Why Saudi Arabia’s $2 Trillion Line City is Failing
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*btw if you criticize this city on Twitter and you're a Saudi citizen, you'll go to jail.*
Are you a saudi ?
Expect nothing less form a monarch how'd waste money on nosese like this
No you wont stop spreading bullshit
if you criticize the Message/ regime in US you lose your job and social life
so if you think about it nobody is free of consequences
Even liking or retweeting such posts get you locked up in here. MBS is crazy af
If that little line city was a property for sale listed by a real estate agent then even Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos net worth combined can not afford that in both of their entire lifetimes. Even the billionaires can't afford it at all!!!
Today u find out only poor people care about money, public finance is not real numbers. There are quadruple-trillionares
9 million population
8.9 million of them: Unpaid migrant workers
0.1 million of them: Crazy rich people who have 8.9 million servants
I think everybody living in the line would be rich people because it would cost a lot to live there
However, from a different perspective, lots of people would be poor because the inconveniece of living there would lower the cost of living
Saudi's Royal Family playing simcity in real life on Apocalypse Difficulty💀
But they've got an infinite money cheat code.
@@jkfang They just got lots of money. Their economy run mostly by oil. And oil is not unlimited. Many countries relied too much on oil have already fail economically. They may be next if they found no alternative.
@@fishyfinthing8854thus, the reason why they built this nonsense
One of the first principles of successful urban design is "don't build a city in a line in the middle of a fricking desert"
Right. The fact he thinks he can recreate the same impact with this as the pyramid is outrageous and disrespectful. Egypt wasn’t even desert when the pyramids were built💀 No amount of money will ever give you the true value of the pyramid. They can call it a chamber. But we all know the truth, you don’t build over a hot spring and think mfers ain’t gon ask questions. Nikola Tesla did that for us, and they took it all away.
You may well be the next evolution of humans. 👍
It’s a totalitarian nightmare.
They could make the whole population go extinct.
💯👏🏾👏🏾😂
MBS isn't that intelligent
To quote the great philosopher:
"smooth brain dictator + construction project = dumb shit”
Adam Something?
@@Chris.Davies Adam somethings a fa*
How about the great wall of China! I don’t think it was built by a democratic lgbtq community😂
Adam something my beloved 😍
I heard that in Adam's voice, too, lol
I wonder how residents of this city would handle communicable diseases.
Or when someone leaves the stove on when they go to work 😂
By dying, if I had to guess
Do the same thing they did to the Twitter critic methinks
Perpendicular angles
@@Justice4trump tri angles
Actually, comparing it to the pyramids is very apt. A hyper wealthy monarch, using a very large portion of their country’s resources purely to display their own vanity. Only difference now is that they’re asking the people to actually live in the pyramid.
And slaves. Don’t forget the slaves.
@@jinn194 Slaves? Saudi Arabia, maybe... Yes... Pyramids? No. At least most sources say that they were paid labourers.
The Pyramids were also more realistic, better looking and had a better return on investment.
Yeah I agree, the comparison is fair. I'm sure many people at the time said the pyramids "couldn't be built" but they got it done anyways by throwing a massive amount of resources at it. The difference here is, this project I don't think will actually get done, because unlike the pyramids, once it's built it needs constant maintenance and upkeep so people can live there... in the desert, far from any source of fresh water, this thing somehow needs to support 9 million people.
they're so rich they forget that their wealth is not infinite
Guess they have to blow their riches on something?
@@MrManfly its criminal how they blow these sovereign riches
Uh, the reason they want to build this city is because they know oil money won't last forever. It's the reason Dubai looks how it does.
It's quite the opposite. They know the world is trying to shift away from oil that's why they are desperately trying other ways to diversify their economy. They are even funding e-sport tournaments now.
@@KingNugget420 is that a justification or just an explanation? Dubai looks like shit lol, its extremely overpriced, the quality of the buildings and infrastructure does NOT match the prices charged for simply 'being cool, being Dubai'. Many massive buildings and projects sit half built, being a complete eyesore ever since 2009 crisis, have no recovered yet.
This is truly the dumbest construction idea in human history that actually has serious money behind it. What a waste.
History has strong contenders. This one is pretty rough, though.
If humanity wants to advance, they will have to do project way more difficult than this. While I strongly believe this project will not be finished in my lifetime (if it would ever be finished at all), it’s better for a country with too much money to try than other countries.
Dude im imagining if instead of using all that machinery to make a line, instead it was utilized to make an extensive network of berms and swales; to hold onto the rain that occasionally goes into the areas. It could turn the desert into grasslands. The area receives alot of water but has no mechanism (biological or geological) to retain it; so it runs off/evaporates.
What if it's successful though this maybe the best engineering fear in human history
Well the Poop Tower they build was not so much better.
