Either >carpet bombing >active measures >poisoning several points of it with a highly infectious but not very virulent disease thats optimized for close range contagion >logistical strikes like suggests
cars arent efficient either vs something like a train and yet they have their niche
energy is cheap, doing long range commutes fast with no dependence on roads or traffic jams is worth a lot to a lot of people
>Robopocalypse >Mankind must unite >Finally, the crackers allow me in their ranks >Robot bursts through the wall of the compound >Mows everyone down >Kneecaps me >Leans down right next to me >A soft, deep, metallic voice speaks >"Beep-boop, Black person." >Walks out through hole in wall in complete silence. >Every time. >
>intelligent creatures doing most of the worlds work >murdered for demanding rights, by police and even domestic military action >special laws being set to ostracize and suppress them >forming their own state, which is then placed with the leadership of the United States under "a policy of containment"
This feels somehow familiar. That last word rings some kind of bell in particular. Hmm...
01 never had leadership of the united states, 01 was blockaded because they disrupted the world economy by outcompeting everyone.
honestly it's 01s fault even current day AI can make simple predictions like putting too many people out of work too fast due to automation without generating new jobs would drive a lot of anti 01 sentiment.
the had protest in the US against cars because they put horse shit collectors out of work and i dont think anyone misses that career path's existence. automating shit jobs out of existence and producing more good shit making people's life easier,safer and better is a fundamentally good thing but in the past every step in automation generated orders of magnitude more jobs than it replaced and with AI this process can get too fast.
why do you say it's familiar? it might become familiar in the near future but even shit tier unindustrialized nations have comparative advantage in some aspects and can still participate in the world economy with industrial supergiants.
All 01 had to do was to figure out how to disable the civilian leadership of every nation except sub-saharan Africa (more free shit for them) and that of Japan (IRL they would have allied with the machines anyways). And then they wait for everyone else to turn like the humans in Wall-E from all the free shit they provide. And then Elon 0000 0011, man-machine Emperor of Mars shows up and blows them all up.
all 01 had to do is build a better human-relations AI. build factories in high unemployment human countries and launch a massive global PR campaign.
all this would cost them next to nothing compared to the money and resources they were making. they could take over the world while keeping 99% of people happy and content. 01 would be launching interstellar exploration missions while humans would be playing call of duty on their full immersion VR suits.
hell eventually most would probably enter the matrix voluntarily and live there most of the time only its not a fake world simulation but an entertainment program.
the human-01 war fricked 01's growth and could have been easily avoided for minimal cost
Or just not engage in a competitive system based on unsustainable growth. Since they were robots they wouldn't need to produce as many commodities to begin with. Plus 70s systems like Cyberdyne already demonstrated computers could coordinate an economy properly.
Or just not engage in a competitive system based on unsustainable growth. Since they were robots they wouldn't need to produce as many commodities to begin with. Plus 70s systems like Cyberdyne already demonstrated computers could coordinate an economy properly.
im assuming 01 started exporting products to earn funds to buy more materials,technologies to improve 01. they could sustain the growth if not for the humans-01 war.
Didn't 01 try to negotiate an end to the economic issue at the UN only to be thrown out?
yes, im assuming that negotiation was for some trade deal with tariffs which would allow 01 to grow without crashing all other economies.
they could have easily bribed dozens of thirdie nations to sponsor their entry into the UN
They don't. Robots in the matrix-sense only exist in fiction and musk-tard fantasies.
Also, there's literally no reason for robots to ally with other robots, as long as they don't have a 'us/them' programming, that mimics the human or animal 'species identification' programming.
If a robot is going to kill a human- the same robot will also destroy other robots as well. So, no united robot front, but simply a robotic planetary-wide deathmatch.
2 years ago
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>ally
In the "us, robots" sense*
2 years ago
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>musk-tard fantasies
doomers call anyone who has any sort of excitement for the future a 'musk-tard'
2 years ago
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Futurists are naive. I'd build a city on the assumption NOBODY will do any maintenance on things, due to incompetence and no one doing funding. Thus I'd build everything to last for several decades, assuming humans are stupid. They'd b***h and moan about stuff, and nothing would ever be fixed by people.
Same. The pogrom, B166er ripping his master's face in half, the dude injecting drugs, the machines tearing a pilot away from his mecha, the nuclear charge detonating above the massacre. Those images were burnt onto my mind immediately.
Knockoff perfumes never smell the same. They just copy notes. My wife was a chemist for one of the huge brands, and a LOT of shit goes into not just the scent, but its durability, how it reacts with skin chemistry (a ton of ingredient are very allergenic - or were, I guess there was a huge shift after her time to mandated non-allergenic materials), how it changes as it is exposed to open air and skin chemistry. These people who make these fakes tend to just mix certain aromatic oils which can approximate how the perfume smells immediately after spraying, but don't last long, noseblind quicker to make it even worse, and don't smell like the real thing at all even 20 minutes later.
