Pangeos Terayacht: An $8 Billion Engineering Disaster

[@AdamSomething]

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[@virginiansupremacy]

No problem

[@rebeccachambers4701]

It's also got a hole in it

[@rebeccachambers4701]

I for one am all for it I'm calling it the Titanic 2.0 and let's stick as many of the wealthiest people as we can and politicians on it for its maiden voyage I heard it's indestructible I also heard it could plow right through ice no problem

[@You-Know-Youre-Right]

nope sponsor blocked

[@ABaumstumpf]

So the "feature" of Opera is folding tabs... something Opera had a long time ago, firefox had with plugins for the longest time, and even Chrome now has natively....

[@brasslion4176]

Also worth mentioning is the fact that on some of these renders you can see a couple of PRIVATE JETS parked on the upper ring of the structure. That'd be a hell of a feat, landing a jet plane on a moving structure, on a circular, oblong runway, dodging helicopters and avoiding the giant pit with people at the bottom.

[@shooey-mcmoss]

also, funny God's Wind' plane goes brrr, because at that point it is sabotaugable as all hell

[@normanmai7865]

physics definition of motion go brr (we will never have a stable reference point)

[@PSUQDPICHQIEIWC]

It's not a giant pit with people at the bottom. It's a giant pit with _60000_ people at the bottom.

[@shooey-mcmoss]

@@normanmai7865 yes

[@pipster1891]

"circular, oblong" - I think you mean 'oval'.

[@liamhansen5061]

As a sailor, Im having an aneurysm looking at this. Thing looks like it would snap in half the moment a wave hits it or instantly tilt back and sink from the weight at the aft. Even if it would float, it looks to be utterly impossible to control from the beam being higher than its length.

[@arnoldrimmer4025]

As soon as I saw it I thought those fins would snap as soon as it encountered a wave. They'd be lifting the entire weight of the rest of the vessel and i just don't see how that would be feasible.

[@francisboyle1739]

@@arnoldrimmer4025 It would be like the Titanic but wouldn't even need an iceberg.

[@absalomdraconis]

This thing wouldn't snap in half, but the fins snapping off? Well, possible. But this really is dumb. Still, width to length isn't a control problem, as demonstrated by some old Russian Empire battleships... it's going to be really slow instead.

[@Peter-iq9yy]

Yeah uh, it gets worse (navy officer here), she's supposed to be propelled by a load of electric motors which, fine, but the power source will just be 'in board', and she will have a top speed of 5 knots which, yknow, tides greater than 5 knots aren't exactly uncommon, like in basically any tide she will be reduced to like, maybe 3 knots, more likely 2. Any kind of serious sea state would fucking DESTROY her, oh and she doesn't appear to have a bridge??? also how the FUCK does she get into port? Is she just going to replenish at sea? What if she needs to go in for repair or refit? Guess you're stuck

[@Hallen13]

No, no, you don't understand. It's shaped like a turtle. Turtles swim just fine. The rest of the dominos will fall into place like a house of cards. Checkmate.

[@confusioned2249]

The terayacht is the equivalent of hiring a bunch of engineers and telling them to follow whatever plans your 7 year old son makes

[@Markfr0mCanada]

Pretty on point through, since it is the target audience, ie dictators, who have the maturity of 7 year olds.

[@orterves]

Homer-yacht

[@PareshPatel-xc2vu]

@@orterves Cyber Truck

[@samplecode]

No engineers were involved in this unless it was a drunken prank (which would be brave/stupid in Saudi Arabia).

[@amog8202]

Wasn't this a Simpsons episode "A yacht made by a master of entertainment: a child!"

[@AegixDrakan]

The first thing that broke me on my second watch of this video was the helipad right next to the one, *singular* tennis court. Imagine, you reserved that thing a week in advance because there's only ONE and then a helicopter comes down while you're playing and yeets the ball away into the nearby house. XD

[@totalignition1259]

The way they intend to build a dry dock in the middle of the ocean sounds like they're trying to drain an ocean monument in Minecraft.

[@slavsquatsuperstar]

On the bright side, it’s probably hot enough in Saudi Arabia to dry sponges

[@jacksongreen4107]

I mean, that would explain the cranes.

[@crystallxix1493]

Dunno why Adam is treating it like some impossible feat, all you need is some sand and sponges

[@KirillTheBeast]

I mean, the Saudis do have the sand they'd need to pull it off, right?

[@kylewestbay9571]

It’s what we do at a smaller scale for building bridges it might actually be possible for the cost of several Hoover Dams

[@madsli]

I can imagine a beached Terayacht serving as a compound for some warlord in a post-apocalyptic setting/story.

[@thenutella8846]

I would love that.

[@fromaggio7654]

Waterworld?

[@Dexodrill]

Feels like something straight out of dead island 2, 7 days to die, dying light 2, etc lol, someone didn't get their DLC idea picked up so they thought "fk it let's pitch it as a real world idea and see how far I get"

[@RipRLeeErmey]

Would make for a fire multiplayer map for a BF2042 in an alternate reality where it didn't suck

[@blakksheep736]

Ngl, if anyone is looking for inspirations for the levels of a doomsday scavenger sim game, going through Adam's backlog should give you all the ideas you need.

[@noobiesmurf]

Traffic jams on an ocean vessel, truly revolutionary.

[@Confucius_Says...]

Heyyy, what's civilization WITHOUT the traffic?

[@generalrubbish9513]

Hey, if you can't get drunk and drive your electric golf cart into the ocean, are you truly even alive?

[@hanifarroisimukhlis5989]

Jammed traffic? Will it taste like gasoline and oil?

[@KorbAgain]

Oh, those pesky poor thinkers

[@ComedicLetter]

@@hanifarroisimukhlis5989 depending on the preserve year, it may taste like either leaded or unleaded gasoline

[@anythingwithandy7773]

Bro missed the 4 private jets and the 1 sailing yacht that somehow made it under a bridge that’s like 10ft above the water

[@brosephbroman7564]

There's so much wrong you can't blame him for missing 3 of the 1000 mistakes lol

[@bedelian]

It's always a good sign when me, someone who has spent 0 time thinking about naval engineering before this point, takes one look at those side flippers and goes "... wait."

[@generalrubbish9513]

Yeah lol, you don't need to study physics and engineering for 5 years to understand that bits sticking out to the side equals drag, equals not going anywhere in a hurry.

[@emdivine]

@@generalrubbish9513 but if you *have* studied by which I mean you happen to remember leverage from high school, you'll see that they're structurally completely fucked and will not remain attached to the main body for long :D

[@alinaqirizvi1441]

​@@emdivinethat's where the economy class is

[@GraingyAircraft]

What if they’re actually little boats that can detach like flying fists?

[@agarlicsorbet6482]

​@@GraingyAircraft more structural weak points then. How do the main body and the fin remain reliably attached in an environment where waves are constantly trying to break the darned thing down?

[@Balfour.]

From the creators of the waterproof sponge, the fireproof matches, the inflatable anchor, the pedal powered wheelchair and the silent alarm clock, we're proud to introduce the concrete cruise.

[@mirceazaharia2094]

Splendid.

[@andrewvelonis5940]

Your comment reminded me of a British sitcom of the 1970s. The premise was about a guy who was a failure at everything. So, he tried to commit suicide, but failed. Then he got the idea to try to fail, fail at failing, and thereby succeed. It worked. He opened a store that sold the type of things you listed in your comment, along with rungless ladders.

[@mr.voidout4739]

My favorite comment of 2024 so far😆

[@JohnSmith-oo7ig]

Sounds like a spishak product.

[@glaciarch6424]

Concrete cruise sounds like the kind of punishment mobsters would give people

[@sargon6000]

I love how despite the fact that we've been building ships to be more and more hydrodynamic for centuries, suddenly someone though that "This ship should have the most drag in existence because it looks cool" is a good idea. I have a feeling the "yacht" would need nuclear propulsion just to gently move. Someone should tell the "engineers" who designed this that when sea turtles extend their flippers, it's to PUSH themselves in water, they don't cruise in that fixed position.

[@christinae30]

😅😂😂👏👏

[@-z-9989]

Deffo not engineer that did this. Its architect or designer

[@Theo-ev6yu]

The nuclear power would only let them get by with a refueling every 5-20 years.

