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@danthevanman294

29 күн бұрын

Don't waste your money!! The only thing surfshark does is slow down your internet connection for no reason. It's not worth paying real money and getting negative consequences for "peace of mind". No one is hacking you. You don't need a VPN.

@JB-yb4wn

29 күн бұрын

You still alive after the first NEOM video? I guess you didn't go to Turkey.

@kingayman5225

29 күн бұрын

Fun fact, VPNs don’t work on android, just not possible, it is not “safe”

@Barry.ONeill

29 күн бұрын

Do you live in Cezchia ? Thats what youtube says 😂

@flashgordon6670

29 күн бұрын

They’ll make Solar energy and make glass and silicone from all their sand. They can also threaten the major global routes to extort protection money and are perfectly located at the centre of the world’s land mass. They have lots of other minerals and exotic things like Frankincense and Myrrh. They can desalinate seawater, to make freshwater and salt to sell. They’re the epicentre of Islam and so will always have pilgrims bringing wealth in and the trades and crafts related with a religion. They have many friends around the world and few enemies and are increasing their higher educated citizens with every generation. They’re investing in their future and will expand exponentially with every passing year. Saudi Arabia has more going for it than most countries and should be the least of our worries. Yes they’ve got some wacky ideas, but if you’re a US Asylum citizen, then you should take a good look in the mirror. Look at the trillions that you’ve wasted going into Space, on military might and investing in future destruction, while half the population of Earth starves to death and from easily curable diseases. Look at all your health problems with morbid obesity, pill munching and your self obsessed consumerism. Just take a good look at all the materialistic crap you waste and pamper yourselves with. Body implants, plastic surgery, body reforming, sculpting and make up. Just look at all your crazy motorsports burning up the atmosphere and your whole sports, wrestling and bloodsports industry and all your gambling and casinos. Just look at all your strip clubs, prostitution and porn industry. Just look at all the trillions in the music and entertainment business. With all your disposable throwaway idols that people pour their money and lives into, only to fall down and worship the next false god and the next and next. Just look at all the BS and torrents of crap that goes into your brains each day, from fake news, propaganda and pop chat culture. Just look at all your electrical devices, gadgets and computers, piling mountains at landfills and scrapyards. Just look at all your Pollution, litter and cancerous cells. Just look at all your social woes and unrest. Just look at all your failed marriages, relationships and abortion, and all your sexual perversions. Just look at all your tobacco products, alcohol and drug problems. Just put your head in all your own shit for a moment first, before you go around judging everyone else.

Simon, if you get an invitation to a Saudi embassy, don't go.

@dnomyarnostaw

29 күн бұрын

Embassy ? I'd be looking for very clean typical sedans with very dark window tinting parked outside the house. "Do you remember Don Luigi ?" "Oh yeah. Kind old man who used to pay me $5 every morning to start his car"

@toddai2721

29 күн бұрын

I would try to find a really good plastic surgeon and get a new identity... maybe Samuel Jackson esque. Goes well with the bald look.

@ald1144

28 күн бұрын

Came here to say that. Simon will be the new Salman Rushdie.

@larryscott3982

28 күн бұрын

@@ald1144 Beat me to it

@Darth001

28 күн бұрын

There more than likely to put him up in a lush hotel and show him the project first hand and pay him to promote it like a lot of countrys china, uae etc do to other KZreadrs.

I have a friend who is Saudi. We talked about NEOM and he put it like this: "Neom will serve it's purpose perfectly well. That purpose isn't to be a city with people living in it, but rather to get a lot of money moving around. Ending with a lot of money in the hands of the people intended to get that money. I suspect it will work very well at this."

@johnnyonthespot4375

29 күн бұрын

Your Friend is a scary wise man when it comes to how things work there ~

@IAmWithinEverything

29 күн бұрын

A massive money laundering event

@michaeldowson6988

29 күн бұрын

Some version of greenwashing perhaps? Boycotting investors of petroleum scares some corporations.

@KaitoverMoon

29 күн бұрын

So basically the rich get richer, look like idiots while doing it, and have a random wall of cement and glass in the middle of the desert with no running water nor sewage system. Truly a billionaire's paradise.

@peterdore2572

29 күн бұрын

After seeing this, I think that Saudi Arabia is a Backwards Tribe of Men (with Enslaved Women) who can get fooled by "Giant Phallus" ideas, like Neom. Sorry. I hope to be proven to be the Idiot. I know, for sure, that if Women worked on this Project, Neom would be CANCELLED from the Start, instead of, after investing BILLION$...😢

My favorite part of Neom is when they said the birds would fly through the "specifically designed migration paths" instead of smacking into the gigantic blazing mirror they'd plopped down in the desert. because birds are well known for following human instructions, like that time we told them to shit all over everything we ever placed outside.

@rayswartz3378

13 күн бұрын

The Bird Representative (a chicken) was at the planning meeting! When we took the vote on the migration paths the Bird Representative said 'cluck', so it was unanimous! They agreed to it! After the meeting we voted on what to have for lunch - the Bird Representative said 'cluck' to the vote was unanimous. We had chicken.

@Xhumed

12 күн бұрын

In hindsight, telling them to shit all over everything we put outside was a mistake.

@rembourne

11 күн бұрын

🤣😂

@onyedikachukwumiracle

11 күн бұрын

🎉😂😂😂😂

@Abbyravenclaw92

10 күн бұрын

Who said that

How many sci-fi disasters can you name that begin with a fully enclosed Utopian civilization ruled by an incredibly advanced computer?

@YouPlay1313

12 күн бұрын

4 or 0, not sure

@stringlarson1247

12 күн бұрын

I can't count that high.

@NS-cs3wp

12 күн бұрын

Literally all of them

@rickybuhl3176

9 күн бұрын

Honestly, at this rate they'll be lucky to build enough for a film set..

@palomarjack4395

8 күн бұрын

Neom.

"You start in a bad location, so the city naturally forms a line as it attempts to get away from itself." -Pat Boyle

@Tallimme

27 күн бұрын

Ah another fellow intellectual. Our rap news God was right yet again.

@satu4387

27 күн бұрын

That Patrick’s video is YT gold😄

@LoneTiger

27 күн бұрын

_"You start in a bad location..."_ Yep, just like New Jersey. 😹

@cheezemonkeyeater

27 күн бұрын

@@LoneTiger New Jersey is a bad location because of the culture and policy. In terms of resources to work with, it's not that bad. Or, at least it wasn't when it was first founded.

@CainXVII

26 күн бұрын

You call him Pat? 😂

"A city with a predictive A.I. that monitors everything happening" doesn't sound like the plot of a dystopian science fiction novel at all

@RFSA180

19 күн бұрын

Can’t be any worse than the absolute hellscape of anarcho tyranny the west is in now

@Propagandalf-sk2gu

18 күн бұрын

Minority report precrime!

@TY-Tianyou

17 күн бұрын

At least it's in a religious state, so it's not quite dystopian.

@user-fp5ks4md9y

17 күн бұрын

​@@TY-Tianyou 😂😂😂😂😂

@dertythegrower

16 күн бұрын

Famous hollywood movie from 1993 Demolition Man, with many big name actors now, kind of showed it... whoa

A designer's dream is an engineer's nightmare. An artist's dream is a designer's nightmare. Now what happens when an artist tries to design an actual city...

@patricknorton5788

7 күн бұрын

Don't blame us artists. We aren't psychopathic Saudi princes.

@deez7145

5 күн бұрын

And the engineers dream is a contractor’s nightmare……

@stephenschiffman5940

5 күн бұрын

Is at an "artist" behind this though. Calling the Saudi crown prince an "artist" is...not accurate, I'd say.

