Video of the day -- a cube of absurdity
Unbelievable. Just the energy demands of air-conditioning a structure of such size in the climate of central Arabia are mind-boggling. If they ever even start building this thing, which I doubt, it will end up being abandoned half-completed, a colossal rusting monument to hubris and wasted money towering over the slums.
And no matter what high-tech monstrosities they try to build, it's still not a modern country if women have to be swaddled up in full-body cloth garbage bags and don't have equal rights with men, and gays are executed.
The grandiose and all-hat-no-cattle nature of this project reminds me of Elon Musk's ludicrous Mars colonization fantasies -- or this thing:
posted by Infidel753 at 9:23 AM
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Stuff like this 'everything is right here where you need it and you never need to leave' city (cities?) has always fascinated me. It's science fiction, really. I suppose many of the things we have and do can be classified the same way.
Very interesting video.
Ever read Oath of Fealty? It's a Niven/Pournelle collaboration, and has stuck with me for a really long time since I first read it as a young married person. Riveting book and that's what the video reminded me of. Even more because of the cube featured at the beginning of your post.
Worth perusing if you have extra time on your hands.
Reminds me a little of George Orwell's 1984's terrifying buildings with their unnaturally sharp sides and discordant architecture.
It's especially weird that this is being planned in Saudi Arabia. It's like the Dark Ages and a dystopian future at the same time, with no period of just being normally modern in between.
It is sad how much wealth in the world squandered. There is so much need and yet people can starve so rich fucks can waste their time with this.
Indeed, even Saudi Arabia still has a lot of poor people, despite the oil wealth.
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