yet if the line actually existed , you'll see them all trying to apply for a visa there 😂, it already happened in dubai before, now it will happen again with the line, mr. "I'm gLad EveRyone is a CriticaL tHinKer"
@@billomalley1168 how do you know or sure that all of us will apply for visa? I know for sure I don't. dubai at least look like a city and kinda habitable at least but this? is a nonsense.
It's like a late 2000's young adult dystopia novel brought to life! "In the Line, we could have anything we wanted...if you were a Highliner. Us Lowliners had to struggle to get by, and outside the GlassWall, the Lineless dwelled and scribbled not-straight lines..."
Yeah the ad even promotes "equitable views" except for I guess those who live at ground level. Also why is the line located in a barren wasteland? Immediate access to nature? Nature outside the line looks deadly
I swear some of the people on here are ignorant as if they’ve never left their own home. People across the world live in even more crowded areas with much much worse standards than this.
It's the same as a city. Every neighborhood is different and it's got parks, nature, malls , shops and concert halls. You need no cars and thus you take the train everywhere.
This reminds me of a show called “snow piercer” where the rest of humanity is in a big train and the people with less money get put towards the back and richer people get put towards the front. This is exactly how the line will turn out but vertically
You got that right - it would be just easier than a video game. Of course in utopia, there will be no weapons to defend the populace, because everyone is expected to be nice.
AKA Logan's Run. I wonder where Carousel will be located for liquidating everyone over 30 to maintain the proper population balance the automation system requires.
When I was a kid (1950) we had ant farms. I guess they are still available today. That was my first impression on seeing this. Man's destiny is to live as insects? Workers in a social environment where you are born serve and die? I live on 5 acres in a forest and I am alive. The forest surrounding me is alive and vibrant. I am surrounded by squirrel, deer, elk, bear, wolf, cougar and birds of many kinds. I am so blessed to have been born in the 40's.
If you cannot comprehend such a project then don't expect Saudi Arabia can't. This will be built whether you can or cannot imagine it. We would not advertise it to the world if we could not build it.
@@samaljadhai2973 You're missing the jokes about pre-ordering a game.... i.e. Cyberpunk. And what i CAN comprehend is how this is going to WRECK the ecosystem.
@@samaljadhai2973 Imagine there's no heaven It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us, only sky Imagine all the people Livin' for today Ah Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion, too Imagine all the people Livin' life in peace You You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us And the world will be as one Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can No need for greed or hunger A brotherhood of man Imagine all the people Sharing all the world You You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us And the world will live as one
Does anyone else notice how The Line's construction completely blocks out natural sunlight for the lowest levels save for midday but due to the structures criss-crossing the Line's walls that sunlight would blocked out and shaded at the very bottom regardless? And even with the glass façade, this is still predicated on light going through all of the buildings that make up the actual internal structure of the wall, let alone all of the actual service structures too. Am I the only one that noticed? This construction would literally split people into even more rigid class hierarchies as the rich would be the only ones able to afford high-rise property/apartments where natural sunlight is the most plentiful and easily accessible in an environment outside of a building. Which is important as natural sunlight governs many bodily functions, chief among them our circadian rhythm. Equity my ass. Also the mirror façade will absolutely SCORCH the surrounding landscape, along with reducing the amount of light that enters the Line further as more light would have to bounce off for the mirrors to even work as such. And then there's the absolute tripe about "renewable energy". I don't see mention of a single nuclear reactor at all. you'd run out of power trying to light up this monstrosity and would have to resort to sapping from other power grids to get by.
When solar energy became independent because people just can install it in their house and not through any govt, elites started to panic, cuz in a while if that technology advances people would eventually stop using oil So the plan is to monetize the sun since you cannot put sun in an enclosure Put peasants in an enclosure and create obstacles to getting free sunlight
Another thing I noticed, imagine how bad this building would be for the birds, mirror facade of skyscrapers kill thousands of birds because they can see flying towards it until its too late, they hit it midflight and die...
And also... what if there is a fire? What will stop the connected structure fcom being fully burnt down? Especially in a place that has such temperatures.
"The Line will be 500 meters tall and have an elegant mirror-glass facade." Yeah, that's every local bird dead by flocks at a time. This is the dumbest idea I've ever seen - and the bird thing is probably the smallest of the very obvious impacts something like this would have.
What about the wind? How will this 170 km long impact to the weather? And is it safe to build this so safe so close to the red sea? What about the rising sea level?
I read a sci-fi book that describes a global city just like this one, where the wealthiest elite resides, while the rest of the world struggles in dumps and townships.
@@liz-xi3gz It's a trilogy by a French author, called F.A.U.S.T, but I'm not sure there is an English translation. I'm going to look it up. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge_Lehman
Its not surprising, living there wont be free. This is straight living luxury and my dream About tourists I think there would be a change in society, they will try to change their citizens mentality like dubai or no change at all and accept only their own citizens
Idk to me this looks exactly like the kind of projects that were encouraged where I went to architecture school. Not saying that’s a good thing. 😂 Design a cross section, extrude it in CAD, greenwash it with some wind turbines, trees, and solar panels-that’s week one. Then spend the rest of the semester waiting days for the renders, and there you have it: the line.
Yes exactly. For first year architecture students they expects things like this. Visions. Making projects that are more then visions and are actually functionig you gonna learn later. But "the line" clearly didnt reach that stage.
That's the problem as a first year you didn't go beyond the common. Can you imagine those Architects in Paris that built unusual structures that were made fun of because of their concept? This is what would make you common. No offense.
@@shanglyshangly9173Why? Scifi fan? Spending much time playing video games and have no friends? Bet you enyoed Blade runner. One earthquake would destroy it and kill 100.000's people.
Robert Silverberg wrote, "The World Inside" in 1971 wherein the whole of Earth's 'urban' population lives in 3km high buildings holding 800,000 people. Each building is divided into 25, 40-story sections, with the social status reflected in how high you are within the building. The people living outside of the buildings were the farmers, working hard to feed the billions of people living inside. The two overarching classes had vastly different views on population control. As for the 'Line'. One thing leaped out to me at once, as well as several others that have been discussed. A closed environment surrounded by an inhospitable environment is an epidemic breeding ground unlike anything since the pestilential slums that gave us cholera, plague, and typhus. When the next SARS, COVID, or influenza outbreak appears inside the Line, it will spread with horrific ease. A closed environment makes it both easier to control a 'captive' population, and easier for that population to overwhelm the 'masters'. Others have already
Unfortunately fire travels quickly upwards In matters of seconds cover a floor... And those at bottom most can jump escape, the ones at top will get more fierce fire but jump to their death or burn alive! Then that building will collpase or get reconstructed
From a bigger perspective (as the name already says) the line is only one dimensional while a normal city is 2D. So it seem so much easier to stop the spreading of diseases. How do you come to the exact opposite conclusion?
They’ve solve some of those issues based off the Book. The masters won’t live in the Line, but in different cities they are building. The line is for the plebs. Thankyou for this!
At my grandmothers old house, her backyard was all woods, and she had a lot of bird feeders. And it wasn’t uncommon to hear a “wham” from time to time at her sunroom windows. The windows were reflecting the surroundings just enough that the birds didn’t know there was a window there, and would fly into it thinking it was open air, or get spooked by a hawk and fly towards it thinking it was a path to escape. Sometimes the birds would be lucky and catch themselves before they hit the ground and fly off. Other times they would hit the window hard enough to stun themselves and fall to the ground with a plop and take some time to recover. The unlucky ones were the ones that slammed into the window so hard they broke their necks, or the ones that veered away from the sunroom windows to hit the family room windows. The reason why _that_ was a problem was because her house was on a hill, and any bird that hit the family room window would then plummet two stories down to the stone pathway outside the door that opened to the downstairs. Now, I am no “expert” when it comes to architecture and nature, but can you explain to me how this _”elegant”_, 500m tall, 170km long MIRROR is supposed to help nature?! How is this a “intelligent solution”?! _Surely_ when designing this, some wildlife experts or _someone_ was involved in designing this, right? Because unless you install something on this “mirror” to give birds a heads up that there is something solid in their way, it won’t matter how “energy efficient” this place is, you can’t call it a solution to saving nature if it kills off hundreds if not thousands of birds each year considering the size of this thing if they can’t see it effectively. Not to mention that while birds can fly high, from my understanding most birds fly relatively low. I can hardly imagine a bird like a wild _turkey_ flying over this thing. So for the bird species that have to migrate, will some species be stuck, unable to fly over? And even if they CAN all fly over, what about animals that _can’t_ fly? If you don’t put any tunnels in the structure, you may be preventing some land bound species from migrating. At this point, you best bet would be to build this thing somewhere more barren and devoid of wildlife. Though from watching the video again, it looks like that is already the plan! Just barren wastes of desert and rocky mountains surround The Line, and while I know in some places of the world there are deserts and canyons and such that can be beautiful, in the video it looks like the area around The Line is dead, like some kind of disaster has happened. And this of course just makes the The Line look and feel more dystopian. So what kind of “view” to this _“accessible nature”_ are people supposed to get when all they see outside is barren wasteland? And how is there supposed to be “unique communities” in The Line? Every section of The Line looks the same! Yes, the people in each section of The Line can be unique of course, but in the real world when you travel from town to town, city to city, while there may be similarities in some ways to how some buildings are built, each one has its own unique look and style to it, and is laid out differently. In The Line, you made a big rectangle, filled it with rooms, and then copied and pasted a few dozen times in _a line._ You would be living in a box, that looks like the same box that another person at the other far end of The Line would be living in. Where is the individuality? Wouldn’t this get boring to look at after awhile? Maybe that is the reason The Line is the way it is, you can’t possibly get lost in a building that looks the same no matter where you go if your only options are left and right! And having everything you need within 5 minutes of walking sounds nice and all, but I have to wonder: with all this cramped, and therefore limited space, are any of these businesses and such around the area going to be created and owned by individuals wanting to start their own business…or by chains the likes of Walmart and such? Just corporations, more copy and pasting, no individuality. A saying my grandpa used to have was “Always look five miles down the road”, and I feel like it is something a lot of these “experts” on finding sustainable solutions are _not_ doing. In trying to solve some solutions, no one is thinking about any possible negative effects the “solutions” may have days, weeks, _years_ into the future. And besides, did any of the architects ever think to themselves: would anyone be _happy_ living in a box for the rest of their life, crammed into a space with millions of other people, like sardines in a can?
My first thought was how hot those mirrors would be, so I'm not sure creatures would even want to get close enough to them. Another thought is how much sky would one be able to see. Good points though.
When I watched this clip, I truly felt chills in my body. I think it is a very impressive project, but I also wonder, and let’s be honest, can this be achieved? What if a fire or something happens, how can we deal with this? Well, let’s say we were able to deal with this. Will a city 170 km away, covered with glass, help build a healthy environment? There are a lot of questions in reality, but if there is one thing that really amazes me, it is that Saudi Arabia has already started this project, so I am really excited for the day it will end, and I hope that it will end successfully without going through countless problems, so I really hope that the engineers in charge of this project have calculated it. Their calculations for all these crazy things, and in the end I believe that the civilization in which we live today is basically based on madness! Good luck to Saudi Arabia 👏👏
They didn't start it, they spent a lot of money and wrote a lot of contracts but I build major projects for a living, the idea that this has been in construction for 6 years and they haven't poured any concrete?? Look on google maps it's a sandpit with a few old farms
Interesting concept but it's not feasible. You can never have 100% water renewability, there will always be lost to evaporation amongst other factors. The 170km wall hosts a few problems itself: 1) The mirrors would have to be heavy duty and need to withstand abrasion extremely well, a broken panel (depending on size) could be a hassle and costly to replace. 2) The giant wall obstructs air movement worse than a sprawled out city ever would. The big issue is the sand being eroded at the bases of the wall potentially undermining the foundation. You will need to backfill and compact frequently to prevent this. 3) Sand will be everywhere and hard to remove within the city. Sandstorms will move larger grains of sand but the normal wind can move finer particles, with air flow those particles will be all over the city. As for sandstorms or haboobs, sand would envelope the city and with a modular design scheme removal would be a huge pain. One other big issue is fire. Unless you are planning to have sprinkler systems everywhere containing/stopping a fire. We've seen apartments fires engulf a whole building, with everything interconnected fire will spread easier. This is problematic with bad fires, the structural integrity of these modules could fail and large chunks of debris could come crashing down and who knows how that could effect other modules or even the wall. All in all it seems like you're not building a city but a large retirement community. How would business/industry function? Who gets to live next to the solid waste/ water treatment plants? Are you planning on building 1000's of elevators? Are you planning on replacing urban sprawl with solar farms, how will you power the city? How will law enforcement work in this environment? Their are a whole host of issues that need to be addressed and I hope the bright minds behind this will consider what I and others may have left in the comments.
