Saudi Arabia’s controversial mega-city project: The Line
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- Опубликовано: 26 июл 2022
- In 2021, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman revealed the country's plans to build The Line, a smart linear city that will be constructed vertically, have no roads or cars and run purely on renewable energy. Now, the Saudi government has released image renders of what The Line could look like once it's done. The city was designed to only be 200 meters (656 feet) wide, but 500 meters (1,640 feet) tall and 170 kilometers (105 miles) long. It will house multiple communities encased in a glass facade running along the coast and will eventually be able to accommodate up to 9 million residents.
The Line's designers envision a city wherein facilities are just a five-minute walk away from people and where residents can organically bump into each other as they go about their daily errands. While it will have no roads and won't be able to accommodate cars, it will have a high-speed rail for end-to-end transit that will take 20 minutes. It will also rely on a natural ventilation system to make sure residents enjoy the ideal climate all year round.
The Line is part of Saudi's $500 billion Neom mega-city project being built in the country's Tabuk Province. It's a divisive initiative that's been beset with controversy from the time it started, because around 20,000 people will be forced to relocate by its construction.
The controversies surrounding Neom had compelled Riot Games to quickly go back on its decision to enter a sponsorship agreement with the mega-city project. Neom was supposed to be a main partner for Riot's LEC esports championship in Europe two years ago until backlash from fans caused the company to end the sponsorship deal a mere 24 hours later.
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I remember those movies that starts with a big company introducing such a city, that it's the future. Then we cut to our main character living at the crappy apartment, we hear noise of nearby neighbors. He goes out and show us a heavily populated, and cramped city, trash and neon signs everywhere. Then we see him look up to see the wall of buildings until he see the actual sky. He then see his best friend and talk about how he'd like to leave that place to see the world that is round and not linear like "the line" city. Later that day he bumped into a mysterious woman running away from something. Eventually they'll meet and talk about how the city and how bad the government is running it. They'll start an uprising, all of the people start fighting back, some of his friends die. In the end they defeat the security, and the people running the place. Then they go outside the Line..
You guys continue this story.. I'm done taking a dump.
Only to realize that the world is not left like the way his grandfather told him. Its mostly trees everywhere due to zero pollution and there are these scavengers which are people of the descendants of those people who were discarded by the governments calling them the disease carriers and left to die outside the line. However they survived but they were no better than animals. They have always been in the lookout for the cure of the disease ever since. But now when the line was breached they chase after him because he contained the pure bloodline that could be the cure to their disease. Then he remembered the super secret drive that contained info about the sphere that is 16000 kms from the line. And somehow he must reach there in order to save himself and his loved ones from the scavangers...
You guys continue this story..Here my boss comes...
This is perfect as is. They go outside. Story ends
you said everything.
And the inhabitants will have a QR code tattoed on the back of their neck.....
1984?
This is how all these futuristic movies start..
Almost like Mars
So..how would they contain a major fire. I could see thousands of birds dead on the ground hitting that mirror wall.
@@senju2024 Saudi prince be like: ohh I never thought of that.
Now no more Glass building in Saudi Arabia 🤣🤣🤣
We already made so many Glass building.
Futuristic horror movies
@@senju2024 لاتوجد طيور في المكان اللذي يتم بناء المدينة فيه لانه بعيد عن المدن وسط الصحراء ولايوجد طيور في الصحراء
The camels are gonna be like : WTF is that?
😂😂😂😂😂
utopia or distopia??
The latter
Utopia means to end know were
Utopia at first, distopia at last. Jesus is coming and this will all go to hell, literally.
Utopia means to end no way
Jesus is je Zeus
Your life is going to hell not mine no one is comeing the Christ is in you what Jesus has so do you that’s a metaphor for only you can change things to believe means you don’t know anything surely you want KNOWING your faithless too coz you want someone to save you with out inner faith WHAT makes you think you have any faith you don’t your faithless wich is a feminine act go get some help or read philosophy change your mind set .
It won’t be for all of us. Just the wealthy.
Looks like the coolest Prison I have ever seen.
Hehe. And they'll use borderline slave labour to build it, only to find out that no fucker wants to live in Saudi Arabia, let alone in the middle of the desert.
why should it be a prison?
