If anyone's wondering what's written in the other notepad in 1:24, it's: - Translate this later - Note to self: translation. - Translate, Dan. - Get a translator.
I'm an architect, and I would love it if one of the Line designers would tell us what it's built out of. Because if they build what they rendered for the promo videos, the answer is carbon nanotubes and anti-gravity fields.
A bunch of architecture and urbanism channels have already skewered these dumb projects, none of them are feasible they're just posturing for the brutal despots
@@axioms22 Some of these projects are technologically feasible, they're just difficult. The skyscraper twice the height of the Burj Khalifa could be built with reinforced concrete, it would just be massively impractical in many, many ways. You need fairy dust to get the line to work.
Adam Something called it Renderite. A material with near infinite strength and perfect malleability that never weathers or deteriorates. It also can be manipulated to exact transparency and reflectivity depending on the time of day.
Pretty sure I read somewhere that they just hired a bunch of designers and called it a day, started gathering investments etc without any Engineers weighing in :/
@@michaelhill6451 Sindala island project which was mentioned in the video here has fully finished and this was announced last week. The construction took only two years and it's now opened. The rest are on the way too, nothing is done overnight, just wait and see.
@@zahc2069 that they're like "oh my god what if we built x" except they have enough money to start building it, find out that it's a shit ton fo work for a plan that is genuinely batshit crazy, and then give up on it, hastily retrofit it into something a little less crap, when it becomes too difficult to work on. They're building something within a mountain, floating on the sea and an artificial fucking moon. That 's without even getting started on the city in a massive fucking line when we've literally been studying cities and communities for hundreds of years, we know what makes them good, we know what makes them crap. Building it in a massive line will be horrendous for anyone living there.
@@zahc2069 People like stupidly big mega projects and the Saudi Government has the ability to make them happen despite being, generally, really bad ideas. The number of actual, useful, mega projects is relatively small and circumstantial. Things like damns, major bridges, certain sorts of public stadiums etc . . . A linear mega city in the desert is not one of those things. Especially when the exact same mega city could be a fraction of the size, require a fraction of the energy, and a fraction of the upkeep.
I saw in a video that the prince asked architects for plans and they were not revolutionary enough, so they hired concept artists...which explains why it looks so cool and literally made without feasibility in mind
Cyberpunk is a world made for high ranking corpos. It is quite genuinely what the richest among us are striving to create. The world is already on its way to it, but they don't even have the common decency to at least let us have the sweet aesthetics
the funny thing is: that already exists. Literally google "bioluminescent beach" and you get examples of the phenomenon. It's gorgeous to see it... and it's part of the ecosystem's life cycle.
@@carlrodalegrado4104 nah,,they are HUMANE now,,,they use silent guunz and inject "the animal " with tranquilizers..they have come lawwwng way since DAT incident
Where in Saudi-Arabia is not "in the desert"? They have to work with what they've got. At least they are putting Neom in the mildest climate they have available.
@@Volkbrecht that’s the entire problem. Expanding in the desert is a bad idea. If they had unlimited clean energy then it wouldn’t be that big of a problem. However they’re using oil and oil money to bring MORE people and businesses to a place that’s inhospitable without throwing massive amounts of resources at it is genuinely insane.
in fact one of the guys tangentially related to this (through associations with marc andreessen ) the guy who owns/runs Softbank, literally sits around entering prompts into ai for business ideas. Guy genuinely sounds like he believes LLM ai is self aware and knows what the world needs.
8:57 The question isn't who told MBS that they could pull this off? The question is, who's gonna be the unfortunate soul to tell him that it can't be done?
@@MyFiddlePlayer There will never be an admission, not even to himself. Instead they’ll come up with some new project that makes Neom look incredibly dull, practical and logical and affordable in comparison and hype how Neom was just a precursor to brainstorm ideas and was never really intended to be finished and how the new thing is waaaaay better.
My prediction for the line: They will build like 500m of it, and then abandon it. At best it will then turn into a regular, circular town, which already kind-of exists in the form of construction pathways and structures around the starting point of the line anyway.
Why th' heck aren't they looking at the ancient, successful methods of building cities in extremely hot climates and applying THOSE ancient techniques, instead? Talk about throwing away one's heritage for cheap trashy "modern" crap and glitter...
As someone from Saudi Arabia once said, even if these projects fail, "they succeeded in their goals of getting money in the hands of the rich". These projects feel like very convoluted money laundering, wealth concentrating schemes, and they probably are exactly that. Wave way the failures, rely on law loopholes and you get away with all the money in the right hands.
@@AL-lh2ht because it's not about the money, it's the power that comes with it that keeps them going for more and more. You can't be a king or prince for this instance and just say I think I'll stop making money now that I have alot of it or even most of it. So is it really silly to assume they wouldn't go about keeping that money rolling in by any means necessary whether it's legal or not?
