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Also, it's very easy for the average people to corral and "kick out" (of you know what I mean) all the aristocracy that is in there and take over the city. I mean, all they have to do is close the outside doors and airports/heliports. Then the only way they would have to go is over the edge at the top.
Nah they just won't let the poor or anyone they deem at risk near the roof, and there'll be nets to catch anybody falling from the internal drops Though if you wanted to die, probably all you'd need to do is commit blasphemy or have gay sex with someone a couple times and then make sure the police know you did it (maybe offer them some too when questioned for good measure)
"Flying pods will take you to your beheading after the Saudi religious police deems you a blasphemer for talking about women's rights" -- I died laughing lmfao, great one Adam!
😁capitalistic petrol-wealth-wasting-dollar regime Mega-Mirage projects :) .. including Elon hyper-boring-wasting-tax-escaping-loop :) .. this wasted(looped) money was able to renew most of USA citizens infrastructure ... just let educated people teach those capitalist tyranny billionaires/regimes not to tax-escaping or democracy-escaping :) .. to respect citizens & society by stop wasting wealth in Mega-boring-Mirage-looped projects ...& to respect educated democratic voting & criticism that guard the society from capitalistic-golf playing-wealth wasting-tax escaping petrol-dollar corruption🤠🤠🤑🤑💵💵
Flat mirrors don't magnify sunlight (or any light). The worse that could happen outside is that a portion of the ground would receive sunlight twice: once directly and another from the reflection
@@kyneticist It might be one mirror just as well as it might be a trillion, if they are flat and parallel to each other (which they must be for it to be a "line"), it doesn't matter
i have a friend whos working on The Line, and he's incredibly excited because it's a project with unlimited money and no viable execution that will drag on for years.
cargo ship is actually one of the most fuel efficient mode of transporting bulk material and goods it spend about 30% to 50% less energy than cargo trains, and 90% less energy compare to trucks. per unit weight of products shipped per distance
This genuinely sounds like a good idea for a dystopian futuristic game such as ghostrunner. The ruling elite live at the east end, while the poor live in the west end. You, the player, must fight your way from the west end to the east end to kill the horrible dictator and liberate the city.
I am one, and a few years ago I thought of a similar concept. However, it wasn't settled in the desert without preexisting infrastructure, but to connect 2 mayor cities/urban agglomerations. And even then, I came to conclusion that it's unfeasible, and a stupid ineffective prestige project.
imagine if they ever give up on it. It'll fall into disrepair and probably start to look A LOT like those cities in dystopian movies. Even surrounded by a desert for good measure!
@@slavkovalsky1671 it was, but I don't know if he or Kim ever attempted a grand infrastructure project like this or if they were just up there for being dictators
Honestly I could see this "city" being featured in a cyberpunk, near-future film as either an abandoned ruin or a stratified hellhole where access to sunlight is exclusive to the (quite literal) upper class
Bewildered people: "Pyramids were had to be built by aliens. It's unrealistic that a dictator would just throw million of slaves to build something wildly unrealistic and pointless" Oil billionaires with unlimited money and regional power:
The amount of money the management consulting companies are milking out of this stupid project is awe inspiring. The Saudi government is paying tens of millions of dollars for renders and ppt decks for projects that will never happen
The Prince will do anything to be relevant in the world, this imbecility of this project is just a kid who has even killed for being criticised before, and handed down a puppet empire, that is all what this project is, it's Trump's Wall, it's arrogance, stupidity and need of attention.
I'm pretty sure that's the actual inspiration. This is more of an artistic project that anything. Dictators and pseudo-urbanists saw those movies, and they want the same thing.
someone on thunderf00t's video left a comment where they wrote what sounds like the opening narration for a book that takes place in The Line, and someone even went and wrote up 3-4 short paragraphs of the hypothetical main character realizing all the morally bad things he did were for nothing, as the upper levels had already been abandoned by the rich
Neom is actually inspired by... a parody project. In 1969, an Italian group of architects called Superstudio crafted a bunch of parody project to raise awareness about the responsibility of the architect in assessing the geographical and topographical specificities of where their projects are built. One of these projects was a gigantic city shaped as a wall in the desert. It was made to underline the kind of absurdities the fashion trends of the late sixties in architecture could lead to.