And if there is an uprising, they can just gas everyone, or set off a magnetic pulse weapon.
WEF: Designing the German Gas Chambers of the future.
You don’t need to stay in it
“Minimal environmental impact” yeah except for where they completely bisect an ecosystem with no way for animals to go above or under, and creating basically a miles long sliding glass door for all the birds to beef it on
It’s in the middle of the dessert bud
@@HondaEnjoyer12 yeah because deserts don’t have a ecosystem 😂. Like come on you know how diverse deserts are.
@@darrellgainer6966 this is a move forward. Not perfect as all new ideas are but significantly better than the direction we are going now. There’s a type of glass designed to repel birds. There are sound frequencies that can keep animals at bay and within their own land. A damn barrier lol. This is an idea towards the future. I like it.
@@Cosmicdonut42 😂😂😂
@@Cosmicdonut42 This will literally never be completed in your and your children's lifetime if it even manages to actually get approved.
Also considering saudi arabia would run out of oil before it manages to finish the first kilometer.
in the future when the line gets finished:
“Mom, what’s outside the walls?”
“Monsters,titans.”
aram yeager
The will be the coolest abandoned construction site in the world!
is this a joke or a convo??
This literally looks like a dystopian movie plot.
It actually did its purpose which is an ad for the project and went viral just like the Cybertruck..
Get in your pod!!
Bigot!!
It looks like a massive arcology research project to me.
If sw3den or some other European country was building this people wouldn't stop praising them
Clearly you're just mad because you thought that Muslims can't achieve anything
If this is what the future is like, it's looking pretty miserable
It is not like it is any better currently in there so it is hard to say is it improvement or deterioration.
@@RavenWolf654 True, but I was talking about the world as a whole more than about KSA in specific
the city looks nice but they definitely will not carry out their plans very well
One Man's megalomaniac vanity project isn't representative for the future. This isn't the first failed mega-project in the region and won't be that last. It's just sad to see all that money wasted, instead of spending it on the 34 million people that live in poverty in SA.
The future is miserable
It feels like an episode of Black mirror
I like how the presentations haven’t gone past the conceptual phase yet the excavation has started. I think whoever told the Saudi prince this might be a bad idea will be part of the foundation.
I see what you did there, yes he was mixed in with the concrete.
@@chickenoodle3397Just like they did with Hoffa!
If you voluntarily live here, you’re insane. This is a prison in the middle of a desert. They’re selling it as a utopia but it’s going to be a hell on earth. You’re in a desert, in the middle of nowhere in an authoritarian country…..what could go wrong.
Yeah the concept of the line sounds nice but we have to remember that it’s in Saudi Arabia a strict Islamic country
I mean you're living under authoritarianism in SA anyways regardless of where you go. Why not atleast live in a beautifully designed city as long as the maintenance is maintained & your needs are met?
@@marshmello4310 "strictly Islamic" that was in the past before Mohammad Bin Salman's arrival to power. The country is slowly transitioning to secularism. Everyone will be welcomed.
I was born and raised in Saudi Arabia. Culture has been rapidly changing and dramatically opening up just in the past 8 years.
@@Mohammed-2338 don’t lie i am a muslim and it is welcoming everyone but it’s certainly not moving anywhere from islam and it never will as we have the kaaba and we are proud of that
Who are you to judge the project before it even happened? What is bad about all services being available within 5 mins and zero carbon waste lmao?
Looks absolutely miserable for someone like me that enjoys nature and freedom. I need to be more grateful for where I live.
I agree. It made me feel claustrophobic. Imagine having to live in The Line during a pandemic. Can’t go out anywhere, and it’s much more enforceable within those walls. No thanks.
Yep. Plus living there could be extremely expensive.
Agreed
@@tzukyethe plan is to force people in eventually.Prince charles said as much about getting people out of the countryside
who's inviting you to live there in the first place?
I used to have dreams about a future like this. A weird very nice city, where everything is right there
Things literally cannot be further apart than in a line like that.