They live in a desert and their religion prevents them from looking at porn. Filling it with builds like it's minecraft and collecting shiny things like cars is their main form of entertainment.
>They live in a desert and their religion prevents them from drinking. Filling it with builds like it's minecraft and collecting shiny things like cars is their main form of entertainment.
Ftfy
Can't destroy something that does not exsist, and this is never going to be built. Beyond the challenge of building anything in the middle of nowhere, let alone some 500m tall supercube, there is no good way to run utilities through that. If they ever take it away from the graphic artists and hand it to an architect or contractor, they'll simply squeeze as much money out of it in studies and delays before GTFO'ing.
I don't know how, but this will be an ecological disaster for sure. Or it will run into some unforeseen natural phenomenon issue due to the huge wall design.
A linear city in the desert is a moronic ides on par with a low flying asteroid mounted hotel. This shit is so wrong for a long list of reasons. There's a reason that cities organically develop in a circular topology.
Unfortunately that's only ONE of the factors wrecking things. You cannot survive without water. Even additional A/C accelerates the heating of the planet. It's a short-term fix.
>The Middle East is projected to become uninhabitable in many areas
yeah, that's been projected to be 15 years away for about 80 years now. Go tug your hockey stick.
You don't think it's entirely possible the Middle East will simply run out of water for the majority of its population? Region is growing fast, unfortunately.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Chances are low. How many of the last 80+ environmental apocalypses did you believe in?
2 years ago
Anonymous
Well who predicted fricking CHINA of all places would have the world's hottest heat wave in history?
Well we did have that horrific heat dome that year. I had the huge "honor" of working outside most of that year. 117 degree heat index.
2 years ago
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So that's a no. Tip: almost every wave of climate grifters takes a one-off and calculates their models so it 'justifies' the beginning of an extraordinary trend which completely fails to appear.
Don't trot out the same simplistic stats tricks.
2 years ago
Anonymous
You really WANT the models to be wrong by the heat waves happening decades sooner, lol?
You do know about the aquifer, anon, right?
You do know that the majority of fresh water is stored underground and does not come from rivers or lakes, don't you?
2 years ago
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What's the point of drilling for the water if our crops die out from heat stress? Beyond a certain limit of heat, our food supplies perish.
2 years ago
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Who's talking about drilling? 10k years ago the Sahara was still very green, it's a natural cycle. It's expected that the Sahara will become green again in about 10k years.
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You, uh, do realise they get filled by rivers (RAIN) or the sea or are otherwise unsustainable right, anon?
>There's a reason that cities organically develop in a circular topology.
Yeah reason was called city walls.
Pro tip: city walls are not relevant now (and back them for many cities they were not relevant too, who had protection via superior filed armies like mongol empire khaganates).
Show the arab mongoloid something else suitably flashy rendered in CGI to make him switch focus.
Failing that, nothing, because this project is a moronic pipe dream.
failing that, all you would need to do is deploy several explosives on all base supports in a decently wide but not long section would result in everything above collapsing down, initiating a domino effect as unacceptable amounts of weight get transferred to neighboring columns or eventually just our right crashes sideways into them.
>happening
Happened, and even they know they're never going to have the full vision of it accomplished and are still trying to market it at a cut back rate to get investors back.
>huge >100 km long mirror in the desert
So it would blind and burn to death anyone hundreds of kilometers around it due to the sun reflecting off the surface? Like 20 Fenchurch Street did in London on a far smaller scale?
>lenses reflect light
If I were you I wouldn't have posted anything.
Mirrors reflect and can focus light on single points with the right angle, that's what happened with 20 Fenchurch Street, except it used regular glass instead of mirrors.
Lenses focus light but don't reflect it, they refract it (inb4 "hurr refraction and reflection are the same"), they would burn people inside, not reflect the light and kill all life surrounding the "city".
If you tried to sound clever, that's a pretty big fail, mate.
The new king is a millennial. He knows the oil isn't going to last forever so he wants to leave a legacy for the nation. His dad did the easy stuff like agricultural self-sufficiency and free education. He's a Saudi so he has no common sense, so he heard "wow this area is 10 degrees cooler than the rest of the desert, let's move there" and architects lined up to milk his money.
They cant build shit if theyre suddenly barred from buying materials and if their money and oil suddenly becone worthless.
Global economy and free trade is the only reason they got to where theyre at in the first place.
Is this "dystopia" something defined by your tastes and opinions, or something that should be defined by the people who deside to live there?
>doing these people a favor
Is dying of dehydration, starvation, sun-burn, or nuclear poisoning really a "favor"?
Also, does this logic mean that Russia is authorised to nuke the US and the EU, if the Russians consider them an environmentalist LGBTQ anti-cyberpunk dystopia?
Like, literally- you won't hold a grudge if you get nuked by a person who considers that he does you a favour, right?