@@2ndToothyou don’t seem to know about Saudi Arabia and its people. Overwhelming majority of the population love and respect the royal family. They have complete power and we as people support them for many reasons. 1-they are from us and we are from them ie( they are like our family and we are like theirs) 2-the provided a good life for us and supported many products ie( they pay for a percentage of gas and wheat making it cheaper than the norm) 3-we are Muslims and so are they and in our religion you have to obey your ruler unless he orders of a sin or he himself renounces his faith. I think my country is one of the few countries that the population 100% with their leaders our patriotism is off the chart and thats why we are happy and successful.
@@WILLYINTHEREEDSNJ is the best!!! We have it all. Cities, beaches, lakes, urbanism, farm land, trails, parks, not to mention some of the best food in the country
I am a Saudi citizen< I love NEOM so so so much. NEOM is the BEST IDEA ever. NEOM is the pinnacle of civilization and architecture. NEOM is life. please dont take me to j*il... on a more serious note, rest in peace brave tribe leader, you died like a real man fighting for what is right
@@tfun101 just being sarcastic 😉 I am actually a Saudi architect, and I hate NEOM from the bottom of my heart. it is a useless project that created huge financial problems for everyone in thr country
The problem we have is because Most people always taught that " you only need a good job to become rich " . These billionaires are operating on a whole other playbook that many don't even know exists.
The wisest thing that should be on everyone mind currently should be to invest in different streams of income that doesn't depend on government paycheck, especially with the current economic crisis around the world.
Even with the right technique and assets some investors would still make more than others. As an investor, you should've known that by now that nothing beats experience and that's final. Personally I had to reach out to a stock expert for guidance which is how I was able to grow my account close to $35k, withdraw my profit right before the correction and now I'm buying again.
I love how from a sheer logistics and physics standpoint, the ski resort in the desert might actually be one of the only feasible parts of this plan. Desert or not, elevation counts for a lot. Kilimanjaro has snow.
You saying I would have to ascend a mountain the size of Kilimanjaro just to go skiing? Do you know that at such elevations the air is so thin that you have to keep panting just to stay conscious? I think I'd rather go skiing in the Alps or the French Central Massive.
And it's so unoriginal, why not try to make skiing on sand instead? It would take less resources and it would take advantage of what's most iconic in a desert: sand
I just looked that up. Highest point in the area is only 8,500 feet, and they're WAY too close to the equator for that low altitude to retain any snow. I'm in one of the USA states with world famous ski areas, and FAR north of the equator, yet that puny 8,500 feet in the mountains here (many of which are 14,000 feet high) doesn't get enough snow to operate small ski resorts for more than 2 - 3 months in the winter.
@@Group.B It's so shocking they even invested some money into let alone the hundreds of billions. I just thought it was another fluke, it's so unbelievable. How can people be so dumb lol
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So as a gamer, my window into this was when Mohammad bin Salman Foundation bought a company I was pretty fond of, SNK, and then I got gradually more aware of the other stuff that was part of his Vision 2030 project. The question I have is... what if all this doesn't work? Like, Neom sounds like it's not gonna happen, and if his other attempts to diversify the economy away from oil doesn't really happen... what's next for Saudi Arabia? Maybe that's a bit too pie-in-the-sky to just answer haphazardly in the comment section on a jocular TH-cam video, but if all these massive multi-billion investments just tank because they're wildly implausible dreams that just seem to exist to drain his coffers, what's actually left for Saudi Arabia to pivot to?
If the line is a wall of mirrors in the desert, anywhere it reflects the light onto will literally melt, organic or inorganic. There are several examples of skyscrapers literally melting cars parked on the opposite side of the street, and it is one of the major concerns of desert solar farms. It would be funny if it melted the sand into glass, which then reflects it back at the walls....
The catch with the melting cars is that the skyscrapers were curved rather than flat. Therefore, they had a focal point where the reflected rays were concentrated--a very bad place to park! This Neom Line is supposed to be flat, so no concentration of the Sun's rays on any spot worse than 2x normal. The problem that really bothers me, is that when the building heats and cools, it will expand and contract. Therefore, it will buckle somewhere (unless they put gaps in it).
Ken Levine: In my game i invented Rapture City as a cautionnary tale. MBS: At long last, We have finaly greenlit the construction of Rapture City from classic video game pls don't create Rapture City i'm begging.
My studio working on some of these projects and we assumed non if it was meant to be build. What the general public isn’t familiar with is that “paper architecture” is most of what architects do; there’s a competition system for most big projects and 98% of all architects work gets thrown into the scrap bin, and loads of “value engineering.”
"...98% of all architects work gets thrown into the scrap bin,..." Same here in industrial design work. For every car model that comes onto the market there are at least 100 trashed car designs. Not that I care as long as I get paid.