You forgot the earliest problem of this city: A building needs a solid thing to stand on. The taller and heavier the more sophisticated the support structure needs to be. Deserts are made of sand which is a terrible medium for a foundation
But why a line?? That's like the most inefficient design possible. 200m by 170km, that's 34km² that could fit within a circular blueprint that's just 6.5km across. Instead of needing crazy high speed maglev trains to travel 170km in 20 minutes, if you lived near the center you could have access to all of the city either by foot or bike, or maybe trams.
There’s also been reports of wage theft, illegal working hours, and human rights abuses. More than 20,000 Indigenous people were also forcefully removed from the region to make way for NEOM.
What about the ecology? Winds? Birds and desert animals? Waste management? I think, they should try to build some 5 or 10 km of this project and then to learn its sustainability and other factors. Another aspect is mental health of Neom's inhabitants. What about claustrophobia? They will live in a narrow corridor of about 100 meters between endless (in height and leigh) walls, with very limited natural light. It sounds scary!
you are totally right. wild life and the odd plant life on one side or the other side is supposed to be just stuck there forever? stuck to mountain/canyon side or ocean/sand side. I'd hope they build wildlife corridors (that did not appear in the video). Without large wildlife corridors stuff on both sides of The Line would collapse eventually
"Snowpiercer" and the "Platform" immediately sprung to my mind while watching this video! Actually, it gives me chills (and not in a positive way). I am also interested how they will segregate staff working there from residents. Will staff be placed on the bottom levels? As they definitely can`t afford fancy apartments on the top. Anyway, inequality must be harsh in the end! And that`s what will spark the riot, haha)
If its area is 34 km squared, and it has a width of 200 meters, then its length is 170 km long. They say at 0:48 that it takes 20 mins to travel end to end, which means you need to travel at 510 km per hour or 317 miles per hour. Holy cow. That's 50 kph faster than Shanghai Maglev. But where would they put that train? Underground or ground level? Imagine the noise that would create. And the reverberation? Insane.
Faster than 510kmph as the transport device has to accelerate, unless they have decided to use teleportation and it would be a maximum of a 20 minute line. Lol
Oh man, this is exactly like a novel I started writing 20 years ago.. only my version was called the Wall. I bailed on the story cuz it seemed too unrealistic.
And coming next: The Square™ A group of tightly intersecting lines, that cross over in a grid-like pattern - Lines lined with transportation opportunities, such as cars, buses, trains, and walking paths; allowing a myriad of travel choices. These lines radiate out from a central nexus point (called the 'CLD' - the Central Line District). And within the grid, in the dead space, are called 'Blocks'. Blocks contain a 'block' of solid buildings, with no Lines inbetween, which can be accessed from four sides by each of the lines surrounding it. The megacity is made up of these Blocks, which radiate out from the CLD - In the pinnacle of efficient city design. 🤓🤓🤓
And after the square comes…The Cube! Here, we transcend two-dimensional thinking and begin to have structures that pierce the magical “third dimension”.
The next step is to construct 3 more of these arranging them perpendicular to the original and call it the Square. Then construct 4 more climbing upwards, with another Square sitting atop it and call it the Cube. Welcome to the Neom Cube, where you really can live in 3 dimensions.
I'd prefer two balls and a stick to keep things simple, and yes, as a reminder to reproduce or else there will soon be no one to populate these places.
This looks like this was designed by engineers from another planet who neither know nor care anything about human beings. Of course, you could say that about everything the WEF crowd is planning for us.
This is great! I don't think its going to flop. Even it does not live up to expectations, what we learn from this project will be invaluable for the future. Go Saudi Arabia! MASALLAH!
"For too long humanity has existed withing dysfunctional polluted cities that ignore nature" *Proceeds to start building a city sandwiched between two giant 1000 feet high 120km long mirrors that definitely won't scorch the surrounding desert and animal life* "Providing immediate access to the surrounding nature" What surrounding nature?!?? You mean the surrounding land and animals that will reach uninhabitable temperatures as it's baked by 1000ft high glass walls?!?!?
Okay.... I'm not really for this project, but.... scorching a desert with the very little animal life around that is in said desert isn't really that big of a deal.
@@mariobadia4553 The desert is already scorched, and even if I am wrong, it's only a lie if it is an intentional misdirection of the truth. Deserts are also generally devoid of life. Yeah, you can list a bunch of animals, but it doesn't take a geologist or biologist to understand that deserts have a lot less life to worry about.
@@mariobadia4553 no no... whatever, man. At this point, you aren't even talking to me. You're talking to whatever audience you think is reading all of this. You can save more animals and and insects by getting out and planting trees or doing something about it rather than arguing with someone on the internet. This conversation is over, and I don't think you're some virtuous good person the way you are trying to signal. But nice try.
Another thought - straight lines are too stiff when dealing with how water, wind, etc. move through our world. Reminds me of an class I took in college where we learned what happened when engineers built a 90 degree angle into an irrigation canal to change the flow of water. The water came through - hit the 90 degree angle, didn’t turn, kept going straight, and blew out the wall of the irrigation canal. Flowing curves work better than rigid lines to move ourselves and everything else (wind, water) through our world. The Chinese Feng Shui system was built on observing nature (including Man’s psychological nature.). Curving lines create gentle flow = good ch’i and straight lines create too much force = sharp ch’i. The energy is too intense in sharp-angled, straight line-based architecture - it’s dangerous. Straight lines might work to make a really fast transportation system - but if you are really into nature - you won’t box it in - you’ll create curved containers and flowing curves for people to travel in a healthy and safe way through the city. Consider what happens if you have a square piece of sharp angle glass topping a low table - you’re going to visit the emergency room when you accidentally collide your shins with the sharp angles of the table. Now if the table top is thick & rounded - the collision is less damaging to your shin.
I agree...The shape can be designed better. Considering large scale of electricity, water, waste transportations, the evacuate path of emergency events etc. Because since the whole concept is supported by efficiency, might as well consider the comprehensive efficiency of its whole shape right. The pentagon is a good example.
Job Posting : "All the workers from India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, get ready for this huge project. You going to work 12 hours a day in heat, Allowed to sleep in a tent outside the city, eat once a day and also your passports will be seized , we will allow you to go back home only after 5 years of good work. Perks Include no health care, No Holidays and working 7 Days a week."
please, Saudi Arabia is known for modern slavery, torturing immigrant/ (black people) during the pandemic.. maybe the Saudi government forbid work in the heat for saudi people.. but for foreign people, they suffer a lot
They get paid more than what they get in their native countries. The government too encourages them because they get foreign currency which helps the forex reserves.
Just throwing a few potential problems out here: 1. If you try to leave Neom by foot (Since cars are unavailable) or if Neom has any sort of multi-system failure, prepare to be stranded in the middle of the desert. 2. A place this massive and compact is just bound to be hit by a terrorist attack of some kind, I hope they have security. 3. Depending on how the city is constructed, classism is going to be unbearably prevalent. I understand that the walls are actually reflective glass panes, however true sunlight will only be available to the top floors, so I could only imagine Kowloon-esque cramping in the bottom floors while the people living at the top (Both literally and metaphorically) will be comfortable.
Well, I would like for the developers to take into consideration, the Tectonic plate activity on the land. Such a long structure should be sighted on a stable tectonic plate if possible. At 170km in length.. it will important to note the tectonic plate activity across the entire length.
“That’s when we at Neom would like to present, The Shitstorm. The sudden, and abrupt, destruction of civilisation while we, the creators, remain unaffected in our mega mansions.”
I'm pretty sure a bunch of senior engineers and architects would know about tectonic plates more than any guy on RUclips with more videos than followers. but I agree it is an ambitious project. it's either a big win or a big fail.
Yeah, this is going to fail miserably. Trash and shit will be raining down onto the plebs on the ground level and segregation between top and bottom will happen almost instantly. Basically, this will turn into a hive city from 40k with a really nasty damp, dark and disgusting underhive. This is an ozymandian nightmare.
Well given that the government in charge of this project is even more conservative than Singapore, this won’t really be a problem. You’d probably get flogged for littering or something.
@@TasX This is the foundation of the Judge Dread stories. The judges are police, judge, jury, and executioners and all Crimes are punished the same.... By instant execution.
I've read enough Scifi books to know that this will either never be realized or it will but will fail due to the human nature of having poor and rich communities... I can almost see whole sections fighting each other...
@@SweetSassyBull Too many promises, not enough delivery. Its a giant pipe dream thought up by a guy that inherited too much money. It is never going to see completion.
An approximate circle with a radius of ~3.3 kilometers (6.6km diameter) will have the same area as this linear city (34 square km). You'll only need to travel no more than 7 km to get from one end of the city to the other. And you have lots of flat land to build it on, and not having to worry about mountains or canyons in the way...
The only big disadvantage of that would be that it'd be as living in kowloon walled city but probably more modern. This design at least allows for open views and nowhere as claustrophobic than a city with a radius of 3.3 km with all buildings being 500 meters tall.
@@timokho20 I don't think an open roof in the desert is the best idea, or a building that heavy on just one part without a good foundation. It would just cause the thing to collapse, imagine trying to save around 9 Million people in the desert after the big mega project fell into the shifting sands.
@@user-fg3fv9hl3b this slice of nonsense was taken from Star Wars. The mind of man is warped and deceived beyond saving ourselves from stupidity. which is why Bible says we need a Saviour who is building a perfect eternal celestial city where God in Christ alone is the focus and not man. God is not mocked at mans pride and hubris and rebellion. This would become just one more domino that the Lord would shatter and push over.
This looks like something I'd see in a cyberpunk video game, and it does sound interesting. Unless friends or family live on the other side of the line than you.
In many cases, family and friends live more than 170 km apart. I`d say this is the smallest of all issues, especially if indeed you can travel end to end in 20 minutes.
Exactly. I’d rather see 10,000 small villages developed around concepts of agriculture and homes that people are trained to build and manage themselves. Permaculture and cooperative community units. Not this Soylent Green style trap.
Oh yeah. And you can just close all doors and nobody will get out. Of course that is just because of the dangerous world outside that they want to protect you from. All the dystopian horror stories can come true because it will be so efficient to control the people and even the air that they breathe. I like
They should start small, to see how the ideas work in reality, then use the lessons learned as they continue building. If unforeseen problems occur only after the whole thing is built, it might be too late to make changes.
Every council in the world almost is planning on doing this to every city already under UN AGenda 21 SDG's. They want us all gone off the land and into these monstrosities so they can keep us there and control every single movement we make.