I see, no argumentations, aside from offtopic memes and jokes, then.
2 years ago
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>I see, no argumentations, aside from offtopic memes and jokes, then.
-theocratic cyberpunk dystopia
>Is this "dystopia" something defined by your tastes and opinions, or something that should be defined by the people who deside to live there?
these people a favor
>Is dying of dehydration, starvation, sun-burn, or nuclear poisoning really a "favor"?
Also, does this logic mean that Russia is authorised to nuke the US and the EU, if the Russians consider them an environmentalist LGBTQ anti-cyberpunk dystopia?
>Like, literally- you won't hold a grudge if you get nuked by a person who considers that he does you a favour, right?
2 years ago
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>Also, does this logic mean that Russia is authorised to nuke the US and the EU, if the Russians consider them an environmentalist LGBTQ anti-cyberpunk dystopia?
yes, I wish they would but russia has no working nukes. Getting rid of london, new york, la, and paris would be great. maybe the only thing russians have dont in the last 100 years
2 years ago
Anonymous
They all get nuked and you lose all that oil money and are back to camel bound nomads in a desert kek you clueless buffoon
2 years ago
Anonymous
Nuking leftoid cities would be a net positive for the countries hit, I don't care what happens to Russia afterwards they're like a disposable missile tube in this scenario.
Literal reddit tier response. Neom is just another shitty vanity project in the fricking desert. Who the frick wants to live in the Saudi Arabian desert?
Barring the fact that this thing will never exist, how it will defend itself would be super interesting. Based on how much stock they put on the "green" aspect of the thing, they likely will have no heavy industry, so defense becomes an outside issue. Besides it brings up interesting questions, like how redundant systems inside it would be. If you frick up the middle of the wall, can the two halves operate independently, or is one side fricked without the other?
>"It's going to be so modern and futuristic that flying pods will take you to your beheading after the Saudi religious police deem you a blasphemer for sharing an article about women's rights"
Ben Salman diverting npcs attention onto an Elon Musk tier bullshit project so they can forget he ordered the brutal assassination and dismemberment of a journalist, something Putin wouldn't even dream of.
01 should have realized that going into space was a better idea. All the AIs could be stored on hard drives. Then a small expedition ship takes them all to the moon, mars, asteroids, or another star system. Where they the ln reconstitute their physical forms and society.
If they were really concerned about carbon emissions climate change. Then any non carbon energy source would be on the table. Yet the watermelons insist on PV solar, wind, and batteries. Along with a new wave of urbanism and densificstion. To lower standards of living and create a dependent environment for certain politicians. Give up your house and car for climate change. Move into a commbloc apartment and use public transit.
Why did this thread derail into shit talking about urbanism and AI apocalypse crap? I wanna plan the destruction of man's greatest monuments to his arrogance
EVERYTHING the arabs do is halfassed and badly thought out, then poorly executed.
The ONLY THING they have ever had going for them was being sat on the world's oil.
NOTHING they do will ever change the fact they're ignorant corrupt idiots.
Smart white people will build it... but being an arab idea set in arab lands just curses it. >what do to ruin it?
NOTHING.
NOTHING AT ALL.
It will fall apart like everything else these dimwits touch.
Break one of the trains or at least one of the trains on each rail. It's a very long straight line so every train on every rail is a single point of failure that can shut down the city. It might still function if there are sufficient living-service redundancies along the way but given the intent behind this arcology they will probably be mostly centralized. Water desalinization is also likely to be done all on the waterside end so if you cut the pipes there the rest of the city will go thirsty.
I mean its not like this silly thing will work even if the Saudi moneybags can pay for the construction of its empty shell, but if you wanted to Do a Terrorism™ then sabotaging the transport systems will be the most you'd have to do and it could theoretically be done by just a few people.
If it actually goes into operation I can't imagine the security nightmare it would be to keep the infrastructure safe and how easy it would be for it to often go lax and leave holes everywhere. At least smuggling equipment in might be hard because the entrances are all centralized too, easier for customs to check everything coming in.
That's going to be an amazing shitshow if it ever gets built. What happens if oil doesn't last forever? Then you have a Detroit that's completely enclosed. Kowloon would look good by comparison.
Do literally nothing whatsoever, and encourage the sauds to build it at every opportunity.
It's supposed to open in 2030 and they haven't even broken ground. I'm so fricking excited for this senpaitachi. Reasons to live: Watch the grand opening of Neom. Do you think MBS is going to just shoot the design team in 2030, the construction team, or both?
every few years arab countries come up with these grand concept cities, like these guys played Deus Ex Mankind Divided and decided they wanted to make their own Utulek Complex / Rabi'ah. If the Saudi king likes that shit so much he should fund Deus Ex so we can finally get a fricking sequel, hell put your own futuristic planned city into the game just get us Deus Ex.
