Dubai’s $5 Billion Lunatic Megaproject

[@np8139]

Very generous of Dubai's city planners to come out with more megaproject BS just to give Adam content.

[@almerindaromeira8352]

It's kind of you to assume that Dubai has city planners. I don't think they exist.

[@BasedWop]

You laugh now, but once the Death Star is operational you'll change your tune.

[@rudhra5957]

Man, modern age architecture makes me appreciate Ancient and medieval Architectures. Like they made everything beautiful and something that could last ages. With Gardens and everything. Now it's just concrete walls of Loneliness

[@buchanfoulsham6314]

​@@BasedWop😂

[@silviuvisan505]

​@@rudhra5957They turned mad max hell hole into the concrete jungle😂

[@Fishpasta4]

Let's be honest, this is only happening because the UAE royals saw the Las Vegas sphere and went: "That, I want that. But bigger... and put a skyscraper inside it!"

[@John.0z]

and they do seem to understand that the near infinite income from oil is fast coming to and end. So they are trying to diversify, and this shows just how bad they are at the process.

[@나도형-p4h]

The big difference is that Sphere's outside can be changed literally in a second. But Moon resort will forever be moon, even if tourist got bored eventually.

[@ljosephdumas3113]

Yep. This is what, in the US military, we used to call a GOBI - General Officer Bright Idea. ALWAYS a disaster.

[@TheDarkbluerock]

First thing I thought when I saw it😂

[@juisss]

@@John.0z oil accounts for less than 1% of Dubai's GDP

[@XNaos]

Dubai literally is a Minecraft Server where people Just build random things

[@maggie6152]

Now that's a conspiracy theory I can get behind!

[@MouhaBoufermel]

Feels more like "getting over it" where random buildings and stuff are scattered around the place

[@barleysixseventwo6665]

Oh my god it's true. It even has the hundreds of fancy buildings that are actually hollow shells with nothing inside.

[@SardineMilk]

its even has the villager halls!

[@Fatman311]

The comparison of rich people to toddlers is terrifyingly accurate.

[@JB-yb4wn]

You can reason with a toddler, not a brain dead Emir.

[@jacobs483]

It’s like toddlers, but for some reason our society and economy and government are largely dictated by their whims.

[@jamescarter8311]

You don't know many rich people then. Dubai is like a place run by rich toddlers. People who climbed the economic ladder on their own don't behave like that.

[@trazyntheinfinite9895]

Toddlers have the chance to grow up into useful persons....

[@person8064]

​@@jamescarter8311 that's why Elon Musk acts like a toddler as well

[@error9033]

Adam: Dubai's $5 Billion Lunatic Megaproject Me: do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?

[@ktakashismith]

Well, the clue is in the title - "Lunatic" - originally referring to insanity of an intermittent kind attributed to changes of the *moon*

[@error9033]

@@ktakashismith that's true, but lunatic also refers to madness in general, a term you could apply to many of Dubai's projects over the last few years

[@lastpokemon]

U.S just spent 14 billion on genocide how about that?

[@UlshaRS]

Starting the next 3rd fiscal quarter. Still not narrow enough.

[@vaclav_fejt]

Ten years ago I thought: "Wow, the UAE cracked it. They used their oil not to burn through it, but to build tourism with it." I didn't think about urbanism or sustainability...and neither did they.

[@alliecravulz]

Yes and with the resources they have, they missed the opportunity to build something incredible

[@barleysixseventwo6665]

Someone should find a way to make universal healthcare sound like a prestigious megaproject. Maybe a super-sized megahospital with high-speed ambulance train system that stretches across the country to bring in customers (and completely coincidentally can be repurposed as a transit system).

[@lovelyheiferdev]

brb gonna reach out to vc firms for this one

[@TheNightrider88]

Don't forget Hyperambulance pods.

[@aridianknight3576]

If you slap an American flag and a bald eagle on it it could work

[@je4a301]

In Rwanda they actually have a pretty neat system where they send off drones to supply remote villages with medicine. Maybe something like this

[@vrrooooommmm123]

​@@je4a301American universal healthcare will never work cuz of american bureaucracy.

[@fawfulBeans]

Surprised they didn't propose making the moon building at 100% scale given how smart these guys are.

[@juisss]

The guy who proposed this project is not a native, and the project hasn't even been approved yet

[@how_to_be_a_Old_legionary44]

yeah XDD 🤣🤣 this hit hard man! 🤣😂

[@morgana6598]

Oh I'm sure someone did propose exactly that...

[@silphv]

They probably just said they were bringing down the real one and hollowing it out.

[@williamyoung344]

We are definitely devolving as a species

[@captainsewerrat]

Dubai is that one friend that nobody actually likes, but keeps showing up to the group with the latest new thing they bought to use as conversation fodder and stay relevant.

[@guyfromaucklandnz]

I laughed at loud when Adam pointed out that NONE of the hotel rooms would have any windows. Come here for the authentic Dubai experience, where you too can feel like a neglected prisoner - just like the workers who built this monstrosity.

[@newsbender]

Fuck all to see out of a Dubai window anyway. Unless perpetual construction sites are your thing.

[@relight6931]

I feel like saying "workers" is a bit generous.. We like to think of workers as someone who chooses to work, for the sake of having roof over head, regular meals and all that jazz.. Now I don't know if all of Middle East rich oil kingdoms work the same, but for some other country I heard it works like this.. You are starving, there are no jobs in your country and likely you even have a family to feed.. Yet, cross a border and there is work, for good money.. So you go, only to be left without a passport as soon as you enter this workers promise land. Then you find out there will also be a minimum time you can stay and work there, just like when you apply to work on an oil rig, somewhere in the middle of the oceans.. Meanwhile, your accommodations would be humble.. If it was just you, but there is 7 others sharing that space.. How it ends and if you are paid, I don't know and I would rather not like to have to find out..

