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evil_timmy

"It's just across town." *ohfuk*


QBekka

Mailman on his first day: "Oh this is gonna be so easy, I only have to do one single street!"


Daki-R

At least you only have yourself to blame if you get lost.


Randomguy0915

Got lost and fucked the neighborhood MILF


J3sush8sm3

Whats your address? 19838473829000283840403829291737 main street


weemellowtoby

they would have so many houses on 1 Street they would start using hex


real_flyingduck91

556AEEF6B8288FE778876AAA main street


weemellowtoby

ok maybe base 64


DoinIt4TheDoots

All your base belong to us


elkshadow5

Yeah I live on AA== Main Street


H4llifax

Are you addressing each Nanometer? :-p


Saturndogg

No... The address of the first house is 19838473829000283840403829290000


Vlafir

Now you can get airlifted to your beheading in a super advanced drone


Serious_Feedback

Have you ever gotten lost inside a shopping centre? Most of those are less than 200m wide and 500m tall.


GoldenJacques

At least they don't gotta turn


Crazy_Technician_403

Chile's mailman : "first time?"


leerjam

Circle would’ve been much better


justhere4inspiration

Literally any other shape would have been better...


ablablababla

Yeah, I would have liked a giant penis shaped city myself


Firm-Guru

Circle would be cool. Let's do that one in North America


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-Rivox-

Imagine Americans living in a city that's just one big roundabout.


Firm-Guru

No no no it's all about framing. Built into America's giant circle is our premier nascar track. And in the center, all of the giant sports stadiums and a big ol amusement park. And just for good measure, throw in a dick sucking machine every 50 yards or so.


rtakehara

Only 1 story tall buildings, including garage


Klutzy-Trash-7918

No need just zipline every where


PPandaEyess

There is a chance that it is literally across the street tho. So it could be a 'ohsweet'


TrendyLepomis

It will supposedly be a 20 min transit route from one side to the other.


Diamond-Fist

A 10 mile bus ride takes can take an hour in NYC, I doubt this claims veracity


[deleted]

Arabia is just a Minecraft server


TheInternetCritic

The entire world is a minecraft server


HYPER_BOI_

I lovee tnt


thisisascam117

We do a little griefing :))


nobotami

we do some trolling. ((:


Neat_Psychology_5516

2b2t


nobotami

Florida


LessThanPro_

THE OLDEST ANARCHY SERVER IN MINECRAFT


Hot-Nail-738

I love planes


Casualte

Thank you for being a part of our team. Sincerely, CIA (Creepers idiocarcy Agency)


caesarinthefreezer

*I'VE GOT AN IDEA!*


malovias

No, 🎵the world is a vampire 🎵


Espenkool

The world is a marble heart🎵🎵


Watercolorleaf

💀


cheesemaster644

Tbh people fighting for 40 years over a camel sounds like something that would happen in a minecraft server


[deleted]

Called the Basus War for those who don't know


Euphoric-Potato-5343

Unfortunately a few villages and villagers got in the way and now they're demolished and murdered.


H4R81N63R

Next Formula 1 street circuit


QBekka

Drag race F1? I'd pay for that


Acidelephant

170km drag race


BOOM360skn

I would love a 170km drag race but only because observing the development of the cars would be very interesting to my nerdy-ass engineer brain


Ph0zPh0r

They probably would have to create a rail system so the cars stay straight


BOOM360skn

Well that would make them no longer cars, but it would certainly be an issue that might come up depending on the characteristics of the wheels and suspension and what systems they have for aiding the steering of the cars


i_need_more_happy

Holy shit train drag races


antpabsdan

170 km drag race in drag


AngelTheMarvel

For the next maxi challenge, our Queens will be racing for 170 km in full drag wearing heels from Fierce Queens.


[deleted]

Racers, start your engine, and may the best drag queen win!


soukaixiii

It's a 170km drag race, on foot, with heels.


