NEOM Is The Parody Of The Future

[@geraldmerkowitz4360]

I'd like to see a SciFi movie where this thing actually exists and depicts everything you mentionned in this video

[@omgbutterbee7978]

lol imagine the inevitable slum that springs up on the outside of the wall. This thing is dystopian as hell

[@nakenmil]

@@omgbutterbee7978 Imagine what happens to this goddamn folly the SECOND the Saudi Arabian economy experiences the barest setback.

[@rokkraljkolesa9317]

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

[@hazgebu]

Yeah it kinda sounds like the lower levels of coruscant...

[@cowhatcat8158]

@@hazgebu would love some storys in the star wars universe about that place

[@jabberw0k812]

"Okay, our tag line is a city in three dimensions. So what's the most 3-dimensional shape you can think of?" "A line."

[@Uahmedtahaalnady]

😁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🤠🤠🤑🤑💵💵

[@nanoua27]

They came up with the idea after snorting one.

[@puraLusa]

@@nanoua27 heard that saudi drinks and snorts a lot.

[@earthling_parth]

Lmao, you made me laugh out loud irl 🤣😆

[@lmlmd2714]

oh dear gods.... why didn't I see that?!

[@drakealexander6668]

Love how the "futuristic and efficient" cities look a lot like those slums you see in dystopian movies.

[@senritsujumpsuit6021]

oh god your right XD

[@moroteseoinage]

Elevator repair based economy.

[@jonathanho4272]

I can imagine the slums that will be built around this thing (if they actually try to build it)

[@emillundqvist8126]

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!

[@tomaccino]

@@emillundqvist8126 And it will probably generate money from those movies to cover for the losses 🤣

[@svijj_]

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

[@usurajo1770]

true lol, I was just thinking that it sounds like the setting of a sci-fi young adult novel like Divergent

[@Ultima64]

Lol at 2:38 they are literally advertising the line like it's a gaming pc

[@dymaxion3988]

Your profile pic is what I first thought of when I saw this project

[@funram]

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.

[@Hastur876]

Another case of Italian humour translating poorly?

[@tzshchsjsjxijyo]

and that's why its so ridiculous

[@poiuyt975]

Amazing! The Saudi's turned a joke into their "huge penis project". :D

[@mattiascaccabarozzi]

"Seeing the dystopias of your own imagination being created is not exactly the best thing you could wish for" Gian Piero Frassinelli

[@greasybumpkin1661]

Poe's Law

[@noahthefirst13]

"Where people are transported by balls" he has a way with words

[@noahthefirst13]

​@here is the full clip no thanks

[@roch.el_]

Reminds me of the good old days

[@blagoevski336]

Nice pfp

[@noahthefirst13]

​@@blagoevski336 thanks

[@sunso1991]

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

[@grassytramtracks]

You need to carry a 20m long rope, but instead of coiling it up, you buy a 20m long bag. The line in a nutshell

[@varunjohnson9570]

lol very funny

[@guydreamr]

@@varunjohnson9570 And very true

[@Nice_Person7379]

Why were the residents in Saudi Arabia so scared? Because their lives were on the line!

[@TheMasterVanitas]

Neom is a masterpiece in engineering because everywhere is a good place to jump off from when you're tired of the distopia.

[@suntzu1409]

Omw to NEOM

[@randomoneforstuff3696]

I mean, maybe that isn't so bad for the aristocracy...

[@NankitaBR]

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.

[@henrykkeszenowicz4664]

@@NankitaBR Without aristocracy, peasants won't be able to govern themselves and will ruin everything though. They're not americans.

[@dustinm2717]

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)

[@baker2328]

NEOM is the sound a toy plane makes.

[@oleksiykolesnykov339]

It’s the sound the line building makes as it E X T E N D S

[@PepekBezlepek]

actually that's NYOOOM but close! :D

[@CosminCRT]

in romanian it literaly means non-human

[@prachurgupta9719]

It's also the sound of the plane which will crash into this if it ever becomes a reality.

[@LCTesla]

I thought was the sound you make when you eat up your food after arranging it in funny shapes pretending it was fancy urban planning projects

[@Free-g8r]

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

[@nakenmil]

This is the likeliest scenario, yeah.

[@safir2241]

i was like: how does this even happen? where do you get the wealth to think up and build this shit?

[@dtf.eternal5857]

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.

[@Kuri0]

@@safir2241 oil

[@spaceshuttledoorgunner125]

just, so true. and the advertisement agencies...

[@ptolemaicfoxxo3032]

Honestly the mirrors are such a good idea Step out of line and get vaporized instantly from the magnification of sunlight

[@Melonist]

Both figuratively and literally

[@microska2656]

Mirrors don't work like that

[@SuicV]

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]

@@SuicVThis may blow your mind, but their images show more than one mirror.

[@SuicV]

@@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

[@inquisitorthornside3p494]

All press F in the chat to pay respects to Adam Something. He was a great youtuber. We all miss him. His sudden dissapearance was truly shocking and completly utterly not shady at all.

[@engineergaming5989]

A strange suicide by 28 stab wounds in his back

[@RiveTheRat]

It was very shocking to hear that he managed to commit suicide by bonesaw inside the Saudi embassy

[@richardbrown7352]

@@RiveTheRat 😂

[@akorn9943]

“And that is why I killed myself, chopped myself up and threw myself in the garbage.”

[@papaicebreakerii8180]

@@akorn9943 more like “that is why I ate a suspicious pill that smelled like almonds, drove into the middle of the Saudi Desert, and buried myself”

[@philtkaswahl2124]

This sounds like the perfect setting for a dystopian video game. Even NEOM sounds like some sketchy organization with nefarious plans.

[@Ezullof]

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.

[@sachem31]

like a map of a mission in Deus Ex

[@Alex_gee_white]

It would be a literally perfect setting for a new Mirror's Edge.

[@Bifariam]

I want to play that videogame

[@KudiGamer]

Spec Ops: The Line

[@plexusGD]

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.

[@livingminimumwage6359]

So a city version of Snowpiercer lmao

[@guyinbluu]

Wait, this is snowpiercer

[@spiritual9574]

Lol sounds exactly like snowpiercer

[@zoqin]

You might love to read/watch snowpiercer

[@zed739]

I don't know if you've heard of it, but have you heard of Snowpiercer? You might not have heard of Snowpiercer

[@plsrafa]

"mom what's outside the line?"

[@jirachi-wishmaker9242]

Titan

[@QuartzIsAnOxide]

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.