One of the first popular thorium reactor documentaries has a scene where the actual George Lucas walks by in the background as they're doing an interview.
MBS watched the Ghost in the Shell anime movie, said to himself "Man, I wish I lived in that city" and then found out they based it off a real city. (Kowloon walled city for those curious)
A completely private city? Sounds like a nightmare. I'm sure the transit systems will be cheap until all the condos/houses are bought, then they will jack up all the prices because they have you trapped.
Most of the foreign top management working for Neom project are clearly incompetent and receive insanely high compensation. Most will be replaced. The hiring culture in Saudi Arabia is not as heavy on merits as it should be.
The Gulf countries obsession with needlessly reinventing citys has all the same flavors as tech bros needlessly reinventing trains. But on an entirely different scale.
There are people who argue that these cities should have no laws at all. "If they agree on slavery, these cities will fail, and therefore no one would want to do such a thing”...sure
On that premise there would be no bad laws or oppression of anyone. It ends up the person who builds the biggest warlord army that they enforce with violence and that can feed at least its people that part of their warlord army controls everything.
So any rag-tag band of wannabe warlord dictators could form a small army and take over the place? Or will they then come crying for help from countries with actual laws and regulations?
The money is literally not an issue. The prince is literally a multi trillionaire. He spent 500 million dollars on a painting, pretty sure he can afford to lose 500 billion on a city. The issue is logistics. That amount of concrete is staggering, the price is no problem, the manpower is.
The Line is about control. When you stretch out a city into the width of several city blocks and the length of miles, it becomes easy to isolate a section of the city if needed. All you need to do is block off either side of that section, and then your army/police can enter the 'bad' section via gates found in that section's walls. Then, those inside have nowhere to go to. As technology advances, you can monitor for tunnels and/or anyone flying into a section they are not allowed into. The only ones allowed to travel outside of the city, along the desert roads that run alongside the city, are your army/police.
Whenever you watch archaeologists discussing recent finds, there are always questions about what the sites were used for. Maybe it was a religious temple? Maybe it was a gathering place discuss politics? Maybe they used the site to chart astrological symbology? You know what I've never heard any archaeologists say? Maybe these people had more money than brains? I feel when future archaeologists unearth a lot of the stuff in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates they may not know that the builders were so filthy rich they were just looking for interesting things to spend their money on.
Neom is one of the stupidest ideas on how to spend capital I’ve ever encountered. It’s amazing how stupid people can be when nobody can question them without being poisoned. Autocracy ladies and gentlemen.
Thanks for having me on the channel, it was great meeting you at the robot cage fights last week.
when are you fighting plain bagel in a cage MMA match? @PBoyle
I'm a big fan of your videos, Mr. B.
All the best.
@PBoyle the stuff you mentioned looked bat poop crazy and I'm looking for your video about it
Holy shit I'm a big fan of your content man, keep up the good work!
rapper, robot fights. What doesn't this man do?
If anyone's wondering what's written in the other notepad in 1:24, it's:
- Translate this later
- Note to self: translation.
- Translate, Dan.
- Get a translator.
This needs to be pinned.
Got here too late, if you want a translator, dan, hit me up
I was hoping some one would translate it in the comment. Thanks!
@@dutchuncle2716 my pleasure man 💪
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I'm an architect, and I would love it if one of the Line designers would tell us what it's built out of. Because if they build what they rendered for the promo videos, the answer is carbon nanotubes and anti-gravity fields.
A bunch of architecture and urbanism channels have already skewered these dumb projects, none of them are feasible they're just posturing for the brutal despots
@@axioms22 Some of these projects are technologically feasible, they're just difficult. The skyscraper twice the height of the Burj Khalifa could be built with reinforced concrete, it would just be massively impractical in many, many ways. You need fairy dust to get the line to work.
Adam Something called it Renderite. A material with near infinite strength and perfect malleability that never weathers or deteriorates. It also can be manipulated to exact transparency and reflectivity depending on the time of day.
@@palpedersen2804that is impossible
Lots of CMU block.
As an Engineer, I can assure you that these projects will end up as nothing but empty holes in the desert. This is delusional.
As an engineer I'd take £1000 a day to consult on these projects.
Pretty sure I read somewhere that they just hired a bunch of designers and called it a day, started gathering investments etc without any Engineers weighing in :/
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@@michaelhill6451 Sindala island project which was mentioned in the video here has fully finished and this was announced last week. The construction took only two years and it's now opened. The rest are on the way too, nothing is done overnight, just wait and see.
Oh, an engineering! Thanks for the wisdom you weird buildy wizard. Many blessings.
A long line is literally the least efficient way to build a city. Everything is as far from everything else as it could possibly be.