[@marvalice3455]

I mean, this is obviously supposed to be sold too boomers, so yes. Everything being in walking distance absolutely is not good enough

[@electricheisenberg5723]

@@Theo-ev6yu nah you need to rocket propel it by repeatedly detonating castle bravo hydrogen bombs to get it to move at a hasty 13km/h

[@supereststinger]

I took some architecture design classes a while back (thought I wanted to be an architect) and looking at this from an architectural standpoint is wild. Take this with a VERY HUGE grain of salt, but I want to take an analysis of this. Let me see here... 1) The goal is to hold 60K people but they have full size houses instead of apartment-like buildings. Even with the size of the whole thing, you need to maximize space if you want that many people. 2) The fins are poorly designed. Points like that can be a huge pain in the ass to design and build. What goes at the end of the points? Can it fit what is going to go there? It being dead space makes is pointless and a waste of money. 3) You mentioned the yacht tipping over and water spilling from the pools. I'm no expert at all, but from what I understand it would take one hell of a wave to actually get it to move like that based on how cruise ships are designed. However, I'm not excusing the fact that is a possibility. Along with that, having pools that big and that close next to HOUSES on an OCEAN LIVING AREA sounds like a terrible idea and a lawsuit waiting to happen. 4) Concrete. In the ocean. What could go wrong? Also, concrete is hella expensive. I got chewed out for having a spot on one of my buildings that was just a giant concrete dome. I don't think $8 billion would be able to cover all of that. Based on a simple google search, steel, aluminum, wood, and fiberglass are the best for making boats. 5) The shape of the boat is to help with water tension and stuff right (I'm probably really wrong on that)? With the way the yacht is shaped, it looks like it would be very poor for moving across water. Having it stand still would be better. 6) I'm not an expert on any of this, but I don't think it is safe to put the crew where it is. I may be wrong and I'll admit if I am, but that seems like a safety hazard. 7) On the flippers, those walls do not seem high enough. Water will get inside, contaminate the pool water, and most likely cause water damage to houses. 8) I'm pretty sure helipads have their own requirements for it to be up to code and all of that. Regardless of where this would be built, I believe all of the codes would be very similar to each other so none of those helipads are up to code. 9) That dam is not happening. For multiple reasons that I'm sure don't need explaining. 10) The shape of a sea turtle COULD work, but you have to considers functionality, whether or not its up to code, and all of that jazz. Whoever designed this prioritized design over everything else. 11) They seemed to have never considered how the yacht would actually move. For a ship that big, you would need a whole section dedicated to just engines. In my eyes, that whole back section should just be an engine. 12) Stuff like plants and trees would not work. I believe stuff like humidity and being around large amounts of salt water constantly would cause the plants and trees to die. This is not a greenhouse. That's about all I got for now. Again, I'm not expert on anything so take this with a whole container of salt, I'm just making inferences based on what I know. I will gladly say that I'm wrong if any of this is incorrect.

[@LauraJdogmom]

Trees and plants can work, at least on a limited scale. The "Central Park" areas on Royal Caribbean's Oasis and Icon class ships have real trees and plants, tended by professional staff. Some Celebrity ships have lawns. The problem with pools is that (1) water weighs a lot and (2) it sloshes. I saw pictures and video from an incident a couple of years ago, on one of Royal Caribbean's Oasis-class ships, where water from the pool sloshed over the deck and down into the Central Park area. Cruise ships will empty their pools if those in charge think there will be rough weather. I noticed that those tiny helipads had nowhere for passengers to get off safely, nor was there a way for them to get off the roofs. Maybe they could jump in the pools?

[@mirceazaharia2094]

True. Counterpoint, goon deck.

[@MyUsersDark]

If something seems like a safety hazard, it probably is a safety hazard.

[@legna1932]

Not excusing this, but as an engineer I gotta tell you, concrete may be the best for this monstrosity, this is considering you have infinite money of course, the market WILL be affected by this thing and it's dry dock

[@RedmarKerkhof]

Back in art school, for our 3D modeling class, we had to design and present a concept for a floating city of the future when the sea level rises. Since the focus of the project was the design aspect, we were completely unbound by any sort of realism and this is exactly the kind of wild ideas people came up with.

[@Neogeddon]

Wouldn't be surprised if this is someone's student project being repurposed as a thinly-veiled NFT scam.

[@connormclernon26]

@@Neogeddona fool and their money and all that

[@johnd6980]

For when the sea rises a couple centimeters

[@REDARROW_A_Personal]

​@@Neogeddon TBH with levels of Student Debt... I wouldn't be surprised that a former student is doing this to get some money to pay off the debt... Especially if dumb rich people fall for this it will only be fair for their money to pay of the debt and then some. After just delete the website and everything and disappear knowing for the rest of your life you will be student debt free, but looking over your shoulder for the FBI.

[@jay-em]

I think your art project somehow got fed into an AI and this is the result.

[@karachaffee3343]

The wide front flippers should hinge and actually flap back and forth to propel the ship . It should have a big beak like a snapping turtle to bite holes in passing oil tankers and lap up fuel as needed.

[@Steyr6500]

Thats just Mortal Engines but even more implausible

[@InservioLetum]

I'm afraid you do not fully understand the sheer mass of that volume of water. We literally have no material strong enough to pull that off.

[@mrsuspicious1743]

@@InservioLetumI know, right? Where’s the doom laser and attached tower for Doctor Testudines to cackle about how he’ll Show Them All, They All Called Him Crazy, Well Who’s Crazy Now?!?! Very slipshod design, honestly

[@swearimnotarobot3746]

@@InservioLetumdon’t worry, they’ll built it out of futurium, a metal from the future capable of breaking the laws of physics.

[@Confucius_Says...]

😂😂😂

[@sethbrokmeier3744]

I love how the water in the middle was clearly meant to be a port- it's colored different, there are yachts, heck you can SEE where it connects to the ocean. Then someone asked "what happens to all the boats and even the dock itself when the turtle starts to move?" and they went "no, no, it is pool!"

[@AnarexicSumo]

Well considering the rest of the engineering challenges here it would be pretty easy to just close it off for transport and have it stay full of sea water

[@jrjubach]

Oh you’re right! There’s a channel leading to the back where you’d presumably pilot a boat through to reach the inside “port.” That wouldn’t work at all!

[@xhappybunnyx]

Can you *imagine* the load on the fenders as the 'stationary' boat constantly grinds up against a moving mega tortoise

[@AnarexicSumo]

@xhappybunnyx Completely negligible if acceleration stays low. We already do this daily when inspection and pilot boats need to bow up to large cargo vessels to put people up the Jacob's ladder. In fact IRL it's much worse because a pilot/CG boat needs to keep constant acceleration into the fender smashed against the hull to maintain control of the boat and Coxswains do this daily with only 6-12 months of training.

[@AnarexicSumo]

@jrjubach Almost all large Coast Guard boats have openable stern for launch of smaller craft and many Navy boats even have areas that flood with sea water for low observation disembarkation. We already do this to a smaller scale literally daily.

[@youprettywow]

This would be a fun VR world to visit. I feel like these people coming up with these crazy mega projects would make really cool VR environments.

[@samiamrg7]

If only they had any actual creativity or drive to create something instead of trying to grab money from gullible investors.

[@dublerrking5123]

As a naval engineer i would like to note that cement ships are actually incredibly common mainly in the american yacths and Vietnamese fishing vessels. Now i believe that the "ship" is too big to be made of cement.

[@Frommerman]

Yeah you just need something that will hold water with a volume larger than the mass it displaces. The problem with concrete in this application is buckling. There's a reason all ships above a certain size are made of steel.

[@edrock3228]

@@Frommerman The concrete will crack long before it would have any chance of buckling. With small deflections, the part of the concrete in tension will crack very quickly and the structure will fail. This is why concrete that endures anything other than an axial compressive load needs reinforcing with something like steel to handle tensile and shear forces. This kind of application of concrete is, of course, ridiculous and any level of engineer (or student) could see that. This screams NFT scam to me, and I’m unsure why more people haven’t picked this up.

[@solaireastora5394]

I think it's called ferro concrete

[@MGX93dot]

near where i live there is a river. you can walk along it and see a load of old, abandoned concrete ships that are forever moored in the mud

[@rileycannon]

See the thing I think you're missing here is that this whole ship is cocaine powered and like bro, you don't even know like bro, like bro, you don't even know, man.

[@Movel0]

The fact this thing is designed in the shape of an endangered species is some ghoulish reference.

[@fajaradi1223]

While the building process (a big IF) might contribute to their extinction.

[@InservioLetum]

@@fajaradi1223 not might. Already has. For thirty plus years.

[@xhawkenx633]

​@@InservioLetumthat doesn't makes sense, it isn't actually build...

[@iamjustkiwi]

Also the shape seems like...the least aquadynamic thing possible? I want some of whatever the people who designed it were smoking.

[@SvengelskaBlondie]

@@iamjustkiwi Whatever they where smoking was so good, you don't need a wardrobe to head of to Narnia 🤣

[@nrgspike]

I also love how all the premium private villas are arranged deep within the structure, so not only do you not get the benefit of having a view - you get to be overlooked by all the -peasants- "guests" in their little inward facing cabins.

[@Meritania]

Perfect for influencers to live their Truman Show-esque fantasies though.