@Nebukanezzer

4 күн бұрын

​@@stephenschiffman5940it's absolutely art, no question about it. In fact that's the main purpose. Doesn't make it more worthwhile or less stupid though.

I've always thought it absolutely ridiculous that they really believe the world's wealthiest would want to vacation in one of the most extreme climates on the planet, only to sequester themselves indoors.

@BlueBD

16 күн бұрын

That's where they live so of course they would think so.

@mabaker

16 күн бұрын

But they will vacation there... you should look into how the rich spend their money. They're all absolutely ignorant and only thinking about themselves buying 20 dollars a litre water bottles... They would absolutely be the first ones to go there.

@416to613

16 күн бұрын

They saw it kinda work for Dubai. And now every Gulf State is trying to one up Dubai.

@mikemikena159

15 күн бұрын

Hey, Saudi are building an island for extra rich. Imagine US government doing the same, people would go nuts

@mollusckscramp4124

15 күн бұрын

Americans and Brits already do this 24/7, it's all about status. They'd rather swim in a pool on a cruise ship rather than set foot in the ocean lmao

I learned in Dubai that when they promise a tram, you will get a tram. When they promise a hyperloop, you will get a tram.

@Hebdomad7

23 күн бұрын

But I like trams...

@mccallosone4903

22 күн бұрын

funny

@dkbmaestrorules

22 күн бұрын

To be fair, trams are actually a useful method of transport.

@baraka629

22 күн бұрын

Well, the hyperloop doesn't exist (and will not exist) so they might as well have promised a hen laying golden eggs.

@dustintacohands1107

22 күн бұрын

LOL and if they promise Neom you get??? A road to nowhere ???

Every time Simon says "Neom", I just imagine a race car going by.

@BaphometsLounge

28 күн бұрын

Comment of the year winner here folks...I can't unhear neommmm!

@blackc1479

28 күн бұрын

Thank God I didn't see this earlier. I wouldn't have made it through. You're evil, here, have my like.

@ivybee347

28 күн бұрын

When you say it in out loud. 😂

@drebk

28 күн бұрын

😂😂😂

@oFaisalo

27 күн бұрын

Every time I hear ” philip”, I imagine a Philippine person .

Dreamworks are planning a children's feature about a dyslexic camel lost in the Arabian desert called Finding Neom

@cindyspear5763

6 күн бұрын

🤣😂🤣😂😝 That is HILARIOUS!!

@mrxmry3264

Күн бұрын

i bet pixar is gonna have something to say about that :-)

6:57 Imagine being a theocratic monarchy with a history of human rights abuses, and thinking the phrase "free thinkers and free spirits" has any merit to outside investors

I had a few friends who worked on the design and concept art you’re seeing here. The Saudi prince initially hired traditional architects, but their designs weren’t ambitious enough for him. That’s when he reached out to my friend who is a concept artist for film and television. He specializes in large-scale designs like cities and planets. The prince wanted designs he saw in the movies - most especially sci-movies like Guardians of the Galaxy, a film my buddy worked on. This is why the designs don’t work practically - concept artists are not architects or engineers.

@marsmotion

28 күн бұрын

unless its just a scam and all it needs to be is attractive...

@patrickcardon1643

28 күн бұрын

Considering the trackrecord of Saudi Arabia ... it"d go for the scam, they're on top and dictate the rules, yet it is still and never will be enough. Too much money makes them probably think they're gods

@727skydivers

28 күн бұрын

If a district of "The Line" was planned to become a nightlife district like in "Blade Runner" or Kowloon Walled City, then that would be forward-thinking and a possible popular tourist destination! But you need alcohol, music, and allowance of scantily clad women. Without that, you can kiss it goodbye. It would be great, but I'm skeptical regarding a bacchanal in SA.

@alton19pinto

28 күн бұрын

@@727skydivers The sort of people that make a place like Kowloon work are specifically not the sort that they're looking for. If they built something like that, a place that could offer decent living conditions compared to the hellholes that most of the regions refugee camps are turning into, I could see it evolving a culture of its own. No one would bat an eye at their Only Muslims Allowed policy, the whole city of Mecca already has that. They even wouldn't need alcohol since, again, Only Muslims Allowed. The real problem is that he's hoping to attract young professionals. The sort who could live in Silicon Valley or Manhattan. They actually want that sort of person to choose to live in a place with 24 hour surveilance, as the subject of a King

@vladimirarnost8020

28 күн бұрын

@@alton19pinto It looks like a supermodern glass prison to me. There is no escape, only scorching desert all around. I wonder if people are even going to be able to go out behind the glass wall. That would require building roads, paths, etc. even around the noodle city.

It went wrong, shock, horror. It's like a dystopian prison. This is what happens when a load of egomaniac children run a country.

@gerharddeusser9103

29 күн бұрын

Just like our country Absurdistan 🏳️‍🌈 (formerly known as germany🇩🇪)

@tomcollins5112

29 күн бұрын

The leadership of Saudi Arabia is really, really stupid.

@matthewmiller6568

29 күн бұрын

​@@gerharddeusser9103how horrible that Germany legalize lgbtq

@Hollylivengood

29 күн бұрын

Yeah, when he said it would attract free thinkers...in Saudi Arabia.

@TheSovereign2011

29 күн бұрын

You mean a strong leader who will have you dismembered alive if you disagree with him doesn't result in sound plans and flawless delivery?

This is basically high-level money laundering

@kavohjenkins7113

7 күн бұрын

You launder money to hide how it was made. This country is run by king the project was started by him. They don’t have to hide nothing.

@braxtonholmquist48

7 күн бұрын

Never thought about it like that

@dallasreid7755

6 күн бұрын

The rulers don't have to worry about any anti-money laundering rules. They make the rules.

@ngrader

5 күн бұрын

It's the curious thing. As MBS doesn't have to do this to launder/embezzle it. He may just be crazy and falling for pretty renderings. But anywhere else, this is how they'd move money to their cronies. Also, does make sense MBS going for a commodity based approach to post-oil economy. (tourism, direct capital investment) To have the economies of a 'Western' country, you have to allow certain civil liberties, large reason why rich Saudis are educated in USA/GB, and not domestically.

@murasaki848

5 күн бұрын

Few people understand that money by itself is just a shared fantasy that determines who gets to make decisions and how big those decisions can be, and it's what people with the money make other people accomplish in real assets and knowledge that matters. Saudi Arabia spent half a century of massive profits on outsourcing nearly all labor, defense, and industry, absurd construction projects like marble laden homes in cities for the revered Bedouin who never used them, filtering excessive sums to religious institutions and extremist groups to buy their acquiescence, as well as the usual golden palaces and private jets. They didn't work on a professional army. They didn't work on reasonable and sustainable housing and infrastructure for their people. They didn't work on any sort of real world education system, or tradespeople, or factories, or anything of real use. Now, seeing the writing on the wall, they're trying to catch up to the UAE in the only thing they know -- catering to rich people like themselves -- and they're failing at that with magical thinking.

For your own safety Simon, please keep a safe distance from any Saudi embassy in the world, we still need your outstanding and bold shows.

@djalimario8842

5 күн бұрын

Outstanding and bald*

Wow, who could have guessed that this would be an embarrassing failure

@RamblingRodeo

29 күн бұрын

Everyone DID, why would anyone want to visit Saudi Arabia anyhow?

@bimblinghill

29 күн бұрын

@@RamblingRodeo If I was forced to go to a murderous dictatorship, I'd at least choose one where I could drink

@METALFREAK03

29 күн бұрын

@@bimblinghill oh, so that is why you think its a failure and not the design flaw.

