Re: Does the Bering Strait freeze so a person could drive across it to Russia?

      It is a fairly well accepted theory that many thoudands of years ago, the 
ancestors of the Eskimos, as well as Native Americans, travelled from Eurasia to 
North America on an "ice bridge" which formed in the Bearing Strait.  This 
bridge temporarily connected the two continents.
      As I understand, this occurred during the last Ice Age.  During this ice 
age, much of the earth's water was locked up in a giant ice sheet that covered 
each of the poles.  As more water that would regularly have been in the oceans 
was locked into the ice, the sea level went down.  The distance between the 
continents was drastically reduced.  
     When the ice did begin to melt, the sea level again rose, increasing the 
distance between the continents.  Today, however, that distance is so great that 
the ocean cannot fully freeze, and you are forced to fly to Asia.

     Unfortunately, you will have to cancel your road-trip.  You are about 
10,000 years late.

-John O'Sullivan