Desert bros got so much money they can afford to fail at playing Minecraft IRL
Wtf are you actually saying
Arabians can do whatever they want, due to oil money and related @@zahc2069
@@zahc2069 that they're like "oh my god what if we built x" except they have enough money to start building it, find out that it's a shit ton fo work for a plan that is genuinely batshit crazy, and then give up on it, hastily retrofit it into something a little less crap, when it becomes too difficult to work on.
They're building something within a mountain, floating on the sea and an artificial fucking moon. That 's without even getting started on the city in a massive fucking line when we've literally been studying cities and communities for hundreds of years, we know what makes them good, we know what makes them crap. Building it in a massive line will be horrendous for anyone living there.
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@@zahc2069 People like stupidly big mega projects and the Saudi Government has the ability to make them happen despite being, generally, really bad ideas.
The number of actual, useful, mega projects is relatively small and circumstantial. Things like damns, major bridges, certain sorts of public stadiums etc . . .
A linear mega city in the desert is not one of those things. Especially when the exact same mega city could be a fraction of the size, require a fraction of the energy, and a fraction of the upkeep.
They must have played Cyberpunk and thought, "WOW, I want to live there!"
I saw in a video that the prince asked architects for plans and they were not revolutionary enough, so they hired concept artists...which explains why it looks so cool and literally made without feasibility in mind
they'd be the people who would benefit from a world like that.
MBS literally has main character syndrome.
Cyberpunk is a world made for high ranking corpos. It is quite genuinely what the richest among us are striving to create. The world is already on its way to it, but they don't even have the common decency to at least let us have the sweet aesthetics
@@bored88888888 Yeah I'd probably be ok with the current state of the world if I had some preem chrome.
My brain started hurting once Boyle started mentioning all the things that NEOM had planned for the future.... A glow in the dark beach like???????
Mmmm, TOXIC!!
fallout 4 reference…
the funny thing is: that already exists. Literally google "bioluminescent beach" and you get examples of the phenomenon. It's gorgeous to see it... and it's part of the ecosystem's life cycle.
how the fuck they gon build a hyperloop within a 200m footprint wtf thats not enough to turn around
(Bro actually believed him?he is joking right?)
These projects are prison and surveillance apparatus.
As is current Saudi arabia.
This shit's gonna go crazy as a dungeon in my post apocalyptic sci-fi DND campaign
Yupp. I'm doing CoC with it, can't wait.
D&D?
There's other systems for that kinda setting. I made my own, even. For that exact kind of setting
Dan's sweating like a journalist who's been personally invited to 'visit' Saudi Arabia.
I hear they'll pack your suitcase for you
@@Fl0w_CZ damn I also heared they have pretty sharp cutting tools there especially for butchering
funny af , whats funny is your stupidity for sure
@@carlrodalegrado4104 nah,,they are HUMANE now,,,they use silent guunz and inject "the animal " with tranquilizers..they have come lawwwng way since DAT incident
Stop🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
How can we waste as much money, time and resources as possible… in the desert.
"We"?
@@nawafspov1 Humans. It's sucking up so much resources that it effects everyone on the planet. Like climate change.
Where in Saudi-Arabia is not "in the desert"? They have to work with what they've got. At least they are putting Neom in the mildest climate they have available.
Who the fuck is we?
You talkin' like you busted your ass making their money..
@@Volkbrecht that’s the entire problem. Expanding in the desert is a bad idea. If they had unlimited clean energy then it wouldn’t be that big of a problem. However they’re using oil and oil money to bring MORE people and businesses to a place that’s inhospitable without throwing massive amounts of resources at it is genuinely insane.
Its like they made an AI consume all the cyberpunk dystopia media and it spit this idea out..
in fact one of the guys tangentially related to this (through associations with marc andreessen ) the guy who owns/runs Softbank, literally sits around entering prompts into ai for business ideas. Guy genuinely sounds like he believes LLM ai is self aware and knows what the world needs.
🏭🏬⛪️⛪️
Buddy Cyberpunk was launched in 2020 and Neom in 2017
I suspect that AI is actually smarter than that.
@@theone707 buddy cyberpunks existed before 2020
8:57 The question isn't who told MBS that they could pull this off? The question is, who's gonna be the unfortunate soul to tell him that it can't be done?
It will have to fail in little tiny stages until he admits it to himself. Meanwhile, the contractors will make money.
@@MyFiddlePlayer There will never be an admission, not even to himself. Instead they’ll come up with some new project that makes Neom look incredibly dull, practical and logical and affordable in comparison and hype how Neom was just a precursor to brainstorm ideas and was never really intended to be finished and how the new thing is waaaaay better.
My prediction for the line: They will build like 500m of it, and then abandon it. At best it will then turn into a regular, circular town, which already kind-of exists in the form of construction pathways and structures around the starting point of the line anyway.