[@Fluxkompressor]

And jet the workers do in fact have windows in their rooms

[@ViolentCabbage-ym7ko]

Still better than most US cities. No opioid crisis, homelessness, gun violence, poor and decaying infrastructures.

[@Tao_Tology]

​@@ViolentCabbage-ym7ko "Still better than...." Nope

[@luipaardprint]

Spheres are the perfect shape for houses, that’s why we’ve been building them like that since antiquity.

[@DrunkenUFOPilot]

Yup, that's the trooth! You are fully qualified to be a middle eastern multi-billionaire! 😆

[@user-cw5bq9pg7c]

​@@DrunkenUFOPilottrooth????? It is truth

[@KissMy2Moons]

@@user-cw5bq9pg7c I know u can’t read tone but he is being sarcastic by misspelling on purpose.

[@ekspatriat]

BS. How much internal wasted space. Also if so then why are spherical houses mega rare.

[@goldpeen2661]

@@ekspatriat I'm pretty sure that was sarcasm.

[@KannikCat]

Me, as an architect: "WTF?" Me, as a traveler: "WTF?" Me, as a city dweller: "WTF?" Me, as an environmentalist: "WTF?" Me, as a human being: "WTF??"

[@Grunchy005]

This sort of looks like a blatant rip off of Las Vegas SPHERE, which kinda treads upon Expo 1986 SCIENCE CENTRE. (which kinda copies GLOBE OF DEATH motorcycle cage thingy)

[@alexanderboulton2123]

Me as a dumb monkey: "Cool 🤤"

[@alexanderboulton2123]

​@Grunchy005 You get in the big sphere and it's cool because it's a big sphere.

[@heliofaros1344]

...then turn off the light and film any "(in)human(e) interaction". Winner gets a bottle of Gold Water.

[@KannikCat]

@@Grunchy005 Heheh, or Bucky's dome at the Montreal Expo 1976. At the most generous, we might say it's 'inspired' by Etienne Boullée's Cenotaph for Newton... but that was intended as a visionary exploratory exercise. Not for a hotel that completely ignores the space and structure it's in.

[@tylerjohn4607]

I love how the resort is somehow supposed to have the ~15% gravity of earth, like that is somehow possible. If Dubai has figured out a gravitational insulator THAT would be the big headline

[@BarryRowlingsonBaz]

Easy. The top half of the moon is filled with water and the visitors have to wear weighted space suits...

[@tim..indeed]

Tbf that's just something ChatGPT made up for it.

[@birdflipper]

Even if they did somehow figure out how to reduce earth's gravitational pull, long-term exposure would likely cause negative effects on the human body.

[@scipioafricanus5871]

I was wondering would one not be able to breathe in this moon thing, you know, for maximum authenticity?

[@EpsilonKnight2]

@@BarryRowlingsonBaz Holding the sheer weight of all that water within an area that size would be an engineering nightmare.

[@JackSassyPants]

A dictator literally saw the success of a concert venue in Vegas that’s been planned for years with cutting edge technology, an established entertainment market, and a unique but attainable vision put together by dozens of motivated a d talented designers and his only take away was “HALF sphere? I want WHOLE sphere. Here’s $5 billion make it cool and impressive and make it happen now.”

[@guillaumelagueyte1019]

Lol that's not the point at all but I imagined this except with Asian parents when their kid brings home a half sphere from school. "Why only half a sphere? Why not a full sphere?"

[@chuckdude514]

Phew, I'm glad he literally saw it, could you imagine what would have happened if he saw it metaphorically?

[@maurice2572]

"literally saw the SUCCESS..." Success my ass. That Vegas monstrosity is already plagued with lots and lots of problems. It will not last long

[@winzyl9546]

​@@guillaumelagueyte1019because full sphere expensive, we dont need full sphere just half is ok.

[@TheSuperappelflap]

@@maurice2572 the Sydney opera house and all those other overdesigned architectural nightmares designed to draw in rich people (because who tf goes to an opera in this century except pretentious rich people) are always massive money sinks to build and maintain and have lots of structural issues. Guangzhou opera house (jn China) is also a nice example. Or Calatrava opera house in Valencia. This happens way too often to be a coincidence. Some other numbskull once built a building, I think it was somewhere in the USA, with mirrored glass on the outside, that had a curvature which resulted in sunlight being concentrated on the ground around it. It set cars and houses on fire and could melt asphalt.

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

At this point, designing and constructing a functioning town with everything normal is going to earn them more praise than whatever the hell they're making up.

[@Jasper_4444]

A functioning town? Do they even know what that is?

[@FayeRantTheStrong]

Dubai is Night City we didn't want, deserve or need.

[@therwfer]

Don't we deserve it though?

[@RJLbwb]

And just like Night City in Cyberpunk 2077, Dubai has no water. lol

[@oscardighton8580]

in fairness night city has public transport and is remarkably walkable

[@zaidlacksalastname4905]

​@@RJLbwbNC has water? Have you not played the game lol, there's a lot of missions near the docks and piers

[@zaidlacksalastname4905]

Night City but without the (very few) good things about it

[@Corium1]

I dispize those people who ignore the slave labor that exist in Dubai an the gulf states in general. Its disgusting how easily people turn a blind eye to it

[@professoremeryeetus5292]

I mean yeah but they have 50 % gender equality at moon though.

[@KeitieKalopsia]

Seriously. People mention it so little that this is literally the first time I’m learning about it.