[@tresnonugroho6397]

Correction: Building on the sea is called oceanacy. Lunacy is what we called building on the moon.

[@alicorn3924]

@@tresnonugroho6397 one is impossible, and one has a 59% chance of failing but can be repeated

[@randombrit13]

@@alicorn3924 care to clarify which is which?

[@blakksheep736]

@@tresnonugroho6397 😆

[@alicorn3924]

@@randombrit13 would rather you find out, or someone else

[@ItsJustElenore]

Honestly, "The Line" is a wicked concept! for a bladerunner-esque mirrors-edge mashup video game.

[@InfernosReaper]

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

[@Uahmedtahaalnady]

😁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🤠🤠🤑🤑💵💵

[@TheSpeep]

Yeah the first comparison that comes into my head with every interior image of the place I see is EVERY CYBERPUNK DYSTOPIA EVER.

[@frobthebuilder]

I'm telling you dude, Spec Ops: The Line 2: The Line

[@Attaxalotl]

Spec Ops 2: The lineier

[@talonhowe8131]

The Line sounds like a cool setting for a sci-fi dystopia, and thus, a nightmare to live in and make sustainable.

[@jcf2322]

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.

[@jazrivvaz1282]

It's a 40k hive city

[@thomasgiles2876]

They made a video game about it called The Line

[@chronicallyalive]

Exactly! Reminded me of the dystopian movie "Snowpiercer," where people lived in a train driving across a deserted, snow-covered Earth

[@IreneWY]

It sounds like the snow piercer, minus the snow.

[@AnimeDreamer141]

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.

[@gasmaskalan1771]

Easy cash

[@ComedyLoverGirl]

Lol everyone who's working on this knows its bullshit. But they're just going along and getting some of the Saudi King's disposable income.

[@blakksheep736]

3. Profit

[@clupus63]

IDK, executions always seem viable there.

[@mikemurphy5898]

​@@clupus63 touché

[@josephchandler8418]

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.

[@ArchOfWinter]

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?

[@kokko9507]

Especially since "renewable energy" is more wasteful and polluting than nuclear energy.

[@electric7487]

@Newcious Nice spam link bro 0/10 reported

[@peao010109]

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.

[@xuko6792]

@@ArchOfWinter software would solve that

[@annalavender6489]

I remember RT Games building a city along a single road in City Skylines. It was hilarious and obviously a desaster.

[@bigbadlara5304]

Yes but did that city have hyperloop? I didn't think so. 🤓

[@KingThrillgore]

Its a good starting strat for SimCity that's about it

[@lonestarr1490]

@@bigbadlara5304 I installed a mod that let me alter the speed of things and I made the Maglev go a thousand miles an hour. Does that count?

[@suntzu1409]

Source?

[@bigbadlara5304]

@@lonestarr1490 no because Elon musk didn't make it 🤓

[@iamlegend835]

Wouldnt massive reflective walls effectivly make an area of "two suns" that just incinerates everything in proximity from both sides?

[@dnh31tlg10]

@@gastonestbon5439 my stomach hurts from laughing so hard 🤣😂

[@sorryifoldcomment8596]

@@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. 😂

[@ReySchultz121]

@@gastonestbon5439 Sounds like a story some epic escapee would write into their memoir & then get published. "Escaping The Line"

[@graciliraptor3990]

Not to mention cleaning costs

[@matthewrobbins5493]

You're asking the big questions

[@Vollification]

"The line" is something a first year arcitecht student would look at for five minutes and simply say "Cities doesn't work like that"

[@ienglishwell3374]

You need to study architecture so see this is a terrible idea??

[@samuelpardana]

more like a first year kindergarten student

[@howtomundane3109]

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.

[@Stefanism]

In my mother tongue, Romanian, ”neom” literally means “unhuman” referring to a monster, an evil, soulless, inhuman person…

[@honkhonk8009]

andrew tate

[@justamanofculture12]

Oh damn. Anyway....

[@slavkovalsky1671]

Oh, a quick question: do you know if that was Ceausescu at 10:09, at #4 in the list of dictators' photos?

[@gayvideos3808]

@@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

[@teodorbogdan]

@@slavkovalsky1671 yup, he is

[@Fimbulvinter19]

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.

[@FlushGorgon]

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.

[@Enkrod]

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.

[@BathroomTile]

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.

[@ezragoldberg3132]

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!

[@FlushGorgon]

@@BathroomTile Ouch ! Sounds like the opposite of terraforming.

[@ziyad1809]

The contempt in his voice when he describes the sheer stupidity of certain ideas is always a joy to hear

[@thinkbeforeyoutype7106]

Hahaha absolutely!

[@thinkbeforeyoutype7106]

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.

[@alimaor]

I love the disdain and ridicule whenever Adam says "the line".

[@blakksheep736]

And his sigh as well.

[@nhaaaPl]

I hope they start building this thing. We need to leave some really weird things for the archeologists of the future to obsess about.

[@benjiowen8433]

Congrats

[@chelmano0]

You think these things will last more than a couple of millennia? Hell naw!

[@bificommander7472]

Eastern island, petroleum boogaloo.

[@neoqwerty]

@@chelmano0 You're generous with the couple millenias, I'd give it 500 at best

[@guydreamr]

Kinda like Stonehenge, in reverse.

[@mhurgle]

I feel like NEOM is what happens when you're surrounded by yes-men because they're scared saying no will have them be a head shorter, literally.

[@annishcassian922]

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.

[@wren_.]

Maybe this is why dystopias are always set in the desert, It’s just what happens when Saudi Arabia and Dubai collapse

[@WillyBob.Becker]

@@wren_. Maybe not always deserts but almost always in a dictatorship or authoritarian regime

[@wren_.]

@@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

[@moh19931000]

​@@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.

[@Nb-ll8kp]

This building is like a mix of maze Runner, divergent and Snowpiercer. A silly concept and a dystopia if you think about it for longer than a second.

[@RobotischeHilfe]

What who doesn’t want to live in a fallout shelter middle in the desert?

[@sizor3ds]

imagine how inequality would work in that type of city. do the poors live in the lower sections, or further away from the sea?

[@marcinmisiek768]

@@sizor3ds Outside the building walls itself while the protected richer people live inside

[@bigboncho]

I immediately went to the comments for the snowpiercer comparisons

[@altrag]

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.

[@gdartho]

I love to see “sustainable and eco friendly” mega projects funded almost exclusively by fossil fuels.

[@HTV-2_Hypersonic_Glide_Vehicle]

I love your profile picture. Double decker electric Swiss train 👍

[@electric7487]

...with no intention of implementing carbon capture or nuclear power.