This sounds like something I tried to build in Sim City when I was 15. I thought cities with grid systems were ugly and tried to build everything off one road in a single straight line. I quickly realized that having a single road made traffic impossible and my citizens kept complaining about the commute. Someone should buy MBS a copy of Sim City 3000. I think that might help him a lot.
A streamer did that in City Skylines and tried to rectify the issue with blimps.
that streamer is RTGame, who somehow managed to make it "kind of work" (within the game anyway) with the aforementioned blimps
whether the blimps would actually work in a real life setting, well, someone should donate a few trillion to RTGame to play City Skylines in real life
Maybe they want to build an artificial River, Therefore straight line.
who knows, that's not my money, who am i to judge,
and can't say that those expensive Civil Engineers and Architects who work in the project are all Dumb as well,
i'm sure they hired a world class people to work on the project.
maybe there are a lot of thing that we didn't know about the project, it's too soon to judge
i would rather eat my popcorn and watch them trying their best,
than to be salty, negative and dooming everything for no reason
A "single road" towns actually exist IRL. There's plenty of them in Poland, but they are small vilages. Houses on the road, farm fields behind houses.
The Line will have solar powered hyperloop tunnels built with rocket teck boring machines.
Problem solved thanks to Elon Musk.
By the way the Eiffel Tower which has a vast amount of metal it’s only 309 meters high, this city would be a constant wall of 500 meters high for 170km long, this is how big stupid this idea is!
New York could serve as a better comparison with 70000 skyscrapers consuming more steel
Yeah, this would take an ungodly amount of materials, it would require most of the building materials being produced in the whole world. for decades.
Why not make it 50 m tall. Every 2 m you can built a 100m tower. Etc. Every 20m you can build a 150m tower.
As needed you can double the wall height to 100m
But they aren't dumb it must have been for a reason they must have know there probably isn't that much metal/materials on earth
@@Justice4trump bro they are dumb! If the Arabs want to do something actually special they would be investing in space! A city in space is actually more viable, or putting money to make the ISS bigger! Anyways…
"Why Saudi Arabia’s $2 Trillion Line City is Failing"
Next
"Why my gingerbread submarine failed"
LMAO 🤣
Oh it was the screen door.
nice one
Pretty sure my paper boat I built when I was 10 is more structurally sound than this shit
Why my gun made of trinitrotoluene failed Or Why don't i have a head anymore.
in Europe, the first thing they teach you at school is that the distance between London and Birmingham is 170kms. Especially in Finland.
😂
Finland to Birmingham is about the distance from Houston Texas to Las Vegas Nevada
This guy could have just said Amsterdam to Brussels
Jeah, we Europeans definitely know that its the same distance as between salamanca and madrid.
Yep, bizarre choice for a 'European perspective'. Nobody outside of the UK knows where Birmingham is.
The real geniuses are the architects and construction companies who has somehow finessed Saudi Arabia into a continous 20-50 year project.
I'm convinced this project will keep going until the money runs out.
bro I almost had a stroke when you explained how much worse this is than a circle. When compared to a more logical approach I could not fathom the stupidity of the line.
and I am by no way meaning this is stupid just because its a line, its stupid all the way through. that comparison just really did it for me lmao
The mathematics behind the circle didn't make much sense, unless the interior was also part of the building. The circumference of a circle is the diameter times pi, so I'm not sure how one gets 4 km as the furthest apart people would be.
@@johnhaller5851 I think you're right, and he was trying to talk about the average distance between two randomly selected residents, assuming people can freely travel in a straight line through the circle's enclosed "courtyard", if you will. My understanding is that they basically aren't developing the land around the structure, so I'm not sure how valid an assumption that would be.
@@Jasmobius fair, at the very least their "flying cars" or whatever would be able to more quickly access every part of the line if it were a circle, once again ignoring the millions of other blaring problems
@@johnhaller5851 I looked it up, the mathematicians meant a solid circle (one giant filled-in circular building) would allow any two random people to be 4 miles apart. This wouldn't be true if you just bent The Line into a circle and left the center as open desert.
its called the line but you cant sniff it
total disappointment
I imagine the one who came up with it snorted a line that size
Only MBS can snort The Line, it's his anyway lol
Wow! Clever thought, I'm sure you would need help with that line, I'm available 😂
Gaurentee you can smell it though
1/10 too much sand in it
"From a European perspective, the same distance London is from Birmingham"
Me as a European outside of the UK: "What the fuck is a Birmingham?"
Yeah, the channel needs to re-think this sort of "helpful comparison." I'm American and none of the examples from the USA are helpful to me either.
I’m from Bham…there is no tourist things here except a GODDAM BULL
Hahaha probably about 170km from London😂
Its an 1slamic $hithole
It's a dump, dw about it
Dubai tourism isnt exactly booming and thriving as the narrator says. They have hit some big snags and its not really growing anymore.