[@theangryotaku3361]

they only care once the money stops. just look at how long it's taken people to criticize china or russia. only once they began trade wars and the sanctions started did the suits start to "care" what was going on

[@Corium1]

@@professoremeryeetus5292 tru I guess you win some you lose some

[@pank3245]

Despise*

[@funfunrahrah]

A few years ago, I used to work at a company that provided services to businesses and government agencies in Dubai and Saudi Arabia, including a project for Neom . I spent 6 months in KSA for a project. I can 100% confirm the dynamic described in this video. There is a vast economy of mainly Western companies that siphon money out of those countries by pandering to the fever dreams of dictators - everything from engineers to consultants to media companies making those cheesy promotional videos. They use any trendy buzzword available ("smart cities", "fourth industrial revolution", "AI" etc etc) to make the projects sound cool. I highly doubt any of these megaprojects will ever be completed, or even started. Even the Line, as stupid and hubristic as it is, is already a massive downgrade from what they originally envisioned for Neom.

[@curiousgemini]

I imagine the Moon becoming unmoored and then rolling down the city and knocking down buildings like a giant bowling ball.

[@Rumade]

So nice of them to provide enrichment for godzilla

[@alphaspearl9728]

sounds like Katamari hahahaha

[@uhtred7860]

@@alphaspearl9728 Sounds more like that old PS2 game "war of the monsters"😆

[@okaywhatevernevermind]

like the daily planet sphere when it fell off the building and it was about to crush everyone but superman stopped it

[@Interpid_Citizen]

😂

[@rachelblake2350]

The attraction of the moon is the low gravity allowing me to jump more than my own height. If I can't do that, then all you've built is a dusty wasteland. You know, the thing that makes up 98% of Dubai's surface area?

[@feonor26]

I laughed when they said that. Ohh they are going to replicate the gravity conditions on the Moon are they? One question: How?!? 😂

[@gilbert2872]

Easy. Do you remember what was marketed as a hoverboard? Yes, that contraption that didn‘t do one important thing it was supposex to: hover.

[@mirrorocean]

Exactly this. The gravity and you know, being in space, is what makes the moon appealing. Otherwise it's just the desert that already exists, but like, cooler coloured for some reason.

[@janelantestaverde2018]

​@@feonor26Well, they'll do what they usually do and just build it so high that it leaves the atmosphere.

[@Stamy31]

Probably they hope to solve this problem with money spent on research to create such a space.

[@joa1401]

What happens if there’s a big sandstorm, and the moon gets knocked off its perch and starts rolling down the streets of Dubai like the boulder from Raiders of the Lost Arc? And all the people in the streets are pointing, screaming and running away from it as it squishes street cafe tables and umbrellas? While the Benny Hill theme plays? And then it bumps into the Burj Khalifa, which falls over, knocking into the mega project skyscraper next door? And one by one they all tumble down like domino’s in a giant Rupe Goldberg Machine? What happens then????

[@ffiordhn]

If I had a nickel for every insane unsustainable petrodollar gulf state vanity project you've showed on this channel, I'd probably have enough money to fund my own insane unsustainable petrodollar gulf state vanity project.

[@vanguard9067]

Lolololol. Best comment for this video! Thanks and have a Happy New Year!

[@thespyk]

I worked in the middle east for a few years and your description of a boss giving a vague idea and expecting you to provide a finished product is 100% accurate. Let me give you an example. One day the boss walks in and overhears a conversation I'm having a problem with frac tank service rotations, I mentioned that we use to have a fast path for cleaning some that didn't need inspection. I mention that we need a high flow, low pressure jetting machine. He says great idea, get a quote. 3 days later he has a quote. His buddy tells him that if the pressure is too high we can damage the liner. He shits on me for not considering it. Then he buys a 1000bar jetting machine from Europe that has no support in saudi, we never use because it will damage the liner. A fact we knew and told him about. He then gets mad because we wasted his money.

[@aluisious]

1000 bar is an insane amount of pressure for cleaning something. It's a good amount of pressure for cutting something instantly.

[@thedarkdivinity7525]

Sounds like nepotism at it finest.

[@philscott7949]

Stadiums for the Fifa World Cup in Qatar were frequently changed during construction - "we need an giant arch here; we need a tunnel there; we need the whole structure rotated, so the sun will shine in a different direction on a certain day of the year" etc etc. Almost impossible to keep suppliers and contractors on to finish the projects with the number of change requests after each milestone was achieved.

[@thespyk]

@@philscott7949 I saw those weird changes too. Get to work in the morning and find out we are no longer serving our 2nd biggest client. One of the biggest multinationals in upstream O&G. I was going to dish the dirt for the hell of it (and you seem a litlle invested anyway :D) but I realised two things. I'm not sober and the story might still get me in trouble.

[@walmorcarvalho2512]

Holy crap this is the stuff we'd find in comic strips and laugh about how insane it is. The corporate world is completely out of touch with anything

[@tHeWasTeDYouTh]

my dad is a cardiologist and my mom a dentist. I ended up in Dubai for 3 years. The vast majority of rich Americans (white) and English people that live there say they like it better because it looks like a western city with no low class non European people to bother you. Yes, these exact words came out of a architect friend of my father during a party in his mansion. He said that in front of everyone and they all smiled and nodded.

[@evansnyamesah1755]

😂😂😂

[@YourCapyFrenBigly_3DPipes1999]

Yeah not too surprising. I'm sure many upper class western expatriates think this way. It's a shame. Very classist and low-key racist.

[@jakubromanski2439]

Dubai is the embodiment of a situation when someone powerful enough has ideas dumb enough and no one to criticize him

[@JARV9701]

Elon: A worthy opponent

[@kamukameh]

Napoleon Bonaparté: Hey, that's my complex!