[@peao010109]

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.

[@jacksonmacpherson6101]

Not to mention the fact it will absolutely be built by slaves.

[@vanivari359]

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.

[@olive6942]

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.

[@johnreeves3688]

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.

[@Duplicitousthoughtformentity]

@@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.

[@johnreeves3688]

@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.

[@blakceyedpeas]

@@Duplicitousthoughtformentity no warps in a straight line though )

[@kamakeii]

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

[@user-lj3po9fe5v]

No one ever mentions that just a year ago this was going to be a ground level city with an underground transport level. Now it's 500m tall?

[@steemlenn8797]

Growing ambitions.

[@kalinmir]

You cant stop the...sandwalkers away with ground lvl city

[@pranjalsharma8960]

You gotta trap people

[@EmiCheese]

Yeah, it was still stupid but a lot less stupid.

[@BenderTheOffender]

Why not 5000?? If you gonna fail, at least fail big!

[@chronology2.0]

The line is the final form of urban hell; why build a city around highways when you can make the city the highway?

[@milly-sy4bc]

And live in cars.

[@jameswalker6724]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@justamanofculture12]

@@milly-sy4bc why need cars when you can live in a car?

[@SumRndmPenguin]

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".

[@maisbiensur4934]

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.

[@Unedited43795]

@@maisbiensur4934 lol

[@martins.4240]

Only after sniffing a giant fucking line can you think this is a remotely good idea.

[@АлексейРащектаев-ъ5п]

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.

[@АлексейРащектаев-ъ5п]

@@fraskf6765 1/7 of The Line - 4.86 km^2 Prague - 496 km^2

[@mygills3050]

>says they’ll fix city efficiency and urban sprawl >designs the least efficient most expensive project possible >refuses to elaborate >stays

[@justanerd414]

Gigachad energy 🗿

[@marlonlernmark]

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

[@I.amthatrealJuan]

The CGI's always the key.

[@Leoappeared]

There is a NEOM ad all over KZbin

[@nadheem420]

Send him these videos and annoy him for fun😂😂

[@timur22993]

"It's big. What more do you want?"

[@graealex]

In the past we produced clips for high-priced development projects, albeit it mostly sane ones, and the way to go is nice visuals and a lot of them.

[@antonioanacleto1415]

This honestly looks suffocating and dystopian. I wouldn't trade living in a normal house in a normal city to live in that

[@antonioanacleto1415]

And that's not to mention that Saudi Arabia itself is a horrible country. No nature, no freedom, extremist leaders...

[@user-pr6ed3ri2k]

111th liker

[@obiyofi9792]

basically 40K's hive city.

[@EnclaveEmily]

I want to hit that thing with a rocket

[@Nucksen]

It's saying something, when american cities look livable in comparison

[@ksok715]

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

[@altrag]

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..)

[@levihalperin7649]

@@altrag there is more wildlife in the dessert then you'd think. They just mostly come out at night.

[@QDStrength]

@@altrag did you forget about those giant worms live inside the sand?

[@3rdalbum]

When you suddenly disappear I shall call the CIA on your behalf.

[@aeureus]

Giving me Spec Ops: The Line vibes here...

[@amanahmadzai9231]

This looks more like a futuristic prison than a city.

[@SILOPshuvambanerjee]

I agree with you

[@juansebastianpulidovelasco2195]

The whole Saudi Arabia is already a high tech prison.

[@richardschofield2201]

Really long prison walls to monitor however

[@MrMarinus18]

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.

[@jbard9892]

@@richardschofield2201 they'll be easier to monitor once they're surrounded by a kilometer of molten sand.

[@alexroselle]

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.

[@KingThrillgore]

Fritz Lang is spinning in his grave

[@suntzu1409]

Thats before considering the migrants they would uhhhh, employ to build this

[@zorgate]

"Metropolis" 1927

[@emjayay]

See: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

[@Elcore]

Nobody here talks about what happens in the "Spine Layer".

[@Bottom_Hat]

This is just futuristic for the sake of being futuristic. It would seem they never thought for even a second about practicality.

[@carlospf639]

Moreover I can guarantee they haven't even thought about really building it as shown

[@piotrrashman6487]

they never thought about it... full stop.

[@horribleIRUKANDJI]

ikr, it begs the question which exact issues this "futuristic" project tackles or solves?

[@razorback9999able]

They are very egotistical.

[@effexon]

bro, dictators never think practical, coz everyone else does and they wanna be the greatest, not like everyone

[@kkrup5395]

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]

yeah mee to. probaly fake the project?

[@tefky7964]

@@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...

[@Ash-kn8oc]

The world is full of wonders xD

[@therealspeedwagon1451]

My idea would be far more efficient, a floating lilipad city. Granted even that has it’s problems but it’s still far better than the fucking line

[@how_to_be_a_Old_legionary44]

@Newcious wtf?

[@cvrxtc]

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.

[@bificommander7472]

Given Saudi Arabia's authoritarian leadership, the no exit may be a feature, not a bug.

[@qzimyion]

If this monstrosity is ever completed it will probably end up like Kowloon walled city but in the desert.

[@sprucegoose6933]

"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!

[@volsung2511]

In case someone doesn't know it's a reference to recent arrest and imprisonment of Salma al-Shehab for using Twitter.

[@f0rm0r]

the worst part is it's not hyperbole

[@HeronSight]

Lines like this are what turn anti sjws into leftists

[@Uahmedtahaalnady]

😁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🤠🤠🤑🤑💵💵

[@justdude8115]

It's not even funny, it's just fucking sad.

[@zoidburger2830]

how many "other lines" did it take for the engineers to come up with something this smoothbrained.

[@NicolasMendoula]

Ah Good one

[@frankmurphy8850]

I don't think any engineers are involved with this nonsense. More likely 10 year old school kids

[@Morningstar_37]

that's not fair, ten year olds are much smarter than that

[@HMM-0]

6-20 lines per enigneer i think

[@toast3]

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.

[@secondengineer9814]

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.

[@results3325]

Kowloon allover again

[@DanielRisberg]

Would be the perfect setting for a return of "Spec Ops: the Line" though.

[@Olebull93]

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!"

[@visheshrao5629]

I'm buying this game if it's ever coming out!

[@Genius_at_Work]

Miles of abandoned Building? You already have that in the 2015 Mad Max Game; there's an abandoned Airport partially sunken in the Desert in that Game.

[@zedek_]

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.