@METALFREAK03

29 күн бұрын

@@bimblinghill ps. a lot of people go to Saudi, mainly for business and vacations.

@RamblingRodeo

29 күн бұрын

@@bimblinghill Bingo, however they do have bars for Westerners in Saudi. Most Saudi's or at LEAST the ELITE ones are allowed to.

As most town planners will tell you, a linear city is really a dumb idea. But hey, it always looks so good with animated CGI.

@jt_no_money2381

25 күн бұрын

Amazing how cgi can do that with a lot of things that are actually trash in the end!

@JeeVeeHaych

25 күн бұрын

It would be better to invest in Saudi Arabia's future as a VFX hub.

@liam3284

25 күн бұрын

rederite is amazing material, so are CGI microclimates in a fire trap.

@SubjectE57

24 күн бұрын

I like how the CGI had trees floating on little anti-gravity islands. Anyone who invested in that is dumb as a stump.

@tryscience

24 күн бұрын

It's about as real as the girl floating through space through the structure

Let's not forget that the Burj Khalifa has its sewage carted away by trucks....

@RuffDiesel

12 күн бұрын

Who gives a…shit lol

@Ka0ziun

12 күн бұрын

Isnt it the entire city of Dubaï ? Im pretty sure ive heard that sewage being evacuated by trucks is a city wide thing as the city has no/poor sewage system.

@syedhasanalimahdi7390

11 күн бұрын

⁠​⁠@@Ka0ziun They have a sewage system. Jebel Ali plant and one in Al Awir. They're also further expanding that system and invested 16 billion USD to accomodate the growing population.

@lukasd.4389

9 күн бұрын

​@@syedhasanalimahdi7390I wonder how much of that money was invested in housing their starving slaves

@syedhasanalimahdi7390

8 күн бұрын

@@lukasd.4389 „Starving slaves“ lmao. The UAE is one of 20 countries with a GHI (Global Hunger Index) score of less than 5 . Living conditions for migrant workers need improvement but this is just exaggeration. No one is starving in the UAE.

Hey Simon, when Crown Prince Bonesaw offers to give you a personal tour of Neom... I'd decline

"The Line" = What they were snorting when they came up with the idea.

@zandaroos553

24 күн бұрын

MBS really needs to stop taking so many trips to nightclubs in the Maldives

@Zaluskowsky

24 күн бұрын

Top Comment

@phildavies7666

24 күн бұрын

Sand!

@LoscoeLad

21 күн бұрын

exactly that

@Hydrazine1000

21 күн бұрын

It gets a really nasty twist if you've ever played the brilliant and disturbing Spec Ops: The Line...

For the record, Mr. Whistler is in perfect health, Is not suicidal, and the brakes on his car are in perfect repair.

@brainites

28 күн бұрын

🤣

@thefloop2813

28 күн бұрын

comments like this would be better served in his video's regarding Russia lmao.

@megalonoobiacinc4863

27 күн бұрын

what he meant to say, was that all his limbs are still perfectly attached together

@personzorz

26 күн бұрын

​@@thefloop2813 or Boeing

@Alex-zo6so

25 күн бұрын

Mr Whistler should be fine - he only said "Bo*ing" once.

I feel like every time someone gets a chance to build a megaproject, they focus more on making it as flashy as possible with 'future tech', rather than using the opportunity to use what already exists without all the tangled issues of pre-existing cities.

@Petticca

15 күн бұрын

I think they're the fever dream of people who might believe, that they, great thinker of the age, know how to fix all that is problematic in this city! They'll start a new city, -with blackjack and hookers... wait, that's Vegas- and it will use some kind of monorail/ vacuum tube/ pod transport system, and it will be flush with artificial canals, with many futuristic walkways criss crossing the canals at random intervals. People will be five minutes from everything, and maybe there will be elevators all over the sides of buildings, or maybe it will be trees and shrubberies, I guess it will depend on how much green the artist wants to use on their picture. It will be called Furtureville, and it will not have an unhoused population, or overcrowding, or any massive wealth and economic disparity within its zones. A crime-free, drug-free, trash-free utopialand, where tomorrow's future is here now! Whooo. These people are dipshits, really. They can't actually come up any solutions to the myriad issues already here, so they childishly assert they can solve it all with Tomorrowtowntoday, a city of their genius vision

@philipk4475

7 күн бұрын

It's because if they had an ounce of common sense, they would abandon their stupid mega industrial projects.

A line seems like how you'd organize a city if you wanted every part to be the maximum possible distance from every other part. Which is basically the opposite of what a city is for if you think about it.

I had high hopes for Neom. As a derelict places buff I was looking forward to visiting an epic region of massive ruins in fifteen years or so.

@andymouse

29 күн бұрын

You will get it so make sure your passport is up to date ! :~)

@rcreccomendationsforpeople3906

29 күн бұрын

literally also exactly what i was looking forward to

@stevewhite3424

29 күн бұрын

​@@andymouseWon't do you any good unless you are on your once in a lifetime pilgagramage to Mecca as.a Mualim. Or a specific invite of the Saudi government. There are no other kinds of fvisas There are especially no visitor visas.

@ekvinto

29 күн бұрын

​@@stevewhite3424 What are you talking about? A lot of citizenships can literally get it fully online (for 90 days in a year)

@edc1569

29 күн бұрын

Like going to Chernobyl

Classic Dunning-Kruger effect. Just because you're good at selling oil and dismembering journalists, now you're suddenly a visionary architect and engineer.

@imac1957

21 күн бұрын

This is what happens when a long line off camel and goat herders come into a lot of money.

@johanlahti84

21 күн бұрын

It is hard to stay on track with all that oil under their feet

@joannemarinelli1936

13 күн бұрын

I’m reading all the comments and I’m weak with laughter and tears, I haven’t laughed this hard since God knows when, truth with sarcasm and laugher, you guys are incrediable. I’ve been following all these Gigaprojects for awhile now, my thought was, why not do one project at a time, not eleven or twelve on the go now, just didn’t make sense to do it that way, maybe I’m dense, but the Line gosh that’s impossible, someone’s smoking a lot of weed or snorting cocaine to have those visions, ☮️🇵🇸☪️🙏✝️🇨🇦

@Vicieron

11 күн бұрын

yup.

@cindyspear5763

6 күн бұрын

🤣😂😝. Excellent analysis!!

Some questions….. 1. How deep in the sand do you have to dig to form a solid enough foundation for a building that high? 2. Are they finding any interesting archaeological discoveries? 3. Do the desert winds or rains keep filling in the holes? How are they kept perfectly level? 4. What effect would an earthquake or crack in the glass wall have on the rest of the building? 5. Financially, how would the prisoners, I mean tenants, pay for the cost of building and maintaining the project? 6. Would it gradually get sandy inside because of the location? 7. Aside from the end exit in the sea, how do tenants escape, I mean leave, especially in case of an emergency like a fire? 8. What would happen in the case of a severe rain storm like Dubai had recently? 9. Is the top open, or does the entire city have to be air conditioned? 10. How many residents are waiting for occupancy? 11. Is this a project of UN Agenda 2030? 12. Who did the financials on this idea?

@elizabethkeatley5010

15 күн бұрын

and the first one I thought of: who/how will keep that expanse of glass clean?

@cmwHisArtist

15 күн бұрын

@@elizabethkeatley5010 …yes, myself as well. Clean is one thing; completely pitted and dull after the first sandstorm is another . Which is what happens to solar panels in sandy areas or after hailstorms. Not sure if the mirrored sides have any use aside from deflecting sun, but 1. Where do you get a continuous mirror that large, and 2. Would it tend to melt or blind things near it depending on the angle of the sun?