[@mattevans4377]

​@@kamukamehYes, the most successful general of all time was obviously an idiot...... Not saying he didn't stumble in other topics, but there's a reason he got to make those stumbles in the first place, after conquering all of the European land mass.

[@user-op8fg3ny3j]

Arab leaders be like: "it's haram to criticise the ruler"

[@kamukameh]

@@mattevans4377 "Yes, the most successful general of all time..." yeah... that IS Napoleon complex! 😁 Conquering is the one thing, holding it is another one.

[@sheshanravi4866]

Fun fact: the word "lunatic" originates from the word "luna", which means "moon". In the past, it was believed that the moon caused people to become crazy. This must be why Adam Something used the word "lunatic" in his video's title.

[@KeitieKalopsia]

Yeah. I appreciated the pun.

[@sluggastar2]

Except this time, they were already crazy

[@marca9955]

Yes.

[@WWZenaDo]

​@@sluggastar2 This comment deserves a LOT more up votes!!

[@lovelyheiferdev]

100% intentional

[@tricksfollies9549]

$5 billion, they could’ve just funded Gru’s project to steal the moon🙄

[@languist]

Kudos to Adam for releasing more content to criticise the Dubai for its problems! It's such a mirage city...

[@dave_riots]

Dubai literally is the problem

[@GwainSagaFanChannel]

Dubai the prime example of how public transport and pedestrian and bicycle lanes are needed since you cannot move around the city without using a car Edit: the ilusion of freedom of choice if your only option is being forced to use a car

[@tomlxyz]

​@@GwainSagaFanChannel it's bad in so many besides that, which is particularly bad since most of it is relatively new, so they should have known better

[@GwainSagaFanChannel]

​@@tomlxyz it serves as a good example of how the city is build in the image of the elite and not the people otherwise they would actually have build the needed infrastructure

[@2goober4u]

hahahahhaha france plane

[@jeremyk9000]

I've heard almost an identical story about how these mega-projects come about. I knew someone who used to work for the royal court in the mid 2000s. He said the leadership came to him with toy model that looked like something from Thunderbirds. They wanted a movable floating island capable of hunting down pirates. It was complete with little palm trees. Apparently, no one from their inner circle ever says "no".

[@kosmosyche]

lol If I had that kind of money and power I'd probably build a full working replica of SDF Macross or some shit. Then again, nobody ever said unironically that I'm a genius.

[@courier6960]

Honestly it makes me wonder how some of the people in power in this region are even alive still, like how are you this incompetent and aimless running your country and none of the people behind you have killed you and taken over yet?

[@Dylius01]

Why bother if you can already milk the gravy train? Plus, if you kill number 1, who's to say no one will return the favour...@@courier6960

[@Worthless1010]

​@@courier6960 Probably because it's easier and less risky to appease the big baby in order to get your own piece of the pie. And everyone in the cabinet is probably in on how stupid it is.

[@mikepalmer1971]

Your probably punished for saying no.

[@YTDeepshock]

Dubai is a work of dark sociopolitical satire made frighteningly real.

[@horrido666]

I like the 50% equality part. Someone should introduce them to the idea of %100 equality LOL. Money makes people stupid, apparently.

[@muxecoid]

It is a Muslim Arab country. Even 10% is very ambitious.

[@6Six6Six6Bruh]

@@muxecoidGotta love backwards countries.

[@navid6114]

You know the UAE has higher gender equality than the states, 31st compared to 46th in the world, according to the UN’s Human Development Index? You can google to verify

[@silviuvisan505]

Camel riders don't need maths.

[@alexturnbackthearmy1907]

@@silviuvisan505 Well...that until they find lots of oil. Then they need it to understand how much money exactly should be thrown at problem. Luckily they dont even have to make any of this themselves, cause other people are willing to count money for money.

[@amanko1357]

50% gender equality! how generous. Maybe one day we'll even strive for 100%.

[@baronnuuke7821]

What do you expect of the land of the 50% complete freedom

[@AdanSolas]

Even if there could’ve been, why should there be? Not every society has to mirror yours, you know.

[@baronnuuke7821]

@@AdanSolas Exactly, that's why they should accept they have a different culture and stop writing random western concepts in their websites. It would be so much better if they would build a modern Arabic city with Arabic architecture, domes and arcades. But for some reason they are stuck in this Disney World mall BS

[@Helperbot-2000]

@@AdanSolas if "not mirroring" my society includes oppression of people, thats morally wrong

[@AdanSolas]

@@baronnuuke7821 Are you talking about the UAE? What they choose to do in their country is their own business. Besides, it works, so why change?

[@urbanprojectz]

3:36 'If anything goes wrong, this rock will be our grave'. Said the 1000 staffery's who died during the project.

[@julianhudson7811]

Dubai is a literal goldmine of megaprojects for Adam to dunk on

[@BardiXOfficial]

Same with Saudi

[@verttikoo2052]

Add Egypt

[@Music-xp5wg]

If Adam lived 5000 years ago. We wouldn't have the Pyramids today

[@verttikoo2052]

@@Music-xp5wg 🤔😱

[@janelantestaverde2018]

​​@@Music-xp5wgThe more I think about that, the better it seems 🤔

[@smjaiteh]

It’s like if Fyre Festival became an architectural trend.

[@PowPowPeng1]

Thats the power of toxic positivity for you

[@drecksaukerl]

1:28 Love the southern drawl/Hungarian accent hybrid

[@Teleportcamera]

At this point it’s easier for Dubai to pay Adam $1 billion to stop destroying their reputation even further.

[@soundscape26]

I mean, you are overestimating Adam's reach given Dubai's tourism is booming.