Imagine the utopia Saudi Arabia could build with all that money and space. Yet they are building… a line
They could build so many large wind and solar farms and hydrogen production and have that fuel massive climate-friendly industrialization: jet fuel, fertilizers, steel, batteries, cars... Would be a much more productive use of the money
@@illuminate4622 next to that they could also just build real, sustainable, liveable cities… but hey money corrupts I guess
@@illuminate4622 I'm reminded of Omar and Yemen, recently featured on this channel. The tale of good and evil kings.
Saudi Arabia is just having fun in creative mode
yep.
the creative mode is the free trial version
bro got op 💀
The minecraft analogy is really good, seeing how villagers are often treated in minecraft...
Sandbox mode, literally
I picture an architect drawing the first line of a cool design on a piece of paper and the prince being like woah stop right there, I love it.
"Sold!" Lol
I typically scroll through comments as the beginning of a video plays to see if it's generally worth it or not.
In hindsight, this comment is much more funny after watching the entire video!
I didn't watch one second, but this comment is funny AF.
"but sir it's not.."
"Shhh yes I'm sure this is it! Let's start!"
😂😂😂😂😂
My immediate thought was how the Hell ambulances and fire trucks are gonna work in a city with no roads, and I can't say I'm convinced that fire "helicopters" is the answer.
Thats the one area i think would be easy to solve. maybe have a road outside running alongside the entire length for emergency vehicles to use when needed. Have a fire and ambulance garages every 5-8 km stationed along the way.
Periodic water tanks
Firefighting pods
400,000 elevators required for the project? Time to buy shares in Otis?
Hundreds of Saudi citizens have been sent to jail for criticizing this nonsense, with the sentences ranging from 7-14 years..
in the end they'll have to make it a prison to house all their citizens
no sanctions from USA? imagine that...
Keep lying and spread false rumors
Thought DUBAI Was Singapore of the Middle East ❓
@@Booz2020dubai is not in Saudi Arabia it is in a separate country "united Arab Emirates"
The catastrophic insanity of Saudi Arabia.
I see more of a political issue than most. Having something noteworthy in far flung corners makes a statement to neighbors both countries and citizens that would like to spin off on their own. Space is a precious resource in a shrinking globe. Squatters are an emerging problem, even crisis in some places.
Superbus Tyrannus
Leave it to the Saudis to come up with something that insane
@@bluewater4 Space is literally NOT a "precious resource".
There's so much space and the entirety of humanity is located in cities.
This project is absolutely dumb beyond belief. Imagine having a traffic accident in the "rail" or the "flying taxi". "Woops! Looks like you'll be late to work for the next.... 8 hours. Also another one of your coworkers died."
That's what happens when you have too much money.
Great video! Quick suggestion though, do NOT walk into your local Saudi consulate. The crown prince might be waiting there with a personal army, and yknow....
As long as you're not Kashoggi (sp?), or one of his people, you'll be fine.
The circle idea is dramatically more efficient, realistic, and intelligent.
The amount of slave labor on this project is going to be crazy.
*cough cough* workers from South and Southeast Asia who will be entrapped under the Kafala system
yes i am one of this worker ۔
south asia is very poor in pakistan salary is 25 thousands ruppe if someone working in line project salary will be 4000 reyal it is 280000 it is one year salary in pakistan ۔
that is why poor south work here happily
Most of them are taken from nepal india pakistan bangladesh phillipines and indonesia
Well they need to work harder because the project is behind schedule.. I'd start by giving them 12 hour shifts.. and if that doesn't work I'd stop break times.. if that doesn't work pay cuts.. then it would be a stick with pointy metal end to get them to move faster.. and just continuously improve upon the technique.. I have this project ahead of schedule and under budget.. its just lack management skills..
Slavery when the workers are being paid 😂😂I think you're confused mate. 😂😂
Literally something a toddler would build in Minecraft creative mode. I can't believe adult humans can greenlight stuff like this.
Nepotism...
They think they got creative mode IRL but forgot they're still playing hardcore
@@snowcoalRC fr 💀
Maybe someone should have tried it out in Minecraft first lol
they're Saudis, they don't have much intellect. They sure have oil money, tho
Funny how these princes always seem to invest in ridiculous mega projects and "rich people paradises" but NEVER invest into their people.
The mega rich and powerful on this planet don't care about anyone but themselves. That's how they amassed and continue to amass gobs of money. Fuck everyone and everything that isn't rich enough to afford luxury while the rest of the world melts. What baffles me is why they don't dump their unfathomable wealth into actions that **DON'T** kill everything on the planet to accomplish?
The writing's on the wall and we're out of time, as a planet, to stave off the coming disaster. Water will become the central focus of the next large-scale conflict in the middle east. Water will be priced higher than oil and people will die en masse. Man, I'm so pissed I saved for retirement when forces and dick-head greed will make it useless...
I mean, I'd love to agree, but then I look at what every other country is doing and realize it's not entirely different from our own Western concepts. Rich people attempt to get richer by squeezing as much as they can from the poor, and corrupt government officials aiding them legislatively/executively. The only difference is the illusion of choice with our "democracies," but that's often shadowed by the elites retaining control.
