Neom’s The Line Project Literally Breaks Physics
I’m sure you’ve heard or seen of the incredible The Line project many times by now. When I first saw the ad, I thought it was a metaverse project. I mean, how realistic does a 170 km long, 200 km wide megastructure sound to you. Crazy! But after doing some research (a.k.a. a quick Google search), turns out, this project is really. Well, kind of.
As of today, The Line is just a concept. An insanely unrealistic, physics breaking concept. Just imagine, “floating trees” and a quote, “extremely fast transportation system” that can get you from one side of the “city” to the other in 20 minutes or less. That’s insane. Or should I say insanely fake?
And the whole, “200 km width to reduce commute time” thing is just useless. Sure, you are removing most of the horizontal distance, but then introducing unnecessary vertical distance. It just seems impractical.
Because of that verticality, how much sunlight will you be blocking? I mean, in such a narrow gap, there is only so much light that can pass through. And because you are going to cover the entire thing in mirrors, all the sunlight will be bouncing off of them, practically frying up the surrounding land. That makes it especially worse because you put the dratted thing in the middle of the desert!
Hooh, breathe in… breathe out. I am calm.
And what are they going to do about population increase. I mean, cities are organic, they spread. How organic can a line get? Will they just keep adding more and more modules to accomodate for all the people? If so, how long can they keep something like that going? There has to be some sort of limit, right?
Every other day projects like this pop up out of nowhere, and I suspect this will be just like that. You know what, metaverse things should stay in the metaverse. You win this time Zuckerberg. You win this time.