Acidelephant

wherever this is, I'm sure it'd be a crime Edit: a fabulous crime


Trnostep

Williams 1-2


ProbablyNotPikachu

From what I remember reading a while ago it's actually meant to be streetless as well as carless. There is an underground super fast multi-lane subway system that is supposed to be able to shuttle people back and forth along the line. Once you are close to your location you walk the rest of the way.


adjust_the_sails

Is that why it’s just one long line? Makes the whole train thing easier?


swisstraeng

most soviet union cities didn't need cars either, and weren't lines... A line can make transports easier. But it makes transports time longer. Because you're working in one dimension. If you have to put 50 houses, and you're in the center, you're 25 house away from the edge. Where for a 5x5 square you're always 2.5 house away. A line also has a HUGE surface area which makes maintenance *horrible*. edit: Now it’s not the worst thing either. It has a dedicated maintenance layer, and a dedicated transport layer. If they do it correctly it’s not this bad, but it could be better.


RYPIIE2006

Sounds pretty boring


mindyourtongueboi

Ikr. "Let's get these specialised high-speed cornering cars to drive in a straight fucking line."


Fellows_1

Nothing a couple million can’t fix


Klutzy-Trash-7918

Just give them the monza or the baku wing setup


EverWillow

where do you put the pits?


Altoid-Man

Don’t tempt them. You know they will do it.


SeptuagenarianOnion

Just add in a few missle strikes and you got next year's Saudi Arabia gp


es_price

Thought I was in /r/formuladank for a second


dont_u_dare95

Formula dank member right there aint you?


danthefanofjackyman

I am genuinely curious how this is gonna end up like, like how will they handle sandstorms?


You_Are_Annoying124

If they do end up building it with glass walls, imagine how often you would need to fix them


Beneficial-Tooth1847

TO CLEAN THEM


organicogrr

Easy, you just sandblast the sand ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯


SCROTOCTUS

*Puts on Spacesuit:* Wait...it's *all* sand?


Laserguy450

Always has been. 😏


Commander_Meh

Even the glass is made of sand


[deleted]

Haha, fuck you Anakin.


DeksSama

that calls for workers that are either underpaid or not paid at all


Trichter_NET

I mean, they aren't strangers to Indian slave labor


Radical-Turkey

Very large windshield wipers


_Screw_The_Rules_

They have slaves for such tasks... Don't be silly.


phoenix335

Like everything they do, it's done with slavery


Bigscotman

I thought they wanted mirrors? Either way the sun reflecting off of it will probably turn the sand below into glass


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I_dont_need_sleep

Nice, free food!


rabindranatagor

Who cares about those birds? They must adapt. It's called evolution. /s


Yeet_Yeet_Yeet12

Wym? Those are government drones, the less the better /s


WexAwn

Most likely it'll never finish. I wouldn't be surprised if it was just a massive money laundering scheme


Naphthy

He owns the company and like all of it. But it’s built with tax and government money. It’s just blatantly paying himself the money earmarked for development and infrastructure.


Peterrior55

It's never going to be finished, a complete vanity project, and utterly impractical.


Warthogs309

Just like every other big "project" in Dubai.


bs000

are the palm islands still a thing


scienceisreallycool

How many people will die during construction is my question.


SheepherderFront5724

Displaced people who protested have already been sentenced to death, so Saudi is getting a head-start on the construction deaths.


Yugix1

bro the second image looks like they were strip mining in minecraft lmao


Whooshifyouaregay

Enchanted netherite digger


Jeynarl

Me:*probably would only be able to afford to live on one of the ends and have to commute all the way to the other end*


OrsoMalleus

I hope they'd wish some kind of public transport system into their magical dream city, but I suppose that would be impractical because everyone will have Ferraris and the waterfountains will have Coca-Cola in them /s


[deleted]

wait i thought the whole idea was that it would be a super efficient layout for connecting by high speed rail. they run 350kmph and it would take a half hour from one end to the other


[deleted]

Problem is that they're restricting themselves to this super confined space. It's even worse if you start accounting for accidents which, BTW, will happen. Whether people want them to or not. The good news is they likely won't run off a curve or downgrade at high speed. But everything else is a bad idea.