[@Lethgar_Smith]

Like a lot large architectural structures that get designed it's all about the wow factor of the preview. Looking at scale models from a top down perspective does not give a viewer any idea of what the actual experience will look like to a person standing in it, on it, or in front of it. I see it all the time when I approach some odd building that doesn't seem to make any sense. Then I'll realize what went wrong. "Oh, I get it. It looked really cool as a model"

[@4saken404]

It's also a weird flex to spend all that money to be on the ocean but not really have a view of the ocean.

[@GraniteInTheFace]

Plot twist. The inner structure transforms into an arena where the poor will watch the rich fight to the death.

[@Mr_Waffle.]

@@GraniteInTheFaceThat would legit make for an awesome dystopian TV show/movie. Rich people sail their giant turtle ship into international waters, and then they watch a battle royale taking place in the centre arena

[@Menuki]

I know you’re being snarky, but one of the most pivotal operations of WWII was the mulberry harbor. GB made ships out of concrete, sunk them to hide them from surveillance, refloated them, made an artificial landing to support the invasion of Normandy where they were sunk again, and the refloated out afterwards. Concrete ships are pretty good

[@feathern6106]

If you want to sink it but considering how this is designed I doubt that was their intention

[@Menuki]

@ the sunk and refloated them several times There only 1-2 left off Normandy. They floated them all away. They float just fine

[@lemonemmi]

A floating doomsday bunker for the mega rich. One that has no way to power itself forward, is full of concrete and is prone to break apart when there are waves. We need this!

[@LucasFernandez-fk8se]

Titanic 2 is going to solve income inequality globally if they build this thing

[@qstionblomens6138]

We need it televised!

[@christophedlauer1443]

An aquatic doomsday bunker for the ultra rich? I like the idea, but: - We make it submersible for the whole "bunker" logic - The concrete is poured in after the ultra rich are inside, instantly submerging the construction forever.

[@markturner7459]

It will no doubt be super-strong if made with Chinese bamboo rebar..

[@jeremybrown9611]

To me the main thing is a lot of it is made out of concrete, the salt in the air is gonna fuck that shit up. Whoever's responsible for maintenance is either gonna a rich man or a troubled soul

[@Sashazur]

I like how few if any of the apartments have a view of the ocean. Most of them just face other apartments.

[@JindraAG]

I don't think so, the various constructed shells seem to block the ocean view.

[@christopherfarrell9227]

Possibly upon launch or a storm they will have an unexpected view😂

[@quantumblauthor7300]

It's not about being on the ocean, it's about being on a yacht

[@Nerobyrne]

gotta get that suburb-feeling in the middle of the pacific ^^

[@lairdcummings9092]

Possibly the only realistic thing on the beast - keep the weather out of the living spaces - because this thing is going to have HORRIBLE sea-keeping abilities, and waves are going to be riding up the exterior hull something fierce.

[@zh84]

To quote the physicist Wolfgang Pauli, "This is not right. This is not even wrong."

[@Confucius_Says...]

Ganzfalsch

[@olenickel6013]

Pretty sure it's intentionally shitty on so many levels to sort out investors too intelligent to get scammed. It's the techbro startup equivalent of the Nigerian prince scam mails.

[@ajpoopfucker]

I love Pauli omg I'd never think hed be mentioned in a adam something KZbin comment

[@974724]

That's a brilliant quote

[@teutonicknightmare]

9:09 "What is this, the punishment zone?" Makes sense - the thing looks like it was designed in Roller Coaster Tycoon, of course there would be a "punishment pool" xD

[@MikeGaruccio]

The 60k figure gets even more fun when you realize that Kowloon apparently had a population density of something like 45k per square km, which would put this at something like 3x higher density. Except with swimming pools and roads everywhere.

[@EmissaryofWind]

The ship's entire interior is just a capsule hotel.

[@GirlWhoCriedAardvark]

@@EmissaryofWind From what little was shown, the entire 'lower decks' (where the people who do all the actual work 'live'), are exactly that, which might be where the 60k comes from - 500 elites and 59.5k boxed-serfs to serve them: probably hot-bedding in 3 shifts with 16-hour work days (mostly rowing-duty) between.

[@mennograafmans1595]

Wikipedia says it had 1.9 million people per square kilometer in 1990. 45.000 was closer to the total population. However, 60K people in this turtle, which seems to be about 0,2 km2 at most, is still over 15 times as densily populated as Monaco. And that is not a city known for having a lot of space.

[@bugjams]

@@GirlWhoCriedAardvark "mostly rowing-duty" is hilarious, lmao. Good job.

[@bartudundar3193]

A slum for the ultra-rich sounds hilarious.

[@jmlkinc]

The Lego Cranes are a next level fuck up. Holy.

[@HALLish-jl5mo]

It's not Lego. It's a toy, but not Lego.

[@PSUQDPICHQIEIWC]

It's not like there was actual intent to create any physical thing. The concept is merely a token in a con game, so the accuracy of the concept _art_ is meaningless.

[@adrianhenle]

@@PSUQDPICHQIEIWCnow that you mention it... I wonder if the mistakes are left there intentionally? Scammers purposely leave grammar and spelling errors in their emails so that they only get responses from easily confused people. If I were running a grift like this, I probably wouldn't want anyone with half a shred of common sense to get interested and start asking questions.

[@augustortiz]

I almost died when Adam pulled up the image of Lego boxes

[@FHT1883]

not even Lego lmfao

[@bilboblib]

Boatbuilder here. Concrete boats are a real thing and work quite well. With enough displacement, anything can be used to make a boat. Plus, the advantage of making a boat out of concrete is that it gets stronger with age. The disadvantage is that repairs are difficult and are not done by most boatbuilders. I've sailed on two concrete sail boats, and they're great 👍

[@bilboblib]

Don't get me wrong, I still think this structure is unrealistic and vulgar

[@NineSun001]

Maybe on smaller frames it works. But this thing here is going to flex to hell and back. concrete is not known for its flexibility.

[@MeredithDrennan]

Yr concrete sailboat is a whole lot different than the monstrosity that is feature of this podcast!!!😂

[@wizardtim8573]

​@NineSun001 Concrete obviously isn't the primary structural material. Obviously that would be Lego. Which fundamentally changes everything about the project.

[@FoxMulder-FBI]

@@NineSun001 Concrete barges were fairly common in WW2 (Type B ships)

[@SavageMonkeyJizz]

I'm an engineer by trade (20 year career), my son however is not. He's just seen me watching this in passing and said "that's just wishful thinking" hmm. Well said young man.

[@asdisskagen6487]

These videos are comedy gold for anyone with a basic understanding of engineering ... or physics ... or reality. 😂😂😂

[@jugel4533]

10:11 you forgot to talk about the privates jets on the roof without any runway, truly a perfect idea

[@evilbob840]

I spotted them too, I did a "did I just see...?" and rewound a bit to make sure.

[@Yostuba]

You dont need those look at aircraft carriers duh they only need a few meters to land/go off. UGH POOR PEOPLE LOGIC GROSS BAWWW YOU CANT DO X THATS STUPID. WELL YOU KNOW WHAT WHEN THE WORLD GIVES YOU LEMONS.

[@OutrageousOnPurpose]

omg, somehow that was the last straw for me and now im laughing my arse off

[@sutirk]

The pilot's must be drift landing certified

[@Favar1]

My man, youre just a sceptic. the playes would obviously drift to gain speed. The first curved runway.

[@hherpdderp]

"Cruise industry is imploding because all our customers are dying of old age" "We should build a bigger boat"

[@Elvalley]

@@kenon6968not that it matters though, this project clearly weasn't thought by the cruise industry. Probably not even *for* the cruise industry, it reeks of NFT scam.

[@kansascityshuffle8526]

This thing is going to end up running aground in the sea turtles’ hatching grounds.

[@matthewmosier8439]

​​@@kenon6968The cruise industry is a threat to the "15 minute.. cities.. for poor people to be confined in", crowd. Hence the attacks on that industry. They don't like regular people getting to travel.

[@MixerRenegade95]

@@matthewmosier8439I take it that You're chain yanking?

[@TheUndeadslayer221]

@@kansascityshuffle8526 Worse; With the way it's designed, it will snap when a mildly strong wave hits it.

[@daftHour]

Having one of the biggest 'Fuck you' to wildlife shaped like a turtle is quite the statement indeed.

[@shmehfleh3115]

Reminds me of all those housing developments named after the species of wildlife they displaced.

[@Shenaldrac]

As a Captain Planet villain I have to agree, a really great touch!

[@Gamblegork]

Displace the turtles, and flex on them with a turtle based ship, villain behavior

[@EccentricGentelman]

"Dear investors I can assure you the approximated picture of the Terayacht in drydock is an oversight. Rest assured we won't be using LEGO cranes. We've upgraded to MECCANO! On a related topic the pre-fabricated parts for the Terayacht will be supplied by Revel, the construction vehicles by Tonka, the housing will be Barbie dreamhouses from Mattel, the engines powered by energon from Hasbro and the crew will be former employees of Toys R Us. So not only will this be a great engineering achievement, it will provide jobs for disenfranchised giraffes."