@@TheHomemadeHippie it's a dystopia hell like the hunger games No natural sunlight, controlled oxygen so if a district resists they can shut the air off, it's absolutely hellish and I would rather starve in the wilderness than live in one of their AI controlled smart cities
I’m wondering - what about in a situation where a fire breaks out? After all, providing enough fresh air is difficult in itself. When a fire occurs on one of the lower levels - sure you can claim that thanks to your "incredibly efficient" system of movement, including public transportation, people will manage to evacuate. But what if a fire breaks out on one of the highest levels? - after all, all those people will simply suffocate there. The video also shows that there are supposed to be lots of trees on top of this big box. This idea makes the fire even more difficult to control. What's more, the city is supposed to be fully automated, and - despite the fact that I'm a huge supporter of robotics and artificial intelligence - I'm afraid that it simply won't cope here. In my opinion, it is not worth risking such a cosmic amount of money and - most importantly - the lives of more than 9 million innocent residents
Agreed. Fire safety is important, as well as weather proofing, especially for rainy weather or dust storms. And will there be free transportation since there will be no need for cars?
@@matteol4 You are absolutely right. As far as I know, many innocent people have already suffered death or are in custody because they refused to leave their place of residence - the place where most of them spent their entire lives
so this is what the world's most modern prison looks like with 24/7 all-around surveillance! if this is to be the future of life, it is a nightmare for humanity as a whole. they must be stopped!
I got a crazier idea. How about just build apartments on the side of roads connecting city to city? Maybe have shops, salons, and restaurants on the ground floor, maybe even have a railroad along it or an underground tunnel under it, or have electric trams on the road itself. You can skip the mirrors lol
I'm not claiming to know anything on this project or in general about these kind of design. But i know damn well that it's hot there. So i think is gonna help for the temperature
@@mrdlbk1254 I don’t think they will do this project without knowing every possibility I’m Saudi but I will never live in this I love to have a space Maybe the next generation would like to live like that
That goodness this is being designed in 3 dimensions, as opposed to it being in 2D. Really tired of switching between going from New York which is 3D, and then going down to Newark where everything is flat and 2D. Such a god damn hassle.
It’s funny that people think this will benefit the lower classes if it ever happens 😂 it’s basically a pig in a dress. Imagine the surveillance and control that could be had in a place like this. Social credit scores would become very real….
Felt like a scary sci fi movie. Kids growing up here will have such a sci-movie like perspective on the world. Living in such shelter. Not realizing the realities outside of “The Line”
As a futurist with interests in urban and transport planning, ecology, security and materials engineering... with all due respect, this looks incredibly dumb. "For too long, humanity has existed within dyfunctional and polluted cities that ignore nature..." ...So instead we're going to build a wall across it, with a mirrored surface 170km long and 500m high with no apparent concern for animal migration pathways, water tables, material degradation from both desert sand and sea salt, security concerns in making logistics dependent on single linear transport corridor throughout the whole structure, etc. etc. Megastructures are fun and all, but this looks like a project only a *short-sighted* architect could love. [Edited to qualify my commect about architects, because some of the architects out there are making entirely fair complaints about me overgeneralising here. Beg pardon!]
Most comments seem negative, and I understand, but I personally think the world is evolving with technology and engineering, 9 millions people in this squqre? is fantastic I think it is also the future due to rapid population growth. Do I like it? Not 100% but I always welcome new ideas that are outside of the box. Congratulations to the Saudis 👍🏽
Please tell me this is satire. If it is, it’s an excellent reveal for a dystopian sci-fi Summer blockbuster. If it isn’t, it’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever watched. I’d love to see the people who thought of this, and this entire BS company, to live in it for 20 years and let us know how it goes.
I think the very initial concept over going vertical with our cities, thereby preventing sprawl, is a proper idea. In America, we've failed at creating truly livable cities because we've given the car a lot of real estate. Then, we've seduced so many with the American Dream (giant home ownership) that we've poisoned the well we all must drink from. Those problems are what need remedy but the Line is not the way
@@Ruder6163 the entire "city" portrayed in this video is literally a glorified international Airport. I don't see this being a reality in our lifetime either. What I want to know is where the hell did the funding come from for a project of this size?
@@biggiesmalls7939 It came from the Saudi sovereign wealth fund, private investors, as well as the Saudi government trying to sell stock in Saudi Aramco (I don’t believe any investors have bought in yet but the pandemic slowed down the project). Part of me always feels like if these projects were in Europe or the US people like yourself would hold more favorable opinions.
This project seems unrealistic just because of its scale, but as a civil engineering graduate, I don't see any problems with water and waste transport. In fact the length of the city would make the design pretty simple.
The Saudi government dominates 80% of the national economy, to me it looks like the government is trying to steer it in a certain direction. There are also concerns about the privacy of residents of the line because, as explained almost everything will be autonomous. What that probably means is a lot of data being collected about each residents' habits etc. This is a big worry. Corruption is ripe, the annual foreign investment is dropping, which'll mainly fund it. And the education system isn't particularly great. Another thing is half of the population is under 25, education matters a lot especially when 500 BILLION dollars is being invested
It's a transparently diversionary project. But clearly many people are already too blind - or scared blind - to see through it, or indeed to see anything resembling the Truth.
Bro no one cares about ur habits. They don't need ur info specifically. They take info of everyone to sell jt and make money but it doesn't affect u in any way
Loss to Data Privacy and the feel of corruption even remotely obstructing you aren't relevant topics when you are the Elite - the people who will ultimately be funding and living in 'The Line'. Take the cases of Julianne Assange or Snowden for example, does the existence of "Democracy" in USA, or that it is not shaped like 'The Line' protect it's people from being dehumanized by it's government agencies? No? Well because US public is poor, and cannot afford privacy.
So now its saudi fault!! 4 years and your media is trying to devilize Saudi mumbling about khashoggi asking the world to stop investing in saudi after we told you about The line and neom that time. do you know that china didn't care about your media and now they took a huge part in this city even putin took this chance and build a great relationship with Saudi I remember your leader said I will make saudi arabia pariah after all this it's clear that u tried to destroy our economy so why we should care about your economy??😂
❤ Dear Neom channel moderator I was not aware my phone got stuck and a comment was posted which I tried to find but I'm so naive with these internet things I couldn't so kindly ignore that. I watch this Project and I am very glad happy to see such development which has very beautiful outcome in many ways for the diverse cultural hub it is. I know for a fact this will be completed on time In'sha'AllaaH and may this be a blessing for humankind.
It says Zero carbon emission, but 50 years of construction period sound like HUGE emissions of carbon. Especially, assuming Saudi Arabia might be give most of construction to Chinese company.
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So I'm living the most of my time ins this "bee hive" and would never leave it because everything is in walking distance and I will probably never go outside because we're in the middle of a desert ? Sounds like a nightmare.
They say that these kind of cities will be in the middle of the nature and you will have it right in front of your door. But they didn't mention if you're actually allowed to ever leave :D
This vision parallels with the council/ social housing estate designs in the UK from the 1960s. Intially built for the working person and to create a sense of community, they were self contained walkable neighborhoods. As you are aware the UK has a limited amount of space. They were later hard to maintain, and easier for crime to occur (who knew walkability had its negative), and knocked down for more spacious mixed buildings or "2D" living.
Hello ! May Allah protect and guide you to his light and happiness in this life and the hereafter, God bless, Ameen. Excuse me for giving a little presentation of Islam, because it is very misunderstood nowadays, especially on those « Antichrist's » times, where media and politics are mixed to distort history and truth. And terrorists (puppets of the Antichrist) who misinterpret verses, out of ignorance and political motivations, and take them out of historical context (just like radical atheists do by the way), don't help either. Thank you very much for your time. Islam is an arabic word that means the Surrender to the One and Only God, our Creator, Protector, Provider, who gives us life and all that we have, we are safe and sound by his will and grace, we are His and to Him we return, and we have to thank him in this trial life by submitting to him by our free will, or later in the Day of judgment when it's too late to save our own skin. Islam was the original Religion descended to earth from heaven with Adam and Eve (peace and blessing be upon them) in the beginning of humanity. and was passed to people with the succession of the 124 000 prophets and 315 messengers of God to all nations and civilizations since, passing by Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ismaël, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David, Solomon and Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon them) during the history of mankind, the last replaces and completes the previous, until the succession of the last messenger of God fourteen centuries ago, Muhammad (Peace and blessing be upon him) to complete the noble morals of all mankind, to bring humans and jinns out of darkness into light, and to purify people's religion and belief from corruption and polytheism, and return it to purity and true monotheism, like it was in the times of the prophets (Peace and blessing be upon them). Many Religions that we know nowadays, at their beginning were true and under Islam, initiated by one of the prophets of God, but their original teachings, history and scriptures have been corrupted over time with falsification and polytheism, or lost and replaced with false ones. That's why Islam is the only Religion accepted by God nowadays, which consists in bearing witness that there is no god besides Allah (God in Aramaic, the original language of Jesus and the Gospel), and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, just like Jesus and Moses and others are His servants and messengers. Never a messenger of God said he was God or literally son of God, it was the people after him who changed the words of God and corrupted the Religion. God is unique and absolute, He does not need to have a family and sons or to associate anyone else with His kingdom, He can simply create whatever He wants, everything belongs to Him, and to Him everything will return. Allah said in Surah Al-Mu’minun : “God has never begotten a son, nor is there any god besides Him. Otherwise, each god would have taken away what it has created, and some of them would have gained supremacy over others. Glory be to God, far beyond what they describe. The Knower of the hidden and the manifest. He is exalted, far above what they associate. (91-92 / Translated by ITANI). Allah means the one and only God, the God of all prophets and creatures, the creator of the universe and mankind, and the Master of the Day of judgment, where our destiny, Hell or Paradise, is decided based on our faith and deeds in this trial life, and above all, Allah's mercy. Allah said in Surah Al-Ikhlas : In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful. Say, “He is God, the One. God, the Absolute. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is none comparable to Him.” (1-4 / Translated by ITANI). Allah said in Surah An-Nisa : O FOLLOWERS of the Gospel! Do not overstep the bounds [of truth] in your religious beliefs, and do not say of God anything but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was but God's Apostle - [the fulfilment of] His promise which He had conveyed unto Mary - and a soul created by Him. Believe, then, in God and His apostles, and do not say, "[God is] a trinity". Desist [from this assertion] for your own good. God is but One God; utterly remote is He, in His glory, from having a son: unto Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth; and none is as worthy of trust as God. Never did the Christ feel too proud to be God's servant, nor do the angels who are near unto Him. And those who feel too proud to serve Him and glory in their arrogance [should know that on Judgment Day] He will gather them all unto Himself: (171-172 / Translated by Muhammad Asad). Allah the Most Merciful said in Surah Ali-Imran : Behold, the only [true] religion in the sight of God is [man's] self-surrender unto Him; and those who were vouchsafed revelation aforetime took, out of mutual jealousy, to divergent views [on this point] only after knowledge [thereof] had come unto them. But as for him who denies the truth of God's messages - behold, God is swift in reckoning! Thus, [O Prophet,] if they argue with thee, say, "I have surrendered my whole being unto God, and [so have] all who follow me!" - and ask those who have been vouchsafed revelation aforetime, as well as all unlettered people, "Have you [too] surrendered yourselves unto Him?" And if they surrender themselves unto Him, they are on the right path; but if they turn away - behold, thy duty is no more than to deliver the message: for God sees all that is in [the hearts of] His creatures. Verily, as for those who deny the truth of God's messages, and slay the prophets against all right, and slay people who enjoin equity - announce unto them a grievous chastisement. It is they whose works shall come to nought both in this world and in the life to come; and they shall have none to succour them. (19-22 / Translated by Muhammad Asad).. Salam (Peace) ----
What they fail to mention in this marketing scam, is that you can’t just leave the line. In fact, it’s one large prison city, controlled by AI. Everyone will be sanctioned into districts, with everything you need essentially within 15 minutes. You have to request permission to leave the district, with travel being limited to so many times per year. On top of that, in order to gain approval to leave, you have to have a good social credit score along with some other good behavior factors. Not to mention I can’t even imagine what an outbreak like Covid would look like within these walls. It’s not at all the rainbows and butterflies they are trying to sell us on these smart cities. Did you watch Wall-e?