I wouldn't say prison but it reminds me of the hive cities of 40K or other futuristic dystopia settings. I actually kind of hope they complete it and then within a few years it starts to fall into disrepair and becomes a heaven for criminals, unlawful manufacturing and other kinds of shady activities. That would truly make it a real life hive city and be a perfect symbol to the folly of futureism.
The thing that I think is most hilarious about all of these projects is that they will all clearly never be completed. I imagine that they might all be started, but pretty early on they will realize that stuff like a gigantic metal and glass mirror would be completely impossible to cool efficiently, and they would spent billions of dollars trying to come up with some method to make the one section of line that they would build cool enough to not turn into an actual oven, then they would give up on the project because they would realize extremely quickly that they would have taken 5 or so years (at least) to make less than 1 percent of the entire structure.
Actually giant mirrored buildings are very popular in Las Vegas(which is slightly hotter than the area of NEOM), because they are easy to cool. Infrared heat can be reflected from the buildings.
@@johnreeves3688 The issue is those warped structures… if the reflection is redirected away from the population, great. There’s that one curved skyscraper that basically acts like a focusing lens and turns sunlight into a fucking heat ray that melts cars.
@Duplicitous Atemporal Thoughtform Entity Yes, the Aria Death Ray. Aria, which was the most efficient building in the world and first LEED certified building (of some sort I forget exactly) does have a few unintentional focus spots in the pool area. A palm tree caught on fire once. But they easily solved the issue. And know to factor it in the future. Not an actual problem. In fact, you could use that property of the building to juice the solar production.
Im not a genius but like, if they’re putting THAT much money into a project of course they would’ve thought about this, and saudi is not a “stupid” country at all.. they know how to make smart decisions so I don’t think this is a problem for them
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Well, what else can they do? Their entire economy is built around fossil fuels, if they were to try being moral by ditching fossil fuels when they build a mega project, they would go bankrupt and there would not be any mega projects. They don't really have anything to fall back on, as their economy is not diversified... At all. There is only oil, and if oil goes down, saudi arabia goes down with it. NEOM wont save them, NEOM cant save them.
Who cares, let them build that horror show. They are not rich because they are smart, they are rich because they accidently sit on oil. So if they start to build that thing, billions will flow to experts from the US and Europe for Material, Technology, Experts etc.
Honestly its so frustrating because beyond functional and practical expenditures for billionaires (functioning, free, universal electric trains, for example) there probably *are* some brilliant mega-projects that are practical and could revolutionise society but which are shut down in conception because of being 'too expensive'.... and instead of those projects conceived by true visionaries, we get shit like NEOM instead....
@@GBart The time of the 'Robber Barons' wasn't great either for workers rights, then environment and native populations, but there were some notable elements of actual public good done, for sure....
If they did "The Tub" with a cool tower in the middle, that would actually feel quite futuristic. Especially if all necessary city functions was dispensed from the tower, like power and fuel etc. -Eventually, they could even build a second floor, where the literal upper-crust of society could live to enjoy the sunshine, while all the laborers toil away in the bowels of the city, while the reactor at the center powers everything. I mean, if we're going to design dystopias from sci-fi, we might as well use some cool stuff as inspiration. They could rename the city something like Mid'Gar.
Nah, go for the big one: Warhammer 40,000's Hive Cities like Necromudia's Hive Primus. Billions of people laboring away in various fauctorums where every drop of water, mouth of food and breath of air has been recycled an untold number of times. Crime so rampant between gangers who are often the muscle for various noble houses to maintain control in the main hive while they live a life of luxury in the city's main spire. And all part of a totalitarian empire of religious zealots who will be quick to burn you at the stake for the slightest hint of heresy. And that doesn't include the other problems of the 40k universe like Genestealer cults, Ork WAAAGGH!!!s, actual heretics summoning daemons or an Inquisitor deciding to hit the Extermanitus button and blow up your planet.
Like he said in the dubai video, Smooth brained dictators + tons of money = dumb shit. This'll always happen in authoritarian countries because of fear, stupidity, money and they need to keep their citizens at bay.