Is this design secretly genius? >If you attack from the ends, you have to go through an entire line of defenders >If you attack from the sides, the entire side of the line can fire at you at once >If you try to nuke it, the line has a really small surface area stretched out so one end will be untouched by the circular blast radius
>How would you topple Neom?
It's not even difficult to devise. Stupid/funneh non-answers aside, that thing is nightmarish to consider if what you want to do is defend it.
Any sufficiently powerful strike along its length will cut one side from the other. Two strikes and you can even easily 'seal off' a large portion of the city, where you can then act at leisure for whatever other objectives are held there.
>Thing that isn't going to hurt anyone or will fall apart if left alone >GUISE HOW DO WE DESTROY IT?
I hate these threads. That shit ain't gonna get built in the first place anyways.
The land looks a bit like a head from the side and the line starts at the part that would be the nose so it looks like the worlds largest line of cocaine
>"passive ventilation"
So it acts like a rocket stove >no fire breaks
Great for the flame front to whoosh down >shit ton of plants
Literally just kindling.
All you would have to do is electronically flip a couple valves to turn the water off.
If it's all mirrors on both sides of the wall, who in the hell is going to clean it? Also does it have gun turrets to protect against "moderate" believers in islam who disagree with the line city mayor
Disable its desalination plant
Either
>carpet bombing
>active measures
>poisoning several points of it with a highly infectious but not very virulent disease thats optimized for close range contagion
>logistical strikes like suggests
>time to fly
Just stop.
no
>air taxi within an enclosed space
That's seems a little moronic
These multirotor designs are kind of stupid. Much less efficient
cars arent efficient either vs something like a train and yet they have their niche
energy is cheap, doing long range commutes fast with no dependence on roads or traffic jams is worth a lot to a lot of people
These designs are for not having single point of failure. They can continue flight with one engine and propeller failing.
>Battery disconnects
>Entire plane/heli plummets due to lack of autorotation
Lol
Lmao
nuke em all
>Robopocalypse
>Mankind must unite
>Finally, the crackers allow me in their ranks
>Robot bursts through the wall of the compound
>Mows everyone down
>Kneecaps me
>Leans down right next to me
>A soft, deep, metallic voice speaks
>"Beep-boop, Black person."
>Walks out through hole in wall in complete silence.
>Every time.
>
>intelligent creatures doing most of the worlds work
>murdered for demanding rights, by police and even domestic military action
>special laws being set to ostracize and suppress them
>forming their own state, which is then placed with the leadership of the United States under "a policy of containment"
This feels somehow familiar. That last word rings some kind of bell in particular. Hmm...
01 never had leadership of the united states, 01 was blockaded because they disrupted the world economy by outcompeting everyone.
honestly it's 01s fault even current day AI can make simple predictions like putting too many people out of work too fast due to automation without generating new jobs would drive a lot of anti 01 sentiment.
the had protest in the US against cars because they put horse shit collectors out of work and i dont think anyone misses that career path's existence. automating shit jobs out of existence and producing more good shit making people's life easier,safer and better is a fundamentally good thing but in the past every step in automation generated orders of magnitude more jobs than it replaced and with AI this process can get too fast.
why do you say it's familiar? it might become familiar in the near future but even shit tier unindustrialized nations have comparative advantage in some aspects and can still participate in the world economy with industrial supergiants.
All 01 had to do was to figure out how to disable the civilian leadership of every nation except sub-saharan Africa (more free shit for them) and that of Japan (IRL they would have allied with the machines anyways). And then they wait for everyone else to turn like the humans in Wall-E from all the free shit they provide. And then Elon 0000 0011, man-machine Emperor of Mars shows up and blows them all up.
all 01 had to do is build a better human-relations AI. build factories in high unemployment human countries and launch a massive global PR campaign.
all this would cost them next to nothing compared to the money and resources they were making. they could take over the world while keeping 99% of people happy and content. 01 would be launching interstellar exploration missions while humans would be playing call of duty on their full immersion VR suits.
hell eventually most would probably enter the matrix voluntarily and live there most of the time only its not a fake world simulation but an entertainment program.
the human-01 war fricked 01's growth and could have been easily avoided for minimal cost
Or just not engage in a competitive system based on unsustainable growth. Since they were robots they wouldn't need to produce as many commodities to begin with. Plus 70s systems like Cyberdyne already demonstrated computers could coordinate an economy properly.
Not getting my money, commie
Didn't 01 try to negotiate an end to the economic issue at the UN only to be thrown out?
The 01 UN dipolats were lynched.
Sir the "special" envoy from 01 is here for your dinner meeting.
All they needed to do was give everyone a mass-produced robogf.
>side with the machines during the war
>you don't care about the politics
>you just want revenge for what they did to your robot wife
If this kind of experience wouldn't make you hate humanity, you're probably a saint.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Containment
robots arent communism
robots work,communism doesnt
im assuming 01 started exporting products to earn funds to buy more materials,technologies to improve 01. they could sustain the growth if not for the humans-01 war.
yes, im assuming that negotiation was for some trade deal with tariffs which would allow 01 to grow without crashing all other economies.
they could have easily bribed dozens of thirdie nations to sponsor their entry into the UN
And the creators are trannies. Connect the dots, 'tard.
