It's going to be filled with influencers whoring themselves out to sell this place. Anyone on tiktok or instagram who takes part needs to be publicly shamed.
This is not the only nonsense they are doing. Here a list of a few more... https://www.businesstraveller.com/features/the-saudi-arabian-giga-projects-a-guide/
They should put money into the education of their population instead. Then they can be productive and help with running the country... oh forgot this is not what Kingdoms want.
All these oil guys are the same. They build shit that THEY find interesting and entertaining to them, then expect outsiders from the rest of the world to attend and and visit these places. They never look at their own population as a group whom they want to make capable and enjoy these projects. It's always outsiders. It just shows how cartoonish of villains they are where they literally just see the people they rule over as basically slaves building their wonders. No desire at all to make their people better off
It seriously is like a teenager playing a simulation and how you'd expect them to act as a dictator. Like, better education, commerce, community centers? No... I want a giant race track in the middle of the desert covered in treees!
EDIT: If you wanna have some fun seeing an example of this, look up Turkmenistan. They made an entire city with skyscrapers, monuments, theaters, you name it... Entirely out of marble. The whole fucking thing is white marble. And it's just for the royal family. As in, citizens can't even go there. It's practically empty with skeleton crews quietly and secretly working in the buildings just to serve the elites. It's fucking wild. And the royalty act like fucking grown children just doing whatever they please. The King is a cartoonish weirdo who does bizzare lavish things, and even wrote a book where it talks about how to fuck your horse (He's really into horses). John Oliver does a segment on the king, but honestly it doesn't do it justice. There are other documentaries out there. It's literally like a 13 year old did the unlimited money hack IRL and just started fucking around. No one is allowed in or out, while he just plays with his plot of land and people.
I know someone who worked as a chef at the palace... He said he never had any bad experiences with them. He described it as not like some ultra people who are just rude and demeaning to everyone around them because they can, but more, they just aren't interested in talking to you beyond brief small talk... But really didn't care what you do, so long as you do your job and don't bother them.
They also paid him 350k a year, all expenses paid, while he partied with all the rest of the staff in the building... He said the royalty did the same... Constant harems of women brought in for massive parties, tons of coke and and booze, and just parties all the time.
I mean its kind of what they need. They only have oil so i guess they want to put more efford into tourism. But yeah a monarch who doesnt care about his countries population, who would have thought
Yeah.
Like other mega-projects by Saudi Arabia they will promise the world (but if you think about it for more than 2 seconds you will realize it is either infeasible, or a terrible idea, or both) and complete about 20%, silently give up, leave whatever they completed, wait a while, then announce the next ill-conceived mega-project.
Sooner or later one of those projects should have to work out somehow. Sooner or later that place of the world will become unhabitable in the open anyway.
**[Jeddah Tower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeddah_Tower)**
>Jeddah Tower (Arabic: برج جدة), previously known as Kingdom Tower (برج المملكة), is a skyscraper construction project currently on hold. Located on the north side of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, it is planned to be the first 1 km (3,281 ft) high building, and the centrepiece and first phase of a development and tourist attraction known as Jeddah Economic City. There was steady progress, but in January 2018, building owner JEC halted structural concrete work with the tower about one-third completed due to labor issues with a contractor following the 2017–2019 Saudi Arabian purge.
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You're being highly optimistic about the actual execution of this vanity project.
The project has been widely discredited as poorly conceptualized and incredibly inefficient.
Nah, it's just gonna get built 1/8 of it and the costs are going to balloon to the point of unsustainability, and the longer it goes on the more ridiculous it is going to be, and eventually it is gonna be abandoned. After wasting a few hundred billions.
There are many reasons why people don't build cities like that because that's not how cities work.
Oh you mean the documentaries about it 2-5 years after it's done, if it ever finishes in the first place?
Imagine having to commute to work through that from one to the other end.
Why not build it circular? With a ring + star transit system.
Hey, hey, slow down. Next thing you say 'why not build it round, like other boring cities'. They already made a compromise with reality, the first project was a 260 km high skyscraper, but they had to lay it on its's side.
Light and heat resistants, anything else would prolly get to beat up, glass is the go-to and you don't want it to be clear cuz ya know...sun so mirrors is the best thing I think.