[@victorabadias9167]

So a city like the one of Frostpunk?With Second floor of buildings added on top

[@blakksheep736]

So kinda like the walled city from Stray.

[@SharkyMcSnarkface]

Fuck it just head straight to City 17

[@georgepickle2871]

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.

[@vale.antoni]

Piltover and Zaun

[@tristanridley1601]

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.

[@francescoghizzo]

I've been waiting since Thunderf00t released his take on this stupid project 😉

[@larrymiller5253]

Don't click here is the full video. It goes to a recipe. As Scooby is fond of saying: Rick roll, raggy

[@antonioscendrategattico2302]

These fucking spambots are getting absolutely insufferable.

[@aykutakguen3498]

Thats not true, if it would be build qll vertically then it would be as stupid as possible.

[@tristanridley1601]

@@aykutakguen3498 You're right. It could ALWAYS be worse. Technically I meant 'shape of footprint', but I didn't say that bit explicitly.

[@j3sus656]

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]

... unless you are one of the slaves who is forced to construct this

[@Jurgen123445]

You mean like Brexit?

[@someonesomeone529]

@@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

[@COctagons]

*rough piling-up

[@littleladytoge5306]

Everyone has really smart and rational reasons to hate NEOM, meanwhile, my immediate thought was "god, that place will get dirty FAST"

[@barackahilt8595]

If you've ever had to clean a room which hasn't been cleaned for at least 2 weeks you'll know this isn't an irrational concern at all

[@legojoker7552]

You either live in the High Line or the Low Line, actual Piltover and Zaun city

[@ajitsen6927]

thats what the slaves are for.

[@Hastur876]

They'll ship in 100,000 Bangladeshis every day to do all the cleaning for them.

[@Sarlasmancranmaji]

Now you understand why is called 'neom'

[@ArtypNk]

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:

[@AgentHeroic]

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...

[@steemlenn8797]

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.

[@Nerun86]

yeah this whole thing looks like a perfect scenario for a dystopian video game.

[@mikhaelgribkov4117]

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.

[@robelbelay4065]

Hahaha great connection, they should make a part 2 where they retroactively explain the non-sense that led up to it being this bullshit

[@kenetickups6146]

@@mikhaelgribkov4117 Now where have i heard that before

[@jonathantan2469]

"As your attorney Mr. Adam, I strongly advise you to never accept an invitation for ANY event at the Saudi Embassy..."

[@FitraRahim]

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.

[@mikewazowski7024]

Wouldn't it be Mr. Something since Adam is his first name?

[@Lex-dw7ng]

@@mikewazowski7024 it's actually Adam Something Adam

[@justamanofculture12]

@@Lex-dw7ng so Mr. Adam something adam you say?

[@loks117]

it will end up like khasoggi

[@alexschrijnemaekers8067]

"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...

[@Jalapyno]

What have you unleashed?

[@MrLukiipukii]

Sue them for infringement :)

[@negativaura]

God damn it Alex what have you done now 🤦‍♂️

[@robertborland5083]

Presumably Neo-A through Neo-L were already taken.

[@jonathantan2469]

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...

[@GBart]

Rich people: "I deserve to have this much wealth and power" Also rich people: "I think investing in NEOM is a great idea!"

[@ComedyLoverGirl]

"What do you mean my ridiculously luxurious dictator lifestyle doesn't translate into a city?!"

[@queenvagabond8787]

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]

@@queenvagabond8787 Andrew Carnegie built over 1600 libraries. Why do rich people suck now?

[@queenvagabond8787]

@@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....

[@GuitarJammer]

When I first heard of the NEOM project, I raced over to your channel to find a video ripping it to shreds. While I was dismayed it didn't exist then, I'm so glad this day has finally come!

[@graciliraptor3990]

He did mention it before, glad he made it ^^

[@moon-uh5kd]

Same can’t wait to share it lmao

[@blehbleh8552]

Same, I've been waiting for the video that rips it apart

[@jrm78]

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.

[@deicide666100]

My thoughts exactly

[@Norp-i7m]

Yes.

[@anotherledfreak8649]

I was thinking EXACTLY the same. Never mind we can put our slaves down there and bury them for free!

[@Uahmedtahaalnady]

😁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🤠🤠🤑🤑💵💵

[@hydrolifetech7911]

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

[@TheLaLeeee]

Imagine going near The Line and getting cooked by the desert sun reflectiong off the mirror city like an ant with a magnifying glass.

[@matteoziegler7632]

you gotta keep the poors out somehow

[@adghat7819]

And also consider the maintenance of these mirrors, from the desert sands.

[@steemlenn8797]

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!

[@Anonymous-df8it]

@@steemlenn8797 *surface

[@kevinjoseph9416]

"where flying cars take you to your beheading, because you shared articles on women rights" I'm rolling so hard.. 🤣🤣🤣

[@Macbro9038]

🤣👌

[@6yjjk]

The flying cars with their death-rotors seem like a great way for the authorities to have convenient accidents!

[@walterhartwellwhite6788]

Timestamp?

[@cleeiii357]

@@walterhartwellwhite6788 1:39

[@walterhartwellwhite6788]

@@cleeiii357 Thank you

[@fl1tz4r]

“The Tub” is basically Ba Sing Se, so you’d think the Saudi monarchy would want to channel that energy instead

[@HolyknightVader999]

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.

[@karlitu8092]

At least there is no war in Ba Sing Se.

[@wasserruebenvergilbungsvirus]

The Emir has invited you to Lake Laogai (⊙_⊙)

[@prathamkalgutkar7538]

Also Ring shaped cities are kinda common, but only with a presence of a fort surrounded by walls

[@therealspeedwagon1451]

To me it just sounds like Kowloon walled city which was one of the densest cities ever and was a hub for illegal heroin trade

[@themugwump33]

It’s amazing to think what a dictator could actually accomplish if they sat down with the world’s best urban designers and said “I have 500billion. Build me the best city the world has ever seen and teach me why X feature is better than Y” but no, they draw a fucking line on a map and their sycophants praise them as geniuses.

[@johannageisel5390]

That's why I think they should off the crown prince and make me dictatress of Saudi Arabia instead.

[@themugwump33]

@@johannageisel5390 draw a 2D shape instead of a 1D shape for your Mega City and you’ll be unquestionably better than the the current leadership.

[@johannageisel5390]

@@themugwump33 Yup. I would also use traditional building types of the region as basis to work from.

[@themugwump33]

@@johannageisel5390 nice! And you’d probably use land that already exists… instead of demanding massive artificial islands in fun, wacky shapes.