[@Omura6083]

may I suggest red energon (that stuff explodes)

[@Outpost-13-Hockey]

As a guy who works on ships, I'm fascinated by what they think will happen to the bow wash and water flow with those weird shaped flipper wings where huge amounts of displaced water will collect. This is why most ships have bows shaped narrow that allow water flow to pass along the length of the hull and not create areas it'll just collect.

[@willguggn2]

Wait, boats are boat-shaped for a reason? lol

[@ObliviouslyGifted]

EASY DUE FUSS!!😒 MULTIPLE VERTICAL HULLS THAT THE REST IS BUILT OVER AND CONNECTED!! NOW THE BASE IS SHIPS MOVING IN TANDEM AND IN SYNC! WHILE THE TOP IS ALL CONNECTED AND ONE SOLID UNIT!! So all the water flows and there's no drag!

[@thelastperfectman4139]

As a ship it certainly isn’t “ship shape” is it. Would be like piloting a cement factory.

[@enomiellanidrac9137]

Never mind weather, waves, or any kind of disturbances I'm not even sure there is a way to make this monstrosity structurally sound enough to not just collapse in still water.

[@Sammy9262]

Just use the Fiat 500 to push the water aside, I'm sure this will work just fine!

[@jeremyowen1]

THEY EVEN HAD AIRPLANES ON THE ROOF! It's like you got the grade 6 class to come together and build a cool boat.

[@Sembazuru]

I was wondering if someone else caught that. Would love to see how the designers intended them to takeoff and land...

[@cyboot214]

YES !! I'm unreasonably sad he didn't mention the private jets parked on the round driveway with no straight lines long enough to land ^^

[@ZgermanGuy.]

​@@cyboot214GTA taught me i can Just Crash Land my plane Its fine

[@markdotinc8371]

Gulfstream will invent a VTOL private passenger jet! *Gulfstream is not currently involved in this project

[@ta4ai]

Yep. 10:10 I was hoping I didn't imagine it!

[@alexeyeliseev6322]

I KNEW something was missing while watching this, like one important piece of the puzzle. Then this project went "Hey, also buy our NFTs!" and it all came together.

[@tvctaswegia497]

Yeah this is just another crypto scam. Generate hype, pump up the coin, rugpull. They might have invested a thousand in design and rendering in the hope of scamming a million.

[@michaell8269]

This thing’s got crypto, NFTs, and metaverse all in one. It’s like a 2022 buzzword bingo.

[@anomalyldn]

The Way they make HUGE promises you'd think this project was being run/organised by 'Billie Mcfarlane' [the guy who did "Fyre Festival" and is trying again after getting out of prison for the first one]

[@tvctaswegia497]

Just replying with update. I don't know much but OpenSea is listing Pangeos transactions much lower volume (1/15th) and down from 0.034 ETH to ~0.01 ETH.

[@tvctaswegia497]

Quick update: Sales dropped to almost zero and valued at less than 0.005 ETH (no takers for months.) WhoCouldveSeenThatComing.gif

[@SollowP]

Only thing that comes to mind when looking at the design is "Holly drag Batman". Modern cruise ships are already fuel sucking hogs with just how much diesel they consume every single second, now imagine making that ship 7 times wider, which would increase the drag from the water exponentially.

[@eiscreme3116]

This literally feels like something somebody would build in Minecraft

[@weilandloveland]

RIGHT?!

[@BrainboxccGames]

shh!!! you've discovered the secret of how they'll build this! don't tell everyone or they'll all want one 😂

[@Kellbell00]

It would be more structurally sound than whatever these geniuses came up with 😂

[@abrandenburg10]

I find this insulting as I definitely used more thought when playing in creative mode when I was 12 than this

[@Gargantium]

I remember Nerdcubed doing something similar to this like a decade ago

[@Cherry_Accelerationism]

They should instead build a turtle shaped affordable housing complex

[@slevinchannel7589]

Makes me wonder if Adam knows 'Permaculture'

[@XH13]

Or a 12000 km diameter turtle shaped spaceship, on which you can house giant space elephants

[@no_name4796]

What next? All public spaces inside of it and around it be banned of cars, and with lots of green and with good bike path outside of it? What next? Good and frequent public transit, trams included? What next? Affordable housing? Such crazyness. Luckily we live in a world were everything is just a space for cars! Imagine BIKING to work. /s

[@klaus.sfc01official30]

"Helping the poor what do you think we are? Commoners!? We didn't work our ass off to help others" There seems to be an error the lie filter wasn't on.

[@kalebrosenberg8294]

on land

[@Doom_Slayer_919]

This looks like the villan's final hideout in a JRPG

[@EmiL_from_NieR]

I literally looked at this and thought it was from a Tales game 🤣

[@Alias_Anybody]

It does vaguely resemble the flying fortress/airship (?) in Crono Trigger.

[@ZgermanGuy.]

Nah It needs to be a more evil animal Like a shark But It could Be the starting Zone were your peacefull Village Is located

[@Kaiji...]

This is literally just the ship that’s going to the Dark Continent in the HxH manga

[@jaimestark3019]

Pretty sure this was the 2nd to last dungeon in Persona 5 lol

[@leeordicker4369]

I love how one of the renders appears to have actual jet aircraft parked on the roof

[@javierpatag3609]

Makes me think of Dubai's man-made islands. Majority of which they haven't completed, much less used. And the ones that are used and occupied have no sewage lines and have to be serviced by daily traffic jam amounts of septic tanks on wheels. Which ultimately don't have enough facilities to dump the sewage in, so they end up dumping the stuff in the sea and other places not meant for dumping waste. If the mega rich can't get that to work, the mega rich who came up with this idea are completely out of their minds.

[@DoctorDerpman]

These mega rich projects always make me laugh. They _always_ ignore the fact that they'll need workers who provide services for the rich who live there. With the amount of services they always claim they'll offer, they'd need to have more housing for the workers than the wealthy residents they're marketing to. I'm pretty sure the dude making min wage serving starbucks ain't gonna have the capital work _and_ live on a luxury yacht. 😂

[@Tsuruchi_420]

This is a misconception actually, they did finish most of them, and then no one wanted to buy like half of 'em, so don't worry dude, they spent all the money to dredge millions of tons of sand and then didn't get squat for it

[@theultimatereductionist7592]

If they are mega rich, then the mega rich should have no problem doing all the physical manual labor themselves, since people are supposed to earn all their wealth through hard work.@@DoctorDerpman

[@theultimatereductionist7592]

Then those megarich need to be forced to factor in the housing for ALL workers needed to build and maintain their megaprojects.@@DoctorDerpman

[@javierpatag3609]

@Sugar_Fatale LMAO. That's a good point. You made me look it up to check. *YES,* there are reports that the islands do _stink._ 😆

[@Samu-r2f]

U know its gonna fail when it looks like as if its designed in Minecraft and violates several laws of physics

[@atherisGAY]

With the exception that people enjoy looking at minecraft designs because they're creative fun and not dystopian as shit

[@TheYrthenarc]

This was never about building the ship, it's just a grift selling the NFTs.

[@Strogman25]

They even did the "Remove water from a section of the ocean" thing!!! Are they gonna get rid of the water with falling sand?!?!?

[@Eyezick-l5z]

Love that violating the laws of physics is the second part here lol

[@SwizzleStickMcGee]

"You know how we figured out the best shape for a hydrodynamic ship like....8000 years ago? Forget all that. I've got two words for you: "Giant Turtle" "

[@CorundumDevil]

*_"....B R I L L I A N T--"_*

[@iluvcamaros1912]

The wide spread front fins are driving me bonkers especially. They look like they'll snap off in the first storm. Like the person that came up with this has zero knowledge about how ships work. They haven't even seen Titanic. That'd almost be research.

[@hugobartha6824]

@@iluvcamaros1912 they dont have zero knoledge. they somehow managed to have negative knoledge.

[@TheRonnieaj]

I’m positive this was designed by someone with a Discworld fetish. In that series by Terry Pratchett, the world is on a turtle’s shell. It’s like that, only stupid.

[@PINKH0RNET]

Out of everything they chose a turtle. Not a shark, not a dolphin, not even a whale. Even a whale would have been better, goddamn

[@thatskeletordude5271]

I wish this project comes true. Imagine the first day of this thing sailing with all the elite and then getting chomped up by a giant ancient apex predator because it looked like prey.

[@AM-sj5vr]

Fr bet the bloop would eat this

[@ZKP314]

So…the Falkland Islands turned out to be the spines of a giant-ass kaiju.

[@ivanbekker7939]

When it gets close to Scotland, Nessie will take a bite out of it When it gets near Japan, Godzilla will do a German suplex with it When it's in open waters in the Pacific Ocean, Leviathan chases it When it gets near Bermuda Triangle, the Kraken sinks it

[@tankythemagnorite9855]

@@thatskeletordude5271 MAKE THIS A MOVIE, NOW!