[@vullings1968]

​@@soundscape26It is still a novelty in a way. How many tourists will come back to a place that is known only for its extravagance, but has hardly any cultural feats?

[@soundscape26]

@@vullings1968 Well, the Burj Al Arab opened in 1999, the Atlantis and the Dubai Mall in 2008 for instance, it's been a novelty for 20 odd years then. Still we shouldn't assume people only travel because of culture... in Dubai's case I think most people who decide to go there are more interested in resort-like holidays and yes, the extravagant attractions and constructions. Dubai is exactly what it says on the tin.

[@protopigeon]

They need no help with destroying anything

[@SystemBD]

And say "no" to rich people? At least, he would become one with the walkways he loves.... when he is thrown out the window from a nearby skyscraper.

[@glenmurie]

Im amazed the transport system wasn't described as using pods.

[@PM-xu2nq]

This just in; all transport powered by ultrafast Tesla LunarPods™️

[@erg0centric]

Open the pod bay doors HAL

[@worawatli8952]

Moon shaped monocycle pod, with wheel wrapped around the moon pod.

[@heliofaros1344]

No hovering? Shocking!

[@SashaIsNotAvailable]

The fact that plans like these are even seriously considered confirms that we are on the stupidest possible timeline

[@sillykanji]

Money. :)

[@Hudpix16]

Saudi Arabia is giving them a run for their money

[@Lyendith]

As does the fact that _this_ of all cities was chosen to host a world summit on how to stop destroying the planet. >.> It’s like holding a summit for democracy and freedom in North Korea.

[@SashaIsNotAvailable]

@@Lyendith I would liken that particular move to the hosting of an AA meeting in the tasting room of a brewery or distillery. But yeah, stupidest possible timeline confirmed

[@averiWonBTW]

wait until you hear about nasa

[@languist]

Dubai is like that one rich kid who doesn't know how money works long term...🤑

[@feonor26]

Yes and he is desperatly trying to impress the other kids in class with how much money he has.

[@stormgear896]

And all of that mindset reached through their adulthood.

[@kacperdrabikowski5074]

Yes but no. Dubai got rich on oil. And for all their faults the sheiks are aware that they will at some point be unable to profit from it anymore. All those megaprojects and the hotel craze come from the attempts to branch into tourism industry as an alternative source of money when oil becomes unprofitable. At least that's the take I heard.

[@EsoVieTH]

There is a sad but funny quote from a sheikh/prince that went something like: “My grandfather rode a camel, his grandkids drives a Ferrari and my grandkids will ride a camel”

[@feonor26]

@@kacperdrabikowski5074 I heard that too but it's not sustainable. Imagine just the maintenance cost of all the stupid bullshit they build.

[@papaquonis]

One the plus side, if you're staying in one of those windowless hotel rooms, you don't have to look out at Dubai.

[@alexturnbackthearmy1907]

I bet it will be cold inside, because all heat is going into gigant sphere of nothing.

[@UlshaRS]

Just more proof humanity has nothing to fear from AI because its going to be used by people already doing stupid things but 3% faster

[@thefisherking78]

Nobody dunks on tone-deaf wealth dystopias like Adam 😅

[@B0Sajwah]

He's milking random projects while sharing half truths and misinformation. Adam's work is 4chan level effort while he dangles his quick editing style to attract your attention. And here you are paying a subscription to this dude for his f tier journalism effort.

[@OutsiderLabs]

​@@B0SajwahYour name betrays your bias Dubai boi

[@Anonymous-df8it]

@@B0Sajwah Subscriptions to KZbin channels don't cost money

[@stevenhenry5267]

Cry harder

[@grimgrahamch.4157]

I call this syndrome "West Envy". When a country tries to imitate the western world without actually improving themselves in all the correct ways to rival them. Other countries suffering from this include, but are not limited to, China, India, and any other developing nation that spends resources on mega projects rather than fixing foundational issues like clean drinking water and proper indoor plumbing.

[@Jules-bd6jg]

NASA is gonna be so excited to hear someone figured out how to simulate a low gravity environment here on earth.

[@Welcome2TheInternet]

Why? NASA has neutral buoyancy facilities and also a sloped surface with bungees. They literally invented the shit.

[@campfireeverything]

Nepalese and Bangladeshi workers hold 5/6ths your weight up

[@mechadeka]

@@Welcome2TheInternet "NASA invented swimming pools"

[@asneakychicken322]

@@Welcome2TheInternet no I'm sure this boomer pitch literally envisioned low gravity, with tourists still being able to walk around, and not go for a swim. And the whole thing doesn't look like it's sloped.

[@Jokoko2828]

I feel like this'll need far more than 5 billion to finish. This genuinely feels like someone playing Cities Skylines and thinking they can take their mad engineering projects into reality.

[@Laneous14]

I mean it's clearly a scam. It's a money laundering project that will siphon off funds from investors who will then claim a tax write-off when it 'fails' and the elite will get a little richer. Just like that Line city, just like all modern art, just like a quarter of a trillion dollars sent to Ukraine that no one knows what happened to.

[@mrchicken08]

No, someone is playing money laundering…

[@shawnstangeland3011]

What is hilarious is that if you walk out into the mountainous desert you would swear you were on mars. Spent a lot of time in the Saudi deserts. Completely alien and lifeless

[@cylemons8099]

In the western region right?

[@shawnstangeland3011]

@@cylemons8099 around Riyadh and then west to Tabuk

[@shawnbottom4769]

I feel like Hyperloop is missing out on their prime market. Dubai would be all over that dumpster fire of a project.

[@NoBug404]

Nah. The main thing about it being a low pressure tube is incomapible with burning oil. They wouldn't go for it.