[@johannageisel5390]

@@themugwump33 First and foremost I would determine whether the country actually NEEDS an entire new city, or whether it wouldn't be better to fix problems in existing cities and improve them.

[@supaasandy9807]

"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_*

[@AndreiNeacsu]

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!

[@supaasandy9807]

@@AndreiNeacsu I wanted to point that during the first draft of this comment but somehow I found it too cruel lol.

[@shadoeboi212]

sounds like the original plan for EPCOT just with more islam

[@hydrolifetech7911]

@@shadoeboi212 delete Islam and replace with Wahabism

[@Uahmedtahaalnady]

😁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🤠🤠🤑🤑💵💵

[@rbn1111]

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.

[@copysulting]

London has 9 million people and you can easily see how packed and chaotic it is a lot of the time..now imagine a closed line. Literally would feel like living in high school.

[@horiciOwO]

Thinking about it that's a perfect analogy

[@krankarvolund7771]

"Carbon-neutral city." "9 millions habitants city in the middle of a desert." Yeah, that's not possible, you're lying :p It's not the trees that grow on top of that skyscrapper that will cover the carbon emissions of all the things shipped to keep the city alive, and of all the emissions from the city itself ^^'

[@effexon]

emissions or human waste doesnt count coz its the desert :D

[@Akriashi]

Clearly you missed the fact that they will have floating trees all about. *FLOATING. TREES.* Problem solved. Pack it up people. Climate catastrophe solved.

[@arachnenet2244]

@@effexon *Burj Kahlifa Poop Truck Noises*

[@michazawada6333]

In this case carbon neutral means that city doesn't produce much carbon, but next to this "city" is another 170km line of power plants, water treatment plants etc etc

[@Olebull93]

I think the tag line was supposed to be IQ neutral City planning.

[@spiamistocazzo9113]

Smol note: PER weight unit and PER distance unit, cargo ships are one of the most efficient way of "shipping" goods.

[@ScreentimeNOR]

Absolutely. We are hard pressed at making anything more resource efficient and better at transporting cargo. Still doesn't change that the global merchant fleet burns upwards of 800 000 000 litres of fuel a day

[@Genius_at_Work]

@@ScreentimeNOR The only Alternative would be Nuclear, and that only makes Sense on the largest Container Ships and maybe Crude Oil Tankers. Research into Alternative Fuels such as Liquid Hydrogen, synthetic Methane or Methanol is going on, but all of these rely on Hydrogen. Hydrogen is almost exclusively produced from refining Natural Gas, which emits a lot of Carbon Dioxide, and that Hydrogen mostly used by the Chemical Industry. Until the Chemical Industry switches to Green Hydrogen (from Electrolysis using clean Energy) or Blue Hydrogen (refined Natural Gas, but the Carbon Dioxide is reused or safely disposed), there isn't much Point in using Hydrogen as Fuel, at least on a large Scale, small Research Projects obviously make Sense. Plus fueling all Ships with Green Hydrogen would take roughly 1/6 of the Global Energy Production. And Electric Ships are straight up impossible, except for Ferries and Short Sea Shipping.

[@_cryobyte]

@@Genius_at_Work Small reactors are also researched, it would actually work considering you can pump water into the cooler under the water line and eject from either dedicated holes or water jets

[@noergelstein]

They are very efficient in terms of fuel use and thus also carbon emissions, but the type of fuel they usually use is very dirty, leading to other types of pollution. Those are usually very bad especially locally, which is why ports are often very strict about the type of fuel that may be used when in the vicinity of the port and the engine has to be turned off when ankered in the port (which means using electricity from the port instead of generating your own). The CO2 emissions vs sulfur and black carbon emissions is mixed up everytime cargo ships come up. And what is worse is that the articles that went viral are already outdated since a new much stricter global fuel standard got introduced in 2020 (IMO 2020).

[@Genius_at_Work]

@@noergelstein Except in America, using Shore Power is very rare, especially on Cargo Ships. The different Electrical Systems on Ships make the Shore based Infrastructure very complicated, as they must be able to supply both 50 and 60 Hz AC at a wide Variety of Voltages. IIRC, "Shore Power" means Shore-based Diesel Generators in many American Ports, so there isn't much Difference. Regarding the Fuel: The IMO 2020 Regulations lowered the allowed Sulfur in Bunker Oil from 3.5% to 0.5%, unless you are using an Exhaust Gas Scrubber to remove Sulfur Dioxide from the Exhaust Gas. Many Coastal Areas and Inland/Marginal Seas (e.g. North and Baltic Sea) already are Emission Control Areas, where you must burn Ultra Low Sulfur Fuel Oil with 0.1% Sulfur, or even Diesel Oil.

[@briandixon992]

I like how the "futuristic and efficient" cities look a lot like those slums you see in dystopian movies. 😂

[@curtismahon9948]

The ecological impact of a skyscraper that is all mirror and 170 km long is apocalyptic. A billion migratory birds die each year to building strikes and if this were to suddenly appear, a colossal section of the Eurasian-african migratory route would straight go extinct in like a decade

[@cillyhoney1892]

Don't worry, it's never going to be built. They may start working on it but it's going to die and never get finished.

[@DiThi]

Cargo ships by themselves are actually pretty efficient in relation to the payloads. The very polluting part comes from manufacturing things on the other side of the planet (when most of the time it could be made much closer than that) and the illegal dumping of waste oil and that kind of stuff.

[@Nbwest609]

They are efficient in terms of fuel usage. The problem is they burn the worst fuel and produce the worst pollution.

[@PosterityIslesNews]

@@Nbwest609 yeah but they're more efficient than the thousands of trucks that would have to carry the same payload, for example

[@bramvanduijn8086]

@@Nbwest609 I would love to hear alternative proposals for what remains after we do the two obvious ones: Consume less and produce nearby.

[@killerbee.13]

"Pretty efficient" is not "zero emissions" though

[@austinmillbarge8731]

@@killerbee.13 zero emissions is a myth. Getting the best bang for the buck has been well broken down on this channel and used to support "just trains" not hyper loops, just diesel buses, not hybrids or electric etc. The issue with the freighters was summed up by how far away the rest of the world is from Shenzhen, China and the fact that people just consume too much stuff no matter where it is produced, so the total level of emissions output is not sustainable. No we can't all buy endless quantities of everything and still survive as a species.

[@Vooman]

Ah, Neom: because nothing says "utopian and visionary" like making a hundred-mile-long version of Kowloon!

[@FureyinHD]

I guess you mean the Kowloon Walled City. Kowloon is the largest part of Hong Kong, the Walled City was located within it.

