musk, Trump and the rest of the MAGA party are all up in Putin's ass so building a tunnel from Moscow to Washington would make perfect sense

So... This sounds like a horrible idea. The tunnel could also be sabotaged pretty easily

Most likely there's a kickback in it for Trump.

Looks like Mr Frog in that pic

Russia used to be a science center of the world. Shame how dumb they are now. That's what the future of the US looks like.