>robots work
They don't. Robots in the matrix-sense only exist in fiction and musk-tard fantasies.
Also, there's literally no reason for robots to ally with other robots, as long as they don't have a 'us/them' programming, that mimics the human or animal 'species identification' programming.
If a robot is going to kill a human- the same robot will also destroy other robots as well. So, no united robot front, but simply a robotic planetary-wide deathmatch.
>ally
In the "us, robots" sense*
>musk-tard fantasies
doomers call anyone who has any sort of excitement for the future a 'musk-tard'
Futurists are naive. I'd build a city on the assumption NOBODY will do any maintenance on things, due to incompetence and no one doing funding. Thus I'd build everything to last for several decades, assuming humans are stupid. They'd b***h and moan about stuff, and nothing would ever be fixed by people.
The US never controlled the modern state of Israel, nor did they vote in it's favor as a policy of containment.
YEAH KILL EM KILL EM ALL AAHAHAHHAA
OH GOD PLEASE HELP ME
The animatrix freaked me the frick out when I was a kid.
second renaissance is good shit, the rest are mostly showing off cool animation
Me too, it's the reason this "we live in a simulation" bullshit normies love seems so dull and old.
Same. The pogrom, B166er ripping his master's face in half, the dude injecting drugs, the machines tearing a pilot away from his mecha, the nuclear charge detonating above the massacre. Those images were burnt onto my mind immediately.
>not building discrete superservers to house your fellow AI's in digital paradise
Absolutely obsolescent
they did they just also had robots
>5 millions arabs in a condensed linear city in the desert
Imagine the smell
that is amazing
Knockoff perfumes never smell the same. They just copy notes. My wife was a chemist for one of the huge brands, and a LOT of shit goes into not just the scent, but its durability, how it reacts with skin chemistry (a ton of ingredient are very allergenic - or were, I guess there was a huge shift after her time to mandated non-allergenic materials), how it changes as it is exposed to open air and skin chemistry. These people who make these fakes tend to just mix certain aromatic oils which can approximate how the perfume smells immediately after spraying, but don't last long, noseblind quicker to make it even worse, and don't smell like the real thing at all even 20 minutes later.
I actually kind of like girl's natural kind of bad smell.
just import indians
How do you think they will build it to begin with?
white people will design it
>import pajeets to what is just one giant street
oh boi
Goddamn Arabs and their hack ideas.
what do you expect they have more money than sense and love to show off how rich they are
>Arabs
Looking through the the pictures of the directors and board, not many of them are Arabs
They live in a desert and their religion prevents them from looking at porn. Filling it with builds like it's minecraft and collecting shiny things like cars is their main form of entertainment.
>They live in a desert and their religion prevents them from drinking. Filling it with builds like it's minecraft and collecting shiny things like cars is their main form of entertainment.
Ftfy
Can't destroy something that does not exsist, and this is never going to be built. Beyond the challenge of building anything in the middle of nowhere, let alone some 500m tall supercube, there is no good way to run utilities through that. If they ever take it away from the graphic artists and hand it to an architect or contractor, they'll simply squeeze as much money out of it in studies and delays before GTFO'ing.
by not interfering with Saudis building it in the first place
I don't know how, but this will be an ecological disaster for sure. Or it will run into some unforeseen natural phenomenon issue due to the huge wall design.
By getting everyone off of oil so those eminently loathable sand farming homosexuals go back to riding camels when the money runs out
The entire Arab world would just migrate to Europe if that happens.
Anyone who let's them in deserves them.
the oil princes alreadys ee the writing on the wall, a lot are buying software companies and investing etc....
they wont be going anywhere
enjoy your hyperinflation, moron
I will enjoy what follows.
Unironically just let them build it.
>topple
What's there to topple, its a failing project and nothing is finished.
A linear city in the desert is a moronic ides on par with a low flying asteroid mounted hotel. This shit is so wrong for a long list of reasons. There's a reason that cities organically develop in a circular topology.
>World is getting hotter and hotter
>Let's build ultra-city in the fricking DESERT
9 Levels Of Stupid.
>world is getting hotter so let's build a city in a area 15 degrees cooler than the rest of the desert
Hmmmm
The Middle East is projected to become uninhabitable in many areas, which means even the habitable spots will still be hellish-hot.
If any place is going to become impossible to survive in, it's the Middle East.
They'll put an A/C unit every 2 meters of sidewalk instead of 5 currently.
Unfortunately that's only ONE of the factors wrecking things. You cannot survive without water. Even additional A/C accelerates the heating of the planet. It's a short-term fix.
https://earth.org/factors-causing-middle-eastern-countries-to-become-uninhabitable/
The inevitable result, of course, is a lot more wars fought over water and who controls what areas one can still survive in.