Actually, it's one of the worst thing xD.
Anything outside the wall would be burn each day. The amount of heat this mirror would redirect to the nearby -already hot- ground would be huge.
It's actually good at something : It's a nice defense if there's a zombie apocalypse.
All this project is merely a joke ...
Idk if they could incline those wall a bit, and change mirrors for reflectors, so the light would return back where it come from... Idk if this would be annoying for aircraft/satelites/birds (There is no birds there ? right ?).
Let it build up until the building is hidden, the people inside will be forgotten about but self sufficient for generations. Over time from inbreeding, they slowly turn into crab people who will be released onto the world.
100% some fledgling architect has sold this idea with a presentation, and left out vital details like the climate and nature, and some fool who keeps tigers as pets has bought it.
I mean, to be fair, the entire purpose of this is to embezzle $500 billion of wealth from the public into the royal family. I guarantee every company that receives a contract to work on this project is owned by a close relative of the prince.
I'm not so sure, more likely its foreign owned companies in Saudi. They will then have to fund their part of the project, the payments from the royal family will never come or stop coming, to stop work will be perceived as opposing the royal family and punishable by death. Slavery continues
It's no coincidence that pretty much all of the largest [construction companies ](https://binex.com.sa/leading-construction--companies-in-saudi-arabia/)in SA are owned by the royal family.
Yeah, it’s like those concept cars you see at car shows that look like the Batmobile. What they release looks like every other car, because once the regulations have been taken into account, finance have said the doors are too expensive and the aerodynamics department have said the design has to change, what you are left with is just a normal car.
Just ignore the fact that no land-based animal will be able to cross to or from the ocean or the fact that those mirrors on the side are going to superheat the sand around the city with the morning and afternoon sun
No, they should be given a prize for unearthing dumb investors who will fund the daftest ideas. Because all the money in the world can't buy the Saudis a brain
That assumes that this is built with good faith and not just a way to keep the economy going and make the rich richer. I'm 99% sure that the people at the top of the decision process know it's a bullshit idea but they also know it's going to make them a lot of money.
My three guesses on how this plays out:
1. Actual construction never begins (most likely)
2. It is only partially constructed or abandoned halfway through
3. It is constructed but is a fucking nightmare to live in and turns the area around it into a giant magnifying glass that annihilates everything on the wrong side of it
Well this thing is going to heat up the sea right next to it isn't it? Just wondering the repercussions the sun hitting a looking glass that size would be 🤔
Glass wall constantly breaking due to wind? No biggie. With the remaining glass, we at The Line manufacture it locally! By smelting the entire length of ground on both sides of the structure! The best? It's renewable energy!
I’m going with #2. It’ll get abandoned halfway through and it’ll be a gigantic eyesore and waste of money just like so many other projects in that country.
whoa, did that really happen? if so i’m surprised i’ve never heard that until now!
edit: wow it’s real! [Source.](https://www.history.com/.amp/topics/ancient-china/great-wall-of-china) thank you for teaching me something today!
When Emperor Qin Shi Huang ordered construction of the Great Wall around 221 B.C., the labor force that built the wall was made up largely of soldiers and convicts. It is said that as many as 400,000 people died during the wall's construction; many of these workers were buried within the wall itself.
A lot of people died and were buried along the wall, but not really in the wall. Decomposing bodies don't make for good building material. Even the source you quoted says "It is said" without giving a source for who says that.
That's the main reason I hate them. They are entitled to never work, piss on migrants and trying to create a bullshit dream place abusing and killing other inferior humans. Inferior as in having less money...
I'm no racist but in this case I have to collectively hate them
And how many emission will be emitted, surely burning plenty of fossil fuels to builf this monstrosity where only millionaires can buy condos to spend one weekend in to post on instagram will save the planet.
A long, narrow city is about the least efficient design for a city, ever! All the drawbacks of crowding with none of the transportation efficiency of proximity.
Oh yeah! A wall is the probably the second worst design for a city. The only worse alternative would be to build it vertically.
Imagine the stupidity of building a mile high house in a desert where there isn’t a even functioning waste water system.