We [meaning Western countries] may not be as extreme as Saudi Arabia, but to pretend we don't have the same concepts and ideas running our own countries is, I think, a bit naive.
wym? im a saudi and proud of my country and im living a great life here with no issues. Again, just a classic case of outsiders wanting to choose a ruler who satisfies them instead of satisfying saudis 🤣🤣🤣
@@tlp4454 Saudi Arabia for the Saudis, America for the Americans, that's how I see it. You guys have different values from us. We're going to think ours are better, you're going to think yours are better. As long as we don't try to change each other and just accept those differences as a reality, we'd get a long a lot better.
@@teck1756 i was replying to the OP of the comment
I can't imagine why any sane person would ever visit Saudi Arabia.
To get away from rainbow libturds mainly 😂
@@jdizzle1337 Classic American political brainrot.
its actually not bad for tourism. Al ulaa, jeddah, and al taif are great fun. But obviously living and visiting are different
@@myboysd5772 Saudi has no culture, it's cities are hideous, the OP was right, prefer not to get followed by some stupid religious police
@@davidrenton Yup i agree. Poop trucks, very fancy.
"Ridiculous massive concept city in middle of desert with no nearby resources is failing"
Who is surprised by this?
Come see Riyadh .!
I'm surprised ... it even started getting built
@@greebj Need to make incompetent investors THINK that there's progress to acquire their investor money competently.
Literally
I'm surprised this is even a thing. When I first saw an ad for this, I thought it was a scam designed to trick people into spending money on a project that didn't exist. This is so much dumber.
My geography class had an assignment once, we had to build a road in Africa that connected roughly thirty countries, taking into account natural geography and political bounderies. I failed because I completely forgot, and just drew a line from Cairo to Johannesburg.
The Saudis too, failed this geography project.
That makes me laugh, reminds me of when I was a little kid learning Currency.
"Make 27.60$ with the fewest bills and coins possible"
I put down *27$ bill and 60cent coin.
My teacher was not amused
Lol this comment should be pinned
I couldn't do that assignment either
cape to cairo part 2
@@FeedMeSalt In Australia you can chop up a note to do it.
If the note is between 20 and 80% complete, its value is the percentage of the note.
I can’t stop thinking that this whole project is a gigantic dystopian prison. The remote and inhospitable environment, artificial conditions inside, few entrances and you can go actually nowhere even if you do leave the city, it seems to be a perfect place to take complete control over a large population.
Heh, Spec Ops: The Line sequel confirmed. 'Do you feel like a hero yet?'
“There is no difference between what is right and what is necessary.”
The most realistic part of this plan is the Jurassic Park.
Lol
And it's being proposed as some grand, world changing tourist trap, when it's just a theme park with no rides.
Like, his grand animatronic dinosaur park is literally just a T-Rex Cafe, but without food.
@@stephenschiffman5940 They spared every expense.
Flying ambulances between 100 mile long world trade center buildings?? It's like they are trying to build a 9/11 generator.
That makes sense when you remember most of them were Saudis
Just thought, wonder what the up draft winds will be like. Surely that shiny wall in the desert will have some kind of weather issues.
It's all come full circle
Why fly inside the wall?
9/11??? Are you 40 years old 😂
Anyone who know did well at math in highschool and understands the most basic aspects of engineering and construction projects knew there was like a 0.001% chance of this ever being completed. You would to invest a trillion dollars to get that built, actually more like 10 trillion.
well, who said that you have to build all of that?
this is a line, even if you can only finish half of that, it's still a line,
they can Scale down the line if their budget can't cover the entire line.
and they can also build it in phases, each phase will take 10 years,
so it's not like they have to pay 10 Trillion in cash right now
Ladies and gents, this why you should not sniff coke, petroleum vapor, and using AutoCAD at the same time. Lmao
The high speed train is so stupid. If you need to stop about every minute, due to the population densitily, on a singular line, the train will never be able to build up enough speed.
High speed trains make sense between cities, not as localised public transportation.
Smart
Tell Gavin "Grusome" Newsome that in Calif. We are wasting 250 billion on a high speed train that nobody will ride. Better off spending that cash on water infrastructure and road reconditioning.
The train would be irrelevant to nearly all residents: The would be trapped in their '5 minute area' want to get out? Remember that AI surveillance system? The Line is a globalists wet dream.
@@JohnS-il1drthe HSR in California makes sense though. San Francisco to LA is a huge deal especially if it’s fast
Never mind that it's likely there'll be a single main point of access for people and goods, so also creating a single point of failure...
Wait… there was a question about it failing?? Bro tried to build all of NYC on one road in the middle of a desert, that’s why it failed
hilariously, the city you describe is more feasible than the line.
Neglecting the Fact NY took DECADES and still has constant adjustments. NEOM also ignores Urban Planning 101. You cannot plan a whole city in advance, it never works.