@Debodreal1

7 күн бұрын

You're asking too much questions. I will advise you not to go near any Saudi embassy.

@cmwHisArtist

7 күн бұрын

@@Debodreal1 ….no worry, I’m just a little 80 year old lady who can barely get off the couch, having some research .

@cindyspear5763

7 күн бұрын

Number 4... I looked into that,and the project is being built in an area with 10 seismically active fault zones.

Will it have a cinema? And will it be showing endless repeats of Dune, Brazil and Blade Runner - or Alphaville? Metropolis - I could go on ...

@Teeeheeeteeheee

9 күн бұрын

It'll play live action mad max soon

@JeannetteReed

6 күн бұрын

Tremors, swell cast, lots of sand, creepy things that pop up out of sand. Well, bedtime, kids!!

@mrxmry3264

Күн бұрын

one cinema for 9 million people? it'll be IMPOSSIBLE to get tickets.

Can you imagine living in a city, working in the same city, and because the train broke down today you have a 170km walk to work?

@d.aardent9382

23 күн бұрын

They wont have luxury golf carts on the side roads shuttling people back n forth? Lol

@Krexel

21 күн бұрын

​@@d.aardent9382 Of course they will! But only for the ultra rich

@morzh1978

21 күн бұрын

May rather spend 3-6 hours in a common underground train adjacent to high speed lane. Quite inspiring backup alternative!

@Video2Webb

21 күн бұрын

😂🤣😛🤣

@skeetrix5577

18 күн бұрын

one of the promo videos featured people floating around in mid air. that's when I laughed and thought well some people are going to get very rich off this deal and some people are going to lose everything because of how much money can be spent before anything tangible is constructed lol whoever puts more than a dime into this scam deserves to lose all their money in the end, and I won't be surprised when that happens

I think the prince should just write a sci-fi novel and call it a day

@Loner-Wolf

19 күн бұрын

And that novel should be called 'The fantastical world of MBS'

@rickwrites2612

18 күн бұрын

Seriously. Or a SF tv series. He has an imagination, maybe it would be very lucrative.

@sharequsman596

12 күн бұрын

​@@rickwrites2612yeah maybe he can then stop oppressing and killing anyoke who opposes his tyrannical rule not limited to islamic scholars,journalists,,teachers,etc

@Abbyravenclaw92

10 күн бұрын

Huh? See you in 2030

@magdabielecka8374

Күн бұрын

Maybe saudi arabia should invest in making sci-fi movies

Noam sounds like an idea that someone buried in literal lines of cocain would come up with.

man, all of these locations sound like a pretty good setting for a dystopian futuristic thriller/crime anime. :D

To be fair, he only said they'd deliver something unprecedented, he didn't say it wasn't unprecedented failure.

@irkallaLustre

24 күн бұрын

😂😂😂

@antonnurwald5700

24 күн бұрын

Touche

@mellie4174

23 күн бұрын

Exactly!

@wobblyboost

23 күн бұрын

Yep, if someone uses 'unprecedented' 3 times in a single sentence, I know they mean 'unmitigated disaster of epic proportions'.

@purplekief8154

23 күн бұрын

He'd bet $1 on the "price is right"

I lived and worked in Saudi and the only thought I had was "why do they leave these construction sites unfinished but aspire to build a sci-fi city that makes no sense" The amount of abandoned construction sites and buildings in Saudi is eye-watering

@AbrahamLure

24 күн бұрын

I would love to see a documentary series on this

@dakoderii4221

24 күн бұрын

Money laundering and Ponzi schemes.

@Sam..572

24 күн бұрын

Bullshit.. highly doubt you even stepped foot in Saudi, but if you did, other than the remote building that you probably never seen (Jeddah tower) what other half built/ abandoned construction sites did you pass by? Yes, they announce some projects that are never even started, but never abandoned after construction starts.

@vashonm

24 күн бұрын

@@Sam..572you get WiFi at the riyadh ritz-carlton lol

@vashonm

24 күн бұрын

@@Sam..572you get WiFi at the riyadh ritz-carlton lol

As a pro in the BMS industry, i could not even understand how could anybody have believed a single second that this project could even have a small chance... totally silly. It is at least the third project that failed in the region.

Aid: "Crown Prince, people are saying they don't want us to access the data on their phones and be monitored in their homes and public." Salman: "Why would they not want such a gift from a benevolent man like me?"

This has all the makings of a great sci-fi story. Meglomanic "Prince" builds a boondoggle of a city to trap people within it and monitors them for subversive behavior, talk and even thoughts. What a hell hole, no matter how transparent and shiny.

One of the key hallmarks of cancer is "Inducing Angiogenesis". It's when a bunch of cells who only care of themselves (arrogant), generate new blood vessels to drive nutrients their way.

@brainites

28 күн бұрын

Wicked!

@thedownwardmachine

28 күн бұрын

“The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it’s everywhere. The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.” - Matt Taibbi

@randomgrinn

28 күн бұрын

That is every Billionaire on Earth.

@theRealDavidn

26 күн бұрын

thats actually a great way of putting it

@TY-Tianyou

25 күн бұрын

Bro just described capitalism in medical terms

When a despot gets desperate for a 'legacy' - other than body parts sneaked out of an embassy

Something that has always confused me about Neom is the lack of info on the engineering. Even if you do a project like this in stages, you have to go through a raft of planning and procedures. There's the basic civil engineering part. Then, there is the sustainment of the construction effort. (It takes a city of support staff just to make sure you have the right people and that they are being supplied, fed, sheltered, etc.) On something like this, the organizers would tend to take pride in just talking about that part. The architects, MEP firms, and construction companies would each be running constant PR efforts. I have seen almost none of this.

Basic geometry: A city is a hub. A line is NOT a hub. A line is a road, that in this case ends nowhere.

@rouninpanda6318

23 күн бұрын

The future is linear cities, spiral roads, and square tires.

@Matixmer

23 күн бұрын

And chrome …

@trowawayacc

23 күн бұрын

Its the emperor clothes all over again. It might yet get built but given the current state of things its not feasable.

@PlebNC

23 күн бұрын

Space elevators.

@Hebdomad7

23 күн бұрын

Hey, it worked extremely well in the last sim city game... Right?

Using the phrase "heads will roll" with a country that still beheads people causes a little shiver down the spine.

@luizdevil6855

24 күн бұрын

he was being very literal

@giovannip8600

20 күн бұрын

One way or another 😂

I think a literal 6 year old would understand this "city" would be an extremely inefficient use of material and terrible to live in

As an engineer, when I first heard about this I suddenly knew there will be great times ahead. So, I grabbed a case of beer, went to my buddy's house then we had a great time poking fun at this.

I had a co-worker that did a teaching gig in Saudi. He told us that no matter what, if you are well to do, you have to save face. Like if a kid was failing class, and that kid was a "prince", he WAS passing no matter his grade. This sounds like the same thing. Just with this massive project.

@cane6074

25 күн бұрын

Honor-Shame dynamics 101.

@Romit12

25 күн бұрын

The "Prince" is probably using it to get away with being stupid

@drunkenhobo8020

25 күн бұрын

There was a perfect example of this at the 2023 Saudi Grand Prix. The band that performed the national anthem simply could not play the instruments - it was just a cacophony. People living there said that was quite a common thing, kids of rich parents would have them as part of the band, and they would play in the band no matter what. You weren't allowed to tell them they had all of the talent and grace of a baboon in mating season.