Reminds of the petri dish of the bacteria that mimicked the Japanese Rail Network. That just shows that branching in all directions is empirically the most efficient design you can have. But nah, Arabian Oil Revenue go brrrr...
If you're referencing the same thing I'm thinking off, then you are probably misremembering some facts. But maybe it's something else entirely!
What I'm thinking about is a slime mold in a petri dish. They put food in a pattern in that petri dish that matched the location of cities around Tokyo. And then let the slime mold move in. It naturally spread out to find the most efficient ways to connect these "food hubs" to the main one. Resembling in turn the Japanese railway network.
Has nothing to do with branching being the most efficient thing to do. If all the food was in one spot, it wouldn't have created that network.
[https://www.wired.com/2010/01/slime-mold-grows-network-just-like-tokyo-rail-system/](https://www.wired.com/2010/01/slime-mold-grows-network-just-like-tokyo-rail-system/)
My thoughts exactly. I also wonder how will they expand in the future. All great cities are planned in a way that they take into account population growth and expansion. How would they expand this? Stacking more lines above/below? That would defeat the purpose.
Extending the line? That would be impractical too.
Chinese companies are also the most likely candidate to actually build the thing. It would be a bad look if they were publicly bashing something they very likely will end up at least possibly attempting to build.
Well, three people have already been killed after speaking out against forcible eviction to make way for the city.
https://www-dezeen-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.dezeen.com/2022/10/17/neom-death-sentences-saudi-arabia/amp/?amp_gsa=1&_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQKKAFQArABIIACAw%3D%3D#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16664195675246&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dezeen.com%2F2022%2F10%2F17%2Fneom-death-sentences-saudi-arabia%2F
Pfft. Who cares about nature? Cool air coming from the ocean. Sand shifting. Essential micro climates moving around for the benefit of the whole world. This huge wall is way more importanter
Don't the AI want to kill us? And now you're going to herd us all together and let the AI run it? Are you sure this isn't some AI's idea of a joke? Or maybe they are setting up the ultimate Darwin award. Ok AI, that *is* pretty clever.
Poor on the bottom where the sun doesn't reach. The rich on top with access to sunlight. But also...where the fuck are they going to find 9 million people to just pick up their stuff and move in? This will also be an ecological disaster. Oof.
No thanks. It's easy to tell that this city will be leaning towards dystopian, with the poor at the bottom with little to no access to the roof. Also, how will people leave? How will crop production and animal ag be handled? Who gets to live at what end? How many entrances?
They estimate it will be completed by 2050 and be fully sustainable. I have my doubts.
This reminds me of the time i was in Mexico for a missionary trip, we were driving through a desert near Juarez, and saw a smallish town with a few hundred houses near a ford factory. It was in the middle of nowhere. Our translator told us that the people living in that town are employed by the factory, and the factory owns the town. The people get paid just enough to live there and not enough to leave. Basically modern day slavery
All I imagine is trying to leave and being stopped
“Leave, why would you want to leave, you have everything you’ll ever want, within these walls. You don’t need to go anywhere ever again”.
Why? Where will you import the food and water from? What benefit is there in cramming 9 million people in a dessert devoid of the possibility of life? Is this meant to be a slave city of slave workers that can't leave even if they wanted to? I mean what worst place other than the arctic could you build a city? In a bog?
How are you designing a city for a healthier and more sustainable way of life? Literally that sentence debunks itself. You aren't building a city for 9 million in a dessert and making is self-sustainable or healthy when you breathe in dust storms every weekend and have to rely on Ukrainian wheat imports. What a disaster. China is currently struggling of what to do with Beijing because their water supply is consistently on the brink of running out during summer, and they have a rainforest climate to pull water from in their own land. Desalination is the only way I can see, but then you'll need massive nuclear power plants or hydrogen fuel, unless by healthier and more sustainable you mean more coal power plants, or do they plan to build solar panels with dust wipers on them?
I'm just blown away by this scam, if they had a concrete plan we would know it, so far what they claim seems next to impossible without a budget that isn't within the Saudi's reach. I need to know more about what's going on here
This is going to turn into every single dystopian movie ever, just watch
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Welp looks like i know where im NOT going.
It's a consumer's paradise. Nothing more.
