The LINE: Saudi Arabia's $500BN Sci-Fi City 

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What’s crazy is this isn’t a hypothetical. They have already started construction on the line.

Met a Saudi guy at a bar in Florida last weekend. I brought up this line city, and he and his friends got so excited about it. Started rambling in Arabic and then got my number and wanted to be best friends. Cool guys!😂

Luxury prison that's one impressive budget for a jail

Where would the water come from? Well the Red Sea is at one end so they'll probably build a desalination plant and pump it to the other end of the city. Indoor vegetation would loose far less water to evaporation. Air conditioning would be more efficient overall when the entire city is indoors so warm air doesn't regularly mix with cool air. However it is on too grand a scale: I think they should build this on a much smaller scale but design it so it can be extended.

Can you please make a video about the proposal to flood the Qattara depression in Egypt? It's geniuenly interesting, as it will have many benefits, like slowing down the climate emergency to some extent, adding more rainfall to Africa and permanently reactivating an ancient river system in the Sinai peninsula, as well as creating a new tourist attraction and the prospect of seawater mining. However there are a few problems with the project, most notably that the Qattara depression is connected to the Nubian Sandstone Aquifier system, the largest of it's kind in the world. Please make a video about this!

Futuristic city, medieval social values.

9 000 000 people would be around the same population as New York

There is a project that takes you back to the ancient centuries as well, and it is a journey through time project in the city of Al-Ula, which will link ancient Arab civilizations with a tram to be the largest living museum in the world in which institutes, exhibitions, academies, archaeological, heritage and cultural arts, etc. are held.. to be one of the largest archaeological gems that tourists will be keen to visit from all over The world after it was a sleeping city rich in archaeological treasures The civilization of Thamud, the kingdom of Dadan, the kingdom of Lihyan, the Nabateans, and others were a corridor for commercial caravans before history, and it was in the Al-Ula oasis one of the most famous Arab love stories, the story of Jamil and Qais, which contains a collection of poetry by the poet Qais, as he flirts with the beauty of his beloved

WOW so many valid points made in this video, great job man! keep it up. I love your videos :) !!!

this project makes putin invading ukraine look like a smart move

Love the videos! Very informative

Another top quality video ❤️👍

At 6:00 the example of the friend is wrong. If the size of the circular city is 100km diameter and the linear city is also 100km, then the distance is equal. A circular city has the advantage that more areas can be closer to the center of a city.

Hands down this is going to be the Global disaster in history of Massive spends on Infra

It is definitively sci-fi, specifically dystopian sci-fi

That's mind blowing project 👌. I hope they put affordable cost unlike uae 😌

it's unthinkable as a common man like me that build the mirror glass wall in 170km total length and 500 meter high for possible to pass through with train in 20 minute from end to end. thanks for your valuable information

Its easier to make a wire 175km across Yet this is next level (epic)

Couldn’t say it better myself. The ambition, the shift away from car infrastructure, urban design, goal of sustainable development, and shift away from hydrocarbons is all great stuff. However it’s Saudi Arabia…..

Besides the Neom desert project venture!

They said the same thing with Dubai, UAE

I think they need to double down actually. Create THE CUBE. Or go back to the orginal "line" concept of a bunch of large towns / mini cities connected in a line. But instead of this whole underground idea, just... dig a canal.

What high tech is going to be there or is it going to compete with India for service centre calls?

It's just a Next level project, very excited for experiencing the line 2.0

Why not make a city that looks similar to ancient Arabia in its architecture and buildings? It could easily be modernized, it can expand organically and gradually with people and most of the problems that will arise already has a solution to it and it will be very attractive to tourists too. People are attracted to a cities culture. Saudi also has a big sex ratio problem its gonna get worse in the future, I don't think anyone outside the country are even gonna move to the city.

Another Tower of Babbel. They need to green those deserts first. That would attract tourism and investments.

Build a wall.

Everyone needs tbh , who beleived neom was gonna succeed

This project is the epitome.Of Too Much Money, and not enough common sense.