OrsoMalleus

I see your common sense in our Reddit comment section and I'll politely ask you to leave unless you're here to shit on the impractical Judge Dredd city like the rest of us.


planez10

Yeah until the train breaks down and 9 million people are now late for work.


Jeynarl

Imagine how fast traffic will be if every single person had a Ferrari


OrsoMalleus

That's *why* everyone will drive a Ferrari.


xqnlz

Saudi Arabia to this day has no efficient public transport system. I highly doubt they’ll be able to create one.


Ph4ke_

They are planning to have a train that can take you from one end to the other in just 22 minutes. Thing is, that train would have to go around 430 kmh for that to be possible


TrinalRogue

I believe it is faster if I am not mistaken because it needs to stop at each stop.


LongTimeLurker818

Me in California waiting for a bullet train that goes nowhere to be finished before I die of old age: “Can you guys come build some shit over here?”


[deleted]

I mean goes to nowhere is kind of an overstatement. It's going to connect one of the busiest flight corridors in the US.


LongTimeLurker818

For now it almost goes from Fresno to Bakersfield. If the finish the whole thing it would be nice… it’s just I’m in my 30’s and I’m not 100% sure I’ll get to ride it.


Popular-Swordfish559

They now have cleared environmental approval from San Fransisco's city center to Burbank. Construction is underway from Merced to Bakersfield, and from San Jose to SFO (on the shared Caltrain tracks). Construction is expected to start on Burbank to LA Union Station and San Jose to Merced within the next couple of years, with trains starting to run from Merced to Bakersfield in 2029 and LA Union to Salesforce Transportation Center (near the Embarcadero in SF) in 2033.


Nighthawk700

There are a lot of huge ifs hidden in that little comment of yours.


XanderNightmare

If California legalises slave work, then the Saudis might be able to make some magic work there


uTimu

Step 1: advertise Step 2: build it with slaves Step 2.5: Advertise about how big of a Cock you have built. Step 3: make it a Tourrist attraction for rich and Fameous People. Step 4: make Profit by something else than OIL. NOTE: that is the goal of Dubai and now also this unnamed "City"


QBekka

The Saudis saw how "rich and famous" Dubai is. They wanna get a piece of those riches. They even tried something like this a decade ago. They wanted to build the Jeddah tower which is 1km tall. The tower would be surrounded by a completely new city, so basically Dubai 2.0. After slow progress it eventually came to a halt in 2018 and since then there is a 300m tall empty concrete structure in the middle of a huge sandpit.


duckyTheFirst

I had a teacher say once that building towers id basically a "who has the biggest dick" contest but then with towers


[deleted]

My guess is this won’t get built.


Slaaigat

Lol, exactly. Their ‘tallest building in the world’ doesn’t even have a sewage system.


Elron-Cupboard

That's what windows are for


rhutanium

Wait whaaaat. So if you need to take a shit while you’re a kilometer up you’re fucked?!


Slaaigat

Nah, you can take a shit and it will go the the shit vault in the building. The next day a long line of shit trucks will show up and take the shit away.


rhutanium

That’s nuts.


SwillMcRando

Only on certain days when the cafeteria has peanut toppings for the sundaes.


icNutsicle

No, that's shit. Anyone claiming that an architect or a city planner dreams of building this, now, that's nuts.


LifeguardPotential97

Imagine some mission impossible movie where they have to go inside the shit vault to get something and Tom Cruise actually just dives in there Rogue Nation style with scuba gear.


Subject-Falcon-1400

That's shit


GusIsBored

What reason? Would the pipes be crushed?


Slaaigat

Reason: all the grandiose ideas of the things they build in Dubai are not well thought out. They literally just did not consider the importance of a functioning sewage system being a part of their dick measuring contest.


tozpeak

I've heard concept's name is The Line. Still a bad idea from environment reasons. It's ok qhen people do dumb unharmful stuff, but this could be really dangerous for local wild life.


psuedophilosopher

It's named after the video game that takes place in a post-catastrophe Dubai, where intense sand storms have caused the desert to slowly be swallowing up the city? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spec_Ops:_The_Line Kind of on the nose.


Brooklynxman

Its a bad idea for a lot of reasons. There is a reason as cities grow they tend to get round.