Cant wait to see how birds wil navigate a giant mirror 500m high 😂👀🐦
Why am I getting a feeling that we’re slowly moving towards a dystopian future where anything outside megacities is barren and unsuitable for life. Just like in Judge Dredd’s Mega city one
Because that’s what it is and we can’t let it happen
You’ve only just realised that
YES
That might be the case, except... the rest of the world will be Utopia, and they wouldn't want us to know that, not touch it due to climate change.
@@sacjohnson1 too late its going to happen its just a matter of when
This will end in either 2 ways (if it actually happens), an amazing eco-city that’s a beacon for technology, or a dystopian nightmare that you can never leave which is full of corruption and suffering and where the sunlight never reaches the bottom.
By looking at it, it felt pretty impractical when building a city like that since you have to walk all the way to the other side, face constant congestion and stoppage if everyone using the same transportation since they're going in a straight line instead of a circle. It would be a miracle if this city survive and the government maintain it.
2nd way for sure,
You know the top levels are going to be off limits for all but the elite few.
I go the latter
I’ll give you a hint. It’s not the first option
170 miles long and taller than the Empire State building? Someone needs to lay off the blow.
Lmao😂😂😂😂
Definitely a movie of something about this people living in the city like this would make a good movie
I never thought they would start building the Death Star from the trenches.
Bmayaa your comment is awesome! May the force be with you ✨
decease sphere
As an introvert who loves nature and being left alone and owning my own property I would get depressed in a place like that this is a terrible idea! I won't live in the line, I won't eat the bugs!
I feel you
You will go along or be discarded.
We have to draw a line in the sand and say NO to this project.
@@BillClay88 - That’s bullshit
@@saturnnet1627 - Isn’t that what they are doing? Drawing a Line in the sand?
This feels like a setting that would appear Cyberpunk 2077.
How much death do we think will be required to accomplish that town compression at 0:35??
Poor people in the back, rich people in the front. Just like that train movie thing.
They will make your prison so comfortable, that you won’t even know you’re in a prison.
Like the ones in Iceland and Denmark?
@@masonpyle5929 I live in Norway. I can tell you these are quite comfy.
We're already in Prison. Does your country lets you do much? Can't even grow weed with out getting thrown in a cage for years
@@RedLineShortFilms that’s true. Doesn’t mean that I want to go to the more digitalized cyber punk one.
That's give a new meaning to the song called "I walk the line"🤣😂
where do the stuff in the shops come from? Is there any primary sector (farmers, dairy...). what do the people work there?
I couldn't list in 10 hours all the monumental flaws with this idea.
Do it then
Name three.
You're right. You couldn't
@Mr. Note - 1. Haboobs. 2. Not enough water. 3. Excessive demand for materials (which will cause the building costs to continue to rise).
That building is designed to work against the natural desert environment, instead of with it.
@@MrNote-lz7lh Look at all the land outside, that is if you're even allowed to. I wonder who gets to live out there? I like the comment up top. It looks like the coolest prison I've ever seen.
Imagine the social stratification. The rich live in the top floors in luxury, the poor on the ground level in squalor. That's the end game for this project. Those among the poor who speak out will be ostracized, imprisoned, or worse.
Much like any city, but much fancier, we are yet to know how it’s social structure would be, so I hope for implemented rules that would make it hard for the rich to abuse their power
Ok and? We have that anyways, Dave. Let the Saudis get creative with their society if they want - wont' bother us.
We, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, our religion does not allow us to distinguish between the rich and the poor. Of course, the rich will have preferences in some things, but the government cares about the lives of the poor as well.
How is that different from today's cities exactly?
Someone on the NEOM board is clearly a fan of cyberpunk films for all the wrong reasons.
I’ve only one question, where is the airport?
First question that came to mind
What are they going to do if there’s a fire.. that’s extremely hazardous
This project won't work.. It will be cancelled in middle.
Go hang out at the mall for 12 hours. That’s The Line.
Except it’s a 170 Km mall.
I just get claustrophobic picturing this…
This is basically a wealthy prison, there is absolutely no way in hell I would ever live there even if everything was free.
I wish if their was more details and images of the buildings and structures inside the wall such as schools hospitals shopping centers parks recreational centers etc...
One good aspect of the project in my opinion it will secure jobs for the immigrant workers for the next 20 to 50 yrs.