[@Vooman]

@@FureyinHD yes, thank you internet 'actually' man

[@FureyinHD]

@@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.

[@doctordoggo420]

@@FureyinHD the chinese arent real internet man the only kowloon people know is the walled city

[@KingThrillgore]

See, a lot of these futuristic city nightmares are copied and pasted (green-washing and inefficient transportation) so it gets a little confusing.

[@SidenoteChannel]

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.

[@livingminimumwage6359]

It's a shame Adam was mysteriously disappeared and decapitated by some unknown party after posting these anti-Saudi videos.

[@TheGabbernaut]

I heard it was actually ruled to be a suicide.

[@Zardy_OG]

he better leave us a hint when it really happens

[@utterclown1580]

@here is the full clip I know this is a bot but like, this is the most hilarious context it could possibly be posted in

[@gsomethingsomething2658]

Stay away from embassies, Adam!

[@zelokorLocalGodOfChaosAndBread]

@@utterclown1580 lol, the bot is removed, but that's fucking great

[@DenGaming18]

I'm just wondering how they're planning on keeping the line from slowly being buried by desert sand

[@adam-k]

That's simple. Slave labor.

[@Sferaristi]

Easy, slave workers from South East Asia with shovels

[@elvingearmasterirma7241]

Duh the poors tm will have to shovel it all away!

[@certaindeath7776]

i guess that would improve the line^^ helps with insulation

[@helast3916]

@@certaindeath7776 but it would collapse under the weight of the sand

[@marcbeebe]

It's the desert heat: it causes hallucinations and strange visions. Possibly permanent brain damage as well, as nothing about this project makes any sense from any perspective - starting with "what purpose does it serve?"

[@SianaGearz]

Along with desert ket and desert bath salts.

[@marcocappelli2236]

And hashish. Lots of hashish.

[@scottr291]

“The Future”

[@mlc4495]

They're gonna need to build another line of nuclear power plants just to keep this monstrosity cooled. 50 degree heat for months at a time isn't going to be a pleasant experience to live in. Just ask the people of Baghdad today. The entre Arabian Peninsula is heading into a climate catastrophe that will likely see millions straight up forced to abandon their countries due to the brutal heat.

[@Slaking_]

"The city of the future in the country of the medieval" is just about the most apt summary of this absurd project there is

[@PK-qh4xb]

Imagine the sheer number of poop trucks they'd need for that thing 🤣

[@splintercell5551]

We have donkeys for leaders unfortunately

[@alexcarter8807]

You spelled poop knives wrong.

[@Hastur876]

They'll just ship in 100,000 Bangladeshis every day to carry out their poop. On golden platters.

[@theuncanspan]

This is not Dubai.

[@matthewc2903]

@theuncanspan Oh it will be. But flat. And worse.

[@ArcturusCOG]

Neom is something I’d do in cities skylines if I wanted to torture the citizens.

[@LeFacteurK]

Dictator mod activated.

[@DarkpawTheWolf]

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.

[@mjm3091]

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.

[@diakounknown1225]

RTgame did it. The thing collapsed when one tornado went through. Well, he built a one-road city. So just a really long road.

[@Armaron06]

Time to put this into practice. Might boot up Cities Skylines to give it a crack.

[@ImNotFine44]

When this project inevitably gets canceled or goes wrong, i want one of the articles about it to have the title “End of *the line* “. Honest to god though, this sounds like some kind of future bioshock setting which is not good when you think of what happened to rapture.

[@أحمدمصطفىشلبي-ج2ه]

i chose.... the line

[@captaindesperatehousewife7138]

Using a game and imagination to reason with reality. Good work on your negativity and toxicity. Always downing people, eh?

[@guccifer764]

@@captaindesperatehousewife7138 Found the Saudi bot

[@captaindesperatehousewife7138]

@@guccifer764 "FoUnD tHe sAuDi BoT" 🤓 My dear, IF there's anyone behaving like a bot, it would be people who actually support this guy and follow him. I legit don't get it, what's bothering you with Saudis building this entire thing? Is it the fact that they didn't freely invited you over? Is it because they are receiving fame and creativity over it? Is it because it hurts you? It's 2022, the world will continue improving. If you find that hard to accept or deal, then you'll have a rough future ahead of you...

[@ImNotFine44]

@@captaindesperatehousewife7138 do you here yourself mate? I’m making humour out of the trainwreck of an idea and you say I’m downing people?. That’s a little sad.

[@darrellhagopian9406]

A very ambitious theme park design for a seventh century theocracy. Looking forward to seeing how this goes.

[@JB-yb4wn]

You think they will have a stoning pavilion?

[@johnladuke6475]

@@JB-yb4wn A whole pavilion for getting stoned? Seems awful forward-thinking for a government based on who your dad is.

[@JB-yb4wn]

@@johnladuke6475 LOL No, I am thinking more in the lines of a hard rock cafe. 🤣

[@panjiwidagdo4125]

170km.. 😂 holy moly. This is ridiculous

[@ComedyLoverGirl]

@J B No, but they will have a Jewish ghetto.

[@ГлебЧерепанов-з3ч]

Fun fact: such "line-cities" were a popular futuristic concept among soviet architects in the 60-70s, I believe. The premise was the same - car-less high density living space along the rail line, where you are in an urban area, but never more than 20 minutes of walking away from nature. Such projects were far less ambitious though - you were just supposed to have many huge buildings clustering around the rail line, otherwise functioning like a regular city. But even that didn't really go anywhere. And, I guess, out-ambitioning soviet architectural futurism is a bit of an achievement in itself.

[@ferinzz]

Living in Lithuania now, seeing all the abandoned warehouses etc along the rail line, I can definitely see this vision... And how it failed.

[@yanDeriction]

Hong Kong Island is a successful line city implementation. High rises built along a narrow strip of coast line. All basic essentials in walking distance, the whole island connected by a single metro line

[@arnvonsalzburg5033]

​@@ferinzz excuse my stupid question, but why did it fail?

[@ferinzz]

@@arnvonsalzburg5033 Because they built without regard to whether they actually needed it there or not. Imagine building a warehouse in a rural town designed to hold a massive amount of crafted goods.. Except the town has no major exports, so it doesn't ever actually hold much of anything. Fast forward to modern times, and while it could have been a distribution center for food etc during soviet times, it doesn't have any purpose due to there being grocery stores and other private services. The rail system itself is great though!

[@Bradgilliswhammyman]

It works in sci fi games like mass effect , where you literally have a linear city in space, kind of inside a fancy tube.....but that is only because physics is modified to fit the story and lots of magical innovations make it work.

