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You know that 106 mile long megacity built in a line that Saudi Arabia proposed? Well they are actually beginning construction!

submitted by Crackinjokes to technology 2.5 yearsOct 23, 2022 18:27:28 ago (+15/-0)     (twitter.com)

https://twitter.com/latestinspace/status/1584162719267053568?s=20

One of the reasons they're designing a city like this is for ease of transportation and less susceptibility to a large scale warfare. For example a single large atomic blast could not take out the whole city but only a small piece. It also makes it easy to do transportation since you can just do linear transportation and linear services and there are certain solar and wind energy harvesting advantages to having a city that's basically built into a wall.


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[ - ] Fascinus 3 points 2.5 yearsOct 23, 2022 18:55:59 ago (+3/-0)

[ - ] Crackinjokes [op] 1 point 2.5 yearsOct 23, 2022 20:21:31 ago (+1/-0)

Thanks.

[ - ] GeneralDisarray 2 points 2.5 yearsOct 23, 2022 18:50:07 ago (+2/-0)

A pod city.

[ - ] Master_Foo 1 point 2.5 yearsOct 23, 2022 18:58:20 ago (+1/-0)

All cities are pod cities. Especially in Saudi Arabia.

[ - ] TheViciousMrPim 2 points 2.5 yearsOct 23, 2022 19:26:20 ago (+2/-0)

For example a single large atomic blast could not take out the whole city but only a small piece

This is about like saying that if you nuked Columbus the rest of Ohio would still be there. It's true, but Cbus is still a smoking ruin. It's not really an advantage.

[ - ] CPU 0 points 2.5 yearsOct 24, 2022 01:31:05 ago (+0/-0)

What if they by chance send, oh you know, two nukes?

[ - ] BoraxTheFungarian 2 points 2.5 yearsOct 23, 2022 19:28:49 ago (+2/-0)

They’re trying to build a prison…

[ - ] SumerBreeze 1 point 2.5 yearsOct 23, 2022 20:15:02 ago (+1/-0)

… built like a wall to protect more valuable lands past said “city.”

[ - ] Anus_Expander 2 points 2.5 yearsOct 23, 2022 22:48:39 ago (+2/-0)

a jew scam to defraud investors

[ - ] Diggernicks56 1 point 2.5 yearsOct 23, 2022 18:46:12 ago (+1/-0)

Hopefully one day after it's finished we blow it up.

[ - ] AlexanderMorose13 1 point 2.5 yearsOct 23, 2022 20:23:46 ago (+2/-1)

I'm really looking forwards to finding out more about this. I'm cheering for the success of this, for sure, because I would like to see more science fiction cities come to bear fruit and prove that certain things are truly possible. That being said, Saudis have a very bloodthirsty history, and I doubt a shiny new city and a shit ton of plate glass is going to change the nature of the population. This could either turn into a beautiful destroyed utopia, or be a model of the beginning stages of the end of conflict.

I'm excited to see what we can produce when we all decide that blowing up everything is not really helping.

[ - ] Spaceman84 0 points 2.5 yearsOct 23, 2022 21:14:00 ago (+1/-1)

Wouldn't be the first time they were going to build the biggest/tallest whatever, laid some ground work and then abandoned the project.

[ - ] TheGreatWhiteHope 0 points 2.5 yearsOct 24, 2022 00:26:55 ago (+0/-0)*

Be sandnigger

Have to go to work

Work on the other side of town

106 miles through golden-brick road inspired "only road"

Stuck behind 40 mile long poop truck line

Finally get past them. Get thirsty. Stop for some cold camel piss in a box.

Refreshing and good for the environment

Get back on road. The poop trucks are queued up again.

Finally arrive at work. "Ahmed where were you? You are 23 hours late. Just go home for the day."

Get back on the road. More poop trucks.

And so on.

[ - ] albatrosv15 0 points 2.5 yearsOct 24, 2022 02:00:57 ago (+0/-0)

Let me check if it's only earthwork. Yep, it's just bulldozers shifting sand in a huge sandbox. Come on people, you know fully well how things "work" in sandniggerstan countries.