An analysis of progress on the Linear City

[Astro Pen]

As I recall, some of my school reports were written with this level of sarcasm.
This really stings Love it

 

[Christine Wheelwright]

"I know that when I think of a good place to go on holiday, I always search for the most authoritarian theocratic dictatorship in the World."

This is an example of what I call Muskification. Grand projects or technological advancements that are clearly ridiculous, but somehow fool the poorly educated masses and even attract investment from some quarters (where people have more money than sense). As usual, timelines presented are fantastical. The phrase 'next year' - especially when stated with a thoughtful and serious countenance - has become one of the great Muskisms of our age, so it is nice to see it also being utilised with respect to the linear city. I hope they don't forget to include a decent public space for judicial beheadings.

File this idea away with robotaxis, space hotels, hyperloops ("air hockey tables" in a vacuum), centrifugal slingshot satellite launches, Mars landings, NFTs and medical testing machines that perform hundreds of tests on a finger prick of blood.

 

[Harpo]

Next!

 

[Pyan]

Next!

Why? it's not as if the Arabian peninsula is so short of space that you've got to build up..

 

[Harpo]

Oneupmanship - make Dubai go through that “second best priest” thing

 

[Vladd67]

As I recall, some of my school reports were written with this level of sarcasm.
This really stings Love it

You have to admire the ability to sustain that level of straight faced sarcasm for that long.

 

[Pyan]

I've just had to remove a post that discussed the political ramifications of this project. I know it's difficult, but please restrict posts to discussion of the technology involved, and not the political aspects.

Thanks.

 

[BAYLOR]

I've just had to remove a post that discussed the political ramifications of this project. I know it's difficult, but please restrict posts to discussion of the technology involved, and not the political aspects.

Thanks.

75 mile long city? It's never going to get fully built .

 

[Harpo]

75 mile long city? It's never going to get fully built .

On the other hand, that’s like someone centuries ago saying “a wall thirteen thousand miles long around the whole of China?
It’s never going to get fully built”

Or:
A 75-mile long city? If that was a mile wide it’d still be only 75 square miles.
There are already 70 cities bigger than that.

 

[Ursa major]

There are already 70 cities bigger than that.

You're forgetting how (uniformly) tall the (two?) buildings are/were meant to be, and what that means for the usable space there.

 

[Harpo]

You're forgetting how (uniformly) tall the (two?) buildings are/were meant to be, and what that means for the usable space there.

500m high and 200m wide. Ok yeah that’s a lot

 

[AllanR]

It will make a great setting for some dystopian fiction. Zombie Outbreak in the Linear City or Snakes in a Line...

 

[Dave]

It will make a great setting for some dystopian fiction.

If it was a sci-fi action movie, it will still get destroyed by some large unstoppable asteroid/rolling wheel-shaped spacecraft/boulder/express train that just happens to hit it from precisely the right angle/direction, and beginning at exactly one end, to run the entirety of it's 75km length, while everyone runs/drives to escape along the city's length, rather than by escaping from it out of both sides into the desert.

While it actually seems much safer to build a high-rise block on it's side, ground space usually being the constraint, and with a fast rail system serving it, much easier to get around than a city built on a grid.

 

[BAYLOR]

It will make a great setting for some dystopian fiction. Zombie Outbreak in the Linear City or Snakes in a Line...

I do see a big budget sci fi movie in that.

 

[Astro Pen]

No Ahmed! Don't poke the end wall!