[@шарнирус]

@@ivanbekker7939 Will it even get get out of the Terayard?

[@dougthedonkey1805]

When I first saw the thumbnail I thought it was a pentagon-style building in the shape of a turtle and was like “oh, that’s cute”. Then I realized it was a yacht

[@wendyheatherwood]

That would be kinda neat. I like buildings shaped like things that aren't buildings. When I saw it I thought it was an artificial island type structure.

[@granienasniadanie8322]

I thought for a second it was a land vehicle and it would't make it that much dumber.

[@piedpiper1172]

@@granienasniadanie8322I think a land vehicle would have been substantially smarter, actually. At the very least, a useless land teraturtlewould be far less likely to sink and kill everyone aboard within the first few days of operation.

[@rosethorne9155]

If this was a design for a hotel complex, it might actually be kind of cute...

[@thedesensitizedsympathizer5307]

I thought it was a artificial island

[@FutureCommentary1]

- So you have a megaproject for me? - Yes Sir I do. I was thinking we'd build a giant turtle in the middle of the sea. - Don't you think it'll be hard to build that in the sea? - It'll be super easy barely an inconvenience. - And you're sure the turtle shape is the best one? - That's what we're going with.

[@Kyoobur9000]

“You’re gonna try to launch _aircraft_ off the back of the turtle?” “Listen, I’m gonna need you to get all the way off my back about that.” “…How?”

[@stephaniemorrissey123]

😂😂😂

[@quexalcoatl]

♫ *xylophone music* ♪

[@lovelandtales527]

Wow, wow, wow, wow. Wow.

[@AK-cr5pe]

- What are we going to call it? - Hear me out, we'll call it "The Tera Yacht" it's one up from giga, so it's better. - ...so you named a boat... the "Land" Yacht? Terra as in the latin noun for "land or territory"? - Let me get back to you

[@actuallydaneel]

you missed one small thing: one of the renders (10:13) shows several private jets parked ON THE ROOF. Even if by the grace of god a plane could touch down on the longer ends of that thing, it would immediately become a smoking wreck because of the concrete barriers they've scattered about on it for seemingly no reason.

[@nimrodery]

They're VTOLs. They thought of everything. I mean, they might be rendered as regular jets but you're supposed to use your imagination.

[@reesofraft4166]

i think those concrete barriers are supposed to be stairscases/elevators.

[@MrRevan991]

ah I'm glad I wasn't the only one to notice and be like 'hold on a second'

[@Rosivok]

glad I wasnt the only one to notice this.

[@AustralianOpalRocks]

Let's see if kelsey could land there

[@Kirbita22]

I kind of love the turtle shape as a concept. It would be a very cool setting for a children's book series or something. As an actual real project however it's such a laughably bad idea lol

[@tde1964]

I made a calculation. The 60’000 guests are divided into three categories: 500 super rich people (SRP), 5’000 crew to operate the… thing and serve the SRP, and 54’500 rowers to move the whole stuff at the whooping speed of 1 knot downwind. The food stores should be sufficient for an autonomy of 2,5 days, which is amply enough to get out of the terayard and back, if wind and currents allow it.

[@kyx5631]

Didn't you see? They also grow plants on the thing. Those are Teraplants (trademarkdonotsteal) and grow into edible maturity in 6 hours.

[@tde1964]

@@kyx5631 Right! And these plants make great sails, not to mention that the digestion byproducts make a fantastic fuel! The designers are working on a system to hook collector pipes to the lower back of the guests to avoid gas losses!

[@kyx5631]

@@tde1964 now you're getting it

[@НиколайКошмар-ь7б]

The inside of the turtle looks like if Venice was made out of American suburbs

[@Blodhelm]

Or the Lego version anyway.

[@errantwinds-up8uu]

Somehow this made me laugh so hard because I can see it....

[@williambrent9330]

The city of Cape Coral in Florida also has "Venice, but American Suburbs"

[@Miles26545]

That’s just Florida or New Orleans

[@harbl99]

Ah, there it is, my Dystopian Mental Image Of The Day.

[@dustybikes86]

the difference between the Icon of the seas and this is stunning, on one end you have the most talented designers and engineers backed by decades of real experience and on the other you have someone's nephew who just learned blender.

[@oneoranota]

Yet Icon of the Sea is still an abomination that I wouldn't want to be caught dying on when it will hit an iceberg at full speed.

[@bigguy4u989]

@@oneoranotaicon of the seas looks like a water park threw up on an apartment complex

[@jhonsilveralpha]

​@@oneoranotafun fact current civilan ships hull are made of a sort of resin id love to test how reliable it is compared to steel (testing steel thickness lf something like the titanic up to the hull thickness of the kms Bismarck that kinda went left unscratched by the british torpedoes at the point the german had to put the ship down bellow by themselves)

[@emic28]

​@@jhonsilveralphaBismarck was hammered by both rodney and KGV, I wouldn't call that unscratched

[@slaughterchainsaw]

If this is really a ultra rich "doomsday plan" (and not just a scam/money laundering) how do the guests plan to stop the crew from throwing them into the sea before taking everything for themselves?

[@americankid7782]

“Hey that’s a cool Hotel design” (Realizes it’s moving) “I hate this”

[@neoqwerty]

at this point just make it a giant seaturtle mechaniloid and say you have the plot for Megaman X9 (it's just Titanic but with robots)

[@marcusaaronliaogo9158]

@@neoqwerty oh cool mega man fan

[@serPomiz]

@@neoqwertytoo bad the x serie is overfilled with vermins and dung eater inspired bot, this would have them being each boss!

[@thomasneal9291]

@@neoqwertynonsense, it's clearly going to be MechaGamera!

[@aydenwright9782]

"The Goon Deck" is my new favourite phrase

[@ivy_47]

Just about shat myself with laughter on that one good god

[@generalrubbish9513]

The water in that pool's gonna be white in no time.

[@Atomic_Acorn969]

I love current year 🥹

[@hanifarroisimukhlis5989]

​@@generalrubbish9513 Not me hiring 60.000 "guests" to fill up the pool

[@multilicus5773]

Same here.

[@ericmoll1530]

I feel like those flippers are one rough storm away from shearing clean off the side. With that in mind, I commend the Pangeos team for wanting to build a high end floating deathtrap for the ultra-rich, well played and I wish you the best of luck.

[@SkySong6161]

IKR. I saw this thing and went, "ohhhh, someone's trying to capitalize on the rich not learning anything from the Titan incident." This thing is either a mousetrap for the rich, or someone's fraud scheme.

[@mirceazaharia2094]

>high end floating deathtrap for the ultra-rich Based. I approve.

[@zachariusd6473]

I have an idea: We should name it the Titanic Turtle

[@hanspeter8011]

@@zachariusd6473it literally is a titanic turtle lmao!

[@queenvagabond8787]

The entire structure will likely shear and break, not just the 'flippers'... given the materials and the scale, it would be a disaster... Even seen one of those videos of heavy duty container ships and the way they flex in stormy conditions? Some flexibility is vital for all large vessels. The reason the Vikings succeeded as sailors before modern shipbuilding techniques was the incredible flexibility of their Drakkar, otherwise their ships would likely shatter crossing open seas.

[@spacebug5686]

You know what they say, an architects dream is an engineers worst nightmare

[@michaelyenoh8898]

That thing would be an insanely cool location for some scifi post apocalypse game. No need to be physically possible when you can just handwave it and say "nanobots"

[@jackhazardous4008]

Bethesda's Brink is actually set in a floating city some untold years after some kind of apocalypse on the mainland.

[@ennayanne]

the fins would be too implausible a design

[@pancakes8670]

A Fictional setting would allow leeway and you could make up some Sci-fi or Magic bullshit to handwave away some of the impossible structural integrity. Plus, it'd be a neat way to demonstrate the stupidity/arrogance of a ruling class in the setting.

[@UlshaRS]

It's already an IRL apocalypse escape room. It's called Sealand.

[@wompastompa3692]

Nanomachines, son.

[@snoopsq.527]

The way the animations show this thing actually floating and cutting wakes into the sea as it sails is like the uncanny valley but for physics.

[@diskgrinder]

The uncanoe valley

[@LimeyLassen]

I imagine a little submarine carrying it around like the hippo from Fantasia

[@JmKrokY]

Yeah

[@steemlenn8797]

My guess is this was created by some Malaysian Discworld-fan architect students who had some fun after a party where they got drunk.

[@valeriopastore7310]

beer pong, but with moonshine!

[@clray123]

probably ai-generated to test incredulity of youtubers like adam s.

[@miskatonic6210]

You shouldn't insult Malaysian people like that. They are certainly not known to be an evil scam force.