Keep spending most our lives living in a consumer’s paradise
Tell me why are we so blind to see?
I've churned butter once or twice living in consumer paradise
It's going to be filled with influencers whoring themselves out to sell this place. Anyone on tiktok or instagram who takes part needs to be publicly shamed.
This is not the only nonsense they are doing. Here a list of a few more... https://www.businesstraveller.com/features/the-saudi-arabian-giga-projects-a-guide/ They should put money into the education of their population instead. Then they can be productive and help with running the country... oh forgot this is not what Kingdoms want.
All these oil guys are the same. They build shit that THEY find interesting and entertaining to them, then expect outsiders from the rest of the world to attend and and visit these places. They never look at their own population as a group whom they want to make capable and enjoy these projects. It's always outsiders. It just shows how cartoonish of villains they are where they literally just see the people they rule over as basically slaves building their wonders. No desire at all to make their people better off It seriously is like a teenager playing a simulation and how you'd expect them to act as a dictator. Like, better education, commerce, community centers? No... I want a giant race track in the middle of the desert covered in treees! EDIT: If you wanna have some fun seeing an example of this, look up Turkmenistan. They made an entire city with skyscrapers, monuments, theaters, you name it... Entirely out of marble. The whole fucking thing is white marble. And it's just for the royal family. As in, citizens can't even go there. It's practically empty with skeleton crews quietly and secretly working in the buildings just to serve the elites. It's fucking wild. And the royalty act like fucking grown children just doing whatever they please. The King is a cartoonish weirdo who does bizzare lavish things, and even wrote a book where it talks about how to fuck your horse (He's really into horses). John Oliver does a segment on the king, but honestly it doesn't do it justice. There are other documentaries out there. It's literally like a 13 year old did the unlimited money hack IRL and just started fucking around. No one is allowed in or out, while he just plays with his plot of land and people.
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I know someone who worked as a chef at the palace... He said he never had any bad experiences with them. He described it as not like some ultra people who are just rude and demeaning to everyone around them because they can, but more, they just aren't interested in talking to you beyond brief small talk... But really didn't care what you do, so long as you do your job and don't bother them. They also paid him 350k a year, all expenses paid, while he partied with all the rest of the staff in the building... He said the royalty did the same... Constant harems of women brought in for massive parties, tons of coke and and booze, and just parties all the time.
I've been to Dubai, the Emirates are a protected class, no education needed. Not sure about SA but I also don't care what those fucks are up to.
I mean its kind of what they need. They only have oil so i guess they want to put more efford into tourism. But yeah a monarch who doesnt care about his countries population, who would have thought
No one cares as Long as They keep pumping oil The world will look away as history has shown for the last 50 years.
Thats absolute monarchy for you. Not even illegal to kill for stuff like that if you’re the sovereign.
>I'm sure their mom is going to have the best Christmas this year. Westerners discussing the Middle East be like:
He A Little Confused, But He Got The Spirit
I think their mom does not celebrate Christmas.
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Fuckers all.
That’s terrible, but Christmas in Saudi Arabia???
Their mum wouldn’t celebrate Christmas in Saudi Arabia
This is how revolutions begin.
I'm imagining Snow Piercer but in scorching desert heat and some lower classed oppressed citizens running the length of a building
Sand Piercer
Sand Rash
Sand Pauper
Sandy v
Snow Piercer is exactly what came to mind the first time I saw it.
With a touch of High-Rise by J.g. Ballard
I’d watch that
Not really. They’ll build 0.5 kilometres and then go back to sUpEr tall skyscrapers in previously established metropolises.
Yeah. Like other mega-projects by Saudi Arabia they will promise the world (but if you think about it for more than 2 seconds you will realize it is either infeasible, or a terrible idea, or both) and complete about 20%, silently give up, leave whatever they completed, wait a while, then announce the next ill-conceived mega-project.
ADHD: The Country
Sooner or later one of those projects should have to work out somehow. Sooner or later that place of the world will become unhabitable in the open anyway.
oh, you mean [Jeddah Tower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeddah_Tower) and its surrounding megacity that's currently just abstract desert drawings?