@@WillyBob.Becker no I mean like stock apocalypse movies. doesn’t matter if it’s a zombie outbreak or a vauge evil government that just kind of fell apart, they’re all set in the desert for some reason
@@wren_. Try imagining a dystopia in some lush tropic heaven! Deserts are barren lands with no food or water you can't have a dystopia and abundancy (water=abundancy≠desert) at least not the ones like Madmax where the main point is scarcity.
Here's my top 3 reason why it will fail: 1. It assumes everyone will forever live in the line. How do they go from line to another city? I never saw any exit gate. 2. If there is power failure in that tight compact space, in the middle of frigging dessert. You will be a baked turkey pretty fast. 3. Having a balcony that looks down on your neighbor shaving his balls instead of the open air veranda.
Fun fact: Any structure built _into_ the sea functions as a cape or headland, where the erosive power of sea currents is concentrated due to the refraction effect of waves. Building on the coast is a liability. Building on the _sea?_ Now that's lunacy.
When these projects claim to be zero carbon it’s important to note that steel, glass, and concrete are definitely not sustainable. Steel and concrete manufacturing account for 12% of global carbon emissions.
Assuming they didn't count that, they never say how these cities will be zero carbon in practice. Sure, the mountain resort has a dam and everything else can be solar powered, but without saying anything in those ads, it doesn't look like they actually thought it through. A city of 9 million people in that Line would use a lot of power. Will the glass wall be solar panels but it looks it isn't angled all that well to optimal solar energy. Are they going to put in wind turbine along the coast or in the desert?
Unless they use maybe hempcrete or another alternative to concrete and the new steel maunfacturing technlogy that does not release any carbon dioxide and only use a bunch of electricity. Sweden has that technology, but it is not global yet I think.
@@gastonestbon5439 Shit you're right! It's genius: Stop the slaves from successfully escaping (after making them watch someone try and then get fried). I'm relieved this isn't actually going to be successfully built (much less successfully maintained & not swallowed by sand)....so that I can laugh. 😂
Trust me, your country doing alot worse than what Saudi did, in term of number of people that they have killed, they just play more clever to cover that up.
I wholeheartedly commend people like you who have enough courage and passion to speak out against these atrocities. As a Bangladeshi, it seems like the politically brainwashed majority of citizens don't have the slightest idea about what is happening to their fellow Bangladeshi in places like Qatar, which is why it is of utmost importance that people spread more awareness about these horrible fates the worker get subjected to.
One underrated thing I want to point out - Whoever lives in this hellhole will have a high chance of becoming myopic, especially if they are children. Their eyes muscles will always be contracted because they don't focus on far off distance often, except sky, making their eyeball to become egg shaped and severely myopic overtime. More severe myopia means more chances of going blind later in life.
Yeah, like what about city living makes you think constructing a massive structure where you are literally on top of other people would be what you want.
Two things i immedeatly thought of when seeing this were: How will this 500m tall Wall affect wildlife and climate? I mean its like the biggest wind stopper ever? And how will animals (if there are some in the desert) Cross it. Isnt the desert sand going to cover the whole side eventually? Like Imagine a 170km 500m tall dune made up out of Sand That was blown against the Wall
Won't affect wildlife much since its in the middle of the desert. Ain't a whole lot of wildlife around. I'm sure there'll be _some_ impact but likely less than us paving a highway and driving massive trucks through forests and grasslands. Climate and sand though.. that I don't know. Would have to go look up some historical information about the wind patterns in that area I guess. Maybe that region just isn't very windy? (Or maybe they just didn't think about it. Its not the most well thought out project in history..)
"This is a cognitive city that not only adapts to your needs but will learn to anticipate them" Adam: It's just a fancy way of saying "You're will be under constant surveillance of the Saudi state" Walt Disney: *_spins uncontrollably in his tomb_*
Wrap him in copper wire and place some magnets around; green energy for the future. You tell everybody! Listen to me, Hatcher! You got to tell them, Eco Green is people! We've got to stop them, stop them!