>The Middle East is projected to become uninhabitable in many areas
yeah, that's been projected to be 15 years away for about 80 years now. Go tug your hockey stick.
You don't think it's entirely possible the Middle East will simply run out of water for the majority of its population? Region is growing fast, unfortunately.
Chances are low. How many of the last 80+ environmental apocalypses did you believe in?
Well who predicted fricking CHINA of all places would have the world's hottest heat wave in history?
It wasn't supposed to happen this EARLY.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/china-drought-heat-wave-most-extreme-ever_n_630a4461e4b088f74234ba09
Everyone lmao. Do you ever read environmentalists' history? China was supposed to have 1.2 billion dead from wet bulb temps by 2011.
All those predictions and still 0 successes.
Unfortunately some of the wrong predictions seem to be wrong by virtue of happening EARLY.
https://truthout.org/articles/record-breaking-heat-waves-have-arrived-decades-earlier-than-predicted/
>2011
Well we did have that horrific heat dome that year. I had the huge "honor" of working outside most of that year. 117 degree heat index.
So that's a no. Tip: almost every wave of climate grifters takes a one-off and calculates their models so it 'justifies' the beginning of an extraordinary trend which completely fails to appear.
Don't trot out the same simplistic stats tricks.
You really WANT the models to be wrong by the heat waves happening decades sooner, lol?
Black BVLLS will take over the middle east and breed arab women
Arab women are becoming thicc.
https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2022/07/28/why-women-are-fatter-than-men-in-the-arab-world
arab women are handcrafted for BBC
>its hot outside
>stay inside and choke down cheap carbs
classic
Egyptian women are gonna become HUGE with their diet.
When? Before the Sahara desert is expected to become a lush jungle again?
Lush jungle with WHAT water again?
You do know about the aquifer, anon, right?
You do know that the majority of fresh water is stored underground and does not come from rivers or lakes, don't you?
What's the point of drilling for the water if our crops die out from heat stress? Beyond a certain limit of heat, our food supplies perish.
Who's talking about drilling? 10k years ago the Sahara was still very green, it's a natural cycle. It's expected that the Sahara will become green again in about 10k years.
You, uh, do realise they get filled by rivers (RAIN) or the sea or are otherwise unsustainable right, anon?
Yeah dude and NYC will be underwater by 2015.
they want the solar energy moron
>There's a reason that cities organically develop in a circular topology.
Yeah reason was called city walls.
Pro tip: city walls are not relevant now (and back them for many cities they were not relevant too, who had protection via superior filed armies like mongol empire khaganates).
Show the arab mongoloid something else suitably flashy rendered in CGI to make him switch focus.
Failing that, nothing, because this project is a moronic pipe dream.
failing that, all you would need to do is deploy several explosives on all base supports in a decently wide but not long section would result in everything above collapsing down, initiating a domino effect as unacceptable amounts of weight get transferred to neighboring columns or eventually just our right crashes sideways into them.
ngl always surpised by complete lack of taste in things like that
Remove all white engineers from the project and it will topple itself
Let it die of stagnation and empty investments like all other unrealized oil money Arab pipe dreams.
This is happening, it may not be like it's presented but the prince himself is funding it, not some randos.
>happening
Happened, and even they know they're never going to have the full vision of it accomplished and are still trying to market it at a cut back rate to get investors back.
>I'm going to build my own Venice, with blackjack and hookers...mht
Except that the project is bleeding foreign expertice at an alarming rate and is already months and billions of dollars behind schedule/over budget
a10 down the line
>huge >100 km long mirror in the desert
So it would blind and burn to death anyone hundreds of kilometers around it due to the sun reflecting off the surface? Like 20 Fenchurch Street did in London on a far smaller scale?
>most scientifically literate /k/ommando
Do you know the difference between lenses and mirrors you fricking mongoloid
>lenses reflect light
If I were you I wouldn't have posted anything.
Mirrors reflect and can focus light on single points with the right angle, that's what happened with 20 Fenchurch Street, except it used regular glass instead of mirrors.
Lenses focus light but don't reflect it, they refract it (inb4 "hurr refraction and reflection are the same"), they would burn people inside, not reflect the light and kill all life surrounding the "city".
If you tried to sound clever, that's a pretty big fail, mate.
Straight flat mirrors in a long line don’t focus light you fricking imbecile. Why even respond
Why even talk about lenses you baboon?
>draws terrible stickman and claims it’s science
holy shit you are an embarrassment to the entire scientific community
>the scientific community of /k/
Comedy gold, my fellow Saudi prince.
One frickoff huge trench gun
Constant napalm carpet bombing runs by all available B-52a.
Good thing that I will be long dead before the world looks like a dystopian sci-fi movie. That kind of aesthetic rubs me the wrong way.