@@TheHomemadeHippie bingo! i'd just add "with everything you need essentially within 15 minutes" is more like "everything THEY think you need ...". COVID would be a breeze though, as all houses would be locked remotely in an instant for a 100% lockdown. Just like any self-respecting prison is able to do basically ...
I would be glad to live in nature nearby, and slowly growing a community of conscious people realizing the boundaries of such a system, leaving it and coming in.
No idea what you are talking about. Most people are conscious unless unconscious (which is dangerous). Also they come and go from their homes regularly. Not like it's something new mate.
@@avengerrevenger4458 Well, quite a lot of people live their lives driven by uncouscious desires, and end up living life quite accidentally, that is what i mean. Opposite to the way of living drove by your counscious choices, realizing every moment that life is not about accumulating, but quite simply living it. To the fullest, exploring every dimension of it. If people are really going to live in structures similar to "The Line" they won't go out that much anymore, because it is made to be self-sufficient, they will work from it, meet people in it, partying in it, they won't have to go out anymore. Until they feel how much disconnected they are from outside. When curiosity rises again i will be there with open arms. Please excuse my english
Does this mean you are for it or against? Keep in mind that "they" will dictate where you live in it and what you have. They will also let you drink your own recycled urine - and everyone else's. Remember that the ones who are crazy and/or challenged will also be in this contained environment. You might not have seen the groups of raging crowds in big cities on a rampage, but if you are in something like this, you'll definitely experience it - especially because they don't like those type of people to be contained. Be my guest, if that's your desire.
170kms long. There will be 17 districts. Each year, a tribute will be chosen…
Hunger games!
Stop your woke obese fantasy dear americans
This is my favourite comment lmao
ha ha
each year a tribute will be chosen from each district to leave THE LINE, but only one may return
This feels like the video you see in the first act of a sci fi movie before everything goes to hell in the second.
Was just thinking that.
yeah and ai's starts developing emotions and tries to take the world for themselves, till the main character destroys them
It's in Saudi Arabia so straight to hell in the first act.
No, it feels like every other investor-bait project that will fail to deliver and disappear in 5-10 years.
Exactly
The comments give me faith in hummanity.Glad to see that the majority of people have common sense and think critically
You should check out an Indian video made on this topic. You will be shocked to notice that most Indians are supporting such a trashy project.
This
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yet if the line actually existed , you'll see them all trying to apply for a visa there 😂, it already happened in dubai before, now it will happen again with the line, mr. "I'm gLad EveRyone is a CriticaL tHinKer"
@@billomalley1168 how do you know or sure that all of us will apply for visa? I know for sure I don't. dubai at least look like a city and kinda habitable at least but this? is a nonsense.
Year 2100:
"mom, whats beyond the walls?"
"Its nothing much Eren" 💀💀💀
AOT fans +1
I was thinking the same thinf
Kind of what I was thinking too. What happens when they lock you in?
@@mattstickle2725 Why would they 'lock you in'?
@@jsmr451 same reason United States has its citizens locked in. Control.
I've never seen a dystopian idea presented so positively.
How dystopian
Have you ever been to Saudi Arabia
People like you will keep living in the basement and complain about everything
Hollywood Americans think everything new and different is a dystopia while they’re convinced their own country isn’t one itself
@@nauticaltruck802 maybe actual humans just don't like being stuffed into cramped buildings like tuna, you literal insects.
@@blackcatvibing enjoy your bugs and artificial light, twat.
It's like a late 2000's young adult dystopia novel brought to life! "In the Line, we could have anything we wanted...if you were a Highliner. Us Lowliners had to struggle to get by, and outside the GlassWall, the Lineless dwelled and scribbled not-straight lines..."
you forgot the obligatory "...this is my story." at the end. XD
@Cris Craf this is already the plot of too many books
Yeah the ad even promotes "equitable views" except for I guess those who live at ground level.
Also why is the line located in a barren wasteland? Immediate access to nature? Nature outside the line looks deadly
😂😂😂
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They've really crossed the Line with this idea.
😂😂😂
Gold
💀😂😂😂
Why you poor people are always jealous 😂😂
Quote from another comment:
"this is the wet dream of every military bomber pilot - a single pass can cover everything!"
whoever dreamt this up must have been doing a fucking massive line at the time
No one else acknowledging the pun here, huh?
@@thecaffeinatedbookwyrm3051 I immediately did 😂 So genius
Cool concept👍
Xdddd
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Have they considered the psychological effects of living, working and playing for years or decades in a contained beehive?
I swear some of the people on here are ignorant as if they’ve never left their own home. People across the world live in even more crowded areas with much much worse standards than this.
have you considered that they're allowed to leave?
@@pixel8122 are they??
It's the same as a city. Every neighborhood is different and it's got parks, nature, malls , shops and concert halls. You need no cars and thus you take the train everywhere.
@@nauticaltruck802 true, but I wonder how those folks are being psychologically affected as well
I like when she says "communities are organized in 3 dimensions", because you know, we losers live in 2 dimensions!
this game is comimg in 3d?No way
@@A_G_w_R it's not a game mate, they are planning to build this irl
You'll never escape from Flatland! Muwahahahaha!
It's all talk until it comes true
Yet building an entirely 2D world
The fact that they sat in a meeting room and pitched this and no one realized how this sounds and looks is crazy
Or maybe they did and that's why they pushed forward 😂
Get a bunch of rich people into a room and you get realistic things like this
@@Emiliapocalypse no.
Probably went like the missile scene in "The Dictator". I guess the architects had no say against the Supreme Leader. 😂
And scary, on how stupid powerful people are
This looks exactly like the plot to "The giver". If you haven't watched that movie, give it a watch. It was well done
yes, emotion-less life.
This reminds me of a show called “snow piercer” where the rest of humanity is in a big train and the people with less money get put towards the back and richer people get put towards the front. This is exactly how the line will turn out but vertically
bro but remember 1 thing: it's always hotter on the high floors
it will be much better to live on low floors 😂
Or a horizontal version of Judge Dredd's Mega-Cities
Watch the film. So much better than the show
@@MistrzDavid until we’re suffering from a lack of sunlight😭
And the poor will literally eat cochriach porridge with steak flavouring
This is the dream of every military bomber pilot. A single pass covers everything 👍 😃
You got that right - it would be just easier than a video game. Of course in utopia, there will be no weapons to defend the populace, because everyone is expected to be nice.
hahahha true
We do not welcome racism in Saudi Arabia
that is why the line has to come with a nearby military airbase and naval base
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Imagine if you could live in a giant mall….
How this video should have started.
AKA Logan's Run. I wonder where Carousel will be located for liquidating everyone over 30 to maintain the proper population balance the automation system requires.
I nice mall at least lol
Exactly!! I will borrow your description😊
😂
Sounds awesome.
When I was a kid (1950) we had ant farms. I guess they are still available today. That was my first impression on seeing this. Man's destiny is to live as insects? Workers in a social environment where you are born serve and die? I live on 5 acres in a forest and I am alive. The forest surrounding me is alive and vibrant. I am surrounded by squirrel, deer, elk, bear, wolf, cougar and birds of many kinds. I am so blessed to have been born in the 40's.
I don't know if they have much forest here.
Where is the forest in Saudi Arabia? Do you know geography?
Lucky you!
Yeah, that's exatcly the world we live today
Nobody wants to live in that urban hell. You'd have to be insane
There's nothing about a 170 km long mirror that is beneficial to nature. That's a bird killer.
Cats kill billions of birds every year should we get rid of them?
Yeah, duh, how else are they supposed to get food? Just have a net to catch the dead birds and funnel them into a KFC.
@@wurtknurte7283 💀
Gezz FR, they'd really be killing such a large percentage of bird in that desert😩
If built, it'll kill every plant and animal life around it.
Seems like a cool computer game. Will wait for reviews eagerly.
Professional reviews all agree 10/10 all user reviews 0/10
Don't preorder!!
If you cannot comprehend such a project then don't expect Saudi Arabia can't. This will be built whether you can or cannot imagine it. We would not advertise it to the world if we could not build it.
@@samaljadhai2973 You're missing the jokes about pre-ordering a game.... i.e. Cyberpunk. And what i CAN comprehend is how this is going to WRECK the ecosystem.
@@samaljadhai2973 Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us, only sky
Imagine all the people
Livin' for today
Ah
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
Imagine all the people
Livin' life in peace
You
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
Does anyone else notice how The Line's construction completely blocks out natural sunlight for the lowest levels save for midday but due to the structures criss-crossing the Line's walls that sunlight would blocked out and shaded at the very bottom regardless? And even with the glass façade, this is still predicated on light going through all of the buildings that make up the actual internal structure of the wall, let alone all of the actual service structures too.
Am I the only one that noticed? This construction would literally split people into even more rigid class hierarchies as the rich would be the only ones able to afford high-rise property/apartments where natural sunlight is the most plentiful and easily accessible in an environment outside of a building. Which is important as natural sunlight governs many bodily functions, chief among them our circadian rhythm.
Equity my ass.
Also the mirror façade will absolutely SCORCH the surrounding landscape, along with reducing the amount of light that enters the Line further as more light would have to bounce off for the mirrors to even work as such.
And then there's the absolute tripe about "renewable energy". I don't see mention of a single nuclear reactor at all. you'd run out of power trying to light up this monstrosity and would have to resort to sapping from other power grids to get by.
When solar energy became independent because people just can install it in their house and not through any govt, elites started to panic, cuz in a while if that technology advances people would eventually stop using oil
So the plan is to monetize the sun since you cannot put sun in an enclosure
Put peasants in an enclosure and create obstacles to getting free sunlight
Another thing I noticed, imagine how bad this building would be for the birds, mirror facade of skyscrapers kill thousands of birds because they can see flying towards it until its too late, they hit it midflight and die...
Well damn. My only concern was that this project was way ahead of its time and even $1tr wouldn't be enough
And also... what if there is a fire? What will stop the connected structure fcom being fully burnt down? Especially in a place that has such temperatures.
My first thought seeing a giant mirror miles long in the desert… death ray
birds must love this :D
BIRDS ARNEN'T REAL THEY'RE GOVERNMENT SPYS FROM RUSSIA LIFE ISN'T REAL THE MOONLANDING WAS FAKE WERE IN THE MATRIX WERE ALL GONNA DIE!
That's what I was thinking, birds will hit it 😢
"The Line will be 500 meters tall and have an elegant mirror-glass facade." Yeah, that's every local bird dead by flocks at a time. This is the dumbest idea I've ever seen - and the bird thing is probably the smallest of the very obvious impacts something like this would have.
What about the wind? How will this 170 km long impact to the weather? And is it safe to build this so safe so close to the red sea? What about the rising sea level?
Since when are there many birds in Saudi Arabia?
Sounds like a new show for Netflix that would be canceled after one season.
More like one episode
That’s exactly what happened
Camels will help them.
Time will slap hard on your sorry face
LMAOOOO
I read a sci-fi book that describes a global city just like this one, where the wealthiest elite resides, while the rest of the world struggles in dumps and townships.
Book name?