[@steemlenn8797]

@@miskatonic6210 In case you didn't notice, the country doesn't really matter in my sentence. (And I didn't say the scam was made by them, just the turtle.) What matters for the country is only that it is Islamic, because of "getting drunk" and with lots of coast line (turtle). Why Malaysia of the available options? Because I just talked to someone there. Or in other words, it's Satire.

[@Starkweather133]

​@@steemlenn8797I don't know, sounds pretty racist to me...

[@emeraldhillzone1992]

This looks like a boat designed in Stormworks. Don't get me wrong, Stormworks is a very fun game, but people can make some very un-boat/plane structures using the editor. And clearly most if not all of them aren't supposed to be sea worthy. If this was in Stormworks, it'd be fun. But this is supposed to be _real._ This House Of Leaves boat that would probably start sinking if a fishing trawler bumped it is entirely intended to be a real thing. ...also being shaped like a Sea Turtle is just a slap in the face, man. The mega yacht that probably causes enough pollution to gas chamber an entire town is shaped like an endangered species. This feels unreal

[@Brasswatchman]

It feels unreal because it *is* unreal. Anyone who even intended this to be some much as a serious scam would at least be able to bring on an English-language editor.

[@joesmith942]

There's a lot of naysayers complaining about the drag from the flippers. Here's an easy answer. Articulate them so they could help paddle the vessel. Yeah, it might impact the quality of life for those living in the flipper villas, but it might be fun too. For power, you could use the 60,000 guests in some sort of Roman galley arrangement with lego gears and stuff.

[@Mag_ladroth]

I thought you would say this design would be feasible but that last line got a crack out of me

[@samuela-aegisdottir]

🤣

[@benhoward2619]

“Ramming speed!”

[@arya31ful]

So that's where the 60k figures come from. 500 inhabitants, 10000 private sla- serfs, 45500 oarsmen (and women and children too, because job equality). Nothing screams "leisurely future" than manual labor.

[@mirceazaharia2094]

I call dibs on being the drum-guy, that gets the oarsmen to maintain rhythm.

[@CommanderHuggins]

I can’t help but notice that in one of the renders at 10:11 there are PRIVATE JETS parked next to the helicopters on the roof. I can’t find any runways on board so I can only assume they’re claiming the ship can match the speed of an aircraft. It wouldn’t be much crazier than the rest of this plan lol.

[@TestEric]

LMAO I saw that too

[@skorpion101382]

The jets are VSTOL obviously ;)

[@AndorRadnai]

@@skorpion101382 Which would indeed be a cool thing for modern jets! ^^ But planning such codependent vehicles usually leads to failure on both ends.

[@Consumedfever697]

Clearly the entire top is the runway, it's just circular, so they have plenty of distance

[@MunyuShizumi]

​@@Consumedfever697 The Earth is round, and planes can take off without issues, so obviously they can take off and land on a round aircraft carrier.

[@barrag3463]

Concrete ships are actually a thing (reinforced concrete specifically), but that makes construction more expensive, and requires much thicker hull, which reduces the actual internal space you can use and hurts hydrodynamics. They're also a much bigger pain to make because, well, it's concrete, you can't just rivet and weld it into shape, you have to arrange the rebar and then let the concrete set and cure. Really they're mostly made as unpowered barges or pontoons, and the only real time that saw them being made in number was during the world wars, when more conventional materials (see: steel) were in high demand and there was a great need for cargo ships and barges for logistics.

[@RAFMnBgaming]

I remember there being a concrete tall ship (sailing) around for a while but at the EOL they didn't commission another one built that way.

[@barrag3463]

@@rifz42 Maybe the concrete had a crack or was porous enough that moisture got in and started rusting the rebar.

[@grahvis]

I remember, back in the 70s, there was a lot of enthusiasm for building concrete boats for inland waterways. Given we didn't see much of them after that, it would appear it didn't actually work in practice, or if it did, they didn't last for long.

[@alexturnbackthearmy1907]

@@grahvis They do work fine actually. Just...doing so with steel is soo much easier. Concrete is a lot of work after all, and you need to do it above the ground, in single form and as much uniform as possible...on a very big boat. And if it cracks, then you might as well scrap it entirely, as concrete ships sunk VERY easily once water is inside.

[@drubradley8821]

Imagine the food supply, and toilet system flushing 80 times a minute.... If this thing travels at 4 knots, it will have a brown trail washout from the back side... Lol

[@IAmNumber4000]

But Adam! We NEED car culture on our mega-yacht!!!!!

[@generalrubbish9513]

Imagine being so terminally car-brained that you go "No, I simply CANNOT walk from my luxury villa to the tennis court on my 600 x 600 meter artificial island"

[@kingtiger3390]

​@generalrubbish9513 Imagine putting shoes on for a 600 meter walk, smh people are shoe-brained, goddamn sneakerheads.

[@hanifarroisimukhlis5989]

@@kingtiger3390 WTF are you gonna do? Barefoot? Yeah i love walking on a who-know-what-stepped-on-it ground.

[@freek2409]

The only thing missing is more lanes

[@civicmimiv]

​@@freek2409 and gas stations

[@thatguythatdoesstuff5899]

Imagine being stuck in traffic on a sinking ship. Stuff that dreams are made of.

[@idriveastationwagon1534]

The ship needed just 1 more lane bro

[@bugjams]

Fr, like what even is the fucking point of making a ship at sea if 90% of the time you're just living in what feels like a normal city? Why not just make an island resort? Never understood the appeal of going to sea, or into the woods, while living on a yacht/resort that tries its hardest to separate you from nature. And then people who do these things have the gall to say they "love nature"... it's pathetic. At this point, the only reason it's a boat is just so you can say you went to the ocean, it serves no practical purpose and you're hardly "exposed" to nature or the sea at all.

[@Gizziiusa]

Turtletanic, 2035 Your -heart- flipper will go on.

[@kainotachi]

You say the thing in the middle is just a pool, but other renders clearly show a tunnel directly connecting it to the open sea. So like, it's simultaneously a pool, with further infrastructure right below it, AND the open ocean. It's a tiny little bay they've created. Which is even stupider than either idea alone. And it's only connected at the back. Which would theoretically create a low-pressure zone and drain it as it moves through the ocean.

[@phueal]

Not to mention presumably sucking several billionaires out to sea in the process.

[@thoughtfox2409]

Not defending this stupid project, but that part isn't as stupid as it seems. That area is a well deck, and they do work on amphibious assault ships, so i see no reason why they shouldn't work on a megayacht. Now, they do only work with slow ahead or a dead stop, so they would need either doors to keep the thing flodded or just do what amphibious assault ships do and raise the welldeck so it is dry when going fast (or rather, raise the whole vessel). Now the one maybe stupid thing in their well deck design is them having more stuff below the welldeck, but i am almost sure that the LHA's of the US Navy do this as well, so there can't be that much wrong with it. Besides, we already transport barges and the like over the Ocean with specially created vessels that definetly have infrastructure below deck

[@Oxygen1004]

@@phuealYou say that like that's an issue

[@jackhazardous4008]

So you take a dip in the pool, and it eventually drains until youre sucked under the bottom of the boat?

[@MaxPower-ke5rq]

There were 3 entrance points, even though the ass of the turtle that ships enter and exit through was a main focus. There is one on either side also. But that just opens all new possibilities for disaster

[@A_Frog_from_mars12]

The thing is designed as unhydrodynamic as possible. Meaning it'll need way more engine power and burn way more fuel than most ships with the same passenger capacity.

[@kevino13]

One thing that gets to me is, while they try to flaunt a 600,000 person capacity (which is ridiculous), what is there to really do on this boat? Say what you will about Cruise ships, but they manage to cram a ton of people into a relatively compact volume, and still have space for malls, casinos, bars, etc. I guess you can assume they might have entertainment somewhere inside the main structures, but just from the renders: it’s a ton of pools and like 2 tennis courts

[@MyUsersDark]

60,000. Nonsensical nonetheless, but I'm afraid it's *slightly* less insane than what you wrote.

[@5peciesunkn0wn]

If they went for cruise-liner style cabins inside the main thing, yeah, they could probably fit 600k people, but that would require people below the waterline in those "rectangles zones" lol

[@MyUsersDark]

@@5peciesunkn0wn 600k people, yeah maybe if they had the quality of life of slaves in the triangle trade, maybe

[@5peciesunkn0wn]

@@MyUsersDark Imperial Japanese Navy style rooms where you have enough room to lay down and juuuust enough room to stand up next to your bed, yeah. Probably. There's a lot of volume in there.

[@psistorm04]

Complete lack of any sort of aquadynamic shape and general seaworthiness aside, I also love that in some renders there are private jets on that little roof area, it really shows the complete and utter insanity of it lol

[@greyfells2829]

Projects that are never leaving the optimistic computer render stage are the BEST

[@Error_-qz2zr]

people actually buy this, its a classic crypto scam

[@JustaGhostDragoon]

let's be real no one is going to build this unless they have more money then sense and even if they did it will be a floating train wreck ..