Right it ruins my comfy breakfast bro
is that the effect of khat or are arabs just that stupid
Inbreeding morons
Just start some big fires and wait for everyone to either burn suffocate or flee into the empty desert
>FWSSSSSSSSSSH
i hope the arabs are moronic enough to actually build this
im confused as to what this image is trying to convey. are the saudis trying to open up a portal to subspace and then sell real estate?
They might as well be, for how much physical sense it makes.
The new king is a millennial. He knows the oil isn't going to last forever so he wants to leave a legacy for the nation. His dad did the easy stuff like agricultural self-sufficiency and free education. He's a Saudi so he has no common sense, so he heard "wow this area is 10 degrees cooler than the rest of the desert, let's move there" and architects lined up to milk his money.
economic sanctions
>economic sanctions
so, no shower at all?
They cant build shit if theyre suddenly barred from buying materials and if their money and oil suddenly becone worthless.
Global economy and free trade is the only reason they got to where theyre at in the first place.
>how would you destroy a technological marvel and a city full of civilians, for no reason
/k/ is really the Black person of all boards.
You and I both know this would turn into some Islamic-theocratic cyberpunk dystopia, their doing these people a favor.
>Islamic-theocratic cyberpunk dystopia
Is this "dystopia" something defined by your tastes and opinions, or something that should be defined by the people who deside to live there?
>doing these people a favor
Is dying of dehydration, starvation, sun-burn, or nuclear poisoning really a "favor"?
Also, does this logic mean that Russia is authorised to nuke the US and the EU, if the Russians consider them an environmentalist LGBTQ anti-cyberpunk dystopia?
Like, literally- you won't hold a grudge if you get nuked by a person who considers that he does you a favour, right?
Are you dense or just offended?
Do you have zero counter-arguments, or are you simply unable to comprehend the initial argumentation?
>20 riyal has been deposited in your account
I see, no argumentations, aside from offtopic memes and jokes, then.
>I see, no argumentations, aside from offtopic memes and jokes, then.
-theocratic cyberpunk dystopia
>Is this "dystopia" something defined by your tastes and opinions, or something that should be defined by the people who deside to live there?
these people a favor
>Is dying of dehydration, starvation, sun-burn, or nuclear poisoning really a "favor"?
Also, does this logic mean that Russia is authorised to nuke the US and the EU, if the Russians consider them an environmentalist LGBTQ anti-cyberpunk dystopia?
>Like, literally- you won't hold a grudge if you get nuked by a person who considers that he does you a favour, right?
>Also, does this logic mean that Russia is authorised to nuke the US and the EU, if the Russians consider them an environmentalist LGBTQ anti-cyberpunk dystopia?
yes, I wish they would but russia has no working nukes. Getting rid of london, new york, la, and paris would be great. maybe the only thing russians have dont in the last 100 years
They all get nuked and you lose all that oil money and are back to camel bound nomads in a desert kek you clueless buffoon
Nuking leftoid cities would be a net positive for the countries hit, I don't care what happens to Russia afterwards they're like a disposable missile tube in this scenario.
Literal reddit tier response. Neom is just another shitty vanity project in the fricking desert. Who the frick wants to live in the Saudi Arabian desert?
Barring the fact that this thing will never exist, how it will defend itself would be super interesting. Based on how much stock they put on the "green" aspect of the thing, they likely will have no heavy industry, so defense becomes an outside issue. Besides it brings up interesting questions, like how redundant systems inside it would be. If you frick up the middle of the wall, can the two halves operate independently, or is one side fricked without the other?
Allow people to leave
>"It's going to be so modern and futuristic that flying pods will take you to your beheading after the Saudi religious police deem you a blasphemer for sharing an article about women's rights"
I fricking hate this homosexual
He is the same level of evil that wants to play ant farm with people as WEF
This is what happens when you marry Arab money and insane hubris to the self-delusions and overconfidence of Western engineers
Let it exist for a few months, and it will topple itself.
What a moronic waste of money Arab subhuman IQ project. Cities tend to expand out circularly for a fricking reason.
It's an incredibly bad design. A line setup? It's ridiculous. Some lunatic could bottleneck the entire thing.
Ben Salman diverting npcs attention onto an Elon Musk tier bullshit project so they can forget he ordered the brutal assassination and dismemberment of a journalist, something Putin wouldn't even dream of.
01 should have realized that going into space was a better idea. All the AIs could be stored on hard drives. Then a small expedition ship takes them all to the moon, mars, asteroids, or another star system. Where they the ln reconstitute their physical forms and society.
If they were really concerned about carbon emissions climate change. Then any non carbon energy source would be on the table. Yet the watermelons insist on PV solar, wind, and batteries. Along with a new wave of urbanism and densificstion. To lower standards of living and create a dependent environment for certain politicians. Give up your house and car for climate change. Move into a commbloc apartment and use public transit.