@@liz-xi3gz It's a trilogy by a French author, called F.A.U.S.T, but I'm not sure there is an English translation. I'm going to look it up. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge_Lehman
That is what the globalists and elites are wanting, it’s up to ALL of us “plebs” whether we allow it or not
Its not surprising, living there wont be free. This is straight living luxury and my dream
About tourists I think there would be a change in society, they will try to change their citizens mentality like dubai or no change at all and accept only their own citizens
may i ask which book was it?
This is something i would design as a first year architecture student and my professor, without any hesitation call it ridiculous. 😂
Of course it is ridiculous and will fail. That's the Arab world controlled by stupid mongolien royalty
Idk to me this looks exactly like the kind of projects that were encouraged where I went to architecture school. Not saying that’s a good thing. 😂
Design a cross section, extrude it in CAD, greenwash it with some wind turbines, trees, and solar panels-that’s week one. Then spend the rest of the semester waiting days for the renders, and there you have it: the line.
Yes exactly. For first year architecture students they expects things like this. Visions. Making projects that are more then visions and are actually functionig you gonna learn later. But "the line" clearly didnt reach that stage.
That's the problem as a first year you didn't go beyond the common. Can you imagine those Architects in Paris that built unusual structures that were made fun of because of their concept? This is what would make you common. No offense.
Well, it looks like you're a failing engineering student and your teacher is a failure
I especially love how practically nobody in the comments would ever want to actually live in a monstrosity like this!
It'd never fly in America! Nooooope.
dude this is a stupid fucking delusion of a desert oil billionaire prince who plays to many video games.
@@shanglyshangly9173Why? Scifi fan? Spending much time playing video games and have no friends? Bet you enyoed Blade runner.
One earthquake would destroy it and kill 100.000's people.
@@dankokovacevicyour a jelous american
i would definitely want to.
Robert Silverberg wrote, "The World Inside" in 1971 wherein the whole of Earth's 'urban' population lives in 3km high buildings holding 800,000 people. Each building is divided into 25, 40-story sections, with the social status reflected in how high you are within the building. The people living outside of the buildings were the farmers, working hard to feed the billions of people living inside. The two overarching classes had vastly different views on population control.
As for the 'Line'. One thing leaped out to me at once, as well as several others that have been discussed.
A closed environment surrounded by an inhospitable environment is an epidemic breeding ground unlike anything since the pestilential slums that gave us cholera, plague, and typhus. When the next SARS, COVID, or influenza outbreak appears inside the Line, it will spread with horrific ease.
A closed environment makes it both easier to control a 'captive' population, and easier for that population to overwhelm the 'masters'.
Others have already
Very insightful.
Unfortunately fire travels quickly upwards
In matters of seconds cover a floor...
And those at bottom most can jump escape, the ones at top will get more fierce fire but jump to their death or burn alive!
Then that building will collpase or get reconstructed
From a bigger perspective (as the name already says) the line is only one dimensional while a normal city is 2D. So it seem so much easier to stop the spreading of diseases. How do you come to the exact opposite conclusion?
They’ve solve some of those issues based off the Book. The masters won’t live in the Line, but in different cities they are building. The line is for the plebs. Thankyou for this!
How can this be possible for a level line to be built on a globe? (think about it).
“Father, what’s outside the walls?”
“We don’t go outside of the walls”
then a red titan will come and........ u know the rest😶
They would be able to leave
Silo
@@isaacgeorge7288 Of course they can leave but still funny comment.
At my grandmothers old house, her backyard was all woods, and she had a lot of bird feeders. And it wasn’t uncommon to hear a “wham” from time to time at her sunroom windows. The windows were reflecting the surroundings just enough that the birds didn’t know there was a window there, and would fly into it thinking it was open air, or get spooked by a hawk and fly towards it thinking it was a path to escape. Sometimes the birds would be lucky and catch themselves before they hit the ground and fly off. Other times they would hit the window hard enough to stun themselves and fall to the ground with a plop and take some time to recover. The unlucky ones were the ones that slammed into the window so hard they broke their necks, or the ones that veered away from the sunroom windows to hit the family room windows. The reason why _that_ was a problem was because her house was on a hill, and any bird that hit the family room window would then plummet two stories down to the stone pathway outside the door that opened to the downstairs.
Now, I am no “expert” when it comes to architecture and nature, but can you explain to me how this _”elegant”_, 500m tall, 170km long MIRROR is supposed to help nature?! How is this a “intelligent solution”?! _Surely_ when designing this, some wildlife experts or _someone_ was involved in designing this, right? Because unless you install something on this “mirror” to give birds a heads up that there is something solid in their way, it won’t matter how “energy efficient” this place is, you can’t call it a solution to saving nature if it kills off hundreds if not thousands of birds each year considering the size of this thing if they can’t see it effectively. Not to mention that while birds can fly high, from my understanding most birds fly relatively low. I can hardly imagine a bird like a wild _turkey_ flying over this thing. So for the bird species that have to migrate, will some species be stuck, unable to fly over?
And even if they CAN all fly over, what about animals that _can’t_ fly? If you don’t put any tunnels in the structure, you may be preventing some land bound species from migrating. At this point, you best bet would be to build this thing somewhere more barren and devoid of wildlife. Though from watching the video again, it looks like that is already the plan! Just barren wastes of desert and rocky mountains surround The Line, and while I know in some places of the world there are deserts and canyons and such that can be beautiful, in the video it looks like the area around The Line is dead, like some kind of disaster has happened. And this of course just makes the The Line look and feel more dystopian. So what kind of “view” to this _“accessible nature”_ are people supposed to get when all they see outside is barren wasteland?
And how is there supposed to be “unique communities” in The Line? Every section of The Line looks the same! Yes, the people in each section of The Line can be unique of course, but in the real world when you travel from town to town, city to city, while there may be similarities in some ways to how some buildings are built, each one has its own unique look and style to it, and is laid out differently. In The Line, you made a big rectangle, filled it with rooms, and then copied and pasted a few dozen times in _a line._ You would be living in a box, that looks like the same box that another person at the other far end of The Line would be living in. Where is the individuality? Wouldn’t this get boring to look at after awhile? Maybe that is the reason The Line is the way it is, you can’t possibly get lost in a building that looks the same no matter where you go if your only options are left and right! And having everything you need within 5 minutes of walking sounds nice and all, but I have to wonder: with all this cramped, and therefore limited space, are any of these businesses and such around the area going to be created and owned by individuals wanting to start their own business…or by chains the likes of Walmart and such? Just corporations, more copy and pasting, no individuality.
A saying my grandpa used to have was “Always look five miles down the road”, and I feel like it is something a lot of these “experts” on finding sustainable solutions are _not_ doing. In trying to solve some solutions, no one is thinking about any possible negative effects the “solutions” may have days, weeks, _years_ into the future.
And besides, did any of the architects ever think to themselves: would anyone be _happy_ living in a box for the rest of their life, crammed into a space with millions of other people, like sardines in a can?
Bruh.
reading a very long point of view-like the long mirrored line. and yes, u have a good point here.
My first thought was how hot those mirrors would be, so I'm not sure creatures would even want to get close enough to them. Another thought is how much sky would one be able to see. Good points though.
It's a desert, i don't think there's any bird there 😊
Can you write less please, what is this a university essay
When I watched this clip, I truly felt chills in my body. I think it is a very impressive project, but I also wonder, and let’s be honest, can this be achieved? What if a fire or something happens, how can we deal with this? Well, let’s say we were able to deal with this. Will a city 170 km away, covered with glass, help build a healthy environment? There are a lot of questions in reality, but if there is one thing that really amazes me, it is that Saudi Arabia has already started this project, so I am really excited for the day it will end, and I hope that it will end successfully without going through countless problems, so I really hope that the engineers in charge of this project have calculated it. Their calculations for all these crazy things, and in the end I believe that the civilization in which we live today is basically based on madness! Good luck to Saudi Arabia 👏👏
migrating birds... :(
They didn't start it, they spent a lot of money and wrote a lot of contracts but I build major projects for a living, the idea that this has been in construction for 6 years and they haven't poured any concrete?? Look on google maps it's a sandpit with a few old farms
It’s failed, but was a good try!
they were maniacs they should have tried 5-10 km first not 170
I wonder : is this sustainable, or a very weird silly impractical gated community? After 3 seconds, my rational brain managed to reach the answer.
If this was a movie it would be gold
Mortal Engines is a movie similar to this concept
Snowpiercer
if this was actually built i would be very suprised
How can this be possible for a level line to be built on a globe? (think about it).
*The Island (2005)*
Interesting concept but it's not feasible. You can never have 100% water renewability, there will always be lost to evaporation amongst other factors.
The 170km wall hosts a few problems itself:
1) The mirrors would have to be heavy duty and need to withstand abrasion extremely well, a broken panel (depending on size) could be a hassle and costly to replace.
2) The giant wall obstructs air movement worse than a sprawled out city ever would. The big issue is the sand being eroded at the bases of the wall potentially undermining the foundation. You will need to backfill and compact frequently to prevent this.
3) Sand will be everywhere and hard to remove within the city. Sandstorms will move larger grains of sand but the normal wind can move finer particles, with air flow those particles will be all over the city. As for sandstorms or haboobs, sand would envelope the city and with a modular design scheme removal would be a huge pain.
One other big issue is fire. Unless you are planning to have sprinkler systems everywhere containing/stopping a fire. We've seen apartments fires engulf a whole building, with everything interconnected fire will spread easier. This is problematic with bad fires, the structural integrity of these modules could fail and large chunks of debris could come crashing down and who knows how that could effect other modules or even the wall.
All in all it seems like you're not building a city but a large retirement community. How would business/industry function? Who gets to live next to the solid waste/ water treatment plants? Are you planning on building 1000's of elevators? Are you planning on replacing urban sprawl with solar farms, how will you power the city? How will law enforcement work in this environment?
Their are a whole host of issues that need to be addressed and I hope the bright minds behind this will consider what I and others may have left in the comments.
You forgot the earliest problem of this city:
A building needs a solid thing to stand on. The taller and heavier the more sophisticated the support structure needs to be. Deserts are made of sand which is a terrible medium for a foundation
Sounds like this will be an AI based city.
@@sirmrmcjack2167 burj khalifa and Jaddah tower narrowing eyes ...
@@sirmrmcjack2167 yet the Burj Khalifa still stands
Earthquake
But why a line?? That's like the most inefficient design possible. 200m by 170km, that's 34km² that could fit within a circular blueprint that's just 6.5km across. Instead of needing crazy high speed maglev trains to travel 170km in 20 minutes, if you lived near the center you could have access to all of the city either by foot or bike, or maybe trams.
Community pods. Segregation
@@kathrinedelmenico4329 everything in the future has to be pods, it's all pods
If it were a circle it would be harder to defend
Better defense from bombs, chemical attacks, air and sea attacks. There are so many advantages to it being a line, just have to think outside the box.
@@iamapat lol thats hilarious
There’s also been reports of wage theft, illegal working hours, and human rights abuses. More than 20,000 Indigenous people were also forcefully removed from the region to make way for NEOM.
What about the ecology? Winds? Birds and desert animals? Waste management? I think, they should try to build some 5 or 10 km of this project and then to learn its sustainability and other factors.
Another aspect is mental health of Neom's inhabitants. What about claustrophobia? They will live in a narrow corridor of about 100 meters between endless (in height and leigh) walls, with very limited natural light. It sounds scary!
Humans first
What are you talking about? Didn't you hear in the video? It's designed by the world's top architects! No problems will ever result from this.
you are totally right. wild life and the odd plant life on one side or the other side is supposed to be just stuck there forever? stuck to mountain/canyon side or ocean/sand side. I'd hope they build wildlife corridors (that did not appear in the video). Without large wildlife corridors stuff on both sides of The Line would collapse eventually
Don't worry. The outer glass will kill enough when they smash into it.
