h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I'll sort it now. It seems we were all waiting for each other to do the request.


Lanzababy

Sorry to arrive so late.


a note or two for anyone who might pick this up:


Yes, the topographical and political landscape of the area is challenging, but certainly in no way insurmountable: The Highway is complete through all of Central America, most of which has been war-torn through much of the twentieth century, and it already crosses Colombia; and the Alaska Highway was built in a very short time in the 1940s over an inconceivably vast and hostile patch of forest, swamp, muskeg, permafrost and mountain.

Pushing a road through the relatively short stretch of the Gap would be a matter of a year or two if such a road were actually desired.

The fact is, that the prospect of trucks trundling up a highway from South America, particularly trucks loaded with cattle, is horrifying to beef and dairy farmers of Central and North America. I'm sure many in Britain remember a little something about Foot and Mouth Disease. The disease is endemic in the herds of South America. It is virtually non-existent north of the Darien Gap.

The countries north of the gap have no interest in seeing the highway completed -- in fact, they have strong reasons to prevent it every happening. No one in the North wants to see our livestock and/or our wild ungulates infected.

This still here? I'll add it to the Eds list _again_

Spring cleaning, lanza?

seems so But this one seems hard to move

Im back, Sorry that it has been so long since I have replied. Thanks for all the feedback.