Why th' heck aren't they looking at the ancient, successful methods of building cities in extremely hot climates and applying THOSE ancient techniques, instead? Talk about throwing away one's heritage for cheap trashy "modern" crap and glitter...
I hope so. But this isn’t the only smart city in the works
Would be funnier to me if it turns into EPCOT
As someone from Saudi Arabia once said, even if these projects fail, "they succeeded in their goals of getting money in the hands of the rich".
These projects feel like very convoluted money laundering, wealth concentrating schemes, and they probably are exactly that. Wave way the failures, rely on law loopholes and you get away with all the money in the right hands.
There it is! Nailed it.
That's silly. The prince literally controls and owns the hedge funding this. They already have complete control of the money.
Yeah, why build things that help ordinary people?
@@AL-lh2ht because it's not about the money, it's the power that comes with it that keeps them going for more and more. You can't be a king or prince for this instance and just say I think I'll stop making money now that I have alot of it or even most of it. So is it really silly to assume they wouldn't go about keeping that money rolling in by any means necessary whether it's legal or not?
@@2ndToothyou don’t seem to know about Saudi Arabia and its people. Overwhelming majority of the population love and respect the royal family. They have complete power and we as people support them for many reasons.
1-they are from us and we are from them ie( they are like our family and we are like theirs)
2-the provided a good life for us and supported many products ie( they pay for a percentage of gas and wheat making it cheaper than the norm)
3-we are Muslims and so are they and in our religion you have to obey your ruler unless he orders of a sin or he himself renounces his faith.
I think my country is one of the few countries that the population 100% with their leaders
our patriotism is off the chart and thats why we are happy and successful.
That New Jersey ad at the end compelled me to move to the shore
I'm from the NJ shore, and I'm moving my business to New Hampshire.
My family's from the shore. What's the timeline on when they need to move out?
@@RichardKing-sx6xcno way you’re from the “shore” if you refer to it as the “shore”
I've been wanting to try out the east coast, do you like jersey?
@@WILLYINTHEREEDSNJ is the best!!! We have it all. Cities, beaches, lakes, urbanism, farm land, trails, parks, not to mention some of the best food in the country
Man I love Patrick Boyle. My favorite rap news channel
Where else can you get such reliable news about the rap music
Why do people keep calling his a "rap news channel" ?- I'm genuinely curious.
@@Morgue12freeI think his Crocodile of Wall Street video will give you the best idea 😂
@@Morgue12free watch the Crocodile of Wall Street video of his and then youll see since then he constantly references it in his later videos
Yes, it’s where I get all of my rap news content, he’s the best
I am a Saudi citizen< I love NEOM so so so much. NEOM is the BEST IDEA ever. NEOM is the pinnacle of civilization and architecture. NEOM is life. please dont take me to j*il... on a more serious note, rest in peace brave tribe leader, you died like a real man fighting for what is right
> I am a Saudi citizen
> profile pic of some tall white guy from the pacific northwest
I hope you catfish some old lady for that green card, mate.
Congrats..?
@@tfun101 just being sarcastic 😉 I am actually a Saudi architect, and I hate NEOM from the bottom of my heart. it is a useless project that created huge financial problems for everyone in thr country
What a waste of money ! Who would want to live in an Islamic prison! This doomed for failure lol
@@PeaceMaker669-c1i NEOM is anything but Islamic you silly goober lol
The problem we have is because Most people always taught that " you only need a good job to become rich " . These billionaires are operating on a whole other playbook that many don't even know exists.
Money invested is far better than money saved , when you invest it gives you the opportunity to increase your financial worth.
Money invested is far better than money saved , when you invest it gives you the opportunity to increase your financial worth.
The wisest thing that should be on everyone mind currently should be to invest in different streams of income that doesn't depend on government paycheck, especially with the current economic crisis around the world.
Many individuals report success in investing in stocks,fx, yet I continue to struggle.Can somebody help me out or advise me on what to do?
Even with the right technique and assets some investors would still make more than others. As an investor, you should've known that by now that nothing beats experience and that's final. Personally I had to reach out to a stock expert for guidance which is how I was able to grow my account close to $35k, withdraw my profit right before the correction and now I'm buying again.
The Patrick Boyle crossover we've all been waiting for
Oh you spoiled it :(
Patrick ... is here? 😮
But Patrick is funny to boot 😂
@@nothingbutchappy it's 2 minutes in, mate. You went into the comments without watching for 2 minutes!?
@@me0101001000 they scroll under the vid...
I love how from a sheer logistics and physics standpoint, the ski resort in the desert might actually be one of the only feasible parts of this plan. Desert or not, elevation counts for a lot. Kilimanjaro has snow.
You saying I would have to ascend a mountain the size of Kilimanjaro just to go skiing? Do you know that at such elevations the air is so thin that you have to keep panting just to stay conscious? I think I'd rather go skiing in the Alps or the French Central Massive.