[@JohnGardnerAlhadis]

​@@JustaGhostDragoon _"more money than sense"_ So, practically *every* rich person ever?

[@RutakoVon]

​@@JustaGhostDragoon This is good, we should drain their pockets with elaborate scams, take advantage of their own ego.

[@mollusckscramp4124]

I read this entire sentence in Pitch Meeting's voice before realizing it didn't end with TIGHT 😂

[@DerpLogicVFX]

who ever imagined this whole gig would have spent less and earned more if they developed a game centered around the concept

[@Dolfa_LPH]

The hydrodynamics of that thing alone had me cackling like a hyena.

[@Reiver-93]

How would this thing move forward? it's like the least hydrodynamic shape you could get.

[@Confucius_Says...]

Exactly ‼️It would be like propelling The Great Wall of China through the water.

[@CharlieFoxtrot]

@@Reiver-93 The only way this thing could have any more drag is if the front flippers were backwards

[@mittfh]

What hydrodynamics?! The only way this thing could possibly work (at a massive stretch) is if everything you see was supported on a massive more conventionally shaped that was mainly below water, with everything visible from the decks built of transparent aluminium (as in ST: TVH) so it would be barely visible. It would also be where 90% of the 60,000 "guests" lived...

[@beathammer7420]

@@Confucius_Says... hold on.... I think you might be on to something here! presenting: the great wall ultrayacht.

[@zrobotics]

1:45 Gotta love that their plans refer to the 'basement area' instead of the hull. Gives me tons of faith in the designers that they aren't familiar at all with nautical terminology. Somehow someone managed to top Neom for stupid projects, well done!

[@edwxx20001]

no no no, you have it all wrong, once we build the dam, we build the basement. after the basement is done we can start on the ship. the basement is there so i can keep all my stuff!

[@Allegheny500]

Somehow you missed mentioning the render at 10:11 that shows two executive jet aircraft on the upper ring just to be ridiculous, or the fact that enormous fin shaped bow will create so much hydrodynamic pressure that any attempt to move it faster than 5mph would result in a bow wave that would swamp the ship.

[@iglidor]

The difficulties when you are tackling project so full of BS that you simply can not fit all the nonsense that you see in words.

[@krisroednielsen]

I lost my mind when I saw the two private jets parked on what has to be an aluminum metal roof

[@Fluffyudders]

oh god the planes I didn't see those! Imagine being a pilot, and being told to land the private jet you're flying on a moving cruise ship WITH NO RUNWAY. Also the landing area is CURVED.

[@theholk]

@@FluffyuddersYou are presuming that the "wind shield" spacers are retractable?"

[@Fluffyudders]

@@theholk I'm not presuming anything, the sheer stupidity of the project and everything associated with it melted my brain.

[@AE1OU]

Somehow I get the impression this was made by dahir insaat, the weirdo that thought up the earthquake coffin bed, the instant service restaraunt and the mass transport with wheels on stilts

[@willieverusethis]

In 4th grade we had to build a model of a utopian society. This looks very much like mine, only mine had a dome over it to keep out the air pollution and weather (it was 1968).

[@RhelrahneTheIdiot]

I've heard some pretty dire things from back then about the environment but was it actually that bad that you figured doming pollution away would be utopian?

[@kodiak7447]

and you didnt build it for us, tragic really.

[@Handles_are_good_for_holding]

What school did you go to that has 4th graders designing utopian society?

[@willguggn2]

@@Handles_are_good_for_holding Isn't building dioramas in elementary school quite common? Imagining a perfect place to live in for an assignment sounds like a standard thing.

[@alfredforbessealy524]

Wow. Do you still have photos or the essay or something? My mom told me about the "in the year 2000" redactions they had to write in grade school during the communist era

[@Peregrine57]

Remember Freedom Ship? It was like a floating city that would go up and down the coast, very slowly, and rich assholes would live on it permanently, coming and going with private helicopters or boats or whatever. It even got an episode of a Discovery channel documentary back in the day. Wonder whatever happened to that... Seemed to me like a fun sci-fi concept, but I doubted we'd ever see anything like it in real life.

[@sheldondrake8935]

can you imagine packing a ship with dysfunctional narcissistic wealth-hoarders? the entitlement would be so thick and rancid. toss in a little religious conflict and you've got Lord of the Flies on acid.

[@MemeMarine]

At least that thing was shaped a bit like a ship and used its internal space in a relatively efficient way. This one is just shaped like a big turtle cause it'll look cooler.And it sports a goon deck.

[@KaosKrusher]

didn't know about the freedom ship thx ;) also after googling it I saw that it was made to accomodate ... 60,000 people maybe it's the same team on this one? ^ç^

[@zh84]

Freedom of the Seas was one name. Another was World of ResidenSea. I'm not sure if those were different projects or just different names for the same one. Whichever, I'm sure the rich people aboard would have wanted servants, and being unable to get off the ship without permission, and not part of any country that might guarantee them rights, they would have been little better than slaves.

[@chrisakaschulbus4903]

We might not see it in this one ship design. But maybe some sort of connected raft setup. Because i doubt mobility would be the point of a floating city. Or any city at all.

[@CigarRegal]

You didn't even mention that the Pangeos Terayacht is being guarded by 25 Metal Gear Ray units.

[@59hawks]

Honestly that would be the most realistic part of this

[@LovePotion_]

Time stamp?

[@notonlysunandbeach2567]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Movel0]

So when the turtle yacht crashes into a coast we can call it the Big Shell incident.

[@LovePotion_]

I wanna look at the metal gears please i'm desperate help

[@Choppytehbear1337]

"Hello strange Norwegian man." That's how im going to greet my Swedish co-worker from now on.

[@T4l0nITA]

9:40 I love how "GENERATORS" and "POWER" are in 2 different far away areas

[@Meritania]

And has a massive rim of solar panel - least they’re considering power and its infrastructure… Everything is a tube… god damn it.

[@dodojesus4529]

I also lkke "logistics" concentrated in one spot. Not coordination, just the single unit of logistics

[@Meritania]

@@dodojesus4529 Reminds me of that War of the Worlds: The Musical: The Strategy Game, where one or two trucks coordinate the resources of Britain to keep the Marsians at bay.

[@coltermiller1782]

no worries the "multiple use" room has it covered

[@whatthehellisthisname]

It's like they took that idea from a survival video game.

[@cyphre]

It honestly feels like a concept built for a video game. A really sweet Call of Duty or Titanfall map, and this entire thing was intentionally made to fit some sort of ARG or in-game thematic presentation.

[@TS111WASD]

Colossus from Black Ops 2

[@milesmccollough5507]

i mean olympus in apex is literally just this but in the sky and bigger and slightly more sensible. ninja edit: “sensible” only in the realm of the massively advanced sci-fi of the titanfall universe, of course.

[@matchuhuki]

Reminds me of The Ark from Brink

[@dottieland7061]

No remember the space ship from Wall-e that’s it, they are too lazy to walk so they will just use golf carts and get fat!! And then the thing will sink!

[@26th_Primarch]

It'd work as a privately owned cruiseliner in something like Star Trek.

[@dopamining7621]

There are private jets parked on the toilet seat-shaped roof. I'll just leave that concept in the minds of the easily-amazed.

[@BobfromSydney]

Curved runways > straight runways 😂

[@keefymckeefface8330]

@@BobfromSydneyCurved tilting runways with serious camber issues > Curved runways > straight runways...

[@BobfromSydney]

@@keefymckeefface8330 Agreed! Must be cambered to tilt towards to outside edge so pilots attempting to take-off and land are yeeted off the edge like frisbees.

[@keefymckeefface8330]

@@BobfromSydney you got it! That's design and engineering perfection

[@x5px]

Runways are for poors.

[@novaklija]

Don't forget the huge stupid fins in the front which would make this thing incredibly inefficient and slow it down massively

[@giovannipomarico2035]

I know what this ships needs for its inhabitant's commute : An hyperloop!😂

[@verttikoo2052]

😮 Thats the solution 🎉😆 One that goes around the ship 1000 km/h 🤣😂 You sir are genius 🎉 Why didn’t Adam come up with this 🤣😂 It’s what this project definitely needs 🎉

[@burningsnow9870]

Oh but those cars will probably need to be arranged in single file to deal with space. It would just be easier if they somehow connected the cars together so multiple people could use the hyperloop at the same time. Oh but they'll need some kind of schedule so they can use it properly! Maybe they'll have to make some kind of station with hyperloop car conga line schedule boards so they know when they can get on.

[@neoqwerty]

@@burningsnow9870 get out that's actually semi-practical, you're too smart for this project go work for dahir insaat

[@connorhart7597]

MONORAIL!!

