It's called "The Line" and it's part of Saudi Arabia's MBS-backed and wildly futuristic NEOM development project.
Imagine two mirror-faced buildings of astonishing length (or width), rising higher than the Empire State Building and extending across 75 miles of desert, like two closely spaced parallel lines—or two surrealistically scaled Bone Saws.
Now try to imagine any of it actually being built.
I don't think this is brand new news, but I saw it the other day.
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An artist's depiction of the seaward end of The Line (get it?) at the Gulf of Aqaba. From the Wall Street Journal.
I assume something like this would need some very advanced transportation built inside of it... like a vacuum-train or something of that nature that can go ~300+ miles an hour.
It seems really interesting, but I'm not sure I understand the goal or the point. It wasn't immediately clear on the website. I guess the point is, "because he can," but I don't know if it's necessarily feasible. Who would move into such a place, and where would they work?
Definitely would be cool, and it's definitely doable, but it seems like a project that could literally break their economy, that when finished, would serve no real purpose... but more power to them.
We already have a boiling-hot sun-baked desert.....lets put 2 huge giant mirrors there and see how much more heat we can generate reflecting and focusing dat der sun thing !
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The future, beginning in Saudi Arabia. Solar powered heat-exchangers for air conditioned comfort, a huge contract. Surely, they will use the new fangled synthetic limestone composite, like the builders of the Giza Pyramids .
Yeah, sure, that's how Napolean's stonemasons were convinced that was the method used. Literally standing before the Great Pyramid mouths agape in awe, ' C'est incroyable ! c'est impossible ! '.
I suppose they've got plenty of sand to make glass with.