Well nobody said it was a good idea
And it's so unoriginal, why not try to make skiing on sand instead? It would take less resources and it would take advantage of what's most iconic in a desert: sand
@@Manelneedsaname So the actual dunes are by far most by fair unlivable and remote parts of the country.
I just looked that up. Highest point in the area is only 8,500 feet, and they're WAY too close to the equator for that low altitude to retain any snow. I'm in one of the USA states with world famous ski areas, and FAR north of the equator, yet that puny 8,500 feet in the mountains here (many of which are 14,000 feet high) doesn't get enough snow to operate small ski resorts for more than 2 - 3 months in the winter.
This is what happens when you give medieval despots infinite money.
They’ve already scaled back their ambitions. Someone was off the peyote when they had this idea. This will be a complete failure I predict
I mean as opposed to colonizing other the rest of the world, I'll take this all day
@@Group.B It's so shocking they even invested some money into let alone the hundreds of billions.
I just thought it was another fluke, it's so unbelievable. How can people be so dumb lol
@@medoubellaimplying they didn't boot out the native population for this sham?
@@medoubella did you not watch the video
"Like you're a middle eastern Walt Disney on trucker meth" - I nearly fell out of my chair... Absolute gold.
My favorite feature of Saudi arabia's new city is the rule allowing people to pay them Tuesday for a hamburger today.
😂
A Popeye reference that no one under 40 will get 😂😢😅
The "this is all actual stuff they want, we're not making this up" is really giving South Park's episode on Scientology x'D
Take a shot of espresso for every time Dan pronounces "Neom" differently.
Also we have now officially investigated Neom. What should we cover next?
Aliens. Or Israel. Idm
Hi I have consumed 10000mg of caffeine and can smell time?
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Energy drink market
Murica’s military industrial complex
Israelis corrupt businesses
Who needs Fyre Fest when you can have a whole civilization?
Why didn't they call it fyre nation then?
So as a gamer, my window into this was when Mohammad bin Salman Foundation bought a company I was pretty fond of, SNK, and then I got gradually more aware of the other stuff that was part of his Vision 2030 project. The question I have is... what if all this doesn't work? Like, Neom sounds like it's not gonna happen, and if his other attempts to diversify the economy away from oil doesn't really happen... what's next for Saudi Arabia? Maybe that's a bit too pie-in-the-sky to just answer haphazardly in the comment section on a jocular TH-cam video, but if all these massive multi-billion investments just tank because they're wildly implausible dreams that just seem to exist to drain his coffers, what's actually left for Saudi Arabia to pivot to?
Exporting sand
They should embrace solar power technology, they have the sun and space for it.
Literally every creepy libertarian project has Peter thiel’s name attached to it 😂😂😂
0:01 not gonna lie I thought a pirated version of Excel was booting up when this showed up on my screen
Neom sounds like the sound a car would make as it zooms past me.
It anticipates the omnipresent noise of flying cars before they crash and ignite.
I think they were going to call it Neon but then Starfield came out and they didn't want people thinking they copied
this is by far the best channel I've found on youtube this year, thank you so much and pls never change dan and team
you got it babe
@@GoodWorkMBjust an FYI we use miles still in the UK! Km is the rest of Europe including the Republic of Ireland!
✅ agreed.
First time watching, this is hilarious!
Wind blows sand up against flat things, and it piles up...
No way? Word? 🏜
Wow. What a great channel I just stumbled on! Slightly mad at my algorithm for hiding you, but happy it happened eventually
9:04 "you pencil pushing rattlesnakes", referring to consultants 😂😂
accurate 😂
Fits. Although I think that rattlesnakes are more honest.
True
@@WWZenaDo Yes, they let you know they're rattlesnakes.
What's the sound a plane makes when flying by you? Neom!
😂😂😂
N E O M!
How much you want to bet that it was named that because that's the sound some stupid Prince's sports car makes when it goes past really fast.
@@personzorzNeom means new future it’s a combination of the word neo and the first letter of future in Arabic
@@ookam9685 Nah, it's some braindead prince's cool mouth sound
I don’t care how hot it is where’s the trench coat tooney
Dan lost it while going through Saudi customs
@@GoodWorkMBYou’ll have to buy a new one at their dedicated trench coat shop located on Mile 82.
Robot cage fighting is already a thing Patrick, it's called BattleBots.
🤖 It´s less interesting than watching wet towels drying.
🤬
You had me at 24 hr surveillance!
If the line is a wall of mirrors in the desert, anywhere it reflects the light onto will literally melt, organic or inorganic. There are several examples of skyscrapers literally melting cars parked on the opposite side of the street, and it is one of the major concerns of desert solar farms. It would be funny if it melted the sand into glass, which then reflects it back at the walls....