😁capitalistic petrol-wealth-wasting-dollar regime Mega-Mirage projects :) .. including Elon hyper-boring-wasting-tax-escaping-loop :) .. this wasted(looped) money was able to renew most of USA citizens infrastructure ... just let educated people teach those capitalist tyranny billionaires/regimes not to tax-escaping or democracy-escaping :) .. to respect citizens & society by stop wasting wealth in Mega-boring-Mirage-looped projects ...& to respect educated democratic voting & criticism that guard the society from capitalistic-golf playing-wealth wasting-tax escaping petrol-dollar corruption🤠🤠🤑🤑💵💵
Opening day: "We are pleased to announce that the ultra high-speed transit tubes servicing the entire 170km span of The Line are being repurposed to carry only oil. Surprise!"
I like how everyone forgets mirror and direct desert sun rays don't go together quite well. Hey, at least the people inside are happy. Those tribes can just catch dangerous sunburn and blinding reflection all they want, they ask for it anyway if they try to get even slightly close or look at that massive rich city anyway.
Not only will it keep the desert tribes who used to live there away, who's going to try to escape from a city surrounded on both sides by a kilometer of molten sand?
Then the tribes will get so mad about the city that they will pump mustard gas through the ventilation and kill all the rich lunatics However they would need to get away using one of those helicopters otherwise they will be arrested and decapitated
@@shinygoldenpotion1587 What about all the slaves who have had their passports taken from them, who are just trying to get back to their families? You'd kill them too.
that wont be sunburn! even slight inconsistencies in the surface as caused by wind and thermal expansion will be enough to potentilally create concave mirrors with hotspots that get hot enough to melt the sand into glass or boil you alive. and if they somehow pointed up they would create lasers strong enough to make it unsafe to fly over.
This was a great video. I hope one day adam makes a video of the 3 axis of evil rightwing governments such Saudi, Israel, and U.S. These 3 governments while claiming to “represent” 3 major faiths are known to use fear on their populations in order to stay power. However, these same 3 governments are best friends and closest allies to one another. They give each other military and political cover. America doesn’t really care about human rights nor democracy but ONLY its interest. It’s simple as that.
it's literally a dystopia by design where only the elites will be able to see direct sunlight and they won't have to deal with the crumbling public infrastructure below
😁capitalistic petrol-wealth-wasting-dollar regime Mega-Mirage projects :) .. including Elon hyper-boring-wasting-tax-escaping-loop :) .. this wasted(looped) money was able to renew most of USA citizens infrastructure ... just let educated people teach those capitalist tyranny billionaires/regimes not to tax-escaping or democracy-escaping :) .. to respect citizens & society by stop wasting wealth in Mega-boring-Mirage-looped projects ...& to respect educated democratic voting & criticism that guard the society from capitalistic-golf playing-wealth wasting-tax escaping petrol-dollar corruption🤠🤠🤑🤑💵💵
By the way, it’s important to note that this “city” could be fit into a square less than 6 KILOMETRES A SIDE!, meaning you would never need to travel more than around 8 kilometres to anything.
Its literally designed around the idea that you can run trains faster if they don't have to turn corners. What's the point of that? It certainly doesn't get you to your destination any faster, since giving up an entire dimension means your destination is almost certainly much further away than it would be in a normal 2D city. Pretty much just bragging rights. Showing off to China that someone else can build high speed rail even better than they can! I guess China wasn't thinking futuristically enough when they chose to build their trains across natural terrain between existing cities rather than constructing a giant box to put an otherwise-unnecessary train in.
The whole idea of Neom is so futuristic, that I have in my hand book from 1971 with very similar core ideas of high capacity linear cities, some of those plans are from 60s.
NEOM is already being talked about in certain circles the opportunity of a lifetime.....to scam the Kingdom of every cent possible. So many different developers are pitching anything they can and accepting downpayments then taking off. Good for them I say!
I know a guy who’s been hired by the Saudi government to create a commercial for this city. It’ll be fun to see how he manages to make this seem like a good idea. Update: the commercial will probably center around Neoms fake moon. It sounds like it will be sort of like a parody of the three wise men in the bible following the star, but instead of Jesus, it’s neom
You can't convince me this isn't a joke that some architect sold go the Saudi government. Who looks at a giant fucking line of a city and thinks "yeah, that looks logically sound".