Take your logic somewhere else. We want smoke and (mirrors)!
Matt Damon had an excellent performance in this movie
People have obviously not watched movies like snow piercer, the platform, hunger games etc etc.. this sets the landscape for a perfect nightmare.
I mean suadi Arabia is already a nightmare so idk what people are complaining about. They don't gaf Bout Saudi people. Shut up
"Snowpiercer" and the "Platform" immediately sprung to my mind while watching this video! Actually, it gives me chills (and not in a positive way). I am also interested how they will segregate staff working there from residents. Will staff be placed on the bottom levels? As they definitely can`t afford fancy apartments on the top. Anyway, inequality must be harsh in the end! And that`s what will spark the riot, haha)
Everyone will be rich
You will eat ze bugs
Movies are just movies, reality is different from movies
This is totally an in-game promo video you get at a kiosk in the dystopian, horror-filled apocalyptic city that just loaded.
If its area is 34 km squared, and it has a width of 200 meters, then its length is 170 km long. They say at 0:48 that it takes 20 mins to travel end to end, which means you need to travel at 510 km per hour or 317 miles per hour. Holy cow. That's 50 kph faster than Shanghai Maglev. But where would they put that train? Underground or ground level? Imagine the noise that would create. And the reverberation? Insane.
Faster than 510kmph as the transport device has to accelerate, unless they have decided to use teleportation and it would be a maximum of a 20 minute line. Lol
Todo transporte na cidade sera no subsolo
they are actually considering hyperloop.
They can also use Hyperloop mode of transport
We gonna use hyper loop
Oh man, this is exactly like a novel I started writing 20 years ago.. only my version was called the Wall. I bailed on the story cuz it seemed too unrealistic.
You should start that again, I’d love to read it.
Trump is that you :D
I guess you can continue the story XD
You saw the future....how does your story end
Was Mexico going to pay for it?
And coming next: The Square™
A group of tightly intersecting lines, that cross over in a grid-like pattern - Lines lined with transportation opportunities, such as cars, buses, trains, and walking paths; allowing a myriad of travel choices. These lines radiate out from a central nexus point (called the 'CLD' - the Central Line District).
And within the grid, in the dead space, are called 'Blocks'. Blocks contain a 'block' of solid buildings, with no Lines inbetween, which can be accessed from four sides by each of the lines surrounding it.
The megacity is made up of these Blocks, which radiate out from the CLD - In the pinnacle of efficient city design.
🤓🤓🤓
And after the square comes…The Cube! Here, we transcend two-dimensional thinking and begin to have structures that pierce the magical “third dimension”.
@@maddog5597 oooooooo I’m convinced, here’s 1 trillion c:
Don't underestimate the project
You don't know anything about the limitless ability of humans to evolve!!!
@@Everything-fp6io Apparently you don’t either if you think anything from this project makes any sort of sense LMAOOOOOO
O yes
Sandstorms would decimate that glass wall. I mean the amount of dust that would accumulate on the wall would be enormous
The Line is basically just the train from Snowpiercer ... if it was stationary
Yes!!
Happy to see I wasn`t the only one who got these Snowpiercer vibes from this video!
We will be tailies😅
Looks like the leader of KSA wanted to build the Halo, but then agreed upon on a laid-out version instead.
The next step is to construct 3 more of these arranging them perpendicular to the original and call it the Square. Then construct 4 more climbing upwards, with another Square sitting atop it and call it the Cube.
Welcome to the Neom Cube, where you really can live in 3 dimensions.
There is actually a cube?!?!?
WHY DID YOU GIVE AN IDEA
I'd prefer two balls and a stick to keep things simple, and yes, as a reminder to reproduce or else there will soon be no one to populate these places.
ROTFLMAO
Then construct 8 more climbing into the fourth dimension, with another Cube there.
Welcome to the Neom Hypercube.
This looks like this was designed by engineers from another planet who neither know nor care anything about human beings. Of course, you could say that about everything the WEF crowd is planning for us.
The worst part is the lobotomized zombies supporting this. Can’t even feel bad for them, they’re literally asking for it
I'm being serious when I say that your comment is 100% correct, even if you thought you were partially joking.
Maybe they are aliens, probably why they are so disconnected with us earthling folk.
What's WEF?
@@philipgoetz8681 world economic forum I believe
This is great! I don't think its going to flop. Even it does not live up to expectations, what we learn from this project will be invaluable for the future. Go Saudi Arabia! MASALLAH!
Just imagine,
Few years later we exist in the Line then our children don’t know what the outside world looks like.
And who invited u there ? No one then stay where you belong and don’t talk much 🤝🏼
Reminds me of Attack on Titan😅
I think lines were definitely involved in the development of this idea.
I'm in rural America, so i couldn't imagine
Don't worry, it will never happen
"For too long humanity has existed withing dysfunctional polluted cities that ignore nature"
*Proceeds to start building a city sandwiched between two giant 1000 feet high 120km long mirrors that definitely won't scorch the surrounding desert and animal life*
"Providing immediate access to the surrounding nature"
What surrounding nature?!?? You mean the surrounding land and animals that will reach uninhabitable temperatures as it's baked by 1000ft high glass walls?!?!?
Okay.... I'm not really for this project, but.... scorching a desert with the very little animal life around that is in said desert isn't really that big of a deal.
@@buckaroobonzai2909 even that's a lie and you dont know what tour talking about
@@mariobadia4553 The desert is already scorched, and even if I am wrong, it's only a lie if it is an intentional misdirection of the truth.
Deserts are also generally devoid of life. Yeah, you can list a bunch of animals, but it doesn't take a geologist or biologist to understand that deserts have a lot less life to worry about.
@@buckaroobonzai2909 even though theres plenty of animals. Like migrating animals and insects
@@mariobadia4553 no no... whatever, man. At this point, you aren't even talking to me. You're talking to whatever audience you think is reading all of this. You can save more animals and and insects by getting out and planting trees or doing something about it rather than arguing with someone on the internet. This conversation is over, and I don't think you're some virtuous good person the way you are trying to signal.
But nice try.
Another thought - straight lines are too stiff when dealing with how water, wind, etc. move through our world. Reminds me of an class I took in college where we learned what happened when engineers built a 90 degree angle into an irrigation canal to change the flow of water. The water came through - hit the 90 degree angle, didn’t turn, kept going straight, and blew out the wall of the irrigation canal. Flowing curves work better than rigid lines to move ourselves and everything else (wind, water) through our world. The Chinese Feng Shui system was built on observing nature (including Man’s psychological nature.). Curving lines create gentle flow = good ch’i and straight lines create too much force = sharp ch’i. The energy is too intense in sharp-angled, straight line-based architecture - it’s dangerous. Straight lines might work to make a really fast transportation system - but if you are really into nature - you won’t box it in - you’ll create curved containers and flowing curves for people to travel in a healthy and safe way through the city. Consider what happens if you have a square piece of sharp angle glass topping a low table - you’re going to visit the emergency room when you accidentally collide your shins with the sharp angles of the table. Now if the table top is thick & rounded - the collision is less damaging to your shin.
The Line but make it circle or a curved zig-zag
I agree...The shape can be designed better. Considering large scale of electricity, water, waste transportations, the evacuate path of emergency events etc. Because since the whole concept is supported by efficiency, might as well consider the comprehensive efficiency of its whole shape right. The pentagon is a good example.
holy shit. you should be the one whos in charge of this lol (no but fr u should)
@@SoftJellauw that's just a basic engineering principle.
@@alexdunhill4271 ok, i might feel dumb
I love neom city members of the project I m very like this project so long live ncsa..... Neom city Saudi Arabia
I've seen enough sci-fi movies to know how this ends...
You said movies right?
how will it end?
@Astroblaze they don't. This is real life mate
After 2050 for sure life on earth will be different,100% is the greatest project and all people will want to visit one day ❤️, a 0 CO2 city 🌎..👏🏻
Job Posting : "All the workers from India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, get ready for this huge project. You going to work 12 hours a day in heat, Allowed to sleep in a tent outside the city, eat once a day and also your passports will be seized , we will allow you to go back home only after 5 years of good work. Perks Include no health care, No Holidays and working 7 Days a week."
And yet they will all voluntarily sign up
for 500$ a month
please, Saudi Arabia is known for modern slavery, torturing immigrant/ (black people) during the pandemic.. maybe the Saudi government forbid work in the heat for saudi people.. but for foreign people, they suffer a lot
and one more thing, does saudi arabia still punish thiefs by cutting their hands with a sword/machete ?
They get paid more than what they get in their native countries. The government too encourages them because they get foreign currency which helps the forex reserves.
That's one hell of an insurance claim with just one fire for smoke damage!
🤣
Just throwing a few potential problems out here:
1. If you try to leave Neom by foot (Since cars are unavailable) or if Neom has any sort of multi-system failure, prepare to be stranded in the middle of the desert.
2. A place this massive and compact is just bound to be hit by a terrorist attack of some kind, I hope they have security.
3. Depending on how the city is constructed, classism is going to be unbearably prevalent. I understand that the walls are actually reflective glass panes, however true sunlight will only be available to the top floors, so I could only imagine Kowloon-esque cramping in the bottom floors while the people living at the top (Both literally and metaphorically) will be comfortable.
Well, I would like for the developers to take into consideration, the Tectonic plate activity on the land. Such a long structure should be sighted on a stable tectonic plate if possible. At 170km in length.. it will important to note the tectonic plate activity across the entire length.
Well the very east of the city will be affected by it cus its near to the ocean
@@Founderschannel123 ah haaaa, the engineering that will happen there needs to be properly thought through...
“That’s when we at Neom would like to present, The Shitstorm. The sudden, and abrupt, destruction of civilisation while we, the creators, remain unaffected in our mega mansions.”
@@seesidesummerhouse6112 🤣🤣🤣🤣 lol.. the project is very ambitious!!!!
I'm pretty sure a bunch of senior engineers and architects would know about tectonic plates more than any guy on RUclips with more videos than followers. but I agree it is an ambitious project. it's either a big win or a big fail.
Yeah, this is going to fail miserably. Trash and shit will be raining down onto the plebs on the ground level and segregation between top and bottom will happen almost instantly. Basically, this will turn into a hive city from 40k with a really nasty damp, dark and disgusting underhive.
This is an ozymandian nightmare.
You do realize there's tons of solutions for the problems you gave, right? Besides, it barely rains in Saudi Arabia...
Well given that the government in charge of this project is even more conservative than Singapore, this won’t really be a problem. You’d probably get flogged for littering or something.
@@TasX This is the foundation of the Judge Dread stories. The judges are police, judge, jury, and executioners and all Crimes are punished the same.... By instant execution.
they would only pick civilized people so trash wouldnt fal
budget on this build was around 1 trillion the last time i heard it. You actuallly saying they don't have enough tech to do some bits of cleaning?
I've read enough Scifi books to know that this will either never be realized or it will but will fail due to the human nature of having poor and rich communities... I can almost see whole sections fighting each other...
Like the wall in the show Solar Opposites
Block wars in Judge Dredd.
I was thinking the same thing lol
It is in Saudi Arabia, they are a tribal society not a classist society.
@@carlospinto5402 that's cuz the whole country rich af. Somebody gotta clean "the line" bottom floor peasants.
There is no way in hell this thing actually gets built....100% its going to be abandoned in 10 years.
I hope you are right.
fr
@@SweetSassyBull Too many promises, not enough delivery. Its a giant pipe dream thought up by a guy that inherited too much money. It is never going to see completion.
An approximate circle with a radius of ~3.3 kilometers (6.6km diameter) will have the same area as this linear city (34 square km). You'll only need to travel no more than 7 km to get from one end of the city to the other. And you have lots of flat land to build it on, and not having to worry about mountains or canyons in the way...
slay
Well this was designed by "world leading architects".
