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wrt. grandiose construction projects to get built in the near future i hope : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Line,_Saudi_Arabia https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
by trhway 2y ago
wrt. grandiose construction projects to get built in the near future i hope :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Line,_Saudi_Arabia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Line,_Saudi_Arabia
"The Line (stylised THE LINE; Arabic: ذا لاين) is a conceptual linear smart city in Saudi Arabia in Neom, Tabuk Province, housed in a single building, that is designed to have no cars, streets or carbon emissions.[2][3] The original plans called for the city to span 170 kilometres (110 mi) at a height of 500 m (1,600 ft)[4] and a width of 200 metres (660 ft) sized to accommodate a population of 9 million"
My personal pet dream, if i had a sufficient number of billions, - several large, like that Wright's, skyscrapers 30+ km into the ocean off the SF Ocean Beach (the depth there is like 50-80m, so sub-1M tons of concrete and steel would give you a 100m-side square foundation with 10m walls, and such foundation itself already can house 10-20 underwater stories)
- actionfromafar 2y agoBoth seem equally far-fetched IMHO.
- Etheryte 2y agoNothing grandiose about the line, a vanity project built on slave labor and blood money.
- seryoiupfurds 2y agoThat sounds perfectly in line with the usual connotations of grandiose.
- olalonde 2y agoVoluntary labor and oil money*
- kouru225 2y agoIf it’s so voluntary why not let them have their own passports so they can leave whenever they want?
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- throwaway2037 2y agoI agree: The slave labor part is likely. (See also: Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, etc.) What do you mean by "blood money"?
- JumpCrisscross 2y agoWright’s tower has a better chance of being built than the Line. (From just a security perspective, a Saudi Red Sea megaproject is all kinds of stupid.)
- throwaway2037 2y ago> From just a security perspective Can you explain this part in more detail?
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> Can you explain this part in more detail? The Line is in Tabuk Province, Saudi Arabia's northwest projection against Jordan, Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. It's within proven bombing range of several regional terrorist groups, including some with explicit antagonism against the KSA, e.g. the Houthis. Put simply, it's a megaproject that strongly depends on borders staying put and low-boil militancies at a simmer.