Lmao
Good point 👉
You say it's bad I say it's a good defending system
The catch with the melting cars is that the skyscrapers were curved rather than flat. Therefore, they had a focal point where the reflected rays were concentrated--a very bad place to park! This Neom Line is supposed to be flat, so no concentration of the Sun's rays on any spot worse than 2x normal. The problem that really bothers me, is that when the building heats and cools, it will expand and contract. Therefore, it will buckle somewhere (unless they put gaps in it).
Thank you for saving me the writing.
The buckling problem can be solved with gaps, flexible joints and building during winter.
Ken Levine: In my game i invented Rapture City as a cautionnary tale.
MBS: At long last, We have finaly greenlit the construction of Rapture City from classic video game pls don't create Rapture City i'm begging.
Only if its art deco, otherwise I don't want it
and at the end the project will either be abandoned or downscaled into a lame modern hotel with a few rooms featuring underwater windows.
Couldn't they have done a 1/8-1/4 mile section as a feasibility study, instead of going 100 from day 1?
Arabs aren't the brightest bunch when it comes to intelligence.
I've been asking that same question for months....
That's the thing, they're building it in 2.5 mile chunks and the continuation of building would depend on the supply/demand.
No, that would have been too smart and reasonable
It was never meant to be built. But it's sure making some elite architectural firms some serious coin.
😂 I lost it when he did the Theranos picture 10:35 😂😂😂 Dan, you’re hilarious. 🙏🏼
The line is now supposed be 2 miles long a cut down from the 170 km 😂😂😂
This is straight out of a movie where the experiment goes terribly wrong
You had me sold at 2:45! 24/7 Surveillance, that sounds awesome! I wish we had that now..
My studio working on some of these projects and we assumed non if it was meant to be build. What the general public isn’t familiar with is that “paper architecture” is most of what architects do; there’s a competition system for most big projects and 98% of all architects work gets thrown into the scrap bin, and loads of “value engineering.”
What exactly is “paper architecture”? Unbuilt buildings/infrastructure just for show?
"...98% of all architects work gets thrown into the scrap bin,..."
Same here in industrial design work. For every car model that comes onto the market there are at least 100 trashed car designs. Not that I care as long as I get paid.
@@Redguns4life Thanks.
The name of each region sounds like a Sonic the Hedgehog level
this is shit I come up with after a 6 day meth bender
Damn that trade deal was crazy, Jersey for ronaldo? That’s a dub.
maybe 2014 ronaldo
I'm so glad Dan lent out a hand to a small and upcoming channel like Patrick Boyle. Way to spread the love Boss.
7:47 Sam Bankman Fried casually walking in the background
Went straight to the comments to see if anyone else noticed
It's like when George Lucas appeared in the background of some random documentary
One of the first popular thorium reactor documentaries has a scene where the actual George Lucas walks by in the background as they're doing an interview.
He automatically gravitates towards bullshit.
@@jorge69696that’s a good one
No you can’t drink that
No you can’t wear that
No you can’t say that
But look, it’s a line! So cool. Invest please!
6:20 🤣 the rendering for your "bisnis city" graphic 😂 I'm dead. ☠
I lost it at the New Jersey at the end, was not expecting that. Also always good to see Patrick Boyle
The Saudis are really known for completing projects XD
and definitely not know for image laundering
I find they are pretty well known for some bad things.
@@HarryANuis-gi9hzlike invading other countries for their oil/mines ?
Yeah just like the US
The west always have a field day when criticizing arabs by calling them meideval and all that crap bc it gives then sense of false superiority
In romanian, Neom literally means non-human.
Fitting.
I thought it was just money without the Y. As in, don't think about why we are doing this. Maybe they are not that clever.
Great report! Love your work.😊
cant wait to live inside a really long mirror
😅😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
Time is kind of like that
Nah jk I have no idea what I'm talking about
In a climate where triple digit highs of heat are the norm for most of the year.
MBS watched the Ghost in the Shell anime movie, said to himself "Man, I wish I lived in that city" and then found out they based it off a real city. (Kowloon walled city for those curious)
The hard hitting journalism we deserve
This channel is actually fantastic
The book placement on the shelf during the interview did not go unnoticed.
A completely private city? Sounds like a nightmare. I'm sure the transit systems will be cheap until all the condos/houses are bought, then they will jack up all the prices because they have you trapped.
Transit systems???? 😂
Dont listen to him , he came up with a lot of unreliable sources
Nothing will be cheap in the first place. It’s intended only for the super rich.
Holy shit they added spec ops the line to real life
I tried SO HARD to watch Jimmy Carter react to Not Like Us. You got me, Dan. Good work.
New York’s b-roll footage being a landfill sent me 😂
The animation of the dystopia: 1:59
Your editor deserves a full holiday in dubai, man😅
Impressive that you got such a big music star as Patrick in your video. I love all his rap tunes.