The only big disadvantage of that would be that it'd be as living in kowloon walled city but probably more modern. This design at least allows for open views and nowhere as claustrophobic than a city with a radius of 3.3 km with all buildings being 500 meters tall.
@@timokho20 I don't think an open roof in the desert is the best idea, or a building that heavy on just one part without a good foundation. It would just cause the thing to collapse, imagine trying to save around 9 Million people in the desert after the big mega project fell into the shifting sands.
@@commandercody1210 I agree, but that has nothing to do with my comment
A massive mirror in the middle of the desert? Classy. Now imagine walking next to that monstrosity mid day… How fast could one get heatstroke?
I most imagine people will catch fire if too close, animals too.
Straight death ray forget heat stroke. Spontaneous combustion levels here
just wait until you hear about a city called Las Vegas
It's so the rich living outside can pretend the plebs don't exist, out of sight, out of mind
You won't be walking next to that thing. Automatic shooting systems will kill anyone who tries to leave.
They should have called it "The Sandpiercer"
All the critics will see with your own eyes, God willing, the resounding success soon 🇸🇦🇸🇦🇸🇦🇸🇦🐪⚔️
Hopefully people will have religious freedom and they put an end to child marriage InshaAllah 😂
“For too long humanity has existed in … cities that ignore nature”
*builds a 170km long, 500m tall city in a straight line, literally ignoring nature*
apperantly it kills birds now
And animals are stuck on either side, like to them it's the wall of China 😂
It ignores birds, killing them recklessly, thus it "ignores nature"
There is no nature there, just desert.
Looking forward to the sequel of this dystopian horror flick. 🤣
So ideal it’s utterly frightening
Well said. It's too perfect, feels very eerie.
@@user-fg3fv9hl3b this slice of nonsense was taken from Star Wars. The mind of man is warped and deceived beyond saving ourselves from stupidity. which is why Bible says we need a Saviour who is building a perfect eternal celestial city where God in Christ alone is the focus and not man. God is not mocked at mans pride and hubris and rebellion. This would become just one more domino that the Lord would shatter and push over.
This looks like something I'd see in a cyberpunk video game, and it does sound interesting. Unless friends or family live on the other side of the line than you.
In many cases, family and friends live more than 170 km apart. I`d say this is the smallest of all issues, especially if indeed you can travel end to end in 20 minutes.
I envy the joy of those who don't study urban planning and actually fall for this marketing bs😭
Yet they will still build it and God only knows how many problems will occur
This is the best planned car less city. It would be ideal if it were built in Germany.
yeah, it is a complete bullshit. and showing THE HUGE building, in which people will suffer, in contrast to building a nice city
@@MrDude826 you are an insane brainwashed regime goon NPC
Perhaps your "urban planning" knowledges have already been obsolete.
An authoritarian's dream. It will be really easy to monitor and control people in this environment.
Exactly. I’d rather see 10,000 small villages developed around concepts of agriculture and homes that people are trained to build and manage themselves. Permaculture and cooperative community units. Not this Soylent Green style trap.
Its dystopian, 2030 Agenda. The Golden 500 million
@@Freespeech11 definitely what we should strive for and envision
Oh yeah. And you can just close all doors and nobody will get out. Of course that is just because of the dangerous world outside that they want to protect you from. All the dystopian horror stories can come true because it will be so efficient to control the people and even the air that they breathe. I like
And initiate a “pandemic” or an excuse to lock people in
Imagine living most of your life in a 200m wide area. Thats claustrophobic
I have claustrophobic😟
It's so insane it makes me want to be a part of it.
They should start small, to see how the ideas work in reality, then use the lessons learned as they continue building. If unforeseen problems occur only after the whole thing is built, it might be too late to make changes.
Every council in the world almost is planning on doing this to every city already under UN AGenda 21 SDG's. They want us all gone off the land and into these monstrosities so they can keep us there and control every single movement we make.
@@TheHomemadeHippie it's a dystopia hell like the hunger games
No natural sunlight, controlled oxygen so if a district resists they can shut the air off, it's absolutely hellish and I would rather starve in the wilderness than live in one of their AI controlled smart cities
There will be no problems because this will never actually happen.
Mohamed BS got fed some BS and he's going full on dystopian city builder
God gave em plenty of oil and gas but held back on the brains
I’m wondering - what about in a situation where a fire breaks out? After all, providing enough fresh air is difficult in itself. When a fire occurs on one of the lower levels - sure you can claim that thanks to your "incredibly efficient" system of movement, including public transportation, people will manage to evacuate. But what if a fire breaks out on one of the highest levels? - after all, all those people will simply suffocate there. The video also shows that there are supposed to be lots of trees on top of this big box. This idea makes the fire even more difficult to control. What's more, the city is supposed to be fully automated, and - despite the fact that I'm a huge supporter of robotics and artificial intelligence - I'm afraid that it simply won't cope here. In my opinion, it is not worth risking such a cosmic amount of money and - most importantly - the lives of more than 9 million innocent residents
Agreed. Fire safety is important, as well as weather proofing, especially for rainy weather or dust storms. And will there be free transportation since there will be no need for cars?
SHUT UP AND LIVE IN ZE ENDLESS WALL AND ENJOY THE BUGS IN YOUR TINY POD!!!!!
you think SA prince care about innocent residents, I don't know how people forget so fast that he is dictator who is killing innocent people.
How the heck you know the 9 million are Innocent?
@@matteol4 You are absolutely right. As far as I know, many innocent people have already suffered death or are in custody because they refused to leave their place of residence - the place where most of them spent their entire lives
there is no way this can be a good thing...
Why not
@@jbad1913 Are you dumb?
@@jbad1913 u don't honestly think this is a good idea do u💀
@@jbad1913 You like to live crammed in and monitored and controlled by AI?
@@kaplanyx Monitored? Why would that be a bad thing? I would see it a bad thing if I was a criminal or a rapist tho.
so this is what the world's most modern prison looks like with 24/7 all-around surveillance! if this is to be the future of life, it is a nightmare for humanity as a whole. they must be stopped!
I got a crazier idea. How about just build apartments on the side of roads connecting city to city? Maybe have shops, salons, and restaurants on the ground floor, maybe even have a railroad along it or an underground tunnel under it, or have electric trams on the road itself. You can skip the mirrors lol
is it a joke?
I'm not claiming to know anything on this project or in general about these kind of design. But i know damn well that it's hot there. So i think is gonna help for the temperature
this was actually the original idea for this thing.
still over a 100 mile long :D
@@mrdlbk1254 I don’t think they will do this project without knowing every possibility
I’m Saudi but I will never live in this I love to have a space
Maybe the next generation would like to live like that
It's the desert. The mirror thing is probably the least bad thing here
That goodness this is being designed in 3 dimensions, as opposed to it being in 2D. Really tired of switching between going from New York which is 3D, and then going down to Newark where everything is flat and 2D. Such a god damn hassle.
This is how every futuristic dystopian disaster movie starts.
😅 true. Reminded me of Elysium immediately.
It’s funny that people think this will benefit the lower classes if it ever happens 😂 it’s basically a pig in a dress. Imagine the surveillance and control that could be had in a place like this. Social credit scores would become very real….
You don't want to live in a pod eating synthetic meat hooked up to the metaverse unable to leave the walled city?
@@kiarakoo4220 😆
Control ur every move also and if your bad u don't get to go out
Felt like a scary sci fi movie. Kids growing up here will have such a sci-movie like perspective on the world. Living in such shelter. Not realizing the realities outside of “The Line”
Oh my GOD!!!!! Yeah I'm sure this won't be a disaster of epic proportions
As a futurist with interests in urban and transport planning, ecology, security and materials engineering... with all due respect, this looks incredibly dumb.
"For too long, humanity has existed within dyfunctional and polluted cities that ignore nature..." ...So instead we're going to build a wall across it, with a mirrored surface 170km long and 500m high with no apparent concern for animal migration pathways, water tables, material degradation from both desert sand and sea salt, security concerns in making logistics dependent on single linear transport corridor throughout the whole structure, etc. etc.
Megastructures are fun and all, but this looks like a project only a *short-sighted* architect could love.
[Edited to qualify my commect about architects, because some of the architects out there are making entirely fair complaints about me overgeneralising here. Beg pardon!]
Fr im only interested in this purely on a conceptual standpoint, it doesnt bode too well being actually built
@@svenwalter4293 It's certainly an interesting idea, but then ideation is always the easy part.
They should just build night city. No weird line, just a mega city. They can make it also 3D globally and not only locally.
This is a great thing to implement in an art piece, not in reality...
They’re literally building a Back Rooms level!
When you've got people actually EXCITED to live in a nightmarish dystopia, you've won.
Not for long, though, my friend. 🙂
don’t like then don’t be one of the 9 million like 💀
boohoo
@@Tynes1 Actually not much, only 2:07 min of the trailer.
@@Tynes1 Let's start with the part where you're stuck in a 34 KM alleyway and work our way down the list.
@@Tynes1 I can leave an apartment building and walk for miles in any direction.
Most comments seem negative, and I understand, but I personally think the world is evolving with technology and engineering, 9 millions people in this squqre? is fantastic I think it is also the future due to rapid population growth. Do I like it? Not 100% but I always welcome new ideas that are outside of the box. Congratulations to the Saudis 👍🏽
3d housing, 100% renewable resources, AI for wellness and good transportation are good takeaways from this project, but nothing else
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Please tell me this is satire.
If it is, it’s an excellent reveal for a dystopian sci-fi Summer blockbuster.
If it isn’t, it’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever watched. I’d love to see the people who thought of this, and this entire BS company, to live in it for 20 years and let us know how it goes.
A trillion dollar satire 👍
They have already started construction so who knows lmao good luck
You are an absolute nobody on youtube and too mentally challenged to understand anything
If anyone is interested in how the city structure of this will be like, look up the Kowloon walled city. Very educational.
what symbol is your profile picture?
Or or one could just look at pretty much any local prison!!
Will probably end up worse than that
@Anónimo like I saw it with a different contect called x.a.n.a.
@Anónimo well I saw some artists made a series where xana tries to control the world. With some "unique" ways
We love a dystopian society in line format!
I think the very initial concept over going vertical with our cities, thereby preventing sprawl, is a proper idea. In America, we've failed at creating truly livable cities because we've given the car a lot of real estate. Then, we've seduced so many with the American Dream (giant home ownership) that we've poisoned the well we all must drink from. Those problems are what need remedy but the Line is not the way
I wonder where the slave quarters, I mean the labor quarters, running this thing will be like.
Where will the gay people live too?
At the bottom of the wall, where land will be cheap, it will be quite dark.
660 feet wide? wonder if one of the builders will cock up and make it 666
@@davidempty3880 and we pump hot air down there so the rich can have a nice wind...
It will definitely have lot of Indian engineers working on it. Very challenging stuff.
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Don't worry, they are very know to even create their on yt tutorials, so I'm confident they could 100% do it
Lol they are labours. Not engineers
@@Dripxxl-i4k pretty much huge part of middle east relies on indian civil and structural engineers. It's not just labourers.
@@johnnysdesk They dont rely. Indian labours rely on middle east Jobs. India gets huge Remittance from middle eastern countries .
This sounds like something between hell and a nightmare.
"Their Heaven will be your Hell and their Hell will be your Heaven"
sounds like heaven and paradise to me
THIS REMINDS ME SO MUCH TO MOVIE THE PASSENGERS
In 2021 I guess I saw first time this add ...was my favourite since the first time...ever ❤🌎life on Earth but like 50 years ahead humanity
"Leveraging AI technology services are autonomous, saving you time and effort" is the funniest line I've heard in years. Who says comedy's dead?