@us3rG

25 күн бұрын

The kings take care of Saudi people in general

@juki6377

25 күн бұрын

saving face in asia is pretty important too, and sometimes in very indirect ways that lead to misunderstandings with foreigners (americans) and locals. For a while i used to teach as well, and while you are held accountable for the kid failing, you must make them succeed by any means (i had people tell me to beat their kids), probably less so in lesser well off schools, the rich kid schools were my least favourite (and generally had the most bullying among students). When teaching saudi medical staff in Europe i mostly remember them as extremely rude and crass (most female staff refused to go near them).

'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

@samdog_1

17 күн бұрын

Yep. Shelley really nailed hubris with that one....

@fyrenoftelios767

4 күн бұрын

I'd be hard-pressed to find a better piece line of literature to describe this

I think all these discussions miss the mark on the very simple fact that there’s absolutely no raison d’être for this project. Countries don’t become tech hubs by building “cool” cities, they do so by investing in human capital.

This is going to puzzle archeologists someday.

@JRBendixen

18 күн бұрын

Not so sure. When they finally abandon the project the hole will just get filled with sand once again.

@0Aus

12 күн бұрын

​@@JRBendixen😂👍

“The adoring public started laughing” Actually, I think the public was laughing the entire time. We just started laughing even harder

@Scudboy17

29 күн бұрын

The reason all the talking heads in Saudi Arabia are still saying Neom and all of its projects are still happening is that disagreeing with the royal family is a great way to wake up missing your head. Don't forget one of the first reporters to talk bad about the Line was allegedly killed because of it. People in SA are too afraid to laugh.

@innobius4898

28 күн бұрын

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@eukaryote-prime

28 күн бұрын

I’m not laughing. This was probably a grift by the extremely rich to ensnare the money from the merely very rich. Rich people grifting other naive rich people. Or something. No way it was going to get done, so it had to be some kind of money scam…

@briannam3140

28 күн бұрын

exactly

@battlesheep2552

28 күн бұрын

"Oh wait, you're serious. Let me laugh even harder"

I kid you not, back in 2019/20, I spent a year at a prominent branding agency in London working on various Neom design projects. Investor presentations, early tourism stuff and websites. My boss had flown out there a few times. The Zoom calls with the Saudi team could be a bit intense. It was fun to work on but I don't suppose anyone really thought they'd make it happen.

What I always find funny is the amount of handwaving this project needs to justify its supposed feasibility, the transport relies on tech which hasn't gone beyond a few small test tracks and which multiple startups have gone bankrupt, the daily running of the city just has the vague "AI will handle it" explanation, maintenance and infrastructure has "3D printing will fix everything". It's so lacking in vision that it's just an exercise in wacky concept art without any grounding in reality, and an excuse for executives to shift investor's money around and make it vanish.

@G1NZOU

16 күн бұрын

The thing that's not funny though is how many people have been evicted from their land and sentenced to execution because the Saudi Government wants this project to happen.

With a design like this and all these ideas like a "predictive A.I that monitors everything" wouldn't it be more feasible at that point to just try and make a goddamn space colony?

And on the pedestal these words appear: ‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

@robertnett9793

24 күн бұрын

Yep... A lot of people don't know the rest of the poem :D

@EndingSimple

24 күн бұрын

And before that was the Tower of Babel.

@robwoodring9437

24 күн бұрын

Cool quote/poem from Dune:Messiah... Here lies a toppled god His fall was not a small one We but built his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one.

@geoffreypiltz271

24 күн бұрын

I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desart.[d] Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" No thing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away. - Percy Shelley, "Ozymandias", 1819 edition

@AnthonyBouttell

22 күн бұрын

LOL!!! I posted the exact same lines I changed the name of Ozymandias to Prince… Saud.

"I drive everybody like a slave, when they drop down dead, I celebrate. That's how I do my projects" being said like it's a positive is just the most insane thing to hear.

@garyruss3529

29 күн бұрын

A perspective shared by many of the 1%.

@skeetsmcgrew3282

29 күн бұрын

Sadly many Americans would share this sentiment. Most of them boomers, but still. Hustle culture and late stage capitalism are a brain rot that actively works against all of our best interests

@baomao7243

29 күн бұрын

He is trying to posture so as to be seen by MBS (and the world) as Steve Jobs starting Apple from nothing. Unfortunately, though, “treating people like slaves” has a very different meaning in KSA than in most of the developed tech world. In KSA, the master-slave relationship is a common model. Laborers are viewed by many as being expendable. The gazillions of laborers from India, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines all tell their stories…

@dnomyarnostaw

29 күн бұрын

@@skeetsmcgrew3282 You're a bit generation biased. Read up the history of the Panama and the Suez canal, and most of the US railroads and bridges. It was happening long before the "boomers"

@skeetsmcgrew3282

29 күн бұрын

@@dnomyarnostaw Ok but they openly treated brown people as sub human and would be extremely unlikely to brag about how they drive white men into an early grave. It was more about pure racism than pure capitalism

I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desart.[d] Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" No thing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away. - Percy Shelley, "Ozymandias", 1819 edition

The delirium of a prince not drunk but on acid........................................

@harounel-poussah6936

14 күн бұрын

On acid, he'd become a nice hippie... Not really his style...

The entire project is about as dystopian as it gets. Imagine being the poor workers living shoulder to shoulder in the bottom level of this walled city. They would essentially be slaves with no where to run as desert goes for miles in every direction.

@shannonspage9360

25 күн бұрын

Absolute nightmare fuel.

@danielmclellan1522

25 күн бұрын

Warhammer 40k style Hive City.

@AerisShenlin

24 күн бұрын

came here to say this but you beat me to it. How do you get out if you're not rich enough to afford a helicopter? Nightmare.

@SubjectE57

24 күн бұрын

They watched Silo on apple TV and then asked a slave to hold their beer.

@SingleTrack66

24 күн бұрын

Why would this be a problem when you are fundamentally evil ?

Neom was a massive success, and works just like previous "failed" megaptojects. It's just a legal way to embezzl money into the hands of contractors and industries that need a payoff. If it happens to get funding from the outside world to fund it, then it just discounts the amount that the crown has to put forward into the project.

@agathaloewen877

24 күн бұрын

But who is stupid enough to "invest" in this nightmare?

@oneoranota

23 күн бұрын

Sounds about right. They can have their friends dig foundations for the next 30 years.

@Kerome33

23 күн бұрын

I suspect most of the world’s real investors are going to be a lot less easy-going with their wealth than the Saudi crown prince.

@spankeyfish

23 күн бұрын

I reminds me of the Barnsley Halo (which mercifully never even got to the geotechnical survey stage before being killed by the Credit Crunch) except that seemed to be a fraud perped by an 'architect' upon the local council.

@SergioMollari

23 күн бұрын

@@agathaloewen877 "But who is stupid enough to "invest" in this nightmare?" Someone who has huge amounts of extremely dirty money that they can't launder any other way. That's about all that paper mega-projects are actually good for.

It's like when a kid in minecraft envisions a huge building project and realizes it had no skill for it after placing 2 blocks. At least minecraft does not have to obey the physics

16:44 the world is NOT in the process of weaning itself off of oil. With the addition of renewable capacity, oil has ALSO increased.

@humblescribe8522

2 күн бұрын

Not really. Global oil consumption goes up and down because of prices, covid, the Ukraine war etc, but is essentially flat. Peak oil consumption is expected in the next 5-10 years and thereafter it goes down, and therefore so does production.

@StevenRogers-hw9dj

Күн бұрын

@@humblescribe8522 "Peak oil" predictions go back nearly 140 years. Do try to get into this millennium.

I remember when I first saw the ads and the sheer horror that hit the moment I realised it wasn’t a dystopian film trailer. Deserts are ecosystems, not empty wastelands, and the disruption to native wildlife of a massively long and high solid fence would be devastating.

