fartington,

Elsewhere along the Line, workers are currently digging an enormous 450 acre pit that’s 50 feet below sea level for the construction of a marina. In a comical turn of events, according to the WSJ, the veritable mountain of all the dirt they excavated was dumped right on top of where a waterway is supposed to be built. Work followed to painstakingly re-excavate the huge dirt pile and move it somewhere else — a literal example of the project designers digging themselves into a hole.

pingveno, (edited )

I’m convinced Neom is actually a secret plot to confuse future archeologists.

Why are these stones here? Ancient people must have left them in a religious ritual to the Gadgetbahn Gods.

Gork,

I can’t fathom how much money it would actually cost to build the original structure as envisioned.

200 m wide by 500 m tall, 105 miles long with 300+ mph high speed rail underground.

It’s a cool idea, but completely mad to implement such a megastructure with our current technology.

neuracnu,
@neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Heads up: this guy did the math. It’s really worth the watch.

youtu.be/Ak4on5uTaTg

Belastend, (edited )

It isnt even a cool idea. The city would be completely unusable: Most cities are somewhat circular to minize distances. The line maximes distances. No organic city growth, instead you have an extremely limiting footprint that allows no out ward expansion. Narrow street and high rise buildings sound like an absolut nightmare to me.

And dont get me started on all of the “artificial moon, robot dinosaur, human gene editing” bullshit.

Fuck_u_spez_,

And dont get me started on all of the “artificial moon, robot dinosaur, human gene editing” bullshit.

Wait, what? I’m sorry but now I’m curious and I’d actually like to get you started.

davel, (edited )
@davel@lemmy.ml avatar

Wait, so this boondoggle is a boondoggle? surprised-pika-messed-up

This headline reminds me of how confused I was by Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: how can the ocean be deeper than the diameter of the Earth?

bulwark, (edited )

The Nautilus traveled for 20,000 leagues under the surface of the ocean at various fathoms of depth. This is all expertly explained by the great Kelsey Grammer here.

Lyre,

so like… were you still confused after you read it? or did you literally judge the book by its cover…

087008001234,

God, what will we do if they can’t crack this one?

Glowstick,

It’s all a blunder, from concept to design to implementation.

stembolts,

It seems like one of the dumbest things ever. I hope they carry on. Don’t invest in the future, that’s for dummies, build a giant phallic symbol in one of the least hospitable areas of the world.

Think about the maintenance costs alone…

Peppycito,

Roofing is the most expensive and trickiest parts of a building, so let’s take an enormous skyscraper and make one of the walls a roof. They probably plan for a team of flat roofing slaves working around the clock like window washers. When they get to one end they go back to the start in an ourorobus of roofing.

gazter,

A straight line is a phallic symbol now?

stembolts,

Yep, the whole world is dicks. Dicks dicks dicks.

BackwardMonkey,

But… but MBS is rich so he must be smart, right? No way he could be naked?

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