It seems straight out of a seed funding pitch deck for a startup named "Noem", "Neomr", or "Nyner".
Go ahead! Good luck implementing proper water/waste/transport/ management in it!
Who would like to live in an airport terminal?
That’s one portion of the city, not the city itself.
There’s is an airport dude the line isn’t all about Neom it has WAYY more things beside it
@@Ruder6163 the entire "city" portrayed in this video is literally a glorified international Airport. I don't see this being a reality in our lifetime either.
What I want to know is where the hell did the funding come from for a project of this size?
@@biggiesmalls7939 It came from the Saudi sovereign wealth fund, private investors, as well as the Saudi government trying to sell stock in Saudi Aramco (I don’t believe any investors have bought in yet but the pandemic slowed down the project).
Part of me always feels like if these projects were in Europe or the US people like yourself would hold more favorable opinions.
This project seems unrealistic just because of its scale, but as a civil engineering graduate, I don't see any problems with water and waste transport. In fact the length of the city would make the design pretty simple.
The Saudi government dominates 80% of the national economy, to me it looks like the government is trying to steer it in a certain direction. There are also concerns about the privacy of residents of the line because, as explained almost everything will be autonomous. What that probably means is a lot of data being collected about each residents' habits etc. This is a big worry. Corruption is ripe, the annual foreign investment is dropping, which'll mainly fund it. And the education system isn't particularly great. Another thing is half of the population is under 25, education matters a lot especially when 500 BILLION dollars is being invested
It's a transparently diversionary project. But clearly many people are already too blind - or scared blind - to see through it, or indeed to see anything resembling the Truth.
What a stupid comment.
Bro no one cares about ur habits. They don't need ur info specifically. They take info of everyone to sell jt and make money but it doesn't affect u in any way
Loss to Data Privacy and the feel of corruption even remotely obstructing you aren't relevant topics when you are the Elite - the people who will ultimately be funding and living in 'The Line'. Take the cases of Julianne Assange or Snowden for example, does the existence of "Democracy" in USA, or that it is not shaped like 'The Line' protect it's people from being dehumanized by it's government agencies? No? Well because US public is poor, and cannot afford privacy.
So now its saudi fault!! 4 years and your media is trying to devilize Saudi mumbling about khashoggi asking the world to stop investing in saudi after we told you about The line and neom that time.
do you know that china didn't care about your media and now they took a huge part in this city even putin took this chance and build a great relationship with Saudi
I remember your leader said I will make saudi arabia pariah after all this it's clear that u tried to destroy our economy so why we should care about your economy??😂
❤ Dear Neom channel moderator I was not aware my phone got stuck and a comment was posted which I tried to find but I'm so naive with these internet things I couldn't so kindly ignore that.
I watch this Project and I am very glad happy to see such development which has very beautiful outcome in many ways for the diverse cultural hub it is. I know for a fact this will be completed on time In'sha'AllaaH and may this be a blessing for humankind.
I love the part where Ariel says " Wakanda 4Ever" that was heartbreaking, best movie ever. Never cried so hard.
It says Zero carbon emission, but 50 years of construction period sound like HUGE emissions of carbon.
Especially, assuming Saudi Arabia might be give most of construction to Chinese company.
Don’t cry
@Tyler Fenton so they would clearly use airplanes running on wind energy right
Sponsored by the World Economic Forum. "You vill live in ze Line" - Klaus Schwab
"and be happy"
And you will eat ze bugz!
@@deplorablepiratecaptaingunberd According to the Bible, eating crickets is okay, but eating pork is a sin. 😉
@@aike6471 old testament and a different covenant than what Christians follow. And if I go to hell for eating 🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓 it's totally worth it
You will Own Nothing, Watched EVERY moment for Klaus's GOONS to decide "IF you're behavior is *PERFECT* you can have some 🐛 to eat"
But You'll Be HAPPY in Your Indebted Servitude 🤮
I am so happy that the overwhelming majority of people in the comment section understand how idiotic and dystopian this idea is.
So I'm living the most of my time ins this "bee hive" and would never leave it because everything is in walking distance and I will probably never go outside because we're in the middle of a desert ?
Sounds like a nightmare.
They say that these kind of cities will be in the middle of the nature and you will have it right in front of your door. But they didn't mention if you're actually allowed to ever leave :D
There will be an Airport. Take a flight to another city if you want
@@gu0504 only allowed to take the planes there. The government decides if you're allowed take a flight out
future broo
I live there you not first one come there hhhhhhhhhh come i will be your frind for some times
This vision parallels with the council/ social housing estate designs in the UK from the 1960s. Intially built for the working person and to create a sense of community, they were self contained walkable neighborhoods. As you are aware the UK has a limited amount of space. They were later hard to maintain, and easier for crime to occur (who knew walkability had its negative), and knocked down for more spacious mixed buildings or "2D" living.
Hello ! May Allah protect and guide you to his light and happiness in this life and the hereafter, God bless, Ameen. Excuse me for giving a little presentation of Islam, because it is very misunderstood nowadays, especially on those « Antichrist's » times, where media and politics are mixed to distort history and truth. And terrorists (puppets of the Antichrist) who misinterpret verses, out of ignorance and political motivations, and take them out of historical context (just like radical atheists do by the way), don't help either. Thank you very much for your time.
Islam is an arabic word that means the Surrender to the One and Only God, our Creator, Protector, Provider, who gives us life and all that we have, we are safe and sound by his will and grace, we are His and to Him we return, and we have to thank him in this trial life by submitting to him by our free will, or later in the Day of judgment when it's too late to save our own skin. Islam was the original Religion descended to earth from heaven with Adam and Eve (peace and blessing be upon them) in the beginning of humanity. and was passed to people with the succession of the 124 000 prophets and 315 messengers of God to all nations and civilizations since, passing by Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ismaël, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David, Solomon and Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon them) during the history of mankind, the last replaces and completes the previous, until the succession of the last messenger of God fourteen centuries ago, Muhammad (Peace and blessing be upon him) to complete the noble morals of all mankind, to bring humans and jinns out of darkness into light, and to purify people's religion and belief from corruption and polytheism, and return it to purity and true monotheism, like it was in the times of the prophets (Peace and blessing be upon them).
Many Religions that we know nowadays, at their beginning were true and under Islam, initiated by one of the prophets of God, but their original teachings, history and scriptures have been corrupted over time with falsification and polytheism, or lost and replaced with false ones. That's why Islam is the only Religion accepted by God nowadays, which consists in bearing witness that there is no god besides Allah (God in Aramaic, the original language of Jesus and the Gospel), and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, just like Jesus and Moses and others are His servants and messengers. Never a messenger of God said he was God or literally son of God, it was the people after him who changed the words of God and corrupted the Religion. God is unique and absolute, He does not need to have a family and sons or to associate anyone else with His kingdom, He can simply create whatever He wants, everything belongs to Him, and to Him everything will return. Allah said in Surah Al-Mu’minun : “God has never begotten a son, nor is there any god besides Him. Otherwise, each god would have taken away what it has created, and some of them would have gained supremacy over others. Glory be to God, far beyond what they describe. The Knower of the hidden and the manifest. He is exalted, far above what they associate. (91-92 / Translated by ITANI).
Allah means the one and only God, the God of all prophets and creatures, the creator of the universe and mankind, and the Master of the Day of judgment, where our destiny, Hell or Paradise, is decided based on our faith and deeds in this trial life, and above all, Allah's mercy.
Allah said in Surah Al-Ikhlas : In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful.
Say, “He is God, the One. God, the Absolute. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is none comparable to Him.” (1-4 / Translated by ITANI).
Allah said in Surah An-Nisa : O FOLLOWERS of the Gospel! Do not overstep the bounds [of truth] in your religious beliefs, and do not say of God anything but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was but God's Apostle - [the fulfilment of] His promise which He had conveyed unto Mary - and a soul created by Him. Believe, then, in God and His apostles, and do not say, "[God is] a trinity". Desist [from this assertion] for your own good. God is but One God; utterly remote is He, in His glory, from having a son: unto Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth; and none is as worthy of trust as God. Never did the Christ feel too proud to be God's servant, nor do the angels who are near unto Him. And those who feel too proud to serve Him and glory in their arrogance [should know that on Judgment Day] He will gather them all unto Himself: (171-172 / Translated by Muhammad Asad).
Allah the Most Merciful said in Surah Ali-Imran : Behold, the only [true] religion in the sight of God is [man's] self-surrender unto Him; and those who were vouchsafed revelation aforetime took, out of mutual jealousy, to divergent views [on this point] only after knowledge [thereof] had come unto them. But as for him who denies the truth of God's messages - behold, God is swift in reckoning!
Thus, [O Prophet,] if they argue with thee, say, "I have surrendered my whole being unto God, and [so have] all who follow me!" - and ask those who have been vouchsafed revelation aforetime, as well as all unlettered people, "Have you [too] surrendered yourselves unto Him?" And if they surrender themselves unto Him, they are on the right path; but if they turn away - behold, thy duty is no more than to deliver the message: for God sees all that is in [the hearts of] His creatures.
Verily, as for those who deny the truth of God's messages, and slay the prophets against all right, and slay people who enjoin equity - announce unto them a grievous chastisement.
It is they whose works shall come to nought both in this world and in the life to come; and they shall have none to succour them.
(19-22 / Translated by Muhammad Asad)..
Salam (Peace) ----
What they fail to mention in this marketing scam, is that you can’t just leave the line. In fact, it’s one large prison city, controlled by AI. Everyone will be sanctioned into districts, with everything you need essentially within 15 minutes. You have to request permission to leave the district, with travel being limited to so many times per year. On top of that, in order to gain approval to leave, you have to have a good social credit score along with some other good behavior factors. Not to mention I can’t even imagine what an outbreak like Covid would look like within these walls. It’s not at all the rainbows and butterflies they are trying to sell us on these smart cities. Did you watch Wall-e?
@@TheHomemadeHippie bingo! i'd just add "with everything you need essentially within 15 minutes" is more like "everything THEY think you need ...". COVID would be a breeze though, as all houses would be locked remotely in an instant for a 100% lockdown. Just like any self-respecting prison is able to do basically ...
I would be glad to live in nature nearby, and slowly growing a community of conscious people realizing the boundaries of such a system, leaving it and coming in.
No idea what you are talking about. Most people are conscious unless unconscious (which is dangerous). Also they come and go from their homes regularly. Not like it's something new mate.
@@avengerrevenger4458 Well, quite a lot of people live their lives driven by uncouscious desires, and end up living life quite accidentally, that is what i mean. Opposite to the way of living drove by your counscious choices, realizing every moment that life is not about accumulating, but quite simply living it. To the fullest, exploring every dimension of it.
If people are really going to live in structures similar to "The Line" they won't go out that much anymore, because it is made to be self-sufficient, they will work from it, meet people in it, partying in it, they won't have to go out anymore. Until they feel how much disconnected they are from outside.
When curiosity rises again i will be there with open arms.
Please excuse my english
Can I join you! #Perfect
@@mathieuvernizeau9135 I feel that comment man, I’ll join you..😊
Does this mean you are for it or against? Keep in mind that "they" will dictate where you live in it and what you have. They will also let you drink your own recycled urine - and everyone else's. Remember that the ones who are crazy and/or challenged will also be in this contained environment. You might not have seen the groups of raging crowds in big cities on a rampage, but if you are in something like this, you'll definitely experience it - especially because they don't like those type of people to be contained. Be my guest, if that's your desire.
this is awesome. i’ll never understand why people are so afraid of change. if it wasn’t for change we would still be in the caveman area.
fact , they love drama so much