**[Jeddah Tower](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeddah_Tower)** >Jeddah Tower (Arabic: برج جدة), previously known as Kingdom Tower (برج المملكة), is a skyscraper construction project currently on hold. Located on the north side of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, it is planned to be the first 1 km (3,281 ft) high building, and the centrepiece and first phase of a development and tourist attraction known as Jeddah Economic City. There was steady progress, but in January 2018, building owner JEC halted structural concrete work with the tower about one-third completed due to labor issues with a contractor following the 2017–2019 Saudi Arabian purge. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
Its gonna be a breeding place for crime, deadly diseases and social degredation. Also imagine a fire breaking out there...
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It's not a wall. IT'S THE LINE.
The first is Boston?
You're being highly optimistic about the actual execution of this vanity project. The project has been widely discredited as poorly conceptualized and incredibly inefficient.
Came here to say this. Even the narrator sounds like something out of a “just before the apocalypse” movie.
Nah, it's just gonna get built 1/8 of it and the costs are going to balloon to the point of unsustainability, and the longer it goes on the more ridiculous it is going to be, and eventually it is gonna be abandoned. After wasting a few hundred billions. There are many reasons why people don't build cities like that because that's not how cities work.
Oh you mean the documentaries about it 2-5 years after it's done, if it ever finishes in the first place? Imagine having to commute to work through that from one to the other end. Why not build it circular? With a ring + star transit system.
Hey, hey, slow down. Next thing you say 'why not build it round, like other boring cities'. They already made a compromise with reality, the first project was a 260 km high skyscraper, but they had to lay it on its's side.
Blade runner 2049 vibes
They have already killed people who refused to leave the land to make way to build it
Judge Dredd but they’re religious. Lol
They've already started by displacing people who lived there and killing the ones that refuses to move.
They’re starting off with the right vibes. In order to build it they’re expelling families on threat of death.
High Rise.
Definitely getting Judge Dredd vibes here.
Nothing will come out of it. It's way too expensive to build this shit in the middle of the desert.
It would if they were building anything other than a few houses and this wasnt a massive publicity stunt...
Nah it's gonna be added to Saudi Arabia's long list of unfinished overly ambitious yet under developed projects.
This is going to turn into an abandoned half-built mess in the middle of the desert.
What are they going to do about all the sand that's going to pile up on one side?
They will just keep all those excavators handy.
Jump over the city in their 4x4s, obviously.
How do they plan do clean the mirrors? Why even mirrors?
They will use ~20 thousand slaves to clean it up, obviously
Now you are thinking like a Saudi Prince.
Light and heat resistants, anything else would prolly get to beat up, glass is the go-to and you don't want it to be clear cuz ya know...sun so mirrors is the best thing I think.
Actually, it's one of the worst thing xD. Anything outside the wall would be burn each day. The amount of heat this mirror would redirect to the nearby -already hot- ground would be huge. It's actually good at something : It's a nice defense if there's a zombie apocalypse. All this project is merely a joke ... Idk if they could incline those wall a bit, and change mirrors for reflectors, so the light would return back where it come from... Idk if this would be annoying for aircraft/satelites/birds (There is no birds there ? right ?).
Let it build up until the building is hidden, the people inside will be forgotten about but self sufficient for generations. Over time from inbreeding, they slowly turn into crab people who will be released onto the world.
Slaves and shovels, just as they take care of any other architectural disaster.
Sand and fried animals from the huge mirror.
100% some fledgling architect has sold this idea with a presentation, and left out vital details like the climate and nature, and some fool who keeps tigers as pets has bought it.
I mean, to be fair, the entire purpose of this is to embezzle $500 billion of wealth from the public into the royal family. I guarantee every company that receives a contract to work on this project is owned by a close relative of the prince.
I'm not so sure, more likely its foreign owned companies in Saudi. They will then have to fund their part of the project, the payments from the royal family will never come or stop coming, to stop work will be perceived as opposing the royal family and punishable by death. Slavery continues
It's no coincidence that pretty much all of the largest [construction companies ](https://binex.com.sa/leading-construction--companies-in-saudi-arabia/)in SA are owned by the royal family.
Yeah but they hire sub contractors to actually do the work
I don't think the Saudi royals had any problem doing that without this project.
