Whatever happened to this Saudi giga-city?
>>536957298>we wus buildin an shieee
>>536957298Saudis went broke because of trumps retarded iran war
>brown "people" get money>immediately waste it on the dumbest shit you could ever imagine
Saudi ayatollahs got inspired after reading the quaran on deception for infidels and talked to the prince and king saud and sold him on a paper hanging scheme to sell desert sand to investors in the path of progrsss but then oopsie allah is rhe maester of schemers what fool would build a city on a 500 feet deep of round useless sand. Not even suitable for concrete. Sorry, first rule of acquisition, once you have their money you never give it. Ack.
>>536957298They mobilized a huge amount of construction equipment, dug a bunch of trenches and general busy work as they collected money from investors.Then they decided not to build it.https://www.youtube.com/shorts/F1yxf-gkEf8
>>536957298nobody wants to live in an authoritarian theocratic dictatorship>>536957467precisely. all these third world countries waste trillions on "muh diks"
>>536957298Reality happened. Not enough glass production on Earth to do this shit, let alone everything else.
>>536957298Iran blew it up
>>536957298They must have realized it would be a nonsensical monstrosity.
>>536957298They didn't listen to my advice...
>>536957298it got giga-droned
>>536957576>>536957609Seems like the most realistic answer. Lots of people are bad at math.
Ay rabs are selling slices of real estate on the rings of jupiter. Its called "the line", if i have to explain it then you dont get preferred entry into the grand mosque at king saud central station
they literally hired some schizo english architect to "design" it which just meant he drew some concept art than they showed it people and asked them to invest
>>536957682Unless robots built and maintained it.
>>536957298They know we'll carpet bomb it
They got as far as digging the literally over 100 mile long trench and realized it's not even remotely architecturally feasible.
>>536957298They ran out of money.>>536957467This. It's like most people who win the lottery. They end up poor from spending on extravagant things and getting duped into poor investments.
I was looking forward to it.They just kept delaying and downscaling the project and never even built anything.How shameful. At least the UAE made the world's tallest residential structure. Saudis are all talk and no game.
>>536957298They were going to build it, but decided to flood the world with indians and leet everything rot instead
>>536957298their witchcraft failedit was all a ritual to cut off the right hand
>>536957298Total lack of money.
>>536957298It was always retarded, but Last i heard, I think they were going to turn it into a 1 km long data center instead.
>>536957298it went from 100 miles long to just 1 mile long but is put on hold for now. the 1.5 mile hold will be the first stage. it is still set to continue to be built over stages. so it could take 100 years to finish all 100 miles but it's not completely off the table.
>>536957446>blames Trump for the Saudi failure to build retarded, unworkable designsYou need new material, faggot.
>>536957298The Saudi prince just discovered that with his money he can't even defet a bunch of Yemeni ragheads
>>536957298They realized it would take more then all the money in the world to build it.
>>536957939Imagine the fucking heat this place would generate with all the people in it, all the building compartments running energy systems, all the reflective surfaces. Then there's the Saudi heat anyway, it would be the most stuffiest humid shithole ever without perfect air conditioning and ventilation.....I honestly think there might be spots so hot because of the reflective surfaces that will zap you into ash if you walk into the reflected light like a cartoon.
>>536957939>never even built anything.They dug a big hole...
>>536957298MBS left the plans on the casino floor as he dashed out of the Vegas casino in a hurry.
>>536957612>authoritarian theocratic dictatorshipWhat’s it like still living in 2006?
just as fake and gay as ai and trump’s ufo files
>>536957812the whole thing was a semi-scam, to gather Saudi state investment and other speculative middle east money to dig the trench, which they will now reuse to build a pipeline allowing them to load oil on the Red Sea, instead of their Persian Gulf port, which Iran can choke off as we have now seen.
>>536958043retard
>>536958736The plans were put into Al Waleeds helicopter right before the accident.
So pilots getting blinded is apparently an issue yet some 50km+ mirror in the desert that is 40 stories or more is perfectly fine? Lel
>>536957298They're going to do maybe 2km of the 2000km and call it winVery American
I heard some really autistic muzzy analysis that it was a scheme to remove the remnants of the wahhabist powers that opposed MBS' rise
It makes no fucking sense how you can have all this money and do these retarded projects but your nation is 3rd world arabs something has to give.
>>536957298Saudi pulled the plug on sports washing and extravagant projects
Their German engineers were done wasting their time and money and told them how infeasible and retarded and expensive it was, so now theyre just making random crap around the Qaaba like it's world spawn in Minecraft.
>>536958976holy shit that's crazy
>>536957298The project wasn't deranged enough.
>>536957576This. It was a scam, import millions of jeets to work for pennies in a sweltering desert just to dig a big ass mega hole to burn piles of foreign investor money. Massive destruction to the natural habitat too. While muslim kings pocket the rest of the money. Look at Dubai—after Iran war everyone ran away and they are refusing to give investors back their money Kek that’s what happens when you trust mudslimes
>>536958976Unless that thing is pretty deep and then they pump it up 50', why would they believe that Iran wouldn't you know, just blow it up?
>>536959395the trench is substantially deep already>>536958574i don't know their security strategy but they seemed to manage to defend iranian air attacks fairly well. Much of this pipeline will be deep inside Saudi borders
>>536957782Yes, anon. Unless robots maintained it. Very good.