[@casualswimmer5930]

With the amount of fictional technology going into this project, you might as well build a Star Destroyer in outer space.

[@Sebisajiminstan]

I feel like people genuinely forget that while technology has evolved a lot, we are nowhere near what these futuristic mega projects like to promise

[@1paris1942]

That's actually Phase 5 in their downloadable PDF...

[@aeon7748]

I mean why not

[@stephenphillips4609]

A star destroyer might be more feasible and cheaper!

[@altrag]

There's actually nothing particularly fictional involved. Sure the artwork is drawn with sci-fi themes but everything they're planning is fully doable with current technology. The question of why you would want to do that is something I don't have an answer to beyond "trying to look cool", and if Adam's cost estimate is anywhere even close to the ballpark of realistic its probably too expensive to complete even for the Saudis (their own estimates are _much_ more reasonable - and likely much less realistic). But if (and that's an insanely massive "if") they can manage to put together the time and money and construction materials, there's nothing technological that would be stopping the project. At the end of the day, its just a (really really) big building with a train under it.

[@skyhaven8159]

On a side note, The Line would make for an AMAZING post-apocalyptic sci-fi setting

[@arbiter1er]

I'd love a Battlefield map like that. It'd make a great three lane map with the lanes being vertical, Operation Metro like

[@MissingGamer]

omg that's like what i said but different 😱

[@AK70FORYOU]

For real, make a movie about extreme inequality at opposite ends of this thing Call it "Sandpiercer"

[@LeoMkII]

@@AK70FORYOU well, there's Elysium, no line but a big donut in space! By the same dude from sector 9

[@MegaNerevar]

Id give it a name, lets call it Spec Ops: The Line

[@vigilantfish4102]

Neom is what happens when you get bored minecraft players with infinite resources in late game

[@judelarkin2883]

People forget that humans have been spending 10k years or so figuring out the best shape of a city. It is hard to outsmart evolution, hence the saying “reinventing the wheel.”

[@mechanomics2649]

Well, this only counts for so much. Yes, people have spent thousands of years figuring out the best shape of a city, but in more recent history, there has been incentive not to do so in terms of efficiency. See American cities and its suburbs.

[@HelgeHolm]

Ok ok listen. I have a GREAT idea for a wheel: It will be 5cm tall, 10cm wide, and 500cm long.

[@Pantsinabucket]

@@mechanomics2649 even then, on the macro scale American suburbs develop “efficiently” in that they remain as close to the urban center or transit arteries as possible. Very few American suburbs are built outside the traditional circle (or semicircle for coastal cities) of urban sprawl, and almost all are connected to highways, freight/commuter rail, or both to allow easy transit between the home and the city. Even a seemingly nonsensically dick-shaped city like Dallas is only shaped like that due to the merging of Dallas and Fort Worth’s urban centers.

[@judelarkin2883]

@@Pantsinabucket I agree. American cities are basically efficient cities that are too spread out to be efficient.

[@israeldelarosa5461]

Funny you say that because the best shape for a city is also a wheel

[@WolfyTheDark]

I thought this whole project was already a joke parody; I only heard about The Line transport* and thought it was called "NEOM" in a reference to the fake speed it would attain.

[@Punishthefalse]

After a couple years, they must send in some Delta Squads to recon the place and determine the severity of the dystopia.

[@Nicarand]

Lol, I got an ad for NEOM like 2 days ago and asked myself "How long is it gonna take for Adam to release a video that tears this dictator's bs CGI pipedream to shreds". And here it is.

[@blakksheep736]

Answer: 'bout 48 hours.

[@sagichdirdochnicht4653]

I read about it on the news a few weeks back and immediately thought, sooner or later Adam will rip it apart.

[@peabody3000]

an ad? someone is paying to advertise it?

[@Nicarand]

@@peabody3000 Yeah, Saudi Arabia is spending big bucks for advertising atm, apparently. But I mean, they gotta milk this for all it's worth; this isn't much more than a PR stunt anyways.

[@hobbes2555]

In IT networking we call a single line connecting things together a single point of failure.

[@neeneko]

Something I find fasinating about these projects is that they have the feel of 'gamers inspired by games inspired by 1960s sci-fi'. Back in the mid-late century there were a lot of futurists thinking about things like city-sized arcologies and hyperloops and such.. and for all of their faults and limitations they did at least have honest thought put into them and it was not unusual for author to explore the problems in the same works they tried to explore the original solution. Movies and video games picked up on the idea, applying the 'rule of cool' to them so they could provide dramatic backdrops for storytelling, which is just fine. But I think today we are seeing a generation of 'forward thinkers' who grew up on the games rather than the books, and people only wanting to listen to other techbros rather than the domain experts who actually did have a voice in the earlier ideas.

[@slevinchannel7589]

I wished People were in Charge who've seen the Water-Catastrophe-Coverage of "Some More News" and "Second Thought". Thats the Least, but if i could dream big i would want everyone to know how good Trains are, how healthy Bikes are and muh City-Planning truly matters. In other words, iwant them to watch 'Not Just Bikes' and 'Climate Town' and 'Our Changing Climate' and of course Adam himself.

[@asmodiusjones9563]

I think you’re giving them too much credit, but you’re mostly right. Included in all these techbro solutions is a deep hatred of humanity and a tacit rejection of any solution humanity has come up with in the past. Oh you want to build cities not dependent on cars? Ok, we could look at how people did that for thousands of years, or we could design our own monstrosity that puts me in charge and keeps most people away from me.

[@attilarepasi6052]

This can be true for the artists coming up with the renders, and maybe the original ideas. But what about the business and state leaders, I can"t believe they actually think these are achieveable goals.

[@theBogi]

Tbh the cities are build on 'rule of cool', because that way they can actually attract rich foreigners to travel there to live or for vacation. It's not supposed to be for the general population to have sustainable living space, but for the rich sheikhs to have a sustainable money source once the oil runs out.

[@jkfecke]

@@asmodiusjones9563 This also is why techbros keep coming up with solutions that are in fact just things that exist. Uber is the classic example -- it's just an unregulated taxicab, which is something that's existed since at least the horse and cart. But something something computers now it's the FUTURE.

