Saudi Arabia Is Building A City That Is 100 Miles Long And Only 650 Feet Wide And It'll Blow Your Mind

[KittiesKorner]

They're called Hive Cities you fucking leptons.



For the Emperor!

So that j.g. Ballard novel/show on hulu called high-rise?

 

[Ares]

So that j.g. Ballard novel/show on hulu called high-rise?

I always imagine it like the Judge Dredd mega apartment buildings, but built over so there's no access to the Sun.

 

[HeHateMe]

I just don't know how they're doing this on the eve of a global recession.

 

[MDB111™]

Wouldn't the Sun reflect off the mirrors and burn a hole in Pakistsan like a magnifying glass to an ant? Seems dangerous...

 

[Anytime23]

I saw a video the other day of a 3 story mall collapsing right after i saw this video for the first time. Call me skeptical.

 

[Granada]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1552666447524110343

Video of this thing inside the link. Is this the future?

If that is the future, that is quite terrifying.

 

[Hawkeye OG]

If that is the future, that is quite terrifying.

Well, I imagine we will all long be dead probably for hundreds of years, possibly thousands before it's necessary to live like this. So, consider yourself lucky!

 

[Gustavus Adolphus]

Is it just me, or does this feel pretty dystopian?

Like in 200 years all the wealthy people are on the top levels. Sunlight, all nice and shit. And you've got a middle layer that's there to cater to the top level. Anywhere from lawyers and accountants, other professional services, management of service industry people, etc.

Then you've got the lower level. The people who are forced by circumstances to do the jobs no one else wants to. Waste management, hard labor, thankless jobs catering to the ultra wealthy.

They have probably dug down several more levels by now to increase the hand to mouth crowd. Lots of dust from the sandstorms that push against the base of the structure, and no one cares about seals and ventilation on "those" levels. No natural light. Hot. Lots of neon lights. Crowded streets that smell like urine. Perhaps some street food vendors serving rat on a stick.

BUT YEAH THIS IS TOTALLY AWESOME AND THANKS FOR SHARING

I think that's the plot to Demolition Man.

 

[Gustavus Adolphus]

I always imagine it like the Judge Dredd mega apartment buildings, but built over so there's no access to the Sun.

Ooops. Maybe I mixed up my shitty Stallone movies.

 

[wonky73]

Are we supposed to not notice that everything the powerful are proposing these days are taken directly from dystopian scifi novels?

 

[Ares]

Are we supposed to not notice that everything the powerful are proposing these days are taken directly from dystopian scifi novels?

It doesn't matter if we notice anymore.

The American populace is uninterested in properly staffing their own govt.

I've been regularly ranting about the need to purge Congress for like 8 years now.

And I've been on record saying we need a 2nd Constitutional Convention, administered by our best and brightest minds, because we're heading for another Civil War which could easily dovetail into a 3rd World War.

Its like the people in charge of most of the things out there are actively pushing towards global catastrophe on the chance that they can somehow survive or ignore whatever happens and keep sucking from the Amazon tit.

It has to be human nature on a very large scale.

As a global superorganism, we all know things are fucked up and the only way to get rid of the assholes causing it will be to fight and kill.

Similar to a body experiencing disease, humanity is heating up and starting to destroy itself in a bid to oust the cancer that ails it.

 

[TL1961]

Is it just me, or does this feel pretty dystopian?

Like in 200 years all the wealthy people are on the top levels. Sunlight, all nice and shit. And you've got a middle layer that's there to cater to the top level. Anywhere from lawyers and accountants, other professional services, management of service industry people, etc.

Then you've got the lower level. The people who are forced by circumstances to do the jobs no one else wants to. Waste management, hard labor, thankless jobs catering to the ultra wealthy.

They have probably dug down several more levels by now to increase the hand to mouth crowd. Lots of dust from the sandstorms that push against the base of the structure, and no one cares about seals and ventilation on "those" levels. No natural light. Hot. Lots of neon lights. Crowded streets that smell like urine. Perhaps some street food vendors serving rat on a stick.

BUT YEAH THIS IS TOTALLY AWESOME AND THANKS FOR SHARING

So, essentially like a cruise ship on land.

 

[nvanprooyen]

So, essentially like a cruise ship on land.

I've only been on one cruise, and I went all out. I'm guessing the inner staterooms on lower levels are shitty?

 

[KittiesKorner]

J.g. Ballard high-rise. Your predictions aren’t new

 

[MDB111™]

I've only been on one cruise, and I went all out. I'm guessing the inner staterooms on lower levels are shitty?

You never saw Titanic?