I don't understand the significance of saving so much land area. I mean this type of design is suitable for countries like Singapore or other small countries as they don't have large landmasses, so they can go upwards. It's unnecessary for them, they can make a city which is spread all around.

There's no better idea than building a ski park in 50 degrees Celsius... Poor slaves that have to build this stuff.

And here I thought this was going to be just another video about how great this stupid project was going to be. Glad you had some common sense.

Emagine The Olympics In There

Maybe the prince wanted billions in free publicity.

More money than sense ...

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A City I won't live, not even all include paid. This amount of money could be well used maybe finding the way to reduce the CO2 on air and reduce the increase of the surface temperature, that would be a better gesture from the Saudies for the humankind, jus saying.

Saudi Arabia is richer than Elon musk

the line city looks kind of dumb, they should just build an arcology.

Even if these projects radically change over time to make them more realistic, it’s still cool that they’re investing in their country to keep them relevant into the future. Don’t see the US doing that.

i would have thought when people think of saudi Arabia they think of women in black garbage bag.. about time MBS encourage their women to look like human being..

You know this city will be for the rich.

Be real , the challenge to humanity development of the nation means feeding its population and self sustaining within? One million volunteers awaits to develope new giga farms,, yes farms for food development foe the one human nation concept? Fraction of the cost., be real food and water is key to human rights creed

I’m 19 and gay so i’ll be beheaded if I move there. Sad because it looks really cool.

this projekt is going to be a massiv flop

The message in the end of the video is just amazing ❤️❤️ Hope the Monarchy of MBS atleast look into this and make some changes!! Never knew MBS was educated and still approved this dumb project, what a waste of resources 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

NEOM has been you first video and now you cover this up again And still you against neom like in the past

buuuuul shit

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAA !!!

this is Saudi attempt at building the great pyramid.

this "project" is just some saudi student playing with CAD .. i guarantee this will be cancelled within a few months owing to the project's sheer lunacy .. they’re like kids with endless pocket money

Suddenly the original design becomes preferable to this garbage

I wonder how many slaves will be buried in this foundation

Everybody talks about how it started constructing.. i bet you 100% will not finish lol

Saudi Arabia would HAVE to relocate it's population to Neom... ?? WTF Look at Doha, 85% of the population is expat workers. As in... 85% of the city's population are from other parts of the world who have come to the city because they built it and... they did come. Building New Cities from ground up, creates New Jobs and New Careers... so therefore it has a Global attraction. You stated because of sex inequalities etc bla bla bla ... the country could NEVER populate such a city. Dubai, Doha, Jeddah, I could carry on but I would digress. The constructing of does not necessitate nor require locals to be 'Forced' Relocation to populate. IF Saudi did choose to Force Relocate, it could. The leader has Absolute Power to do as so chooses. Foreign Concept to you as you have obviously been conditioned by US socio-economics that ... people ONLY force themselves to relocate because Business has demanded it - or they joined the US Govt National Jobs Programme - the US Military. The job of last resort for those without a job, without education, without training to do anything. A 170km wall of 500m in height, looks a very good Break Water for future mega Tsunamis (tectonic to objects from space hitting the Earth). Additionally the E-W wall from Coast to Mountains is the baseline of what will in future be expanded to the North to make a 170km x 170+km square or rectangle. You personally do not like it because it eliminates the Need / Requirement for a CAR! LOL When it comes to funding... Saudi Arabia has the funds to construct ANYTHING. So why not during the era when they have oil and are raking in it's revenue streams, spend it on Hard Heavy Infrastructure that all have the potential to be there for hundreds of years. This is another very un-USonian ideology of ... a house is worn out after 30 years so scrap, bulldoze, and build another. US housing cycle is not sustainable in the 21st century. lol May I suggest you spend a decade living in countries - any countries for at least a Decade, two or more and you would see there is Life on Earth outside the USA and no - the rest of world does not want, need, desire to replicate the US Model of the never ending suburbs. They do end when collide with the next city's sprawling suburbs. hahaha

just say you are anti monarchy