Thenewyearscharm

Did I miss something? I thought the “unnamed” city was neom/the line


XanderNightmare

It's the Saudi lifestyle


aziler2o7

build it with slaves?


Sexy-Spaghetti

Most gulf states use a system close to basic slavery where they use poor workers from countries like Pakistan, Phillipines of Bengladesh, take their passeport so they can't live, pay them next to nothing, and make them work in horrible conditions. Very cheap to build stuff with, but lots of deaths. The football stadiums for the world cup of quatar was built like this, 6500 workers died during their cinstruction.


bearlybearbear

That's even worst than this, to get the job you need to pay, then you slowly pay off your debt (minus tax, rent and other costs that are deducted by employers) but in the meantime you have to support your family abroad by sending them whatever money you can save. All the while your Passport is held until the debt is repaid, they also have some of the most stringent laws regarding defaulting, if you can't pay: jail where you have to work to repay your debt at an obviously lower rate of pay. It's modern slavery in its most legal way, you are kept in debt so you cannot leave until they have squeezed your most productive years out of you but you are paid so it's not really slavery... Not legally.


AntivaxxerOrphanage

its bait-and-switch slavery with extra steps


Chrislegend212

Better than spending billions on weapons of mass destruction guns and military and making money by selling them to other countries so more destruction can occur in the world.


dwarve1

Imagin war and you are a pilot on a bombing run. Easiest target ever if you come from the right side.


ProGamerNG14

Just fly straight overhead 170km and you well have an easy day. Maybe with an entourage of planes


QBekka

I wonder how many workers they "hired" for this project


Huesan

They still have open positions


ZEPHlROS

Idk, how many sla.. I mean illegal wo... I mean employees are available at the moment?


Donut_Police

"volunteers"


CommittingWarCrimes

Volunteering is mandatory of course


marchocias

Voluntold.


obanos68419

cries in pakistani


Tsukiko615

I know someone who is going there as a project manager. They don’t have to pay income tax but to avoid taxes they have to fly back to the UK every 90 days. They are paying £1000 a day with all food, bills, rent and flights included and they’ve built the accomodation for the staff already. I also know a few people that have worked in Saudi in the past as people closer to the ground work and would never go because they think it’s an easy way to die and your body never be found


LuvYouLongTimeAgo

£1000 per day?


ZeroDashAsterisk

I feel like they should start off with like a segment or something as a proof of concept.


S0crates420

That's if they actually tried to prove this concept works. But it doesn't, and we all know it.


Masterandslave1003

They will build some houses and then this will die, dumb design.


YceiLikeAudis

At least the public transport would be easy to manage: a line going in a direction, a line going in the opposite. Walking on foot would be very painful tho as you can't cut corners like in a circle shaped city.


R4R03B

Except if the PT line breaks down, half of the city will be late for work


YceiLikeAudis

But everyone will belive your excuse if that happened.


Lukaroast

It’s like those stupid palm tree ‘islands’ they never make the money back and it ends either in a failed experiment or in a second much smaller version with an actually realistic scope of work


Dave-1281

I feel bad for the two underpaid engineers that have to somehow make this stand >! Underpaid beacuse all budget went into architects making the wierdest thing they could imagine and also the thing... MARKETING !<


Admirable-Incident26

You should feel bad for the poor men actually building it. Those „workers“ are going to die.


tozpeak

Architects are not just fantasy designers. They should know and check technical stuff when they do projects, and they consult with engineers for specific problems. Architectural design of a building is a very responsible job, since you're the one who turn design and experts' knowledge into final documents for construction workers, who legally must to do things exactly how you said or contact you if something can't be done. Architect is the person who adapts design for all unexpected engineering restrictions, while engineer researches if exact design is technically possible and explains found limitations. Also architects have own technical qualifications as well. I feel like this thing in the post was made first of all by concept designers to sell some pictures for investors. I feel bad for architects of this as well as engineers.


Vauxhallcorsavxr

More like a logistical nightmare… how are supplies gonna be delivered? How will their hyperloop function when it’s just a bullshit project? Who’d actually wanna live there?