Shit that's the new eldorado.. Bros wish me good luck i'm off to arabia to pitch to those smooth brain the idea of the century ( in a technobullshit way ). Ok get ready for this : Pod shaped city. Travelling at mach 3 across the arabian desert in a Hyperloop(tm) tube of 1000m diameter.
Man, this urbanistic conception is ~150 years old. 9 million 170 km linear city is like 7 Prague (1.3 billion, 25 km max distance from point A to point B), arranged as a straight chain, but much more simple and compact. And 170 km trip from end to end is no more hard as a trip from Prague to Brno. The joke here is not conception, it's realisation.
@@Vooman Well.... a 100 mile long Kowloon would be completely different as its a massive open city, that I live in. Its just a bit ridiculous to use Kowloon and Kowloon's Walled City interchangably.
Update: The Saudis have just acquired a large stake in German startup Volocopter. These guys just raised 182 million euros to get us closer to solving one of humanity's most pressing problems: How to best smash a passenger drone into the stepped walls of a narrow, man-made gorge? Of course, I'll be watching the Bond film as soon as it hits theaters.
No but it litearally is a city in 3 dimensions, unlike normal cities. its supposed to have vertical levels ontop of eachother, unlike a normal 2 dimensional city
Some update: The construction is actually happening right now. There's currently a drone footage on land clearing. I can only imagine that the price of construction material like cement etc. will go up because of this nonsensical project especially if they really build that whole 170 km length skyscraper.
@@rami8896 The Jeddah Tower _could_ be finished IMO, but "The Line" just isn't feasible. I was using the Jeddah Tower as an example, maybe not a good one....
As screwed-up as that city was, it at least had some good ideas (walls separating farmland from urban areas and VIP neighborhoods) so it's not unrealistic enough for them to make.
The mirrored glass finishing to the sides is meant to be an attempt at giving the city a futuristic finished look and to avoid it looking like what it is going to be - an even worse Kowloon. But what would those mirrors do in a desert? Reflect and concentrate light and heat to everything around it. Anyone approaching the city, say a cargo ship full of supplies or a bus of tourists is going to be blinded and/or scorched on sunny days.
Kowloon Walled City wasn't planned, it was illegal constructions piling up "organically." Also, it wasn't connected to water services and such. Not very high, yet you are onto something: Neom might even look similar, after its quick failure and disrepair.
Honestly with the amount of sand and wind in the region I give those reflective surfaces three to four months tops before they are scratched and milky and diffuse.
it's a feature, the concentrated sunrays will over time melt the surrounding sand into glass, making the ground around it also look cool and futuristic.
Similar to "the Shard" in London which is said to have melted things and lit cars on fire with the light it reflected but this would be on a much larger scale!
@@PovidisII You say that like you are the ruler of Saudi Arabia. You have zero idea how it's going to be organized (I mean, assuming that it ever gets built, which won't happen).
@@InXLsisDeo They have told us MULTIPLE times. The top is for living and accomodations. The middle is for amenities like malls, entertainment + anything else. The bottom is for transportation.
The fact that the city is basically going to spy on you, and also "This is a cognitive city that not only learns from your needs but will learn to anticipate them" reads like a ctOS commercial that Blume would put out in Watch Dogs, you know, the game about a smart city that spies on everything you do?
The graphic with the "Invisible Layer of Infrastructure" in the "Service Layer" sounds like it conceals another dystopia within the bigger dystopia, knowing how Saudi and other Gulf states treat the migrant laborers they rely on to do most actual work.
I'm 99% sure engineers did not come up with this. Willing to bet the "design" came from the Saudi equivalent of elon musk. The engineers involved are probably just happy that they'll have endless work trying to address the endless issues in these concepts.
Just wondering, What about police or ambulances in the line? what the hell are you supposed to do on the top floor if you get a heartattack? go down to the metro line and go to a hospital?
Don't worry, they'll start building the two walls and the foundations for one building, and that's literally all there will be of Neom and in 50 years we'll look back at those early construction sites still sitting there in the middle of nowhere and laugh our asses off.
