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KMFJD

KMFJD

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in the no shit sherlock news, the saudi's have finally abandoned their stupid neom city

https://bsky.app/profile/alisonkilling.bsky.social%2Fpost%2F3m4wycztf3k2j

this project if it had gone through would have been absolutely staggeringly stupid and over the top

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- very good Financial Times article that goes through the absolute absurdity of this project

One ex-employee who worked on the building’s construction said that to make the concrete for the first 20 modules, the contractors would need a supply of cement every year that would be greater than France’s annual output.

Each 800-metre module required, by design, about 3.5mn tonnes of structural steel, 5.5mn cubic metres of concrete and 3.5mn tonnes of reinforcement steel — the narrow steel bars twisted into cage forms to strengthen the reinforced concrete. “We were going to take something like 60 per cent of the global production of green steel [per year], which causes the price to go up,” said a senior design manager.

To clad them, they would need the equivalent of the entire yearly output of the world’s largest cladding manufacturer. Each module was worth $48bn in construction terms. “If you want to buy all the cladding in the world, the price rises,” said an architect who worked on The Line. “You were going to pay a premium for these buildings,” said a senior construction manager. “You’re taking a huge percentage of the world’s capacity.”

For all the supplies, meanwhile, there was just one small sleepy port 80km to the south of Neom, connected to the construction site by a single dual carriageway, satellite images show.
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manly

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Maybe I'm conflating different things, but what about that fancy sky stadium?
 
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manly said:
Maybe I'm conflating different things, but what about that fancy sky stadium?
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That was fake but I entirely support the kingdom trying to build it and waste billions on architects and consultants.
 
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manly

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BonzaiDuck

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ccryder said:
That was my first reaction as well.
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As was mine! Any of Trump's cabinet members are stupid, thoughtless, morally bankrupt, incompetent. I would've been happy if the b**** had fallen on the tracks at a DC subway station just when the train was coming. An ending like "Anna Karenina". I'd like the cellphone videos when every one of them dies.

But this thread is something totally different, and has nothing to do with our belabored and fretful obsession.
 
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That was a big dream for a government who couldn’t kill, saw up and pack a journalist into a suit case, and hide that fact.
 
FelixDeCat

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Money and hubris can lead you to believe anything is possible. Sometimes it just isn't...at least until mankind's material and technology achievements allow it to be possible in a realistic way that unequivocally allows it within reason and by a deadline.

All the money in the world would not have built the a B2 stealth bomber or Nvidia H100 in 1942 and nearly unlimited resources would have been squandered. It would have taken divine or extraterrestrial influence to provide the knowledge of future breakthroughs or the actual products and untold number of advanced materials and production methods. Achievements and breakthroughs that deliver a B2 or H100.

Maybe they can continue development when mankind reaches that level of technical know how.
 
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