Mybe we are already in some kind of isolated area…😅
People living on top of each other in a glass prison in the desert? Yeah, no thanks. I'll pass.
Imagine kids growing up in the line, i feel like it would be very isolating, and completely shuts them off from nature. I feel like the outside world could be strange for them. Really reminds me of a dystopian movie lol
Edit: I am aware that they are allowed to leave, but it’s in the middle of the desert…. not to mention climate change, it will make going outside uninhabitable if you think about this years heatwave. The people of the line will stay in the line, everything you need is around etc. this may sound nice but I don’t think the long term effects of living there are so good
It’s the opposite! The outside nature will be untouched! A resident can go for a picnic in nature or the beach just minutes away walking.. and completely forget the city life..
And trying to escape!!
Not much nature among the sand ngl, I like the scope of the project but practically it seems like a disaster
@@mistervanderveer Lol people are obsessed with our desert, mountains and valleys. If you know nothing about Tabuk’s nature then don’t talk lol..
NEOM is made to preserve nature, and its nature made accessible to everyone, so it depends on you, either venture its valleys or enjoy The Line’s Unique environment
Hey that's good idea! I'll take that for my new fantasy book!
I cannot say that I support this project.
Children and others growing up there will be complete strangers to the outside world.
basically a black mirror reality show
All means of transportation controlled by the state "Papers Please!". Each individual neighborhood walled off from each other, "Papers Please!". A 100 mile long company town where you buy everything from the company store and can never leave, sounds great.
Imagine how fast disease could spread.
@@MrSatyre1 Because diseases aren't spreading fast nowadays? Literally everyone got covid lol
I wonder if they’d even let you out, I couldn’t imagine being stuck in some dystopian city that goes in a straight line for 50+ kilometers or so, then being stuck behind some steel wall that you can’t escape from
The State is controlled by corporations. The obsession with "free market" leads to monopolies and then you have an unelected corporation controlling you based on how much profit they can extract from you.
@@TJ-TJ the state and and large monopoly corporation are one and the same. They want the people to buy from them and whatever is that they are "producing". Free markets on the other hand enables competition and the consumer will have choice to buy the same product with different qualities and prices according to his/her convenience. The fundamental principle for free markets is to prevent monopolies like state or large corporation like Google. I believe you like state control and Google.
Imagine being outside the building with the sun reflection
Where do you put the soccer stadium?
500 metre tall for 170 kms... sure, that sounds feasible 🙄
It isn’t.
Even if they solve all the engineering challenges -- which if their other mega-constructions are any indication, they won't -- AI won't solve all the logistical challenges. They'll still need human labor for maintenance and sanitation. AI drone deliveries have proven to be too nascent a technology, so last mile couriers living on minimum wage and tips _will_ be a necessity.
When i think that just a kilometre of german highway (autobahn) costs between 6 to 20 million €uro i dont think that this calculation will match...
I read an article saying that even if they were able to build it, it wouldn't be complete until at least 2050. The prince said he wants it built by 2030... which is just ridiculous. He'd have to enslave the entire region to get the bloody thing built that fast. But he did compare it to the Giza Pyramids so maybe he will be going full slave driver just like the Egyptians of old.
@@HL3AlcAida I agree. The proposed cost numbers are way off.
And when you hit the age of 30 your life crystal starts flashing and you have to renew at carousel.
Logan’s Run?
Is this from Dr Who?🤔
@@tdeo2141 Logan's Run.
@@fredo1070 ah, ok 👍🏼
I wonder how much co2 the construction of this project would generate. Specially considering their zero emission goal
9 million residences. You will ALWAYS be waiting "In Line" for something.
(Two Pounds of Baloney in a One Pound Bag)
*Boondoggle* - work or activity that is wasteful or pointless but gives the appearance of having value.
Reminds me of Aeon Flux. Humanity was confined to Bregna City with all of their rights and freedoms taken away by a technocratic rule enabled by the high tech city walls.
Search for 'Akon City, Senegal' and you can't see a flopped future city by Akon
Great film!
so just as they want it to be? Fact checkers say this will be good for climate change, bigot!