And unlike say Las Vegas, there is no real reason for people to go there.
People flocked to Vegas because it was a remote location free from any laws against gambling and vices. Saudi Arabia is the opposite of that.
@@triplemoyagames4195they did create Canberra as a planned city for Australia’s capital though, and it works fine. Perhaps wasn’t planned as deeply as NEOM but it was planned.
Washington DC was planned
What sucks is that if they made this just a 1km-2km project it might have a chance of actually happening.
It's sad. If you took all this money, put it into VR, odds are by the time the project itself is supposed to be completed you could create a simulation so real, people wouldn't know the difference anyway.
If somebody falls on the train tracks the entire city's gonna be late for work
saudis dont work. they have foreign slaves for that nonsense.
🤭
Bold of you to assume they will stop the train for the janitors to clean the gore.
😂😂😂
Train tracks in the Middle East aren’t accessible like that, they have automatic doors that only open when the train stops
I love how they included there's gonna be a robotic jurassic park, like they were just making things up and wanted to see if anyone would notice
When is Pokemon going to give us a Line City?
Only robotic? They couldn't even promise a real Jurassic Park?
@@Tokru86 Dissapointing
Also the artificial moon. Why?
@@danielbishop1863 seems pretty obvious. They want Oozaru transformation even during a new moon.
This was fascinating and informative, really appreciate the content
They could've used a small fraction of that money to build a functioning sewer system with wastewater treatment plants for Riyadh.
My man is making a prison for 9 million people and selling them as property 😂 genius
Just like a timeshare!
Turns out there’s a reason why cities have never been built this way. Crazy, right?
Well, there are a small number of exceptions, caused by natural obstacles, but none of them are a *single* line like this
(And they also developed rather naturally)
RealLifeLore makes really interesting videos but even when I fully expect it, the redundancy in just about every single sentence gets a bit much.
I swear his videos could be done in 4 minutes. His tone and redundancy is so annoying, it puts me off his videos. So much filler and non-substance.
incredibly interesting, thank you for this piece!
So what you’re saying is that a monarch had a self-aggrandizement fueled idea that has the potential to bankrupt his kingdom? Wow. Never heard of that.
Why it's failing? I'm curious as to how it could have possibly succeeded this seems like an idiotic idea
Money has a way of making people really stooopid lol.
Ikr, I always thought this was just a fundraising scam @@Cajek2
@@Cajek2 it's not a bad idea, you just need to spend about 100 years of Saudi's annual GDP, wait for a bunch technology that doesn't exist yet and ignore common sense and all the fundamentals of urban planning.
All they try to do is be a popular country again like its 890 or something
The Line assumes community can grow from a city instead of a city growing from a community.
This is one mega condo
This is the major issue with new cities built in the Middle East. Build it and they’ll come, Is the only motto. But what if people don’t come? Usually great cities are slowly built up by the congregation of people organically coming together, bringing their talents and cultures and making the city alive
Basically a death trap
it's exactly what happened with Naypyidaw.
I mean that’s what everyone said about China and laughed at their ghost towns but eventually people do always come
Not a fan of this Saudi project but as an urban designer, there's a type of city called a "planned city", indicating cities intentionally designed before construction begins to ensure efficient layout, infrastructure, and amenities. There are many successful examples of planned cities worldwide; however, the site selection and harsh climate of Neom made it insanely costly and credulous.
sounds like me being carried away with a minecraft project. including the part scrapping it when realizing my megalomania.
I'm 15 minutes into this video and I'm just baffled. The idea of redesigning your urban environments for a new era sounds like a great idea and they invested all this money into it... but then instead of redesigning anything they just decided to build new stuff in one of the worst parts of the entire country? That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard lol
POV: You are a random Bedouin farmer who is being roasted alive by the light reflected from the Line
Lol was gonna point that out, it's a country-spanning solar laser beam, but hey, if you're the big man at the head of the city, doesn't really matter what the people on the outside feel I guess
@@bobthegamingtaco6073magnifying glass = sniper
Tf is a Bedouin farmer
Bedouins are Arab tribes that have practiced desert farming for millennia. You can use Google to become less ignorant
@@zyplocsSaudi Bedouin tribes are nomads they didn't farm. You alsocan't farm in the desert with no water or soil
"It's a great idea if you think about it. If the first building is in the worst location, it would make sense to put the next building a little further away from that location. This process would repeat, and the city would naturally form a line as it tries to get away from itself" - Patrick Boyle
There's absolutely nothing strange about building a lined city across the desert. This entire video is heckling ... the Saudis building a city? They're already doing it. What's it matter? So why was there 50 references to them hating Israel, and gay people? This is propaganda funded by AIPAC I would be willing to bet. Over, and over, and over again they keep dropping messages with a voice of insane contempt and ridicule against Saudis as "the most evil and ruthless people, AAAND they hate Israel and love Israel's enemies!" We are America, not Israel. And Israel also hates gay people so let's stop buying that propaganda that they've ever legalized or socially accepted them; they allow democratic parades that sometimes include gays, but they have never given them social acceptance and relationship rights. This entire video was a giant political propaganda hit piece, attacking Americans as if this is our business and as if Israel is our Lord and Savior and Congress - merely because Saudi Arabia is ... Building a town across the desert. Yeah, keep your Israeli media out of America
He did the best review of the project 🤣🤣
They really took Spec Ops The Line to heart
If they have to be Lines, they should just make multiple much smaller Lines scattered throughout the country, each more unique than the other, and they can still have their fast trains to travel people between each different line.