[@AhmadLad]

Rest in Pieces Adam, Once this video falls into the hands of a "close friend of the prince", you'll get a suspicious invite to a Saudi Embassy 😂😂

[@zhcultivator]

rest in pieces indeed

[@gabrielandradeferraz386]

Just dont go

[@dtf.eternal5857]

haha nice com

[@seekeroftheuniverse2657]

برا ني.ك ملا ولد ق 💊

[@zorktxandnand3774]

As apparently no idea is to absurd anymore I have some suggestions: - The swing, a city build like a swing, because at least in CAD we can. - The inverted pyramid. Everyone lives at the top! A true balancing act. - The Dome, A dome with houses, shops and factories hanging on the inside. Still have to think of why this is a great idea, but it has to be a great idea right? - Elevator city. The whole city moves up and down. Step outside the city to go to another level. - Catapult city. Hi-tech automated catapults can throw people and goods fast and convenient to catching nets all over the city. Please add your own great idea's. And for when some of these will inevitably be build by a megalomaniac dictator, I want to say sorry for bringing up the idea.

[@daemonspudguy]

The stick. Everything is in a thin spire of wood, and every house has a fireplace. I can't see any problem with this!

[@alangivre2474]

You really made me laugh

[@Sarahbryson321]

-the seacity. Hi- tech houses in the middle of the ocen whixh use pumps to keep out water using pods (the cost of the pumps is another bill you’ve to pay) rich people just live on cruise ships

[@theneonbop]

the torus: everybody lives in a giant vertical slowly rotating donut, that way views change every week and people travel through rotating elevator cabs in the hole Or just put the torus horizontally and fill the hole with water to create the worlds largest swimming pool, with windows facing out into the deeps.

[@aurelienrodriguez3252]

City in Evangelion are on elevator, that's look cool

[@andreassumerauer5028]

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.

[@paulustrucenus]

Actually there are so much ads for this city on KZbin that my 12 year old little brother heard about it. He said to me he thinks it's BS. I'm proud of him.

[@hungrehsden3808]

They're also in our televisions in the pub I work at. I have to admit, beforehand the adverts were so vague. I admittedly thought it was some new bank trying to be hip with the cool kids until I actually looked it up. I'm sorry but when the Wikipedia page mentioned stuff like this: "Also, the scope of the projects based on the crown prince's vision incorporates some technologies that do not even exist, like flying cars, robot maids, dinosaur robots, and a giant artificial moon.[64] It is estimated that 20,000 people will be forced to relocate to accommodate the planned city.[65]" Do these guys whip out Blade Runner and get off on it?

[@lonestarr1490]

@@hungrehsden3808 No. They torture and slaughter someone and get off on that. That's the kind of people we're talking about. They're used to always being right, because that's the upbringing they received. It will never cross their minds even for a fraction of a second that one of their ego-filled ideas might be anything other than ingenious.

[@NatLaS]

I saw an ad too, and I thought it was such a stupid thing to even think to do that I assumed it was one of those crazy, small KZbinrs that had paid to be advertised again. Imagine my surprise when I saw an architect do a review of the project. Even crazier was the amount of people in the comments saying stuff like “Oh I thought this looked so cool and amazing but after watching this video, I see it’s not so great”

[@yjlom]

@@NatLaS I mean, many of the renders are very aestethically pleasing; thus it is easy to look at them, go "oh, shiny" and not think much more of it.

[@ToriKo_]

It seemed like quite a bizarre type of scam for me

[@arskakarva7474]

And as any Cities: Skylines player can tell you, the best part of The Tub is that you can just pour all the waste in the middle thus planting seeds of a future catastrophe that will destroy both the religious police AND the CGI artists!

[@Master10k2]

I've already built Circle cities, so maybe I'll try the Line. See how that fairs.

[@micha2909]

The Tub, home to 9 million people and 500 m tall, filled up to the edge with brown waste water would be so beautiful.

[@LakeofCrystalclan]

@@Master10k2 I genuinely want to know the end of that

[@intelchip_x86]

@@LakeofCrystalclan watch RTGame's video on the bath tub in cities skylines

[@Blaze6108]

I actually had a highly effective sewage-powered hydro dam in my city, it was built on that one map that has a big massif overlooking the sea. Sewage treatment plants were placed at the top of the massif, which was terraformed to be hollow, and a huge dam separated the sewage reserve from the ocean. Thermodynamics, is that something you eat?

[@JaxOf7]

"Check out my city design." "Oh this looks fun to play on! Lots of places to rocket jump to, interesting sniper vantages, underground flanking." "..." "Uh, this is a video game map right?"

[@AranhaaTheSixtyninth]

it legit looks straight out of Mirror's edge

[@ano_nym]

Looks like some real sci-fi stuff.

[@Ezullof]

The emphasis on verticality is definitely very videogame-y.

[@The_Blue_Ender]

SO many sentry nest spots...

[@toxicdermyillunary4103]

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.

[@jbard9892]

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?

[@shinygoldenpotion1587]

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

[@jbard9892]

@@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.

[@kim-hendrikmerk4163]

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.

[@__-fu5se]

Craziest part is that millions of dollars were already spent on just "concept" commisions of this mirror hall dystopia.

[@redafattahi6428]

Its Economics Darwinism, whoever paid for these concepts did not deserve the money it had

[@Emsyaz]

@@redafattahi6428 why are you insulting your own people? 🤣

[@classicpinball9873]

@@Emsyaz whoever thought this was a good idea is not a good person bro

[@Hastur876]

Your average Arab spends $500,000 on a supercar just to destroy it in a stupid car accident.

[@sirsusgamer]

they actually started excavation

[@ttoughtask7296]

The consultants, engineers, architects, artists working on this must be working the biggest grift in history.

[@sirsusgamer]

yeah, they just blinded by opportunities and pay check.

[@Random_dud31]

@@sirsusgamer nah. They are doing their part to bring down the monarchy

[@anthonyalles1833]

Hey, nothing wrong with a little wealth redistribution! Where can I apply for my share? 😀

[@tinabean713]

You can tell a client that their idea is stupid, but if they aren't open to a better solution in the short term, they'll just grow resentful if you keep trying to convince them it won't work. Someone's going to go along with it, might as well cash in and keep your employees employed.

[@davesmith826]

I suspect their high school interns are taking lead on everything

[@ondrejmlynarcik9926]

When I first saw a video advertising NEOM I said to myself: I can almost hear Adam writing the script for one of his next videos... you didn't disappoint 🙃

[@ghiffaribara2949]

A lot of my friends believe and praise Saudi for this, but i know for sure this will be just another bad project

[@blakksheep736]

Shk shk shk 📝

[@blakksheep736]

@@ghiffaribara2949 assuming it's even done at all.

[@ghiffaribara2949]

@@blakksheep736 True

[@Dasyati]

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!"