Perfect for the 2030 Agenda, another way for the globalists to control people, WEF and the rest of the round table groups of elites are excited to have the land to themselves.
I thought of AeonFlux as well
Can ya imagine how many birds gonna run into that mirror wall.. 😔
😂fr tho
And I don’t think the developers care 😢
how will it handle Tsunamis or that sort of thing from the sides, like a huge wave going in land?
It sounds like a utopia except for a few important details. 1 being born and raised in it would make the concept of an entire world outside of it overwhelming, 2 wildlife has no way of crossing, and 3 just the idea of how much trash the bottom would collect with all the airflow coming from the top down. Not to mention if someone were to take their life off a walkway and affect 10 levels at once
Mr know it all 🥴
You don’t think these issues have been discussed with experts during the designing process?
A Utopia??? This is evil asf. Like genuine dystopian life planning by global fascists
@@sumbtch1168 They have zero intention of building it. So no, they haven't. It's a vanity project for marketing at best and a rug pull at worst.
You forgot that the Line would be build by slaves...
When I've spent years trying to warn people about smart cities... Several people owe me an apology
Not sure if this is a wise question but what about earthquakes? Isn't dangerous for this types of buildings?
So it’s like a long tower block.
The Line (2030)
The Line: Civil War (2035)
The Line: No Way Home (2037)
The Line: End Game (2040)
This sounds like a prison, man...! 😠😠😠
In my opinion, The line project is actually a grand scaled project in the world. And, also It's the most interesting news to me. By the way, I'm so worried about the "Is that Actually working clearly?". The Blueprints and any structure shape of that are definitely unique and unexpected to humans. If they're complete build them, the last floor can't get a ray from the sun. I mean, It will be a dark dystopian city landscape.
This line looks more like a luxurious prison to me
Even more ambitious than Palm Jumeirah and The World Islands. And those turned out sooooo great /s
Unfortunately the worlds island project failed
@@raidenshogun2002 /s is for sarcasm
Not the same country....
Was UAE, not Saudi Arabia
Its like, "oh look at japan, they failed à project, so the chinese one will fail too" make no sens
@@alexandrel5572 fair point but doesn't really change the nature of it being a vanity project with unrealistic goals. Which have very common points with the projects I did name.
@@FierySolomar true, it is ambitious, and many hardly see it working out, but many before us viewed todays modern technology the same way many are viewing this project, some failed, and some made it to modern society, much like Korea’s floating city, which is being built, The Line is set to be an example to be followed, if these projects managed to prove their points, it would change the way cities are built
I want a full hour documentary
There is one already
This report is emotionally motivated
Eon musk just saving his money 😂 where habibi is just came to future
If you guys are not rich, forget about having top floors or even owning the house have glass that view. Your house will be at the bottom floors, where alll the trash are thrown to and collected from and no window house because your house are sandwiched between other houses along the walkway
Who told you that Saudi Arabia distinguishes between the poor and the rich?
kind of reminds you of the follow up Star Wars films like The Clone Wars.
This thing gives me Elysium vibes. Surely it will be for mostly rich people to congregate. It's perfect shelter in the middle of the desert away from all the working class people. I guess that is why they are pushing so hard to make it automated (exactly like Elysium). Not to mention it is a powerplay for the Saudis. The more rich, affluent people they can attract, the more control they will have over them. The ultra wealthy already have a tendency to distance themselves from the rest of humanity. Deep down, they know the masses are a danger to them. There will be increasing demand for a place like The Line if wealth disparity continues to increase.
Itll be a mix class , theres always gonna be blue collar jobs, as well as some white collar. I find more in house careers are at the verge of being replaced by tech, but eventually down the line, someone has to fix that tech or whatever else it may be that breaks down . And someone has to manage. Always a rep on site
Lmao it’s never gonna get built so we don’t have to worry about anything
Very true!
@@vitamind2382 lol correct. The budget estimated for Line is 1 trillion dollars who is gonna invest
@@zachcarter3186 it still has a very elitist vibe to me. And too much big brother technology ( see at the end, tons of facial recognition software etc)
Imagine them locking your doors at a certain time with a computer
I didn't expect the future to turn into this.
the line reminds me of the city from Aeon Flux with a wall. It may look good in animation but the reality of building such a project could backfire. How about desert sand storms, sand breaking the invisible wall. It's that reality and they may have some probliems and issues with other saudis on this project. And there is no such thing as zero carbon.
