Comments on: The Diomede Islands http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/05/01/the-diomede-islands/ Why bother seeing the world for real? Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:20:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Bill http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/05/01/the-diomede-islands/#comment-202428 Bill Sun, 26 Oct 2008 05:12:46 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/04/29/the-diomede-islands/#comment-202428 Ernie gave some very good reasons for building a bridge over the Bering Strait. Ernie gave some very good reasons for building a bridge over the Bering Strait.

]]> By: Stephen http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/05/01/the-diomede-islands/#comment-202165 Stephen Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:58:47 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/04/29/the-diomede-islands/#comment-202165 Travis, I am intrigued, how do you get Internet access out there? Travis, I am intrigued, how do you get Internet access out there?

]]> By: Lone Ranger http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/05/01/the-diomede-islands/#comment-201942 Lone Ranger Sat, 13 Sep 2008 03:59:12 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/04/29/the-diomede-islands/#comment-201942 I think they should build the bridge. I would go across it to Russia. If the wind only blows around 100 miles per hour, I can get my corvette up to 130 easily. So I could outrun the wind with no problem! Live Long and Prosper I think they should build the bridge. I would go across it to Russia. If the wind only blows around 100 miles per hour, I can get my corvette up to 130 easily. So I could outrun the wind with no problem!

Live Long and Prosper

]]> By: Jenell http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/05/01/the-diomede-islands/#comment-201793 Jenell Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:18:12 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/04/29/the-diomede-islands/#comment-201793 Message for Travis above. Hey I'm on the boat that just passed you this afternoon. Wish I had seen your post on this site before. Maybe we could have waved to each other and looked at one another through the binos. Maybe on the way back down. If you see this message: offshorebiologist at yah00 Message for Travis above. Hey I’m on the boat that just passed you this afternoon. Wish I had seen your post on this site before. Maybe we could have waved to each other and looked at one another through the binos. Maybe on the way back down. If you see this message: offshorebiologist at yah00

]]> By: Rob Kimberley http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/05/01/the-diomede-islands/#comment-200272 Rob Kimberley Tue, 27 May 2008 21:41:51 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/04/29/the-diomede-islands/#comment-200272 Hi - Mainly a message for travis above....... I would love to be in touch with a local in The Diomedes with a view to visit the island and learn about culture etc. Regardless what some say, I think it sounds like a lovely place to visit. I hope you get in touch. Hi - Mainly a message for travis above……. I would love to be in touch with a local in The Diomedes with a view to visit the island and learn about culture etc. Regardless what some say, I think it sounds like a lovely place to visit. I hope you get in touch.

]]> By: Ernie Halter http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/05/01/the-diomede-islands/#comment-199477 Ernie Halter Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:12:29 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/04/29/the-diomede-islands/#comment-199477 A bridge across the Diomedes Islands to Siberia would: 1. Also building a nice unterrupted highway from the USA to Moscow. It could also carry a pipeline alongside operning the vast Siberian oil fields (centuries of world supply there), allowing the US to tell the mideastern camel jocks and Chavez to stuff it. 2. Be vastly cheaper than Ted Kennedy's "Big Dig", which was merely a diversion of huge amounts of taxpayer money to his Mafia buddies for no good reason. 3. Open a land trade route to yhe entire Orient for North America. Vehicles are commonly dtiven many hundreds of miles further north than the latitude of the Diomedes Islands. Vehicles can be safely and (reasonably) comfortably operated down to 80 below aero Farenheit (I did it for years in Fairbanks). Snow and ice cease to be slick below 35 below or so, and get a granular sandy surface. To be slick, a thin layer of melt water (from the pressure of boots, tires, etc.) must form on ice; this does not happen in extreme cold. A bridge across the Diomedes Islands to Siberia would:
1. Also building a nice unterrupted highway from the USA to
Moscow. It could also carry a pipeline alongside operning the
vast Siberian oil fields (centuries of world supply there),
allowing the US to tell the mideastern camel jocks and Chavez
to stuff it.
2. Be vastly cheaper than Ted Kennedy’s “Big Dig”, which
was merely a diversion of huge amounts of taxpayer money to his
Mafia buddies for no good reason.
3. Open a land trade route to yhe entire Orient for North America.

