Saudi Arabia’s wildly ambitious plan to build 500m tall, mirrored, 170km long parallel skyscrapers, forming a 1.5M population desert city has been curtailed to 2.4km long.
The news was broken by the financial news publication Bloomberg, which said that Saudi Arabia’s government had “scaled back its medium-term ambitions” for Neom, of which The Line is the most significant sub-project.
The Saudi government had hoped to have 1.5M residents living in The Line by 2030, but this has been scaled back to fewer than 300,000, according to the report. It is unclear how it intends to house a higher concentration of people considering the proposed length (and therefore area) has been massively slashed.
The stupidest idea for a city that I’ve ever heard has gotten marginally less stupid.
At least now you can get from one side to the other quickly in an emergency.
Not that they’ll even build these 2.4 km.
I think it came up like this: Saudi king at his last visit at Chinese Wall. „Uw, one can see it from the space? That’s awesome.“ At home: „Servants, build something as big as the Chinese Wall that is visible from the space, so everyone sees how great I am.“
I’m pretty sure the whole “can be seen from space” is wrong.
Ever used Google Maps? Everything can be seen from space.
Some things are too small to be seen from anywhere.
Like ur dick
lol gottem
You can’t see it with the naked eye, but only with magnification
That’s just existing with extra steps.
As if he cares
It was the crown prince, not the king, but I’m pretty sure that’s more or less how it went.
That would be crown prince Mohammad bin Salman, because king Salman has retired in all but name
Is that bone saw cunt, or some other auth piece of shit cunt?
That is Mr. Bone Saw(MBS)
I live in the city (Terre Haute, Indiana) where Mr. Kashoggi, the man who was murdered by MBS, went to school (Indiana State University) and there was very little outcry, which saddened me greatly.
Well yeah, he wasn’t white.
Honestly, that is not a big Terre Haute problem today compared to a lot of Indiana. While it is still by far majority white, there is a sizable black population compared to a lot of other Indiana towns this size and there’s no “black part of town,” it’s thoroughly integrated. As far as Kashoggi is concerned, there also is a large enough local Muslim population to support a mosque. ISU is also a progressive school despite being in Indiana they are very big on multiculturalism. I don’t know what the Muslim population of the school is, but enough that you would notice and the school does have public celebrations of holidays like Eid, so it was actually surprising.
Now, I admit that was not always the case. In fact, a little over a century ago, Terre Haute was the site of an absolutely horrific lynching of a black man. And, of course, since this is Indiana, there is not a total lack of racism. But compared to other parts of the state I’ve been to, it’s doing relatively well on that front.
Oh thank god it’s an ally of the free world and not some bad guy.
Yes it’s Mr Bone Saw
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I see this a lot and I’m not sure whether to attribute it to ignorance or racism, but Saudi Arabia isn’t the UAE.
Huh. Both in my case. Education will helpe in both issues. Thanks.
Lucky for them. The UAE is utterly incompetent at sewage and garbage. Pretty sure it’s because everyone running the stuff over there is either a relative of someone important or someone imported who wants to be seen as impressive.
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Drown you in paperwork
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Demand the most expensive version of everything since the most expensive one is better in their mind.
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More paperwork
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Demand you follow some weird standards that seem to be a mixture of old UK and lord only knows what
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Finally they agree to the project and they demand a discount
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More paperwork
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Demand to see entire system in operation remotely.
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Tell you they aren’t ready and are willing to pay for storage
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Wait five years and finally turn it on.
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Its more likely that they’re directly next to each other but the uae gets more coverage but is much much smaller.
You might be surprised how many places have a system like that in the developed world.
Do we have a list of stupid city ideas? I think El Salvador’s Bitcoin City and Egypt’s new capital should belong there.
If you’re interested in the inner workings of shitty civic planning check out James C. Scott’s Seeing Like a State. He’s an anthropologist who took a particular interest in why top-down societies always seem to miss the mark in infrastructure, ecology, agriculture, and social services (among others). A significant portion of the book is spent critically analyzing Le Corbusier’s work and his ideological contemporaries. With Brasilia as a case study for the failures of “high modernist” ideology and design philosophy. It’s a great read and I think a lot of these new urban planning projects that are obviously insane and impractical owe a lot to these batshit crazy people from the past that founded this particular flavor of foolish
There’s Brasilia & Fordlandia (also in Brazil).
This is truly the most moronic project ever, but at least I had a good laugh about it today.
It’s even dumber than dumping sand into the ocean in the shape of a palm tree and calling it a suburb.
It is unclear how it intends to house a higher concentration of people considering the proposed length (and therefore area) has been massively slashed.
I got a brilliant idea: extend it slightly to the sides, maybe in a round shape. This allows for a more efficient way to house a high concentration of people.
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Huge waste of time and money. That effort could be focused on many better and more reasonable projects. This is what happens when fucking idiots get a ton of money inherited from their parents. We should never have relied on Saudi oil, it’s been a drain on humanity.
I think at that point it’s a town.
Lol
desert sun’s rays nuke the lake in front of glass wall/city
“Where lake go?”
That’s not a big problem since this is in a desert. Getting any water there in the first place is the problem. And, based on the mockups I saw, there’s supposed to be a lot of greenery.
water policies of saudi arabia are straight up insane. riyadh takes half of water from seashore desalination plants (that burn massive amounts of oil, so big that it cuts into their oil revenue very significantly). for the other half, they have somehow found non-renewable water, literal fossil water, and it’ll run out in decade (might have misremembered). at the same time there are no water meters in the city at all
It would just fry anyone who stands there for more than five minutes.
probably beats living in saudi arabia
I don’t know it’s probably great for Bonesaw McKillajournalist.
But do they have enough millionaires to house in there?
1 mile is not a city. it’s smaller than the park next to my house
I guess they read about China’s recent success with a fusion reactor.
How recent are you talking and by what measure of success? Because I’m not finding anything when I search and, as far as I know, the world is still a long way away from fusion as a practical energy source.
Try South Korea instead. I think they’re the ones who achieved a 48s run recently.
China sustained 158 million degrees Fahrenheit (70 million degrees Celsius) for 1,056 seconds.
- That explains it. I don’t have that long of an attention span.
I wouldn’t call that a practical energy source either.
So by “recent,” you meant 2022 and by “success,” you mean running 17 minutes.
How long do you think you can power a city with those 17 minutes of fusion?
Because my guess is around 17 minutes.
It’s a substantial leap in proof of concept. The previous record was 17s. They’re opening up all research that led to the success, with many scientists claiming potential for controlled applications within 20 years.
Even improved harnessing and storage of 158M°F could allow the reactor to work in modulation. It’s a big deal in the science community.
“Many scientists” like the ones who have been claiming that my entire life since the 1980s?
Can you show me any of their peer-reviewed journal articles that say so?
And considering your definitions of “recent” and “success” turned out to be a little on the untrue side, I’m not inclined to believe your “big deal” claim either.
You do know the difference between a peer-reviewed journal article and a regurgitated press release on a site called ‘Nuclear Newsire,’ right?
fusion won’t generate anything but hype. if you want reliable power source, just build normal uranium fueled nuclear powerplants like a responsible government, not overhyped garbage like hedge fund manager that just got his shipment of good idea powder
