Megastructures: World Island Wonder | Dubai Engineering Documentary | Reel Truth Science
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Dubai is on a mission: to become to top tourist destination on the planet. This Emirate has almost tripled its coast line, by building a palm-shaped city at sea. Now Dubai plans to put itself firmly on the map by recreating the world, three hundred man-made islands constructed out in the Arabian gulf. It’s the biggest reclamation project ever undertaken. The world can only be built of natural elements they demand by the shape. But it must define nature’s most destructive force: the sea. Engineers will battle against time and nature to create this man-made wonder visible from space. But will this creation of this mega structure push Dubai to the limit?
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This is still so mind blowing to me
It seems so futuristic
this is the atlantis of today's world
This was produced 13 years ago. It would be great to see an update. Have the islands survived? Have people moved there?
Try using Google. Documentary production costs money and is mostly meant for lazy people that don't know how to type in search box. If only you and 100,000 other people ever want to watch it that's not enough interest to make it worth doing a video version. And no, I'm not going to Google it for you unless you pay me for the time.
The entire thing is sinking. (Google)
They were completed and then the financial crisis hit so investors pulled out en masse. The European islands have some signs of development on them, but otherwise, much like the other Palm Island, they are empty.
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Mega flop, not mega structure. I don't think there are more than a couple of the islands that have been developed. Shame really as Dubai is a fabulous place.
So much waste for what?
Interesting.
hello, guessing ur watching this too 😂
@@miacatsart indeed I am :,)
Pretty shortsighted. What happens to that trillion-dollar real estate in 50-100 years when the sea is 100 feet higher? Should have probably made them floating islands anchored to the seabed. Would have used a lot less sand and rock when in effect they'd be giant floating ships in the shape of hexagons.
@Philip Turner Ugh another conspiracy nut. So you're saying dozens of low-lying cities all over the globe that are getting flooded more and more are all imagining it? That they have built billions of dollars in new flood control for nothing? As I said before you obviously failed science class. Quit listening to Trump, he tweets all sorts of dumb shit, that climate change is a Chinese hoax is one of them. Also, if it weren't for CO2 we would be in a new Ice Age with glaciers even at the equator and never getting above freezing anywhere even during summer. That can easily go the other way and turn the whole planet into either hot jungle (like the last time CO2 levels were even close to where they are headed when dinosaurs were still around) or deserts and savanna.
I wonder what was the cost in CO2.
Who cares? By the time Earth is uninhabitable you will be long dead anyway as will everyone else now alive.
@Philip Turner Tell that to cities like Miami FL and Venice Italy and other cities that are barely above sea level that are slowly getting flooded. I guess they spent billions of dollars in the past few years raising streets and adding flood control infrastructure just for fun. You obviously failed science class. A simple experiment to try is take 2x 2L bottles and put a thermometer in each. Leave one filled with air. Take the other and suck most of the air out and replace it with CO2 (or methane if you want to really see a big difference). Leave both side by side in the sun for 6 hours (10AM -4PM). I can guarantee the CO2 one will be hotter by several degrees F every time you run it. If methane (20x more effective than CO2) is used it will be a lot hotter still.
@Philip Turner so a city like Venice that's been there for over 1000 years and pretty much unchanged for the past 400-500 has now only started subsiding in the past 30-40? You are so full of shit your eyes are brown. Bedrock doesn't subside or rise in a few centuries. That takes millions of years if it's not on a volcanic hotspot about to blow. Off the top of my head the only city subsiding is New Orleans at 1-2 inches a year, and that's because it's built on compacted peat and clay rather than bedrock. Oh, and the Earth isn't flat either.
FvckRUclips'sCensorship UseAdblock I definitely agree with you... but it probably will be before any of us are dead. We only have a couple decades at most
After what just happened in Florida see if you can get insurance
Stagnant of sea water will be a big issue on this design.
And yeah it might hold out for a while..but mother nature will always win against human construction eventually..it always does..especially on unstable sand..and the highly corrosive environment.
That's what annual maintenance is for. Sure a building will collapse in a century or 2 when left and abandoned for that long, but with maintenance it will last practically forever (well, a few billion years when the sun melts the whole planet).
@@fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718 Nothing in this life is forever my friend..the forces of nature will always win in the end...at least by erosion let alone the storms that go through..and the corrosive nature of the environment.. every man made building material has a shelf life..200 years?..yeah in your dreams.
Everything does collapse eventually, the real question in this world is did it earn you enough money to be worth all the effort at the end of the day?
The Euro tunnel was a financial fail 🤷♀️
The bullet train hasn't yielded profit yet... and they don't know how much vibration damage that is going to cause at the end of the day.
New Orleans rebuilds, Miami rebuilds, Puerto Rico rebuilds, the Bahamas rebuilds... if people keep investing they may actually yield profits. That's all some people care about.
I would visit Dubai (it's not on the top of my list) but I personally wouldn't use money to visit the mad made islands. HOWEVER, LOL... I am not the class of person they are trying to market to at all! 🤑
What? No captions???
So what's the point?...Yeah they have money and like to show it off..La Dee Dah..The true mark of nice people and a great civilization is what's contained within their soul and spirit and NOT by how much they have in their pockets?
Almost no ones gives a shit about crap like souls or spirits. Did you not listen to the video narrator? All this construction is to convert from an oil economy to a tourist economy before the oil runs out and Dubai ends up like many other mining ghost towns, only an entire country. Practically no one will travel hundreds or thousands of miles with money in hand to spend just to talk to a bunch of nice foreigners with just a desert to see. Without oddball but spectacular constructions no one else has like the world's tallest building there's little reason to go there, since for the most part if you've seen 1 city/concrete jungle you've seen them all.
Tiktok brought me here
Just what we need another place for the rich to party.
Well Raymond and his pals did have a vision "I liked it"
But, if you look at Google maps "Ireland" more than a decade later, is still just a desert island..
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That story does not end well
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28,000 a night to stay in a suite that was 10 yrs ago only 7 star why not 10
I think this is a solid 10 years old..... What is the date of recording?
It's gotta be older.
The Burj khalifa is 10 years old and I couldn't even see it under construction