Makes sense, Saudi Arabia is already dystopian, they just want the aesthetic to match.
Edit: with Star Wars ass names.
من المنطقي ان أنت الحمار أحنى نفعل مانريد 😂
Most of the foreign top management working for Neom project are clearly incompetent and receive insanely high compensation. Most will be replaced. The hiring culture in Saudi Arabia is not as heavy on merits as it should be.
The Gulf countries obsession with needlessly reinventing citys has all the same flavors as tech bros needlessly reinventing trains. But on an entirely different scale.
with how many narrator cut shots you pack in, i cannot believe i haven't spotted you in midtown lmao
I thought it was all a joke until I actually started seeing job openings for neom
British for “real long” lmaooo this some good ass work folks
Funniest thing about it is that we don't really use kilometres in Britain, we use miles.
@@grantm6933 for real??
@@TeachingMyselfWeightlifting yeah. All of our signs are in miles, and we refer to miles per hour.
@@TeachingMyselfWeightlifting yeah we're a weird mix of metric and imperial
@@grantm6933today I learned lol
Your comparison with Fyre fest is spot on.
How nice of Patrick to be in your video. I came across him recently where he was freestyle rapping with some kids. Good content
They could just invest in their people, but the "Crown Prince" thinks that's too boring. Wasting an entire country's wealth on a vanity project.
That's the problem with princes.
To be fair, they are giving their citizens free money 🤑🤑🤑
@ There is nothing fair in Saudi Arabia.
There are people who argue that these cities should have no laws at all.
"If they agree on slavery, these cities will fail, and therefore no one would want to do such a thing”...sure
On that premise there would be no bad laws or oppression of anyone. It ends up the person who builds the biggest warlord army that they enforce with violence and that can feed at least its people that part of their warlord army controls everything.
So any rag-tag band of wannabe warlord dictators could form a small army and take over the place? Or will they then come crying for help from countries with actual laws and regulations?
The capitalism guy with the book is extremely charming
Nobody dared to say no when the mad king told them his idea
This has been true for far too long in human history.
First time I’ve ever been recommended your channel
Great stuff very funny 😂
This is just so entertaining. Thank you both for doing the subject justice!
Love the collab with my favorite rapper Patrick Boyle.
The money is literally not an issue. The prince is literally a multi trillionaire. He spent 500 million dollars on a painting, pretty sure he can afford to lose 500 billion on a city. The issue is logistics. That amount of concrete is staggering, the price is no problem, the manpower is.
And the resources, especially Moronium.
@@referencefool6525 atleast he buys infrastructure, US government invests in cyber AI techno dystopia and gets left in the 18th century... bye byeeeee
@@referencefool6525 Hmmm. Where ever I go there's plenty of that...
he is not a multi trillionaire, why are you lying on the internet?
As of early 2023 his net worth was estimated to be around 25 billion.
How are you gonna do the TV voice better than people on TV
They played bioshock and literally said „THATS a good idea”
The Line is about control. When you stretch out a city into the width of several city blocks and the length of miles, it becomes easy to isolate a section of the city if needed. All you need to do is block off either side of that section, and then your army/police can enter the 'bad' section via gates found in that section's walls. Then, those inside have nowhere to go to.
As technology advances, you can monitor for tunnels and/or anyone flying into a section they are not allowed into.
The only ones allowed to travel outside of the city, along the desert roads that run alongside the city, are your army/police.
Literally *DUNE!!!* The oil most flow.
something about shield walls in the desert....
dune is literallly based on the gulf states.
The Saudis are getting absolutely fleeced giving up Ronaldo for New Jersey
9:42 SO TRUE. Netflix will end up making a profit out of all of this
The New Jersey bit absolutely finished me. Well played
Whenever you watch archaeologists discussing recent finds, there are always questions about what the sites were used for. Maybe it was a religious temple? Maybe it was a gathering place discuss politics? Maybe they used the site to chart astrological symbology? You know what I've never heard any archaeologists say? Maybe these people had more money than brains? I feel when future archaeologists unearth a lot of the stuff in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates they may not know that the builders were so filthy rich they were just looking for interesting things to spend their money on.
10:57 first good idea I've heard in a while
Neom is one of the stupidest ideas on how to spend capital I’ve ever encountered. It’s amazing how stupid people can be when nobody can question them without being poisoned. Autocracy ladies and gentlemen.
Neom is one of the places you children would dream to live in.
ليس بكثر غباؤك إذا ماشفت المشروع من جميع النواحي لاتجي تتفلسف على راسنا
Dan and Patrick in one video is my favorite collab I never knew I needed
I don't know the name for this type of humor.
I do know that it requires a ton of attention to detail - these videos are so incredibly funny.
This list for city goals sounds like it's written by an eleven year old.
They burn money quicker than we burn their oil.
ليس بكثر ماتحرقون