Posted on 10/21/2022 2:32:14 PM PDT by algore
Newly-released drone footage shows excavators starting work on digging the foundations for the £440 billion megacity The Line in Saudi Arabia.
The project was launched by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and will be part of the vast desert complex of Neom, which will also feature an artificial ski resort, an octagonal floating port city, flying elevators, a swimming lane for commuters and robots and AI to serve its future residents.
the skyscraper will run from the Gulf of Aqaba, through a mountain range, and then extend along the coast into a desert 'aerotropolis,' the Wall Street Journal reported.
The futuristic buildings feature a silver shine and an intricate inside, with stairwells and greenery and homes to create a linear community.
The community of millions will also be fed through vertical farming that will be integrated into the walls of the shiny buildings and residents will reportedly pay a subscription for three meals a day.
Trees climb up over the futuristic designs which will be fully powered by renewable energy in the sprawling tropical metropolis
Bin Salman said he wanted his country to house a construction project as iconic and timeless as the Pyramids of Egypt.
'The Line is a project that is a civilizational revolution that puts humans first,' he said at the time
The Mirror Line will consist of two 1,600 feet tall buildings that run parallel to each other across 75 miles of desert, coastal, and mountain landscapes.
Prince MBS has claimed he wants the Mirror Line to be ready by 2030, although engineers have said it could take 50 years to construct.
The building is so long that it will sit on struts to take the curvature of the Earth into account, and will also have a high speed train line running underneath its length
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Probably NOT EV heavy equipment. 😎👍
“Look at my works, ye mighty, and despair!”
Ambitious project.
I’d think the sand and wind may be a constant source of contamination/repair/maintenance. 75 miles of desert on both sides is a lot of fence line to defend against their jihadi cousins, too.
Odds on it turning into another failed monstrosity like in Dubai and their half finished, hardly sold and now sinking and abandoned artificial islands?
All part of the scheme of the Great Reset and coming technocracy.......
Is swimming to work something the masses are demanding?
Who wants to live in a “Dry” country? That treats women and infidels like Schiff?
How can you be so sure?
How do you know what the Earth will endure?
How can you be so sure
That the wonders you’ve made in you life
Will be seen by the millions
Who’ll follow to visit the site of your dream?
Alan Parsons Project - What Goes Up?
I’d rather live there then some chinese ghost city.
I grew up in the city. I don’t want to live in a huge city anymore.
“a swimming lane for commuters
Is swimming to work something the masses are demanding?”
No, but swimming home, oh yes.
I used to take my gf and her bike to work every day rain or shine, she would ride it home every day. She loved it
I view it as an attempt by the modernist MBS wing of the royal family to get SA to evolve to being a normal country.
It in all likelihood will fail probably in a catastrophic way but I applaud the attempt.
I view it as an attempt by the modernist MBS wing of the royal family to get SA to evolve to being a normal country.
It in all likelihood will fail probably in a catastrophic way but I applaud the attempt.
It's precisely what the Shah tried to do in Iran.
Yup. You wont find me yearning for a commuter swim lane.
I wish our billionaires would spend their money on stuff like this in America.
Nope. It’s a city. People living that close to each other isn’t civilization.
I also applaud them.
Tan, misogynistic members of AA?...
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