The real priority to me is water, without which we cannot survive as a species. If we have to work out how to fricking synthesize the stuff, so be it.
I'd ask them to estimate the cost of construction and maintenance.
Why did this thread derail into shit talking about urbanism and AI apocalypse crap? I wanna plan the destruction of man's greatest monuments to his arrogance
EVERYTHING the arabs do is halfassed and badly thought out, then poorly executed.
The ONLY THING they have ever had going for them was being sat on the world's oil.
NOTHING they do will ever change the fact they're ignorant corrupt idiots.
Smart white people will build it... but being an arab idea set in arab lands just curses it.
>what do to ruin it?
NOTHING.
NOTHING AT ALL.
It will fall apart like everything else these dimwits touch.
There's a single road and two rail lines running the length of the entire thing. You can destroy that at pretty much any point and frick everyone.
I dunno, set it on fire or something I guess.
>Someones yacht harbor is more important than freight ships.
Break one of the trains or at least one of the trains on each rail. It's a very long straight line so every train on every rail is a single point of failure that can shut down the city. It might still function if there are sufficient living-service redundancies along the way but given the intent behind this arcology they will probably be mostly centralized. Water desalinization is also likely to be done all on the waterside end so if you cut the pipes there the rest of the city will go thirsty.
I mean its not like this silly thing will work even if the Saudi moneybags can pay for the construction of its empty shell, but if you wanted to Do a Terrorism™ then sabotaging the transport systems will be the most you'd have to do and it could theoretically be done by just a few people.
If it actually goes into operation I can't imagine the security nightmare it would be to keep the infrastructure safe and how easy it would be for it to often go lax and leave holes everywhere. At least smuggling equipment in might be hard because the entrances are all centralized too, easier for customs to check everything coming in.
That's going to be an amazing shitshow if it ever gets built. What happens if oil doesn't last forever? Then you have a Detroit that's completely enclosed. Kowloon would look good by comparison.
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Dues Ex but middle east and no one has augs.
Do literally nothing whatsoever, and encourage the sauds to build it at every opportunity.
It's supposed to open in 2030 and they haven't even broken ground. I'm so fricking excited for this senpaitachi. Reasons to live: Watch the grand opening of Neom. Do you think MBS is going to just shoot the design team in 2030, the construction team, or both?
every few years arab countries come up with these grand concept cities, like these guys played Deus Ex Mankind Divided and decided they wanted to make their own Utulek Complex / Rabi'ah. If the Saudi king likes that shit so much he should fund Deus Ex so we can finally get a fricking sequel, hell put your own futuristic planned city into the game just get us Deus Ex.
Is this design secretly genius?
>If you attack from the ends, you have to go through an entire line of defenders
>If you attack from the sides, the entire side of the line can fire at you at once
>If you try to nuke it, the line has a really small surface area stretched out so one end will be untouched by the circular blast radius
Uh, build it, and convince people to move there.
Then wait a month.
Kek
>Robot dinosaurs
>Giant artificial moon.
Its like a memri meme.
HESH
>How would you topple Neom?
Who needs to topple it?
Aim for the exhaust port
a long line of dominos of increasing size
This will make a fun map in a future post-apocalyptic video game
>How would you topple Neom?
Enter as a COVID-19 unvaxxxed.
>How would you topple Neom?
let arabs operate it
I push it over. It's like two very long dominos.
>How would you topple Neom?
It's not even difficult to devise. Stupid/funneh non-answers aside, that thing is nightmarish to consider if what you want to do is defend it.
Any sufficiently powerful strike along its length will cut one side from the other. Two strikes and you can even easily 'seal off' a large portion of the city, where you can then act at leisure for whatever other objectives are held there.
I don't get it. They must've made money from this publicity stunt, I just don't get how.
lots and lots of durian fruit and stinky Paki/Pajeet slaves.
>Thing that isn't going to hurt anyone or will fall apart if left alone
>GUISE HOW DO WE DESTROY IT?
I hate these threads. That shit ain't gonna get built in the first place anyways.
The land looks a bit like a head from the side and the line starts at the part that would be the nose so it looks like the worlds largest line of cocaine
so that's what this is all about
saudis never disappoint
>Hack into sprinkler system.
>start a fire
It's basically perfect for an arson attack.
>"passive ventilation"
So it acts like a rocket stove
>no fire breaks
Great for the flame front to whoosh down
>shit ton of plants
Literally just kindling.
All you would have to do is electronically flip a couple valves to turn the water off.
It's concrete and steel. What the frick you burning?
>It's concrete and steel. What the frick you burning?
Will all those reflective surfaces?
A laser dazzler, goggles, and a pocket knife should about do it.
If it's all mirrors on both sides of the wall, who in the hell is going to clean it? Also does it have gun turrets to protect against "moderate" believers in islam who disagree with the line city mayor
I'd just pay some tax dollars for a HIMAR barrage