[@WaechterDerNacht]

Just use diesel generators to power the vacuum pumps...

[@GeorgeMonet]

They tried selling the Hyperloop to Dubai.

[@thvtsydneylyf3th077]

Dubai needs to build a teleporter this year and place it in NEOM or the Line

[@XerShadowTail]

Billionaire hotel rooms that are modeled like actual jail cells will probably be the next big thing.

[@xingcat]

"Moon Lagoon" is a pretty snappy name for a tourist spot, though. If you collected souvenir cutlery, you could get a Moon Lagoon Spoon. And if they became really popular, they'd be advertised with a little jingle, the Moon Lagoon Spoon Tune.

[@swervypiglet]

played on a Bassoon.

[@heliofaros1344]

At noon!

[@vaiyt]

corporate of what the spoon is like: moon lagoon spoon cartoon

[@swervypiglet]

@@heliofaros1344 by a Racoon.

[@hjt091]

​@@heliofaros1344 And it's only available to buy in the summer. So it's a moon lagoon spoon bassoon tune at noon in June.

[@-Katastrophe]

Dubai truly is a land of envy. Envy of an actual functioning state, an actual economy, infrastructure, buildings and places to see.

[@faheemabbas3965]

🗣They try to buy respect but never earn it 🗣🔥

[@morganspacey]

Yes...Everybody envies your kafala system 😆

[@Darca1n]

@@morganspacey Did the joke fly over your head? The joke is that Dubai envies all those things, not that others are envious of Dubai allegedly having such.

[@sn0_]

built on the backs of underpaid, horrid conditions and slave labour. fun

[@morganspacey]

I´m not so sure that is a joke,the mentioning of buildings makes no sense,if it is a joke@@Darca1n

[@deinemudda1049]

Dbai is like that one giant city you build in Minecraft years ago.

[@kalebbruwer]

You've got to love how they clearly haven't even decided how big this monstrosity is supposed to be. Each plan seems to contradict the last one

[@drockjr]

Dude, you officially found the gold mine of content ideas. Dubai has you covered

[@contrapasta2454]

Maybe the real megaproject was the youtube channels making fun of it we met along the way.

[@TheSavageFactual]

Fr, This guy is nothing without misinformations of Arabs lmao

[@ricardoramirez9181]

Glad this video is back. Saw it back when it was posted then noticed later it got pulled (due to a copyright claim from Moon). All these megaprojects and never do I see ones on things that people actually need. So much wasted potential. A spotlight like this is definitely needed.

[@mildlydispleased3221]

I'm glad the Mayor of London shut down the sphere project here, it would've been awful for people living nearby. Nothing says dystopia more than a giant, glowing spherical billboard outside of your bedroom window.

[@Rumade]

Yep, the regular giant billboards are bad enough. I hate seeing the massive ones that use a huge steel structure. Feels so wasteful

[@Timely-ud4rm]

Rather than allocating $5 billion to a project that could benefit people, foster advanced technologies, improve infrastructure, and develop better, more sustainable buildings and technology within them, not to mention investing in sustainable companies in Dubai, this dictator opts to construct an extravagant moon hotel. The idea seems like something straight out of a second-grader's imagination. Wow, as you can clearly tell, I'm absolutely 'thrilled' by this decision.

[@MrEDK1985]

It’s all about the priorities.

[@Dee-yj1im]

Sometimes i feel like people on this channel never touched grass or actually lived in those countries. Healthcare in middle eastern countries are free , Dubai has pretty good transport system compared to most countries in the area. The environment there is hostile af ,there aren’t many sustainable technologies you can use there. The heat ends up frying alot of the equipment

[@fuzzydude64]

​@Dee-yj1im sounds like a good reason to put those immense budgets and resources towards something helpful instead of worthless mega projects that are doomed to fail.

[@Dee-yj1im]

@@fuzzydude64 are some of the mega projects doomed to fail? Sure , but others work, and various of those megaprojects end up being private sector backed and the companies end up flopping, its not mostly governmental. I only lived in UAE for couple of months but i do visit and i live in the Middle east. As far as i know UAE , Qatar and KSA do try to invest in those technologies. UAE for example has a space program , they also invested in cloud seeding and various programs. KSA is heavily investing into agriculture and what not, so did Qatar after the blockade. But the local environment doesn’t help , they try to invest but the problem here is that you actually need new scientific breakthrough to come up with technology that MIGHT work in the local climate. Obviously every country has its fair share of nepotism and etc… and those countries could have planned better. But given the mix of history, being newly independent countries , didn’t have much time to iron out the thousands of years of tribalism, island mentality etc… All in all what they are pulling off is not bad at all. As for megaprojects they can kind of be necessary for the local economy, for example china pumped alot of money into megaprojects that went nowhere. But they needed that so they can keep local companies and people employed. In the GCC its even more necessary since the economy is not as diverse, for example after Qatar’s big projects finished namely Fifa and everything related, the economy went downhill, alot of people lost their jobs and moved to KSA as well as local companies shutting down.

[@ViolentCabbage-ym7ko]

The same can be said for the US if they stop funding hundreds of billions of dollars to the military yearly

[@maxcarter3413]

Brilliant explanation of how we got to this ideocracy. Scary yet calming since we see that it is doomed to die in a waste bucket...or probably the bit bucket recycle bin.

[@Ar_Ator]

Somehow Dubai forgot that the most compelling thing about being on the moon is actually being on the moon

[@equinoxomega3600]

That moon-themed amusement park had me think of the second Futurama episode. For those who haven't seen it, the basic concept behind it is that once space travel is common place, the moon is so boring that without an amusement park there, nobody would want to go.