@Tinmann_77

26 күн бұрын

Dystopian movies are just the elitists telling us what they are working towards.

@angamaitesangahyando685

25 күн бұрын

​@@Jbs6187 For these hippies, the world is but a morality play between evil humans and vegetarian lions. - Adûnâi

@Alblaka

25 күн бұрын

@@Jbs6187 Oof. I mean, they got a point that the project is *also* an ecological disaster, but yeah, next to all the slave labor and waste of economic resources (that could be used for a variety of purposes, including ecological ones), the ecological concerns kind of pale out.

@Nico6th

25 күн бұрын

I thought it was one of those fancy sci-fi projects that architecture students come up with for their final thesis and that are not even meant to ever be build but are interesting case studies concerning the infrastructure of the design. I was very much surprised to hear that they are actually building that thing.

@Callimo

25 күн бұрын

​@angamaitesangahyando685 Oh, and what are you and yours going to do? Eat lead when/if it gets too hot for your body to sweat the climate change heat? Hmm, guess so. :)

Imagine wanting to build a city without cars, and then designing it in a way that makes everywhere you want to go to as far away from eachother as physically possible

@olp1e

26 күн бұрын

While I think the Neom concept is bonkers, it makes sense that in a linear city only 200 meters wide cars are unnecessary if there is public transport running down the centre

@andrewauchter7759

26 күн бұрын

@@olp1e The insanity is that it would only have one, singular, train. So if anything goes wrong anywhere at all on the length of that line, the entire system backs up and fails. Also, cars would still be unnecessary if you just made the thing a grid and had functioning public transport there.

@SmallWonda

25 күн бұрын

And as if Saudi's don't love their 4x4s!!

@icosthop9998

25 күн бұрын

Back to the *"Drawing Board"* ❕️❗️❕️

@olp1e

25 күн бұрын

@@andrewauchter7759 I didn't say train I said public transport which could be a bus or tram. Also if the city is just 200 meters wide, a spinal road for cars would take up too much space. As I said before the whole idea is bonkers, and until the final design is known it's pointless to continue this discussion.

Saudis out here making Bioshock 3's new setting

These Smoothed Brained mega projects can become some really nice ruins in the Desert once they get abandoned for obvious reasons.

Remember children, an architect's dream is an engineer's nightmare

@OffGridInvestor

28 күн бұрын

Been on a construction site like that before.

@ashaman81

26 күн бұрын

If you think it's bad for the engineer, imagine how bad it is for the tradesmen at the end.

@scottabc72

26 күн бұрын

do they even have architects for this or just cgi artists?

@ShiNiGaMi-bb2ep

25 күн бұрын

@@scottabc72someone in the comments above said that they’ve first hired architects but their designs weren’t flashy enough for the king so they’ve hired concept artists who’ve worked for sci-fi movies and games💀

@iambicpentakill971

25 күн бұрын

@@ShiNiGaMi-bb2ep Wait, are you trying to tell me that an architect didn't design those floating tree pods? 🤣

They keep pissing their finite oil-money away, this part of the world is going to be up the creek without a paddle when the oil runs out

@ripvanwinkle2002

29 күн бұрын

yea im sure they are worried about what happens in thousands of years.. oil doesnt come from dead dinosaurs. you know that right?

@darthtac

29 күн бұрын

Or when science pulls its finger out and we all get a Mr. Fusion to power our flying cars.

@dougaldouglas8842

29 күн бұрын

True, and who shall suffer? The people, and so-called visions are no visions, just arrogance spoken as such. Around the world cities have been created, never to be inhabited because the vision was, again, not a vision, but sheer arrogance

@disorganizedorg

29 күн бұрын

@@darthtac Oil will still be valuable as a source of chemicals.

@TalesOfWar

29 күн бұрын

@@disorganizedorg If anything, prices will go up for the useful but not burning it for fuel aspects.

So... This project is doing a lot better than I thought it would. I was expecting a long, thin hole in the ground, being slowly filled up with blowing sands. It seems they may end up filling a tiny bit of the hole with some sort of structure. Just goes to show, we pessimists and naysayers aren't always completely right. Sometimes we're only 99.9% right.

@joannemarinelli1936

4 күн бұрын

Good one lol

This is fantastic ! I remember the first video. Please keep us updated ! Thank-you Simon !

The project is not just strapped for cash, it's strapped for physics.

@justicedemocrat9357

22 күн бұрын

How exactly is it strapped for physics?

@goncalovazpinto6261

22 күн бұрын

@@justicedemocrat9357 170 km train trip in 20 minutes? 🤣 You do the math. I suggest taking into account acceleration and deceleration (G force) and A LOT of stops along the way, since there is no space at the bottom for hundreds of lines.

@10HW

21 күн бұрын

​@@goncalovazpinto6261the whole Line constantly shaking because of the trains endlessly going back and forth. + the noise reverberating on the glass/mirror walls. Hell on Earth.

@goncalovazpinto6261

21 күн бұрын

@@10HW so many memes...😆

@kharmachaos667

10 күн бұрын

@justicedemocratrandomstuff: One word. Sand.

So, this will be the largest palace ever built, with slave quarters on the lower levels. Control transportation, water, and power. Monitor every aspect of every worker's life. What could go wrong?

@WindTurbineSyndrome

23 күн бұрын

Anyone who displeased the Spice Overlord will be sent outside via one door at Neom to die in heat of desert with no food and water.

@arbjful

23 күн бұрын

@@WindTurbineSyndromethey probably have ‘punishment’ doors that open into the desert, and the condemned would have to step out…

@rickwrites2612

18 күн бұрын

Haha like Dune.

Literally Ozymandius - “Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains, round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, the lone and level sands stretch far away.

When I first heard about this project and who is behind it, I knew it would most likely be a massive flop, dreamed up in the imagination of a spoiled brat who expects to be able to snap his fingers and things just happen. The real world isn’t like that. Having lived & worked in KSA many years ago I was immediately deeply sceptical.

The Emperor's New Clothes played out on a grand scale.

@brainites

28 күн бұрын

🤣

@Winterborn5

28 күн бұрын

Perfect reference. Nice.

@erickgomez7775

25 күн бұрын

Only intelligent people can see Neom happen

@markfryer9880

25 күн бұрын

I'm surprised that trump isn't in on the deal, I mean scam!😅

@wallhagens2001

25 күн бұрын

You said it!

Here's the weirdest part: the long, thin shape of the city guarantees that every household, every district, will have a very large amount of a rare and unusual resource: An edge. Because in a normal city, only a fraction of addresses are near to the edge, where the city ends. Neom would give everybody a big slice of edge. So, obviously we must ask, what's this edge for? What would they do with all this edge? Give citizens a beautiful view? Construct outdoor parks in walkable distance? Nope. Outside is an intensely hot desert that can kill you. The view is too boring to look at. Neom provides you with a lot of something useless.

@spankeyfish

23 күн бұрын

Instead of landlords, Neom would've had edgelords.

@hitchmille

22 күн бұрын

The kids on the ground floor would have a great sandpit to play in, but only if there is a gate or door in their glass wall. 😂

@markweatherill

22 күн бұрын

You can't deny it's cutting edge

@giantbonsai8950

22 күн бұрын

@@hitchmille until the wind piles up the sand in giant drifts against the wall and blocks all light and access to the outside.