Plus it would be a dystopian prison where your life and travel are controlled by authoritarian fascists
Its basically a prison for mental slaves of delusion. Satan's agenda. Where people can't think differently. Especially if you're a God person. Turn to Jesus and read your bibles. DO NOT DIE WITHOUT JESU'S. Hell is real!
JESUS Prince of peace ❤ U! Turn to JESUS CHRIST! Not to drugs! Not to sexual slavery! Not to anger! Not to false paths! Not to magic! Not to immoral music!
Why? IGNORING Jesus! Reblling to Jesus is foolish. WILL ONLY LEAD TO YOUR DESTRUCTION AND CONDEMNATION!
Hosea 14:2 says, "Take with you Words and TURN to the LORD. It is time to plead your case - to remind God of what He has promised in His Word, God hearkens to the VOICE OF HIS WORD
Wind load. WInd load. Wind load. Important thing must be repeated three times. A mirror wall 500m high is in itself a enormous sail. Wind is stronger at greater height. 500M high is no joke. The structure to sustain the wind load for the mirror facade is just beyond description.
Just build a Normal city but without roads, plenty of trees and an extensive rail network
Eyyo congrats bro
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@@zulu6ix290 😂😂😂😂😂
The line project is just perfect for the next squid game in real life 😂
The world is changing. So many so many things are happening around us woow!
It’s like living in a shopping mall , so dull.
It sounds like a giant glass prison..
That is wild in a country like that great point at the end although it seems they are turning things around slowly but surely
Kowloon part 2?
That would be the easiest city to destroy on the planet
With nuclear weapon, every city is easy to destroy
Why
@@RedLineShortFilms Why? It's literally a straight line. It's just begging to be bombed and shelled from both sides
This is why there needs to be checks and balances in government: to protect the innocent and the minorities as well as the majority. I loved the thought of this smart city which would increase the livability of the desert, until I realized that they were killing people to make it and were likely going to take away the freedoms of all those who lived inside it.
Name another country that did NOT resort to such actions to "make it". Name just one.
@@HM-2011 doesn’t mean it should be done again.
@@tdeo2141 I fully agree, but I rather hear people clean own house before the rest ;)
And by the way isn't it still being done ?
@@HM-2011 exactly; so two wrongs don’t make a right. Im not defending displacing people, and it’s 170Km, longer than most of world cities. How many local inhabitants will it displace along those 170km? Is the environmental cause more important than these human beings?
Yes, that's how the government works. Even if they're delusional about the future. They're going to make it possible to matter what it takes. From abducting and killing.
Will it be near the capital?
You can check in any time you like but you can never leave.
So how do they prevent the mirrored facades from literally cooking everything???
They're rich
Cooking what? There is only sand and air outside
The point of mirrored facade is to blend into the environment and be indistinguishable from the landscape. This kind of begs the question: Is it really that important to be hidden? From what?
@@maboo736 the sun...
@@maboo736 THE BRIGHT THING IN OUR ATMOSPHERE
Thinking of living in a city aside a sea,and still you can't enjoy the scenic landscape due to the so called 'Glass Wall'- for me it’s nothing but a 'Golden Cage'.
Gosh.. i could not imagine the expansion joint for each block.. the outer frame must be very2 good engineering method
How about the foundations?
This is a perfect example of why architects are NOT city planners and should never “design” a city like this. We’ve seen time and time again that the best places are human scale, compact, grow from a natural “nucleus” or city center, are architecturally and culturally diverse with a distinct sense of place, and have lots of community amenities. This design is obviously lacking in at least a few of these areas from the jump
Architects have designed some of the european cities that are still considered good today. Don't judge them based off the idea of their employer. Even most architects would see this project as a catastrophe just from looking at it.