[@Boltscrap]

Of course, in real life, faster than light tech, or increasing speed of light don't seem like options, so travel to any other stellar body would be very slow. NASA says there and back journey to Mars would take 21 months, with three month wait time on Mars. A trip to moon would take a week.

[@AshCosgrove]

"We're whalers on the moon! We carry a harpoon!"

[@internetopinionhaver791]

This has a lot of "Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!" energy...

[@johnl5350]

Are you saying the middle eastern dictators are basically the kid that wishes people into the cornfield? Best part is, that episode of twilight zone was always about tyrants with all the power, regardless of how stupid or cruel their desires were, everyone had to fulfill them or else "get sent to the cornfield."

[@ViolentCabbage-ym7ko]

The real tyrants are those in the West who steals African resources and wealth

[@Jack-is-here]

I mean one of the biggest moments is when everyone sells out the one guy who could have stopped the kid, like only by their collective support is he really protected, and they are just too scared to say no

[@criticalevent]

The main take away from all these ridiculous projects should be that they are telling us they know exactly when the oil is going to run out, and it's soon.

[@adamahmed366]

if by soon you mean a few hundred years then yeah bro maybe soon

[@criticalevent]

@@adamahmed366 Pay attention to where they are investing their money and not what they are telling you. Same country that's building a half trillion dollar trench for billionaires to live in has not spent a significant amount of money on their oil refineries in 10 years.

[@jaredchn]

meds @@criticalevent

[@placeholdername0000]

​@@adamahmed366They're expecting a crash in oil prices within a few decades. The oil can still be sold, but it will mainly be as feedstock for chemicals and aviation fuel. Cars going electric, electricity and heating switching to renewable energy and nuclear (heck even the UAE got a nuclear power plant), and industry switching to other energy sources (the fact that electrolytic steel is on its way to market should indicate a few things about that) will lead to oil being needed for plastics, jets and a few other things. Aviation is sensitive to the fuel price and plastic can be replaced with metal, glass or alternative feedstocks. All of this means that oil prices will crash, due to a crash in demand.

[@martylawson1638]

More precisely, the oil money is going to run out. Still plenty of oil, but in more and more situations it'll be more expensive than options like solar.

[@thekidfromiowa]

Apparently, billions of dollars can't buy common sense.

[@4dragons632]

Thats actually so fascinating (and disturbing) to think that some miserable team of staff working for an insane billionaire were given a random brief to fill out, and they dug up a nearly 15 year old stupid project to make a powerpoint presentation out of it, and then because the insane billionaire has so much money it might actually be attempted.

[@cucumberwhale]

Yeah I'm starting to think that concept design for oil royalty might be the best paying temporary art grift there is honestly. A single project to secure a retirement fund and it doesn't even have to look good!

[@kostispaterakis1018]

Gru was so passionate about shrinking the moon, it didn't even cross his mind to 'brand' it, smh. truly the zenith of contemporary entrepreneurial thought.

[@BardiXOfficial]

In the first movie it was revealed he stole the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower…. but the replicas from Vegas and not the actual things

[@Sstyraa]

The Fallout soundtrack ties here the room together like a good rug.

[@wtf_usa5597]

If they only treated their human workers as nicely as they claim to treat their animals. 😖

[@youryoutubeyoda]

Man, Gulf Arab states are like literal sandbox anarchy servers where every shitty build idea comes to be real.

[@zeendaniels5809]

12:05 reminds me of that meme "You know what this place needs? Giant f... triangles... That's what" about the ancient Egyptians 😂

[@ThatVeryLoudGirl]

I love the idea of creating an indoor grey lunar desert to visit when surrounded by literal Earth desert you can visit there for free

[@GolemRising]

I go back to something said in the earlier dubai videos whenever I see one of these new megaprojects (paraphrased): "They could have had anything. They could have made Dubai into a paradise of neo-persian architecture for the modern age. Instead they made a tasteless city in the middle of the desert that will be underwater in 50 years." Dictatorship is a disease, and money is a self destructive addiction.

[@DamienDarkside]

Excess is a self-destructive addiction. IT doesn't have to be money, it can be power, sex, control, it really doesn't matter. It's the excess that gets addictive. Money just happens to be one of the major things that we all want, so we see that as the go-to. Even in human history with societies that traded in just resources, there were always one or two assholes who just couldn't get enough and needed MORE. More money, more food, more metal, more concubines, more slaves, more wood, more water, more followers, more worshippers, more salt, the list goes on. Excess is the self-destructive addiction.

[@pixbytlaverne7457]

Welcome to Monarchy 😊😊

[@cylemons8099]

Neo-*Persian* Architecture? My boy you have triggered a gang war over here

[@BatCaveOz]

Legit question - Have you ever actually been to the UAE?

[@GolemRising]

@@BatCaveOz Just once. Did not care for it.

[@FirstMetalHamster]

"Overambitious failed theme park for the rich" - the country.

[@christianwhalen9263]

This is the kind of sh** I think of when people say things like “there’s always been poor people, and there always will be” Some people have more money than they will ever EVER be able to spend, and it’s not good for anyone

[@JS-pb6gb]

5 billion to take a selfie and eat a cake with a moon background, definitely money well spent

[@TheSepharious]

As a southern American I found your impersonation of our people to be quite hilarious.

[@onsokumaru4663]

You from South America?

[@ICircuit64]

I really don't mind when dubai gets ripped off by scammers. The problem is that the involved labourers will probably suffer because of it.

[@taun96]

As someone who was born and brought up in Dubai and lived there for 22 years, leave it to the Dubai government to just absolutely wing it when it comes to imagining and writing up blurbs for things that just are hollow shells and full of nothing.