@DavidByrden1

22 күн бұрын

@@markweatherill The more I think about this, the stranger it seems. People in Neom could feel confined, almost imprisoned, being trapped between two edges so close together. If they could walk THROUGH an edge, and reach a pleasant outdoor environment: the nearness of edges would be a huge benefit. But they can't. Neom's designers are pretty insistent that they want nothing out there but sand. To preserve the pristine beauty of their huge mirrored blade. And, in any case, it's one of the most inhospitable places on Earth. Neom could work somewhere else - somewhere nice. Imagine if Neom were a curved structure, snaking through Alpine valleys, passing a lake every now and then?

Sounds like buddy wanted to make an MMO but didn't know what a videogame was

Would love to see movies/video games set in these locations (even if they never actually get built)...Another great video Simon.

The idea of "the line" is so stupid it boggles the mind. You know what would be cool, building a city in a line. But then you could fold that line back on itself to save space right? And then you could do it again until you have a zig-zag city. But then you could connect the ends of the zig-zag together to save driving time and...oh, it's a grid.

@drebk

28 күн бұрын

😂😂😂 very succinct

@oFaisalo

27 күн бұрын

Why you don’t want people to build something new ? If your logic is on every human they will never be planes, cars, skyscrapers, etc

@pavelow235

27 күн бұрын

They tried building in NYC cubes that rose from the sidewalk, 800 feet straight up on four sides with no setbacks, but some residents complained, 100 years later, NYC is more expensive(income by percentage of Gross metropolitan product ) than 1924. So what gives?

@bahamut256

27 күн бұрын

@@oFaisalo "Why don't you want people to try eating dogshit? If every human shares your logic, nobody will try eating dogshit off the sidewalk!"

@nathanielsaxe3049

27 күн бұрын

​@@oFaisalo People should try to build something new when there are expected benefits to building it that way. What actual benefit is there of this being a giant straight line rather than some other shape?

I think all vloggers talking about this subject should show the project the respect it deserves. Every time you say "Neom", you should have a toy plane in your hand that "flies" as you say it.

@irkallaLustre

24 күн бұрын

😂😂😂

@olp1e

24 күн бұрын

No, it should be an elephant called Dumbo in a white suit (I wasn't going to suggest a flying pig cos the imagery would be too insulting)

@plicketyplunk

23 күн бұрын

No. Chocolate chip cookies, "neom, neom".

@thahardman

23 күн бұрын

Dude, that's a next level dad joke

@joannemarinelli1936

13 күн бұрын

Oh my God! I’m crying I’m laughing so much, love it, imagining it as you said it, I wonder if MBS reads all the comments, alot of tantrums and fits, you no he’s thin skinned, the Washington reporter who was chopped up found that out.

WHy does it feel like these project descriptions were made by people who never turned off "Infinite money" mode in city building games?

@DoctorDerpman

6 күн бұрын

When your income is as disposable as your common sense. 😂

This sounds like a dystopian fantasy written by a 14 year old boy. I wonder how all of those batteries and electronics will hold out in the desert with the constant sand and heat. The cloud seeding will be great for those electronics. People have already tried the solar farms out in the Sahara desert and it went terrible. The solar panels couldn’t hold up to the heat and the panels kept getting covered in sand.

Anyone with half a brain and some common sense would have looked at the Line project and seen the huge flaws in it. From the mirrored exterior literally cooking the surrounding sand and turning it into glass, to the fact that it would turn into a dystopian hellscape with the "lesser-than" workers and staff living on the bottom floors and receiving no sunlight at all and the rich and powerful living at the top floors. If I, not an architect nor an engineer, can see these few glaring issues how come no one in charge of the project did a double take is beyond me.

@Horse-and-Butterfly

24 күн бұрын

Yessir, I believe you are right. Architect here. I'll add too that given it's shape, linear in both horizontal and vertical axes also means that there would be a hierarchy in distribution of resources (energy, food, etc), not to mention waste management💀, and quality of life in general (i.e. access to public spaces, are those spaces receiving sunlight, open, or tucked down into crevasses where crime and danger are far from the eyes of those who would have the power to do anything about it). Living on a specific side of this could mean you are destined to live your entire life in shadow, or exposed to intense sun. You would probably be subject to communal taxes which would pay for resources that only some get. In all, I dont think this has any intention of being built and all the intentions of simply moving mass amounts of money around. There's a reason humans have not built linear cities in our entire history. If they were beneficial natural selection would have led us to build them this way a ver long time ago 🤷🏽‍♂️

@Deadguy2322forreal

24 күн бұрын

Nobody should expect a Saudi royal's pet project to be designed with any car for the lower-class people.

@Deadguy2322forreal

24 күн бұрын

*care for the lower classes

@marykent2024

24 күн бұрын

What happens with air flow? any fire would have a chimney effect. floods would be devastating. Look at the flood in Dubai recently. (by the way, how did the skyscraper that trucks out human waste daily fare in the flooding?)

@knightwolf3511

24 күн бұрын

@@Horse-and-Butterfly this is why structural engineer hates Architects. as for structural this would be the cheapest in design since it's copy / paste and less to almost no bends meaning everything will be cheaper to build with, this building will be cheaper then making the same number of sky scrapers to hold the same amount of population

As someone who lives at the beach. Sand is not static, if you build something that tall and that long. It's going to block the flow of the sand. I could see that becoming a huge long term problem.

@johngreydanus2033

28 күн бұрын

Exactly what I thought too, having seen how intentional placed fences work with blowing snow in Canada.

@kevinfletcher1999

28 күн бұрын

And the lovely glass walls will be sandpapered to a dull matt finish.

@maxwellquebec8675

28 күн бұрын

On the bright side it's cheaper to keep a glass building in the world's hottest desert cool if it's covered in sand 😉

@jonhodges6572

28 күн бұрын

The straightest sand dune in the world

@paulpedersen1329

27 күн бұрын

Among many others.

I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: - Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert... Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed And on the pedestal these words appear ‚My name is Ozymandias, king of kings Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!‘ Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away. -Percy Bysshe Shelley

Seeing the giant line being made with excavators and other heavy machinery really makes you wonder how the Nazca lines were made all those years ago

I worked in Saudi Arabia for one year at a company under the PIF umbrella. IT WAS THE WORST EXPERIENCE OF MY LIFE. Never had I ever been in such a toxic work environment ever. Lies, preferential treatment to Saudi employees, underhanded deals, boys clubs where women’s opinions meant nothing. Workplace discrimination, etc. I was paid a lot of money but NOTHING is worth going through that to me.

@sarahs472

23 күн бұрын

And at the end of the day you can't even have a beer! It is so weird to me that rich tourists flock to states that will *execute you* for breaking the rules. I also can't fiscally support countries that treat women like dangerous objects. I'm just a bro with boobs, honestly.

@a.jherbert5436

23 күн бұрын

I mean, you chose to work in Saudi Arabia for a year. What did you expect? It's Saudia Arabia.

@lizzfrmhon

23 күн бұрын

@@a.jherbert5436 I had lived in the Middle East for 10 years before so at least I have knowledge of the region to assume what to expect from the country. I don’t expect the workplace culture of the company I went into. There’s plenty other companies in ksa that are absolutely fine to work at. I assume you’ve never lived or worked in the Middle East so your opinion really doesn’t mean much to me. Everybody looks for better opportunities in life and I’m sure if you were offered buckets of money to go do a job you would too, which is why I said that in the end the money was not worth the heartache for me.

@CL-vz6ch

22 күн бұрын

I have no desire to give them any of my money. A toxic country.

@dustintacohands1107

22 күн бұрын

Money corrupts and Saudi Arabia was blessed with a lot of it very quickly.

When they can't even finish a single skyscraper, did anyone really think this would be built. It was likely nothing more than a giant scam.

@brockpowell5417

23 күн бұрын

Dubai has no skyscrapers?

