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Saudi Arabia plans 100-mile-long mirrored skyscraper megacity
The Guardian ^

Posted on 07/27/2022 9:03:04 PM PDT by BenLurkin

The promotional material is striking: two mirror-encased skyscrapers stretching more than 100 miles across a swathe of desert and mountain terrain, providing a future home for 9 million people.

In short, economists, architects and analysts are not quite sure. So extravagant is Saudi Arabia’s plan to create an urban utopia that even those working on the project, known as the Line, do not yet know if its scale and scope can ever be realised.

Neom has consistently raised eyebrows due to proposed flourishes such as flying taxis and robot maids, even as architects and economists have questioned its feasibility.

The slickly produced films show a megacity that partly resembles the Death Star with hanging gardens. Residents will have “all daily needs” reachable within a five-minute walk, while also having access to other perks such as outdoor skiing facilities and “high-speed rail with an end-to-end transit of 20 minutes”...

The kingdom’s de facto ruler on Monday laid claim to the Line being the world’s “most liveable city by far”. He said the model he envisaged was a replacement for unchecked urban development and waste that had diminished living standards for residents of cities.


(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: 100milelong; megacity; neom; saudiarabia; theline
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To: BenLurkin

Phantasmagorically extravagant visions, made possible by a seismic shift in the oil and gas markets, caused by Russia’s historic sacrifice of its market share.

Putin is a master strategist!

Saudi Arabia can fund the biggest folly in the history of humanity, thanks to him!


21 posted on 07/27/2022 9:57:47 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: BenLurkin

Good thing Saudi Arabia has plenty of is sand for glass for the mirrors.


22 posted on 07/27/2022 10:03:29 PM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: BenLurkin

It’s all babel to me.


23 posted on 07/27/2022 11:39:34 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: BenLurkin
Robot maids?


24 posted on 07/27/2022 11:45:37 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Fox News is CNN-Lite)
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To: BenLurkin

Sounds more like something Musk would envision for his Mars colony.


25 posted on 07/28/2022 2:35:33 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: BenLurkin

They can afford to build this grand edifice because Biden is making sure that they get the maximum price for their oil by ensuring that US oil stays off the market.


26 posted on 07/28/2022 4:20:24 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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To: BenLurkin

It’s the Great Wall of Arabia…


27 posted on 07/28/2022 4:28:00 AM PDT by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: Bob434

A friend of mine lived across the street from a house that had a large mirrored sunroom along the front. Every day when the sun hit those mirrors the reflection was so bad that she couldn’t use that side of her home.


28 posted on 07/28/2022 4:28:33 AM PDT by ryderann
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To: BenLurkin

What dystopian-future scifi series inspired this monstrosity?


29 posted on 07/28/2022 4:37:21 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Joe Biden, VOTUS. Vegetable of the United States.)
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To: BenLurkin

They’re going to have to have holodecks.


30 posted on 07/28/2022 4:49:05 AM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: Pontiac

Yikes!


31 posted on 07/28/2022 5:02:59 AM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: BenLurkin
It's definitely an interesting concept.

I read a science fiction story once about such a mega-city on an island about the size of Manhattan. Only it was more vertical than horizontal.

The buildings towered miles into the sky and it was the lower class people who lived in the upper reaches. Only the elite were allowed to be on the lower levels, where there was more infrastructure and things to do.

Most people would live their entire lives at the 500 story level and above and some of these buildings reached 1,000 stories tall. There were terraces where people could get fresh air and maybe grow some tomatoes or play some volleyball. The buildings were also connected to each other at various levels so you could walk between them.

But to get to the lower levels, you had to improve your social standing. Otherwise, as the population increased, they just kept building higher and higher and kept pushing the poorer people to the top.

32 posted on 07/28/2022 5:23:59 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (3,614,258 users on Truth Social)
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To: BenLurkin

More like a Sandscraper.


33 posted on 07/28/2022 6:24:58 AM PDT by BozoTexino (RIP GOP)
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To: BenLurkin

“Nice prison you have there, you in for the long haul?”


34 posted on 07/28/2022 6:27:39 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: SamAdams76

Beneath a Steel Sky

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beneath_a_Steel_Sky

1994 PC adventure game. Mega city in Australia where the poor are living at the top and the rich are on the ground level. The protagonist is kidnapped and crashes at the top of a skyscraper and has to find their way down

It was a good game.


35 posted on 07/28/2022 6:45:14 AM PDT by sloanrb
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To: ryderann

Yuck- would
Have hated living across from that. The heat from the roof must have been intense.


36 posted on 07/28/2022 6:51:47 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: ifinnegan
This comes almost directly from Walt Disney EPCOT plans.

Ah, the city of the future concepts, Kitchens with Yellow appliances, nat.

37 posted on 07/28/2022 6:54:43 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: BenLurkin

I like it already.
But did Bill Gates give his approval?


38 posted on 07/28/2022 7:06:10 AM PDT by Honest Nigerian
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To: BenLurkin

It's a start.
39 posted on 07/28/2022 7:09:12 AM PDT by Interesting Times (This space for rent.)
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To: BenLurkin

40 posted on 07/28/2022 7:14:21 AM PDT by pax_et_bonum (God is good, He loves us, and He is always with us.)
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