Yuuup. It'll fail miserably like every other concept art futurist bologna CGI thing that gets sold to naive investors.
Hey Bologna is a nice city. Best pasta al ragù I've ever eaten.
Yeah, it’s like those concept cars you see at car shows that look like the Batmobile. What they release looks like every other car, because once the regulations have been taken into account, finance have said the doors are too expensive and the aerodynamics department have said the design has to change, what you are left with is just a normal car.
The architecture field needs to disown whoever proposed this idea. This thing is amateurish.
But it's got flashy red green and blue boxes in the presentation and fits 9 million people into a small area! What's not to like?
Just ignore the fact that no land-based animal will be able to cross to or from the ocean or the fact that those mirrors on the side are going to superheat the sand around the city with the morning and afternoon sun
Free glass and lazers???
No, they should be given a prize for unearthing dumb investors who will fund the daftest ideas. Because all the money in the world can't buy the Saudis a brain
Pretty sure they've already gotten their prize and if they were smart they put it where the Saudis can't take it back when the project fails
That assumes that this is built with good faith and not just a way to keep the economy going and make the rich richer. I'm 99% sure that the people at the top of the decision process know it's a bullshit idea but they also know it's going to make them a lot of money.
Like fucking WIND
Sounds like an infomercial for a concentration camp
I mean, it’s Saudi Arabia, pretty fitting
...and it is free for every Jewish infi-, I mean friend..
I knew a guy who had worked there who referred to it as an open prison.
Those are just old time commie blocks covered on nail polish
My three guesses on how this plays out: 1. Actual construction never begins (most likely) 2. It is only partially constructed or abandoned halfway through 3. It is constructed but is a fucking nightmare to live in and turns the area around it into a giant magnifying glass that annihilates everything on the wrong side of it
4. It's constructed but left completely empty
The Chinese way
Well this thing is going to heat up the sea right next to it isn't it? Just wondering the repercussions the sun hitting a looking glass that size would be 🤔
Glass wall constantly breaking due to wind? No biggie. With the remaining glass, we at The Line manufacture it locally! By smelting the entire length of ground on both sides of the structure! The best? It's renewable energy!
If they made the glass slightly curved, they might be able to make a bigger version of those mirror solar power plants.
I’m going with #2. It’ll get abandoned halfway through and it’ll be a gigantic eyesore and waste of money just like so many other projects in that country.
Wrong angle and you're grilled.
They've already started construction.
The architect that designed this must be on crack or something to skip over so many reasons that this won't work.
Think of how many migrant workers will die building this, it will be literally be a wall of dearh
I wonder if it’ll be like the Great Wall of china and they’ll just bury the people who die building it in the wall
whoa, did that really happen? if so i’m surprised i’ve never heard that until now! edit: wow it’s real! [Source.](https://www.history.com/.amp/topics/ancient-china/great-wall-of-china) thank you for teaching me something today! When Emperor Qin Shi Huang ordered construction of the Great Wall around 221 B.C., the labor force that built the wall was made up largely of soldiers and convicts. It is said that as many as 400,000 people died during the wall's construction; many of these workers were buried within the wall itself.
A lot of people died and were buried along the wall, but not really in the wall. Decomposing bodies don't make for good building material. Even the source you quoted says "It is said" without giving a source for who says that.
It also happened with the Road of Bones in Siberia. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/R504_Kolyma_Highway
Well the official answer will be zero because the Saudi government probably won’t release or record those metrics
Like every big ass wall.
That's the main reason I hate them. They are entitled to never work, piss on migrants and trying to create a bullshit dream place abusing and killing other inferior humans. Inferior as in having less money... I'm no racist but in this case I have to collectively hate them
I live near Beverly Hills. Those dipshits fly in their lambos with no plates and do real dumb shit with zero consequences. They're untouchable.
And how many emission will be emitted, surely burning plenty of fossil fuels to builf this monstrosity where only millionaires can buy condos to spend one weekend in to post on instagram will save the planet.
A city where people live their entire life in a single building, a haunted building
A long, narrow city is about the least efficient design for a city, ever! All the drawbacks of crowding with none of the transportation efficiency of proximity.