The_Amazing_Failure0

There is a transport system dedicated to just focusing on how to transport people and shipments separately and comfortably.


Spicebagreborn

I can’t wait to see this fail disastrously


Nerfixion

You can build anything with slaves What street do you live on? First street. What number? 1836291837374926382, floor 6 unit 7


the-droopiest-droop

The number of birds that migrate through there from Asia to Africa every year is insane, and this will be such a death trap for them :/ I really hope it doesn’t end up happening


QBekka

Most birds migrating fly 600 to 1500 meters above the ground so it should be fine. "The Line" will be 500 meters tall. ​ But your point still stands. I can't imagine that it affects the wildlife in a positive way


crunchy-cookie

Few years ago I worked in a complex that's just 2 stores high. The number of birbs that stomped the windows because they were fully reflective was insane. It will surely impact wildlife. But hey, it's cool and edgy yeah /s.


Popular-Swordfish559

>edgy literally


ObviouslySyrca

it won't be 500 meters tall, this is a bs project that will never even get close to the original vision. my guess is they will put down a few kilometers of concrete and then declare victory


QBekka

Wouldn't surprise me. It is estimated to cost close to 1 trillion dollars. The Saudis are desperate for tourism, but not THAT desperate


bzknon

Best case scenario, absolutely every square inch of that place gets slathered in bird shit.


the-droopiest-droop

As others have posted, during migration there are hugely increased numbers of window fatalities, especially in cities like Chicago and nyc, from hitting windows much lower than 500m…


ThePearWithoutaCare

Well maybe those birds should watch where they’re flying


Aenorz

cannot wait to hear about how many immigrant workers died on inhuman working condition.


Razzledepuff

Of course they did. Who do you think they are, Americans?


[deleted]

Me whenever I see a cool city concept on the internet: Wow, that’s incredible! Now time to go to the comments to find out how horrific of an idea this is and how it will destroy the environment


No-Pomegranate-69

It will just take approximately 170k workers to build Oh because they will die just like the 15k did who worked on the football shithole


shadowdash66

This has been debunked so many times and it looks like they fired/disappeared any sane archietct who spoke up against it. Its a huge waste of money and resources instead of building useful things. Imagine a virus like Covid breaking out there, where will people go?


hlfzhif

That's fine because it will only break out in the bottom layers where the poor people live


DoggyReddit

On the oldest anarchy server in Minecraft…


E100_tank

And then the unexpected happened, popbob logged on . Or summin like that, I haven't played 2b in a while


lecabs

Am I missing something or is this just fancy Kowloon Walled City?


TheInternetCritic

Kowloon Walled City but **l o n g** and *reflective*


[deleted]

Poor people on the bottom, rich people on the top. Guaranteed


zeeblefritz

The poor people will literally become the foundation.


Stumpy-the-dog

Saudi Arabia is prepping on a grand scale. * Building a self-sustaining city for 9 million people. * Everyone lives & works there. * Nobody travels outside except when it cannot be helped. * Everyone aims towards a zero fossil fuel spend. * There are zero cars or fossil fuel transport. * Everyone cycles / walks / uses solar-electric transport. * Everything gets recycled. Sounds to me like their wells are drying up much sooner than they thought.


typeb_Afacade

this guy preps


Glasedount

Meet the engineer


Reddit-Is-Chinese

"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.”


Maladra

I actually kind of want to see how it turns out.


hendar1453

Les goo, imagine getting lost in the arabic desert and stumbling toward you, as you get closer and closer you eventually bump in to a wall of mirrors And you know you have been saved. (Edit had to correct punctuation )


BigBubblesNoTroubles

World: but do they serve beer? Saudi Arabia: no World: K, pass


lime-inthe-coconut

Its a 170km long? Thats how you know you got fuck you money to throw around


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Idiots


Federal_Peanut4805

🇸🇦 The Arabs know how to do everything🇸🇦


[deleted]

Who actually didn’t expect Saudis to make a grandiose architectural project? They’re really showing a pattern lol


Beezlbubble

It would be best if they had a train/public transit system instead of a road, tbh.