Foreign contractors and construction companies must have been salivating at this proporsal. "Oh absolutely, we'll get it done, just wire us the money" Knowing damn well it will never see the light of day.
They'll need extra money so they can build a warehouse to store all the passports they are withholding from their foreign workers.
😂
Oh trust me I know one personally. She’s been getting paid highly for years already. But I don’t think she actually believes it will get finished😂
My uncle is milking them rn LMAO
"All payments due in advance in full and no refunds"
You guys don't get it. The prince is just building a wall to protect his people from the titans
I hope he doesn't lose it all, slips and falls, because he'll never be able to look away... 😢
Best reason ever🤣
I know you're joking but my heart skipped a beat.
That show messed me up I guess
If titans were real. It would be good
Hubris.
What hasn't been highlighted is the sheer number of rails they would need to operate simultaneously in order to have a train coming every 5 minutes into both directions.
20:49
Some people here are gonna be seething that you put that sign in there 😂
Saudi Arabia couldn’t even finish their 1km skyscraper on schedule: what would make them think this “line” city would be possible?!
fr this is just a waste of resources and time
11 years later and it’s still not finished 💀
Waste of time and resources. If only they could build a functioning city with the land they got 😂
@@gdplayer8768 It was before when MBS came into power, so I think that could play a factor on why it's not finished
It faced a huge problem after Mohammed bin Salmans Corruption Purge. It's a really complicated process. It doesn't have anything to do with money or power. Just some paperwork stuff. Don't overcomplicate it.
I'm a structural engineer, currently working on adding a wind wall to an existing industrial park. The biggest problem by far is the wind forces. Though the wall isn't too expensive itself, it's going to require a lot of concrete to anchor itself so the whole thing doesn't topple over. It's only about 80 feet tall, and it's not built on top of a damn sandy desert. Also, there's not half of an entire city hanging off of one side of it to further tip the balance of forces. If a single engineer greenlights any of this thing's drawings, he should be stripped of his title and seal.
I do wonder how they want to achieve that without using active support (and multiple nuclear reactors to keep that running 24/7/365).
If the engineer don’t approve , saud8 will arrest him and find a new one
I feel like the contractors got their deposits and that was it. Tell the Saudis what they want to hear , get the money.
I have a feeling the engineers are just looking to cash out on a very gullible and megalomaniacal prince with far too much money at his fingertips.
Like the Tom Cruise story - you get a safety guy to help you do a stunt, he says it can't be done - mmm - So you get a new safety Guy to help you do a stunt.🤪 Money given not earnt spawns this kind of insanity.
Thanks RLL for the thorough analysis. I've heard multiple descriptions of this insane project but you managed to provide more context and insight than anyone else. Eg. MBS's rise to power, how criticism of the line was a factor in Khashoggi's assassination, why NEOM is located where it is, the risk to migratory birds, and the history of theoretical line cities (none of which got built for good reasons).
It’s interesting how every leader that gains great power thinks of himself as an architect
When I originally saw this I thought it was a joke. Then they started to build said joke.
Any good comedian builds on their jokes
Said joke or Saud joke
“Oil Money” isn’t enough to get a “The Line” completed, a $20 trillion project is more like “asteroid mining money”
Shhhht you'll give 'em ideas!
@@alexandregermain8011 Asteroid mining would at least produce resources, some of them valuable.
@@subduedreader5627it’s also illegal to sell
@@subduedreader5627and might be illegal to even mine
Asteroid mining would unironically crash the entire global economy.
There are rocks up there that contain several orders of magnitude more gold and platinum than humans have extracted in the past 200k years COMBINED.
It sounds like a fun minecraft project, but why are humans wasting resources to live on a f*king desert?
Great video. One question: I saw that you have put off the NEOM map its most north western area. Is there anything specific about it to keep it away from NEOM? It looks small area around city of Haql.
It's like if the Fyre Festival was a country
We’ve been living just fine for over 90 years. Don’t speak on behalf of us
@@FrontRowSeatToEarthWho is "we?"
@@liamhuges “We” as in Saudis. Your name is Liam, you’re clearly not Saudi. You have no stake in this conversation.
