A vast undersea tunnel is being built that will change the road and rail map of Europe

Very cool. Thanks for the link!

I've been reading "The Power Broker" where among other things, Bob Moses was building highways in New York and refused to even consider extending the right of way 15 meters to allow for future public transit projects. Glad to hear they're (unsurprisingly) doing it right with the highway plus rail lines.

It will be built out to 200km/h for the entire connection between Lübeck to Copenhagen.

Fyi 160km/h is the standard low speed rail

Haha 😆 I did not know this website!

18 km is about 101123 bananas according to https://www.converttobananas.com/

the metric system is superior

Doesn't even have standardized football field unit 😒

Ah, damn, I hadn't accounted for polydactylia. Wikipedia tells me 4 to 12 people in 10.000 have an extra finger, which is more than I'd have guessed and it gets in the way of my 7.3 in 10.000 estimate. It's counterintuitive, too, because I feel like I know more people with nine fingers than 11 or up.

It gets complicated, because it can also happen with toes, which we're not counting, and some amount of people have it removed surgically and I don't have data for that.

Let's just leave it in that somewhere between 0 and 3% of the time you'd be one finger off and 0-3% of the time you'd get the right number of fingers but not in the way you'd expect.

If you have two arms, you have more than the average human.

I'm glad it did too. I did not need this information, nor do I know what to do with it, but somehow you made both of our days a little bit better.

It is okay. Its Friday and we all just want to get off work.

Made me look it up. About 1 in 100.000 people lose a finger each year, so with an average life expectancy of 73 yo. and some generous rounding your finger math would be off by one finger on average in about 3% of the sample sets you pull.

Look, I don't know why your joke led me down this google rabbit hole, but it did and I'm glad it did.

How many bananas is that?

300 is btw roughly the amount of players in 27 soccer teams or the exact amount of fingers on 60 hands.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fehmarn_Belt_fixed_link

Fehmarn Belt fixed link

Now that's awesome news!

Will the rails be high-speed rail? (so at least 150km/h or something like that)

Anyway, cool project! I hope to hear from it in like 10 years when it's done lol