Anyone have a real explanation of wtf was going on? Because it makes no sense. And that is what pisses me off the most.Want to know how to maximize travel time from any random point to any other random point.... you stretch out a grid to a single lineAlso the entire city becomes a single point of failureI heard they might build like 1km of it tho (picrel... i think)Anyone ever think>All the Saudis had to do was stick all their oil profits into the S&P500 and draw down like 4% a year and they are set for FOREVER
>>536958574Was it a cover story to build a canal?
>>536959754>Was it a cover story to build a canal?THE FIRST THEORY THAT EVEN HALF MAKES SENSE I HAVE EVER HEARD
>>536957298
>>536959739>>536959754see>>536958976it's was a marketing scam to get money to trench for a petroleum pipeline from its Persian Gulf port to the Red Sea
>>536959881Got it. So they're burying one or a bunch of piplines? I can see that. It does seem crazy wide, so it could be for both pipeline(s) and a canal? I've only seen North American pipelines though, which wouldn't require that width. Presumably the Saudis would bury their pipelines to protect them from attacks out in the vast expanse of open desert...?
>>536959754would fit
>>536957446wtf I love this war now
>>536957298Whatever money laundering that was actually behind this ran its course, so they could cleanly fold the project up.
Turns out it costs 100x the amount they said and stopped after like 2 miles
>>536957939They were like 40% complete on the ski resort portion and then stopped, built a hydropower plant even, my friend from graduate school (rinker) said they encountered a jinn in the mountain, no joke
>>536957298Well for one that mock-up shows that someone forgot that for almost half the year the Sun will shine on the harbor side of that mirror and burn all the yachts.
>>536961658>>536959881Panic spread and they couldn’t people on site.
>>536961953Rumour of a genie is what got them to drop the charade? LOLThis was 2025?
>>536961658What's with the AI generated pic friendo?
>>536957298It was never, at any point, seriously considered by anyone who could finance it.Its dumb. They probably grifted a bunch and let it go.
They realised it was retarded and gave up
>>536962434It’s real photo, many shared on linkedin by employees >>536962283who told you about it?
>>536961658>my friend from graduate school (rinker) said they encountered a jinn in the mountain, no jokePLEASE TELL ME THIS IS ACTUALLY WHY CONSTRUCTION STOPPED
>>536958976pretty useless as Iran will just launch unlimited missiles at it destroying it whenever they want
>>536957446They got rich off it. They just pipe it to the other side.
>>536957609If you replace shorts with v, go to the kink and copy it, it will embed
>>536958574Wouldn't a circle be better than a straight line?
>>536961658Fucking KEK >>536962688I want to believe
>>536957612>>536957467Stop believing kikes lie
>>536958208>more then all the moneyWhat kind of English is this?
>>536957298Imagine living on the bottom of the Gigawall, where all the sheiks throw all their trash and dead Insta hookers
>>536962905>Wouldn't a circle be better than a straight line?Zillions of square meters of reflective glass with an oh so subtle yet necessarily mathematically precice curve in it...
>>536962905>Wouldn't a circle be better than a straight line?Even better to make a bunch of parallel straight lines and then a bunch of other parallel straight lines at a right angleIt's a gridAnd it works REALLY WELLImagine telling someone who made picrel>Let's just have one single road go to Los Angeles from NYC and build along that
>>536963039>Imagine living on the bottom of the Gigawall, where all the sheiks throw all their trash and dead Insta hookersOne day the power goes out. How long until you are living in Hell
>>536957298Its an OK idea, but they have to build as they go, with the line it would be easy to just build it like a railroad, one section at a time and expand from there. They were way too ambitious with their idea of the entire thing all at once. Rome wasnt built in a day, many people forget that when they have big ideas.
>>536962641>real photoI'll ask again: why the AI generated pic friendo? It's not even a very good one. Your blur effect on the second one hides the imperfections though, I'll give you that.
>>536958574For you.
>>536963355It’s simply not AI leafbro, you can find videos of that project too
>>536957298Had a Saudi patient awhile back, talked to his translator about that shit >"In my country... I cannot say, but now that I am here, it is shit, they have wasted all the money and fired the main boss numerous times, it is a failure"
>>536963141surprised to learn this is only from the 1800s
>>536957298Turns out, it was a retarded idea that only got traction because MBS has infinite money and can execute anyone who tells him no.
>>536957298>Whatever happenedSaw interesting vid stating it was bascially a scam and a reason to try to get their inbred society to think more modern as they new prince wants to move away for whabiasm
>>536957298LIV golf used all the money. No givsies backsies.
The Saudis wanted to build a long road connecting the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea, bypassing the chokepoints Strait of Hormuz, which they knew the Iranians would close, and the Strait of Bab el-Mandeb which can be closed by the Houthis in Yemen. It would also bypass the Dead Sea which was haunted by Somali pirates. Along the road would be gas stations and maybe even a railroad. For some reason, this silly video was created to scam low IQ types across South Asia, the Middle East, and Africa since they're easily impressed by shiny glass walls and futuristic plastic gimmicks
>>536957298Saudi Arabia, and the other Gulf "Kingdoms", have no real actual middle class, All of these things are basically vanity project attempts trying to "reform" society.Now with Iran basically becoming an Regional Power, It's extra over.
>>536957467Retard. They're not any more retarded than our inherited wealth elites and their ugly buildings and golf courses, it's exactly the same, except they were made dictators by the UK and then the US.Look at Trump. He's never built anything that looks good.
>>536957446they'll sell whatever is installed in The Line for scrap to get by, how the turns table