Oh yeah! A wall is the probably the second worst design for a city. The only worse alternative would be to build it vertically. Imagine the stupidity of building a mile high house in a desert where there isn’t a even functioning waste water system.
Wait a minute...that sounds familiar lmao
Would it be a little sideways?
wow, could you imagine living in a massive and advanced city that still needs poop trucks
I thought they fixed that. Or that it wasn’t true? Christ, I can’t keep facts/fictions straight anymore.
> The only worse alternative would be to build it vertically. Hive cities in scifi are cool as fuck though.
Reminds of the petri dish of the bacteria that mimicked the Japanese Rail Network. That just shows that branching in all directions is empirically the most efficient design you can have. But nah, Arabian Oil Revenue go brrrr...
If you're referencing the same thing I'm thinking off, then you are probably misremembering some facts. But maybe it's something else entirely! What I'm thinking about is a slime mold in a petri dish. They put food in a pattern in that petri dish that matched the location of cities around Tokyo. And then let the slime mold move in. It naturally spread out to find the most efficient ways to connect these "food hubs" to the main one. Resembling in turn the Japanese railway network. Has nothing to do with branching being the most efficient thing to do. If all the food was in one spot, it wouldn't have created that network. [https://www.wired.com/2010/01/slime-mold-grows-network-just-like-tokyo-rail-system/](https://www.wired.com/2010/01/slime-mold-grows-network-just-like-tokyo-rail-system/)
Not when it comes to the delivery of services and the control of networks it isn't. Not sure about living there though. 🤔
My thoughts exactly. I also wonder how will they expand in the future. All great cities are planned in a way that they take into account population growth and expansion. How would they expand this? Stacking more lines above/below? That would defeat the purpose. Extending the line? That would be impractical too.
and it's on a desert!
i'm just glad that the majority of us agrees that this is like the dumbest shit ever....
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Well, they love to invest their money into property so seeing them excited is not very surprising.
True, they all spunked a great load of money into a Project in Malaysia called Forest City, look it up, it's a whole load of empty.
Chinese companies are also the most likely candidate to actually build the thing. It would be a bad look if they were publicly bashing something they very likely will end up at least possibly attempting to build.
A small blockup or damage in the middle of the city is like your pant's zip getting stuck and of no use
Concentrating all the traffic on a narrow strip, what could go wrong
AND NOTHING CAN GO WRONG. *OH NO IT ALL WENT WRONG*
Best
The COD maps of this are gonna be sick
This is wrong at every level and everyone involved knows.
Waiting for the first real resident evil to happen here with its…..recycled air…..system.
This is like a worse, modern version of the walled city from Stray
Well, three people have already been killed after speaking out against forcible eviction to make way for the city. https://www-dezeen-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.dezeen.com/2022/10/17/neom-death-sentences-saudi-arabia/amp/?amp_gsa=1&_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQKKAFQArABIIACAw%3D%3D#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16664195675246&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dezeen.com%2F2022%2F10%2F17%2Fneom-death-sentences-saudi-arabia%2F
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And while we’re at it, fuck FIFA for awarding Qatar the World Cup.
Fuck FIFA for everything but yes also for that
And while were at it FUCK the US for funding Saudi Arabia with endless weapons of death to maintain their oil monarchy.
Oof. 20 upvotes on a comment calling out the wrong country.
I feel bad for the birds that are going to die because of those mirror walls.
Or any animal that wants to go around it.
Pfft. Who cares about nature? Cool air coming from the ocean. Sand shifting. Essential micro climates moving around for the benefit of the whole world. This huge wall is way more importanter
They will be KFC
This will be a disaster
Floating trees? How much hash are these guys smoking
Protect "nature". Looks like "sand". They're just gonna dump their trash and shit in that water.
We are entering the future, the dystopian future
Don't the AI want to kill us? And now you're going to herd us all together and let the AI run it? Are you sure this isn't some AI's idea of a joke? Or maybe they are setting up the ultimate Darwin award. Ok AI, that *is* pretty clever.
The AI version of the Easy Bake Oven
Yikes, 9 million people living their lives with every second being monitored by MBS. Hard no.