The sand dunes which would appear on both sides would be quite impressive, until they collapse and bury the lowest few hundred meters of the line. Basically it's a giant drift fence placed in the desert.
😁capitalistic petrol-wealth-wasting-dollar regime Mega-Mirage projects :) .. including Elon hyper-boring-wasting-tax-escaping-loop :) .. this wasted(looped) money was able to renew most of USA citizens infrastructure ... just let educated people teach those capitalist tyranny billionaires/regimes not to tax-escaping or democracy-escaping :) .. to respect citizens & society by stop wasting wealth in Mega-boring-Mirage-looped projects ...& to respect educated democratic voting & criticism that guard the society from capitalistic-golf playing-wealth wasting-tax escaping petrol-dollar corruption🤠🤠🤑🤑💵💵
Having seen a recently desertified plain with dunes forming around and swallowing the few trees left, I have to agree with your description of the Line's future
Forward thinking urban design headed by a backwards thinking state is the perfect recipe for dystopian horror. I want to see maps pinpointing all of the people who are actually invested in living in these places.
You have too see it positive! If you give it individually moving mirrors, you could build the biggest solar concentrator in the world! Regenerative energy! Hotter than the surfave of the sun!
I can't belive those are "real projects". If 5 graders got a task to draw a futuristic city their results would be more realistic and far more efficient that that bullcrap
@@how_to_be_a_Old_legionary44 Shocking number of these ,,futuristic",totaly stupid projects are already finished or it is already sure that they will be build,so who knows...
I feel like "The Line" would be an interesting level for like, a Call of Duty game some day. Miles of abandoned buildings enclosed within walls? It almost seems like it was created to be a video game level.
The idea was created when the oil sheikh made a line with his platinum credit card on his marble coffee table. As he was about to snort it all up he whent:"Hei! Wait a minute... Thats it!"
Suddenly, Spec Ops: The Line taking place in a ruined city after a massive disaster flattens a shining desert metropolis city seems a lot more feasible...
Ohhhh! In the future: The line fell on the side and civilization has reverted to the middle ages. Bluebloods live on the top, where the sun shines, while the serfs have made a life in the 90 degree slanted city.
Which is even funnier considering game having side story in collectibles where elite of Dubai left the city and misinforming public to not worry about sand storm while killing any aid that come prior.
How could *anyone,* even a bloated Saudi autocrat, think this atrocity is a good idea? Who would volunteer to live in it? I'd much rather inhabit a bedouin tent, developed over millenia for desert living.
I've been waiting for Adam to make this rant. This project has so many good urbanist, futurist ideas... which are entirely ruined with nation-scale stupidity like making the whole thing a giant LINE, the least efficient shape physically possible.
Movie franchises are starting to disappoint us more and more often, but I'm sure that watching the construction of this with all the problems will be guaranteed fun for the next 30 years
@@votex9903 I think this is the real problem here. All this bullshit will be build on slavery. I don't care how retarded and expensive these projects are but in any case there will be tens of thousands of people being exploited
It'd even fit the themes of Mirror's Edge, where Cascadia is all aesthetic with little-to-no concern for practicality. Like how the City of Glass is in the early stages of its energy grid, food supply, AND fresh water production reaching catastrophic failure because the people in charge found having a sufficient amount of industrial districts were bad for their "everyone gets a cushy office job" propaganda line.
That's pretty much literally what happens with these dictators. The 'unlimited money' mod is enabled. They're playing for the first time, and have no idea what they're doing. They don't care what happens, because they can just wipe it out and start over.
Tbh it would work in Skylines. It looks like line but it's width of New York Megalopolis. It's more like line of small cities. At least until they went for that mirror monstrosity.
"Neom" was my 1.6 Counter-Strike nickname when I was an edgelord teenager. "Neo" was far too common for open servers (and my then idiot-ass brain). If only I knew what I had unleashed back then...
Of course... 'The Matrix' had been released a year or two ago, and was still very popular back then. We had black trenchcoats, and it was a bit awkward too because the Columbine school shooting also happened not too long ago...