@jimwoodford3984

23 күн бұрын

@@brockpowell5417 Who's talking about Dubai? This comment makes me assume you're American. 😂

@DocBree13

23 күн бұрын

Exactly

@giin97

23 күн бұрын

​@@jimwoodford3984eh. Fair. I couldn't name a single Saudi city, myself, and I've never cared to look up where Dubai is. As an American, I had 50 States to learn about in school, with their histories and the cities within; countries an ocean away hold very little importance.

@allhailderpfestor4839

23 күн бұрын

​@@brockpowell5417 He's referencing Jeddah tower

Seems like they would need to constantly need to change out glass from sand blowing. Plus dunes are always moving, it would need a full time crew digging out sand. We have a community on the Oregon coast that has houses getting partially buried every year.

When a contractor builds a road, they don't clear all the trees first, then do all the bulldozing at the same time, lay down all the pavement in one shot, and build all the bridges at the same time. By digging away a many kilometer long stretch of sand, they're using all their money just to dig, with nothing to show for it. Do a 400 long Meter section, or even just 200 meters long and 200 meters wide. Then at least they'd have had the funding to build something to show the world as a proof of concept. Once that section is built, keep extending it. Build it 100M at a time.

My dad's company was contracted to help build it, he told me they were given millions in dirhams(because the branch that was contracted was the Dubai branch) and because Neom changed where the Line had to go, my dad's company went through all that money trying to survey the area that the Line willbe built on before the location is changed again, in all, they went through millions of Dirhams, did not build anything and NEOM got mad at my dad's company when it was all their fault, if NEOM didn't change the location all the time, something would've been built

@orchidorio

25 күн бұрын

I believe it.

@CordeliaWagner1999

24 күн бұрын

Narcicissts blame everyone else for their faults.

@Rom2Serge

24 күн бұрын

WOW! From your story it looks like from the beginning the NEOM did it intentionally coz didn't want anything to be built. They just wanted to rise funds and wash their hands. When it comes to construction projects (al least in Europe) , first they do full geological study, that might take years before starting construction .

@shizzlecrystal5964

24 күн бұрын

Why are you exposing your own dad's confidential information on the Internet? For a few likes, you'd risk getting him in trouble. Wow.

@courier.66

24 күн бұрын

​​​@@shizzlecrystal5964 I didn't say which company he works for, why do you think I always say "my dad's company"? Besides, it's always good to let people have some insight from the people who worked on this damned project Edit: I sent a reply before this but KZread on mobile was acting up on me and I thought it didn't send but it did so I deleted that one and just went with this current one and besides, a project of this scale requires many companies, can't really track down which company on the project that my dad works for

The House of Saud had a native in the area who refused to move executed so they could spend over a trillion dollars to dig a trench that today sits undermanned and near abandoned. I don't even know what to say.

@summersolstice884

26 күн бұрын

The hubris of man is infinite ....

@liam3284

25 күн бұрын

don't do dictatorship

kinda cool to see a video on this project. especially as my uncle is an architect working on the project.

So far 2024 has taken down the Evermore theme park, the Star Wars hotel, and Boeing (at least reputation wise). Here’s hoping Neom and MBS are next in line😁

@joannemarinelli1936

13 күн бұрын

Lol

Even the Pharaohs knew to build their pyramids near the Nile...

@victory8928

16 күн бұрын

One of them had to abandoned his cause it was too close to the river as well. But point stands there is a reason why

@kathrynoneill81

16 күн бұрын

Apparently ancient leaders were smarter than those of today. Progress?

@NothingXemnas

16 күн бұрын

I think it is less about purposely building them "near the Nile" and more about the fact that cemeteries and mausoleums (essencially what pyramids were) are supposed to be near where most people are: riverside cities. Pharaohs were still humans, with friends and families, so of course they would build these massive monoliths near where they themselves lived. In a way, it wasn't the pharaohs who decided to build near rivers and more the fact they had no choice; even the peasants wouldn't build anything away from sources of water, because that would be absurd. NEOM is completely opposite. It grows in the middle of the desert BECAUSE there are no people there to relocate for their dumb projects.

@mollusckscramp4124

15 күн бұрын

@@kathrynoneill81 Let's also keep in mind these ancient rulers _literally believed they were direct descendants of god_ which gave them "divine right" to rule. Think about how much more insane people must be today to not even have their level of common sense... it's almost scary.

@sztypettto

14 күн бұрын

@@NothingXemnas uh... the pyramids were built near the nile for aesthetics and logistical convenience. The river moved large stone blocks and material easily than animals and jews.

The mirrors will make a "death zone" on the sunny side of the line. Imagine all the dead birds, confused mammals, and desiccated insects as they encounter the double Sun wall. Also, what's with the levitating trees?

@neotronextrem

25 күн бұрын

Well, atleast the deathzone would be clearly marked after a few months, "Dont venture into the Area with the glass ground and the charred corpses"

@zairac2564

25 күн бұрын

@@neotronextrem it might be okay for scavengers if they're quick. It would be an endless supply of jerky.

@WindTurbineSyndrome

23 күн бұрын

A previous comment says Neom was created by a cgi artist who renders sci Fi scenes NOT an architect or anyone in reality business because the Boss wasn't impressed by reality being a despotic dictator living in a fiefdom with too much money in a country 90% unhabitable due to lack of water. Bedouin nomads who actually lived in that area were forced off to build Neom with zero human rights just scraped off.

@chickensalad3535

20 күн бұрын

It’s tragic and terrifying to think about.

One is building Amarna, the other is erecting Babel... And I'm sitting here with a bucket of popcorn, enjoying the show.

Credit to the Saudis. This would have taken an ungodly amount of cocaine for an American to come up with and then mess up. They've managed to do that without drugs and alcohol.

@Autotrope

20 күн бұрын

That these clowns don't do drugs or alcohol is a big claim

@scarybaldguy

20 күн бұрын

Megalomania is a helluva drug.

@KukkaKaalikorva-vq3fh

17 күн бұрын

Theres no way someone sober came up with the original idea

@superraegun2649

16 күн бұрын

Or so we've been told

@josephturco7911

16 күн бұрын

Nobody at college did more coke than the Saudis.

I've said this elsewhere, but the Line and all of Neom is just a massive vanity project that was never designed for humans first. the only people benefiting from it are MBS (and his ego), the contractors who built those islands etc., and the consultants and concept artists being hired to create the fancy visualisations. but hey, they all got paid so it doesn't matter as much to them whether this thing succeeds (which it was never going to, it's unworkable)

@peterhall8572

29 күн бұрын

Most middle aged men with insecurity just buy a porche

@Gollvieg

29 күн бұрын

​@@peterhall8572A porche is worth less than a fraction of a penny to the kind of wealth these assholes have.

@user-eh4kh3ye5o

29 күн бұрын

he built it for Isaelis to go live there

@imaginalex5850

29 күн бұрын

it was never designed to be build. but to be a grift to scam rich people out of their money by playing on their insecurities

@Timmycoo

29 күн бұрын

The Line is still the stupidest future project I've ever heard of.

Where Utopia and Dystopia are two sides of the same... wall of glass!

Thanks Simon. The biggest problem I see with Neom is its lack of a planned economic foundation. Cities usually develop around transportation nodes, resources for processing of raw materials, industry and other key economic activities. They are generally circular to some degree designed around having laborers, administrators, business headquarters and services in walking or convenient accessing distances. While building a industrial center near the Red Sea to utilize Saudi Arabia's potential solar energy build out with transportation from a harbor for various industries would make sense, like Gary, Indiana, USA, Neom doesn't.