@@FrontRowSeatToEarth If people judged Saudi Arabia's friendliness and intelligence solely based on you, they would likely be disappointed. Hopefully, that's not the case. The OP wasn't comparing Fyre Festival to Saudi Arabia, but rather referencing a similar failed attempt related to this specific project.
@@liamhuges believe me there are much ruder people here
120 kilometers is not "whopping" for 9 million people crammed in there. Diseases, lack of fresh air, this is someone's nightmare come alive! Holy shizer
*170
Yep. It'll be a prison almost immediately.
It's the central spire of a 40k hive city laid on its side.
Yeah maybe it'll end up getting repurposed as a giant prison for the world government
@@liamconverse8950 Facts, 💯
With all that money and land, just think of the paradise Saudi Arabia could create. However, they are creating a line.
They have so much money they don’t know what to do with it.
Imagine having the worst idea in the history of mankind.
What you mean Islam?
their iq, look at statistics, even the conflict tormented Iraq, is higher, why? mesopotamian DNA and their education, with this statement, UAE seems to go the same way as saudia arabia, money going on the wrong things.
@@blurglide You're right, i'm from Iraq and look what religious lunatics did to the country after the us invaded, but yes, just blame everything on the west right?
That would be legalizing lgbtq
And then imagine having the money to make people build it for you! 😂😂😂
The Line will have two classes of people, assuming it actually is completed. The rich people, who will be maybe 10% of the population, and the rest will be imported foreign workers. The rich folks will get the benefit of all the bells and whistles, and the workers will be essentially slaves, not allowed to leave their sections, watched by surveillance 24/7/365, and given a bare minimum of wages.
It's pretty much how Dubai works.
If they wanna leave, nothing is stopping them. Except for the gapless surveillance in, and the vast desert beyond the Line, of course.
you forgot the rich tourists that will want to visit it though.
Sounds like the premise for Bioshock 4
@@Personoflordlycalibur was about to say it sounded like bioshock 3 alrdy xD
YES. Finally someone making a comprehensive breakdown on this project. Thank you sir.
Imagine building a linear structure that is only one kilometer long, two stories high and 200 meters wide. Would that be enough to see the lunacy of building it? If not, increase the dimensions a bunch. 500 meters high is 160 to 200 stories. Is that enough detail to identify the profuse insanity yet? Let alone the challenges it would be to get tenants, goods, and groceries to "occupy" it.
The ridiculousness of the "high speed train" is enough to identify this as another "failed city" fallacy. Don't build it! A bunch of robotaxis would be a far better match and they will be ready in time!
The stupidest thing about The Line is: If there's two other things Saudi has a LOT of (after oil) it's tons of empty space and year-round bright sunlight. They could easily become the world leader in pioneering solar energy. They could open a space port. They could invest in renewable energy and do something about climate change. But instead they're making a modern Kowloon Walled City surveillance state in the middle of nowhere for no clear reason other than badly copying Dubai's homework with "lol cool megaproject." And even Dubai's projects had some point or purpose (land reclamation, geoengineering, tripling their coastline, tourism, etc) even if they didn't always work. tl;dr There's literally no reason for The Line to exist. It's dumb even by Elon Musk standards.
There’s a lot that goes into wondering how this would even function. Strong winds on a wide/flat faced object seem horrible due to basic understanding of how wind works. The lines of skyscrapers (from what I’m getting from this) would be very vulnerable to any most forms of destructive force, like explosives. Just sounds like a bad idea all around, but then again it’s their money, I’d hope they have ideas in store on how to mitigate those issues.
The renewable energy idea wouldn’t work, it would honestly cost them an equally ridiculous amount of money to set up enough renewable energy to power the city, possibly more money than the city itself. Renewable sources are not efficient at all, they’d need nuclear or fossil fuel energy.
their iq, look at statistics, even the conflict tormented Iraq, is higher, why? mesopotamian DNA and their education, with this statement, UAE seems to go the same way as saudia arabia, money going on the wrong things.
Even Dubai projects were kind of stupid. They dredged up millions of tons of sand from the depths and absolutely decimated any aquatic ecosystems in their path only to build a tacky world island archipelago that can’t even sustain any buildings because island aren’t just a bunch of sand dunes sticking out of the water. Islands actually have a foundation that plants and buildings can anchor themselves to. But even this line makes Dubai mega projects seem genius in comparison.
@@therealspeedwagon1451 i'd easily argue, UAE's projects were much worse and also alot less ethical, they just paid engineers, architects to help with projects and they also paid poor people from south asia to build the projects for less than a cent a month, dubai is terrible i can never see myself residing there.
@@envyenvy-zv9ur erm... what do you think the Saudis are going to do?
None of the “visionaries” or “developers” of this project have ever played SimCity type of games
Even with Infinite Money turned on, this would still be a failure in a city simulator. How is emergency services going to function in a city like this? Let alone goods transport.