[@momon969]

Hey, I came up with something like this once! For a post-apocaplyptic story! Floating city of the mega rich, world gets hit by nuclear war, floating city is taken over by a crew rebellion, now it's a mobile pirate fortress. But I think my design is better because it's got an actual runway. No helipad-fuckery.

[@massivepileup]

Isn't that more-or-less the story of the videogame Brink?

[@momon969]

@@massivepileup Haven't heard of it until now, but after checking a wikipedia page: A bit. Both have hi-tech floating structures where some shit went down.

[@NothingXemnas]

More or less same. Floating cities aren't the most original thing ever (one existing in my steampunk fantasy setting), and they can even be "doable", but it would likely look a lot "uglier" and slimmer. The turtle shape would cause awful drag to even move on water. More so, at that size, the structure would be definitely "function over form", like the ISS is (it houses pretty much every essential lab equipment to operate low gravity studies, plus housing, and it still looks like a bunch of sticks and barrels). A floating city would, at best, look like a flat hill in the middle of the ocean with roughly defined borders, lines and curves, and at worst look like a coastal industrial park with a messy bunch of towers and docks.

[@gur262]

It would not be like this though. It would try to have low resistance and lots of lightweight material. Even the mega rich would try to be soooomewhat reasonable in that situation I think.

[@TalesOfWar]

So. An aircraft carrier?

[@ericeig5981]

My thought on the buildings with the helipads right in the center of the city - The first building with the circled H on the roof was intended to be a hospital. A different concept artist saw that later on without context, assumed it was a helipad, and put a helicopter on it. A third concept artist saw the building and helicopter without context, assumed it was a mistake that the building on the other side of the boat didn't have a helipad as well, and added a circled H to that building.

[@thecofounders]

This kind of "telephone-esque" error has caused many deaths due to theological disputes. Scribal notes have changed history 😅

[@exantiuse497]

There's no reason to have a letter H on top of a hospital unless there's a helipad there. Also the building is far too small to be a hospital. It's a helipad and was always intended to be one, you put more thought into this than the clowns that came up with it

[@CalculusIsFun1]

1:57 creators been playing too much Minecraft. This isn’t Ph1lza’s ocean monument.

[@cholling1]

All it needs is four elephants walking in circles on the upper deck.

[@guydreamr]

With hippos in each of the 50,000 pools below which will make great water mates for the people going for their morning swim.

[@BetaDude40]

I guess the remaining 55,000 people live on the disc above the elephants too

[@ozzyjames87]

Don't worry there will be two footed hippos.

[@infatum9]

Or a giant turtle with 4 elephants on top holding the world. The Great A'Tuin would be completed.

[@shaggybottomtext8363]

Just reminded me of the “up is down” scene in Priates of the Caribbean. If like 10 people get an idea and are dedicated the buildup in momentum in a few hours will either snap the wings off or sink the ship through cracks in the hull

[@Decodeish1]

Those coordinates at 2:58 are hilarious, they are so specific where resolution is 0.1nm, which is the same as the width of the average atom. **Very** specific location. (calculated as tan(0.000000000000001)*6378137)

[@ferranferran6955]

Possibly nautical miles

[@coryzilligen790]

@@ferranferran6955 They didn't include the "nm" in the image, they just have an absurdly large number of digits after the decimal points in their coordinates. They specified them out for _15_ digits of precision after the decimal; most people use 0 to 1 digit after the decimal, _maybe_ two or three if it needs a lot of precision.

[@cwtrain]

​@@ferranferran6955 There's giving people the benefit of doubt, and then there's whatever the hell mental gymnastics you're doing. I swear every time something is just blatantly incorrect on its face some mook shows up and goes "Well maybe they meant _blah blah_ and that's why just maybe they are somehow correct." Raising their voice specifically to defend ignorance. It's weird. There is no need for that level of decimal precision in any terrestrial measurements and the video producers are just slinging bullshit. It IS that simple.

[@bricaaron3978]

@@coryzilligen790 If those are GPS coordinates, it's latitude and longitude, no?

[@sugarie7361]

Odd way of calculating that. 0.000000000000001 degrees is multiplied by 60 to get the distance in miles. Then by 1852 to get the distance in meters. In short the precision is of about 0.1 micrometer (0.11112 μm).

[@x5px]

2:24 I guessed the UAE, you got me there

[@evilbob840]

Ha! Same!

[@radustana]

Same

[@sgkingly8392]

I guessed Saudi but lets face it, either one of them is a safe bet for something like this

[@demo2823]

To be fair, everyone who isn't in debt has more money than God.

[@David_S_TO]

I had Dubai, lost my bet.

[@LunarRequiem]

I was curious and did some quick research and quick math. (might be inaccurate I'm no expert) According to maritime regulations a cruise ship must at minimum have enough lifeboats for about 37.5% of crew and passengers. Using only the stated 60,000 guests that's 22,500 people they need lifeboats for. The Oasis of the Seas lifeboats, the CRV55 catamaran, can carry 370 passengers each, which means you need 61 of them just to meet the minimum required for the guests alone. Not only do I not see any from the video, it also doesn't seem to have any way to launch them either.

[@Aranimda]

The drag of a ship shaped like this in the water would be ginormous.

[@ColonelSandersLite]

I'm pretty sure the drag on this design is 0 newtons as they don't intend to actually build the thing. The real goal of this project is covered in this video starting @10:48. The rest is just smoke and mirrors.

[@junglist_ikon]

Teranormous

[@Nerobyrne]

gotta make up for all the drag performances that are illegal in Saudi Arabia ^^ (no idea if they are but the joke fit)

[@kimrasmussen7188]

i identify as a turtle, and i feel offended...😟😟😫

[@phant0]

I'm surprised he didn't cover the obvious problem of the arms creating an ungodly amount of drag. Or how you would even replenish such a vessel without the ability to dock at a port and no visible logistics docks on the structure either.

[@kharmachaos667]

Engineer: wait, how much drag do we have to power through with these toy engines?! Billionaire: yes

[@dodojesus4529]

"I dunno, like 3 drag maybe four. Whats drag by the way?

[@mariomurcia7509]

this thing would probably need the force of a few rocketships to move the hundreds of thousands of tons of concrete and metal in a consistent direction without being affected by ocean currenta

[@InservioLetum]

Hilariously that span would be destroyed by the first serious Atlantic wave to strike the craft.

[@Ulrich.Bierwisch]

Engineer: I'm concerned about the drag Billionaire: Make it as much as possible Engineer: Oh....key

[@Marcus_Suridius]

They actually had jets on the top beside the heli's, how tf is a jet suppose to take off on that monstrosity?

[@OrgaNik_Music]

Just do a couple of laps around the top ring, duh

[@maxbrandt6]

Here is a really cool idea for a video game: the Pangeos Trayacht has mysteriously sunk after a few years on the open sea, you get to play as part of a dive team that has to go down and explore and investigate what happened and recover anything of value. Along the way sharks and giant squid and other dangers await you. Those that have submechanophobia will probably avoid this game but I'm sure it will be an interesting one.

[@twicedeadmage]

Maybe a Costa Concordia deal, scavanging the remains qnd then selling them

[@Mag_ladroth]

Like subnautica but entirely based around this sunken ship?

[@Axterix13]

Such a game would, no doubt, be a crypto farming game...

[@nape1475]

This would make a pretty cool mod for Fallout 3/4/NV; Imagine if this thing was somehow adrift at sea for 200+ years following global nuclear exchange and became a kind of oceanic refuge for the remnants of humanity.

[@mecha-sheep7674]

"the Pangeos Trayacht has mysteriously sunk after a few years on the open sea" Make it "after a few seconds" and it will be more realistic.

[@Galaxy-o2e]

Such a practical project, what if we: -Make the flippers vestigial -The head should become slimmer and sharper like an arrow and have a bulbous part under it, -The shell made slimmer and longer

[@rosethorne9155]

Genius! Let's build a whole bunch and call them something cool, like...cruisers! Actually, since they'll mostly be straight lines, maybe we can call them "cruise liners"? Just throwing ideas out there... 😂

[@morbideddie]

And to make travelling more efficient and to reduce points of failure, we can link several together end to end with one having an engine. Plus, water isn’t an efficient surface to travel on, steel on steel is effective, I propose some sort of long steel “rails” under the cruisers with steel wheels to propel, support and guide them. I call this invention the “train”.

[@realdragon]

Nature is beautiful

[@dutchmansmine9053]

​@@morbideddie I look forward to seeing your massive railway bridge that totally won't be impractical at all.

[@Galaxy-o2e]

​@@morbideddieyeah good luck making a massive intercontinental sized railway bridge

[@nejkajaryba1710]

Every future cruise ship must have the goon deck now

[@Skoopyghost]

The last cruise I heard off was named "the poop cruise". I am not stepping on a cruise.

[@AdamFunk]

Punishment zone, woooo!

[@JM-mh1pp]

We call them henchpeople today