Vehicles are commonly dtiven many hundreds of miles further
north than the latitude of the Diomedes Islands. Vehicles can be
safely and (reasonably) comfortably operated down to 80
below aero Farenheit (I did it for years in Fairbanks). Snow and ice
cease to be slick below 35 below or so, and get a granular sandy surface.
To be slick, a thin layer of melt water (from the pressure of boots,
tires, etc.) must form on ice; this does not happen in extreme cold.

]]> By: Travis http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/05/01/the-diomede-islands/#comment-199470 Travis Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:42:04 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/04/29/the-diomede-islands/#comment-199470 haha, I'm a local from little diomede, i think i was just a baby when micheal palin started his circle, we've got pictures of him in a walrus "skin boat''. I lived there most of my life and i couldnt imagine living anywhere else, you see and live at the edge of another part of the world thats a day ahead, the weather there isnt always " blowing" , summer and spring are the nicest. Our ways of getting in and out of there is with a helicopter, and boats during the summer, we make an ice run way when the ice freezes over between the two island. Yeah, it's pretty extreme, haha, I’m a local from little diomede, i think i was just a baby when micheal palin started his circle, we’ve got pictures of him in a walrus “skin boat”. I lived there most of my life and i couldnt imagine living anywhere else, you see and live at the edge of another part of the world thats a day ahead, the weather there isnt always ” blowing” , summer and spring are the nicest. Our ways of getting in and out of there is with a helicopter, and boats during the summer, we make an ice run way when the ice freezes over between the two island. Yeah, it’s pretty extreme,

]]> By: Gerald W. Crisman http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/05/01/the-diomede-islands/#comment-153188 Gerald W. Crisman Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:47:14 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/04/29/the-diomede-islands/#comment-153188 I was a part of the 143rd AC&W squadron of Air National Guard men who helped build and operate the RADAR site at Wales Alaska during the cold war. The weather there is intolerable. The wind blows the very dirt off of the mountain leaving what looks like a Dinsours back with only boulders showing. It blows a hundred miles an hour anytime of the year. No man in his right mind would build a road across the Bering Straights. No man in his right mind would try to navigate the road if it WERE built. Trucks would be blown right into the straights. NOT ON YOU LIFE WOULD I DRIVE THAT ROAD. And, I have driven for sixteen years in Alaska as a cop and Federal Marshal at Kotsabue. Regards, Gerald Crisman (Read'TWO AND A HALF MISSIONS, MAX') I was a part of the 143rd AC&W squadron of Air National Guard men who helped build and operate the RADAR site at Wales Alaska during the cold war. The weather there is intolerable. The wind blows the very dirt off of the mountain leaving what looks like a Dinsours back with only boulders showing. It blows a hundred miles an hour anytime of the year. No man in his right mind would build a road across the Bering Straights. No man in his right mind would try to navigate the road if it WERE built. Trucks would be blown right into the straights. NOT ON YOU LIFE WOULD I DRIVE THAT ROAD. And, I have driven for sixteen years in Alaska as a cop and Federal Marshal at Kotsabue.
Regards,
Gerald Crisman (Read’TWO AND A HALF MISSIONS, MAX’)

]]> By: Nick LeRoy http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/05/01/the-diomede-islands/#comment-102282 Nick LeRoy Mon, 15 Jan 2007 02:52:38 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/04/29/the-diomede-islands/#comment-102282 What military instalations, past or present, have / had been established on either islands, and what did the respective gov't's claim to be their necessity? What military instalations, past or present, have / had been established on either islands, and what did the respective gov’t’s claim to be their necessity?

]]> By: Peter Oostlander http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/05/01/the-diomede-islands/#comment-15283 Peter Oostlander Wed, 10 May 2006 03:59:20 +0000 http://googlesightseeing.com/2006/04/29/the-diomede-islands/#comment-15283 I heard that there are a handful of Russian soldiers stationed on the Eastern Russian Island. Anyone out there that knows more about this? I heard that there are a handful of Russian soldiers stationed on the Eastern Russian Island. Anyone out there that knows more about this?

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