Exactly lets say train lines need to be repaired and some stuff is at other end how you gonna get that stuff
By train
BUT THE TRAIN IS UNDER MAINTENANCE @@MarvinPowell1
But they've certainly played "billing" or "invoicing" their time for any fantasy projects such people wish to burn their money on.
And it shows 😅
Nor have they played anything like factorio or things in that vein.
For things like SimCity and the factory style games making a linear city/map is literally a challenge run.
I have a feeling they didn't talk to any engineers or builders. The most charitable response I've ever heard is "you could probably do it with enough money".
23:31 Actually there is a SCmaglev test track that has managed to reach speeds of 603km/h(375mph), tho for normal operations the SCmaglev is planned to run at only 500km/h(310mph)
This place sounds like Hell on Earth. ‘Dystopia’ would be a great name for it.
Neom is the sound a really fast car makes when it passes me
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Excellent!!!😂😂😂😂😂
It's like someone heard the phrase "the shortest distance between 2 points is a straight line" but had absolutely no understanding of geometry beyond that.
44:39 Brilliant video! Thanks for all the info! Much appreciated!😉
If you made a square you could get from one end to the other in 5 minutes tops.
I will die not understanding how a few thousand people can look at 8 billion people and cause them suffering for such mundane reasons.
I mean, he was raised in a palace and has always had servants who will do anything for him. He literally believes God gave him his title.
And you expect someone raised like that to understand (let alone sympathize) with the plight of the common person?
Some people are rich enough to make it impossible for their children to have to deal with the real world.
@@AchkahklToday I learned Islam is the reason Jeff Bezos overworks his employees so much they pee in bottles. /s
Don't kid yourself. This is just what happens when wealth and greed for more wealth corrupts the ruling class
@@lao5610
Well said, Just imagine how much humanity can progress with that kind of money in medicine and engineering but no dictator want fancy architectures !
@@shivamsolanke4660 they call it revolutionary and i hope this causes a revolution
Projects like this really highlight how insanely stupid dictators and tech investors are.
Yea if only they went $30Trillion in debt over the past 20 years and wasted all of that money killing people instead.......oh wait 🤔😂
and we’re all funding it
All that money and these oil rich Arab country cannot create or innovate anything..
No, it highlights how insanely wealthy these people are that they can just blow it on a dumb project like this just to try and show off and make their mark.
How many illegals are your voted politicians letting across the border and how much are they spending o ntheir garbage militairy?
The Line looks and sounds exactly like something you'd see in a dystopian sci-fi setting.
2:55 😂 Who coulda seen that coming?
I don't know why you'd want to A: live in an enclosed line in a desert and most importantly B: ran by a country like Saudi Arabia.
I honestly can’t even think of a country that I would trust enough to ever visit a project like this 😵💫
@@mitchelltoft825 I definitely agree with that
I would be willing to bet that the vast majority of the people living there would gladly live somewhere else if it was a realistic option for them
@@Hatecrewdethroli live here and no I wouldnt lol if you have money its actually a great place to live, especially in Jeddah which is rapidly modernizing
I was just assuming they'd force their own citizens to live there
All of this 500m tall 170km wide with high speed railway and jurassic park shit sounds like something my little cousin would tell me about during a family gathering, not a monarchy leader
Everyone is too scared to tell him the truth.
The prince of saudi arabia does have a steam account with an anime girl as his PFP
Monarchs are like children. Peter the 2nd of Russia would march real life soldiers around and play war with them when he was emperor.
I can't think of anything worse than living in a city like New York.
They should reconsider and redesign the entire project. Since they've already started, they might consider making the city a 5th of the size, perhaps even less! And have various subsections that branch out and around the central "line" hub.
you skipped the part where after he was killed, we named the street that the Saudi Embassy is on (in D.C.) to "Jamal Khashoggi"
...and then continued to sell them weapons and support mbs lol
@@as-oy1liwell of course, we LOVE supporting ruthless dictators😁, that’s just America
LOL.
Thanks for that titbit.
Lemme guess: it's failing because a line segment is not a practical shape for a city
Better than that: it's the least practical shape possible.
It's not *that* impractical, plenty of line-like towns were built along rivers and railroad tracks, this is just way, way bigger and way, way less practical because there's no resources nearby
So how did they plan on creating wealth in the line? What is produced in there to create some sort of an economy?
@@cyclesaviorn2700 I assume the plan was to recycle as many resources as possible, limiting expense, and then use oil money to buy overseas companies, have those companies make all the actual wealth, and ship the profits back home. As far as what jobs people would do in the city? Probably managing the recycling and travel infrastructure, call center work/remote advisory, executive positions at said overseas companies, that kind of thing
@@bobthegamingtaco6073 thank you! That makes way more sense than trying to run any sort of large scale manufacturing mining or production facilities in a real scale to actually support such a large city economically
I think the world is not yet ready for this much futuristic city.
"I'm calling to order a pizza"
"Yeah sorry, but you live on the far part of the city".