@@w1nterf0x_19 Architects, engineers, traffic planners, and urban planners alike are looking in heavy distaste for this project and I'm in full support of this position. It's such a catastrophic idea from the gadgetbahn idea that we can have 500mph trains for such a short distance and the situation with the local tribes being displaced and oppressed for this project to go through.
who are we to judge it. no one is forcing you to live there. we're nobody, most of yall just hate for no reason istg
Rather than architects, this feels like a project poorly conceived by tech bros in the silicon valley, especially with the integration of the illusive “hyperloop” that and I’m also well aware that many architect colleagues and youtuber looks at the project in huge distaste. I know a few acquaintances that are in support of the project but they’ve mostly been ego-tripping architects that are more conceptual artist than making actual solutions. Oddly enough most of them came from high social standing backgrounds, not implying anything but an amusing correlation.
bs...there are lots of city planners that are architects
This is giving me claustrophobia, I need a large view on the sky and environment or else I can’t breathe
The line is still incredibly wide.
You will be able to breath inside,Its wider than you think from the inside.
@@PurpleLightningYT I know i will be ABLE to but it's making me anxious just the thought of being locked between two huge ass walls
@@sofiaebrh Its like living in a big mall..not for me
And i need 30 women in my bed right now.
So how do I get my ticket heard all the negatives I still wanna go
I think that the world will learn a great deal from this experiment
Great - now Journalists can get chopped to pieces in style.
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@@wolf9945 i was referring to the American journalist who was murdered by the Saudis. Now they get to build this trillion dollar monstrosity with their blood money
Nice, very nice. So now show us the workforce that is building it.
No. It’s conceptual only. Doubt this thing ever breaks ground. $1 trillion of laundered funds.
@@joeybulford5266 they are already on it lmao
Mostly india corporations.
Worker that are paid
All foreigners who have to surrender their passports to the Saudis.
Zero carbon means zero ppl. Since the human body is made up of mostly carbon and water, I can only assume that 9 million robots will live there.
Well, based on the fact that in the same country they started a way less ambitious project, the 1007 meter high Jeddah tower, and only build a quarter of it, it is a safe bet that this will never be built. The construction of the Jeddah Tower has been halted for 4 years now and no signs that it will ever be finished. I'm pretty sure they will actually start building The Line, just because they need to convince investors that "this is actually going to happen". I would be surprised if they build more than a kilometer of it.
"I drive everybody like a slave, when they drop down dead, I celebrate. That’s how I do my projects." - Nadhmi Al-Nasr, CEO of NEOM.
Seriously 😮
Sure. A 1500-foot-tall 100-mile long building won't affect the environment. Not at all. No chance of that happening.
It's a dessert. If anything, it will provide shade and maybe allow some plants to grow
@@Darkest_matter A desert isn't separate from the wind. The wind pattern is part of the weather pattern.
This isn't a set of skyscrapers which sort of change the wind pattern but not really. The wind can and does go around skyscrapers.
The wind flows between skyscrapers. Nothing of this scale has ever been done. The effect on the wind, and thus the weather, in the region is unknown.
What is known is that the wind cannot go between anything for 100 miles, until it goes over this at 1500 feet.
Even if this structure is aligned parallel to the prevailing winds, prevailing winds vary in direction. This structure will alter the wind in the region.
Alter the wind for that large a space, and you alter the weather. No one knows how, yet. So do we just experiment and hope for the best ?
@@Darkest_matter plants growing...in the shade...
@@Darkest_matter shade? What’s that big ass mirror they where talking about? That reflects sun, and in the dessert? Yea have fun with it being a oven anywhere near that thing.
@@traviscornell3549 and that’s just ONE factor in nature. There’s so much more that is wrong with this Line. Honestly I don’t know who thought this would be a good idea.
Should make the sides solar panels no?
"Hey mom, what's outside the wall?"
Live in a pod.
Eat the bugs.
And you'll be happy
This is the coolest dystopian prison ive seen yet!!
the real cyberpunk and alita the battle angel 🤣
The talk is now do we have the technology for this now or we have to wait other decade
You need to build some pass through for wildlife or travelers to go to and fro either side of the structure
Walk around 🤷🏾♂️
@@hometheatereman5755 is would only take 40 hours 🤣
Wildlife will probably run into the mirror and get wounded or die. Not good.
It’s not a viable design.
There fore you need a pass through at certain intervals however mirror finish would be a death trap for wildlife.