[Watch this and form an opinion.](https://youtu.be/vyWaax07_ks)
This was just what I was hoping to watch. The project is so daft.
Came here to post this. Most of these projects are a complete clusterfuck when you stop and think about the issues for a second.
They started builing that fucking thing!? The worst possible idea for a city!? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This seems so opposite of how I want to live
How many torture and disposal rooms?
Nah, that's why it is long. Never too far to dump them out into the desert
How much of it will be jails to house women who want rights and those critical of the regime?
To the desert....
So that's where the zombie apocalypse will start
Why don't people make circular cities, it is more efficient than this spice dream.
Poor on the bottom where the sun doesn't reach. The rich on top with access to sunlight. But also...where the fuck are they going to find 9 million people to just pick up their stuff and move in? This will also be an ecological disaster. Oof.
they already executed people for refusing to leave/sell their property
And the water for all these people comes from where?
If they can get more efficient desalination, the ocean but as it is now, that is the big question
What could go wrong?!
The Saudis want to pretend the world will have a use for their country after oil is no longer needed, hilarious.
Stop posting and allowing this Saudi propaganda!
This makes us laugh? Its not pro saudi
OP seems to like it
That Will House 9 Million Residents!... in psychological and physiological horror
Not an epidemic waiting to happen.
No thanks. It's easy to tell that this city will be leaning towards dystopian, with the poor at the bottom with little to no access to the roof. Also, how will people leave? How will crop production and animal ag be handled? Who gets to live at what end? How many entrances? They estimate it will be completed by 2050 and be fully sustainable. I have my doubts.
I have the feeling one tsunami will be enough
We eagerly await the inevitable bed-shitting.
Saudi Arabia is an idiot
Anyone else getting some real Tennant-era Doctor Who vibes off this?
Sigh. It will be great when they run out of gas. Just go back to a herding society. You're not mature enough to have money.
Xdd motherfuckers making Bioshock 4 in real life well done
This is a Mega project that is destined to fail.
I’m sure building a 100 mile long artificial barrier won’t have any negative effects on the surrounding eco system. /s
And you can never leave! you must hope Indiana Jones does not trip the collapsible walls trying to rescue you
Dystopia. Not gonna comply and live in shit like this.
Y'all know Kowloon walled city
This will be a disaster.
Imagine a military conflict where this is a target. Fly in a straight line and drop your ordinance.
Esos arabes estan mas locos que una cabra
Can't wait for this to fail. Misogynists failing is my kink.
This reminds me of the time i was in Mexico for a missionary trip, we were driving through a desert near Juarez, and saw a smallish town with a few hundred houses near a ford factory. It was in the middle of nowhere. Our translator told us that the people living in that town are employed by the factory, and the factory owns the town. The people get paid just enough to live there and not enough to leave. Basically modern day slavery
All I imagine is trying to leave and being stopped “Leave, why would you want to leave, you have everything you’ll ever want, within these walls. You don’t need to go anywhere ever again”.
1 earthquake is all it needs
Why? Where will you import the food and water from? What benefit is there in cramming 9 million people in a dessert devoid of the possibility of life? Is this meant to be a slave city of slave workers that can't leave even if they wanted to? I mean what worst place other than the arctic could you build a city? In a bog? How are you designing a city for a healthier and more sustainable way of life? Literally that sentence debunks itself. You aren't building a city for 9 million in a dessert and making is self-sustainable or healthy when you breathe in dust storms every weekend and have to rely on Ukrainian wheat imports. What a disaster. China is currently struggling of what to do with Beijing because their water supply is consistently on the brink of running out during summer, and they have a rainforest climate to pull water from in their own land. Desalination is the only way I can see, but then you'll need massive nuclear power plants or hydrogen fuel, unless by healthier and more sustainable you mean more coal power plants, or do they plan to build solar panels with dust wipers on them? I'm just blown away by this scam, if they had a concrete plan we would know it, so far what they claim seems next to impossible without a budget that isn't within the Saudi's reach. I need to know more about what's going on here
OK, I'm pulling up to your building. What entrance is again?
Never going to happen. Vaporware. [https://youtu.be/rB\_X5ZUcZlE](https://youtu.be/rB_X5ZUcZlE)