[@rrocky6220]

Just... WOW. Very well written, Adam has a GREAT sense of humour while effectively communicating his cynisism and pointing out the lack of Intelligence over there. Great video!

[@britzilla1]

They probably, literally, contracted someone on Fiverr to do the graphics for this. I've been approached a couple times for these stupid projects, including a pod project where they wanted me to make 3D renders in two days for $40

[@Window4503]

That’s so gross. Good on you for turning it down.

[@Otyrr]

Bethesda also has a hard time understanding why astronauts on the moon weren't bored. Guess Dubai and Bethesda have the same planning teams.

[@doublep1980]

Will this monstrosity be connected to an actual sewer system or are they gonna have the ''poop truck convoy'' again?

[@GanyuSimpingDegenerate]

Dubai is a work of art in the same way as 1984's worldbuilding

[@keelo-byte]

The moon will be refered to as "The ministry of sustainability and good taste".

[@IndigoEuphonium]

Looking at the thumbnail made me think: "Please, don't tell me Dubai looked at the Las Vegas Sphere and decided they were gonna upstage it by building the Sphere 2"

[@normanstevens4924]

Yes. It's just a load of balls.

[@feonor26]

I think the Las Vegas sphere was stupid and wasteful too. How much electricity does it take to run that thing?

[@danielcortez2499]

Fun fact: the Las Vegas sphere operationally lost $100 million in it's first fiscal quarter 🤷‍♂️🤣

[@juisss]

It's not Dubai the author of the project

[@shinygoldenpotion1587]

they gonna make biosphere 3

[@Urankeksbaecker]

Gotta love the ever-present nostalgic AoE2 soundtrack at the end of the video. Please keep it that way.

[@nat9909]

They should introduce a near total vacuum and subzero temperatures to the "moon" as a surprise feature of the experience. It would generate a lot of buzz.

[@JARV9701]

Billionaires and millionaires hardest challenge: Have an actual hobby. That and humanity.

[@aowen2471]

12 years ago is was called 'Dubai Pearl' ... has been a building site ever since. Google maps/earth has it as a sandpit but it does have unfinished buildings on it. It's a joke in Dubai that cranes appear and disappear on a regular basis but nothing seems to move forward.

[@definitelypeacock]

Whats next? The richest in Dubai will have sharks in their pools that die after two weeks because they weren't even competent enough to have appropriate water for them?

[@a64738]

Sharks..... with lasers ;)

[@feonor26]

Don't give them ideas

[@nicholashylton6857]

​@@a64738Beat me to it! 😂

[@grieske]

Someone got the task of designing a building that is pure lunacy. Well played.

[@Bhasilic]

10:04 the dude just saw the new building in Vegas called "the Sphere" and told every one he wanted one.

[@wtf_usa5597]

Can't wait to hear this update! Just FYI, if you are in Dubai DON'T criticize any of their building projects. It can get you up to 10 years in jail!!

[@BardiXOfficial]

@DieterDuplak314and they’ll cover it with BS, yeah like MBS, he’s full of BS

[@hanifarroisimukhlis5989]

Or you know, bone saw

[@ITBEurgava]

I'm picturing a comedical picture of Adam keep preaching about Dubai's errors, in jail, and the inmates paying attention...

[@briangarrow448]

Dubai- proving that wealth doesn’t equate with good decision making!

[@TURBOMIKEIFY]

The city layout looks like a beginner build (so mine) in Cities: Skylines. That industrial area was insane.

[@rmgibsontx]

I love your Netscape throwback! Keep doing what you're doing, Adam - clarity is wonderful.

[@samszotkowski]

6:40 "typical" on an engineering drawing means that all the other copies of that thing share the same dimensions, they don't mean "ordinary/plain" in the common sense

[@spacelemur7955]

Every now and then _The Great and Powerful Algorithm_ plops a gem like this in my feeding trough, and I wallow in, as pleased as a porker. I love the snark, especially about punctuation and grammar, as witness its slow and painful torture all across the Internet and beyond. I also find your retro DOS screen funky, and weirdly on target. --- Sincerely, a new subscriber!

[@randomthecreeper]

Went to Dubai with family last week and the whole place just feels like a capitalist dystopia

[@YujiroHanmaaaa]

If you want to visit ancient places in the desert go visit places Northern Africa, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and Syria. In Dubai you only go to laundering money or for less tax pay.

[@avery.a5948]

@@YujiroHanmaaaaJordan too

[@RuSosan]

That's literally what it is. _All_ it is. Was there anything actually interesting btw?

[@pissedoffbucketguy9115]

​@@YujiroHanmaaaaKurdistan too!

[@soundscape26]

@@YujiroHanmaaaa Afghanistan and Syria? Not places I would recommend at this point in time. Or anytime soon.

[@adog3129]

I notice that the editing, writing, and general production value have all improved, while keeping all the stuff i like about the older videos. Cool :3

[@gordonfreeman9965]

Imagine discovering the secret to change gravity and just to use it on the roof of a Moon replica. The most big brain thing I've ever listened to.

[@hakzource8660]

There’s a reason why architecture evolved the way it did for maximum space efficiency and comfort, and Dubai just decides to build the dumbest looking buildings ever

[@theeeeeeleooo4685]

If this was built in London or LA, I bet you would have had a different opinion, one which is much more positive

[@hakzource8660]

@@theeeeeeleooo4685 no? Stupid architecture is stupid, no matter the place. This isn’t a race thing what??

[@BatCaveOz]

Sure thing, buddy. Housing globally continues to increase in average size while supporting fewer occupants. The Pritzker Architecture Prize (and every other major award in architecture) don't mention "maximum space efficiency and comfort" in their criteria.