"The Line" sounds like a fantastic setting for a science fiction story. It might be too insane to actually build, but a fictional version of it is certainly possible to pull off.. Meanwhile, the Dubai Creek Tower looks like the headquarter of an intergalactic government administration
I refer again to "the line": have you thought about maintenance costs or operating or everyday costs? Cars are no longer necessary in the line. No elevators are necessary or costly facade cleaning. there is no time delay when you are stuck in a traffic jam, because there is no traffic jam. so i think it's crazy to want to build even higher to present your status. In my opinion, it is not crazy, but brave to have an idea that is not just about showing off, but an attempt to find a smart solution to problems of current events and the future. namasté नमस्ते
Also you have mistakes for ships passing through straits. Although number of ships are decreasing, weight of payload is constantly increasing. That means, companies are prefering bigger ships
@@darusobu yes and it deserved to be The Capital just like -: New York- USA, Mumbai- India, Sydney- Australia, Shanghai/Shenzen -China, Toronto- Canada, Rio- Brazil New Zealand - 1. Queenstown or 2. Auckland
I once saw a Sim City Let's Play where someone made an entire city using just one road, it did not end well. Turns out making your city completely dependent on one method of transportation with very little to no redundancy is a very bad idea. One disaster could completely cut off the supply chain and severely cripple the city's ability to recover. Looks like the inspiration for "The Line" came from that, and I expect the end results to be the same.
and i ask all game developers to create a game to handle the whole world: -> Spatially based on the flight simulator, with the implementation of a completely networked system that allows business, trading, etc., although you can set your own rules such as: unconditional basic income, or basic care through minimal work to which every citizen is committed (all unemployed (no matter which status you belong to) could do a lot of useful things).... etc. etc. also a dictator mode where the dictator can decide for the good of all people (e.g. true equality of all people) etc. etc. The simulation should be shaped by the users (with "mods" or whatever you want to call it, which should be able to be created in a very simple programming environment), you should be able to register as an individual in every changed world. all other individuals (who would not be "played" by a full-fledged human) would have statistical process values in the background. Since probably 97% of people would play along, the 3% (de.wikipedia.org/wiki/3%25) could also be interested in what would come out of it without destroying the current state of the art.
@@christopheraaron8299 cities are built as circles Why circles? Because it has the highest area with the lowest perimeter, meaning that the average distance from any single point to another is the shortest The train line serving the city could be much shorter if the city was *not a line*, like for example Tokyo
New York City, which is mostly linear, you can walk from most subway stations to your East/West destination. If it were more constrained it would be completely walkable. But now that I think about it, The Line would not remain linear for very long and construction would spread out in prime locations.
wouldn't it be more clever to do "the circle" instead of "the line"? it could occupy fewer inhabitated areas and allow shorter travels even with "slower" trains
To validate a concept like The Line, you don't need to build an entire city. If people hardly need to move around, or if transportation in exactly one (bi)direction is (for all intents and purposes) free, would a city naturally grow along that one direction?
There's a reason why cities are shaped similar to a circle, because a circle makes it equidistant from anywhere about a point, where businesses, goods and services can be accessible to many. "The Line" probably will not work because it is counterintuitive to this very reason
I could see the Line working as a multiple city center city. Essentially you have the centers based around the train stations along the line and suburbs created around it.
Yes. It's called Ribbon Development and happened a lot in Britain in the 1930s. Town planners after WW2 disliked it and the idea was not really used after 1947.
All these costs of construction pale in the face of the costs of maintenance. This is always something that initial builders, investors and government forget: the costs of maintenance increase almost geometrically with the increase in size because of the increase in complexity.
Which is why we pay a lot in service charges. My condo in burj Khalifa has a $30k fee every year, and that's considered little when compared to bigger condos.
@@happymolecule8894 wait but not connected to sewer because of the pressure. So that doesn’t even solve the problem. And now all that pressure is directed to the closed of septic tanks. I think you’d be better off with a connected sewer system then…
Yeah but the Turks are planning to choke the Bosphorus Strait with random bullshit ways just to annoy the shipping industry into using the Istanbul canal like a highway vs motorway thing.
@@FlashiestRed as of now the turks are chill with the ruskies (kind of) given the love they have begun to share with turkstream or the s-400 or russian tourist in turkey. plus from what i've known of the shipping industry there is huge mix of nationalities involved in the companies and crews so it's not confined to 1 guy only. also there's ukraine, romania, bulgaria and any other country with coastline in the black sea. best thing to do right now, wait and see.
We reached a level of engineering and material science allowing us to say: the only thing stopping a project that got greenlit and already started to be built is almost ever money and politics.
Actually, designed by a bunch of urbanists, city planners, city economists and a bunch of other specialists from all over the world, say what you want but you cant deny the ambition behind the project and the support of its leaders.
@Joxar The broken window is a metaphor imagined by the French economist Frédéric Bastia to explain some of the most common fallacies in economics. Imagine that a window has been broken. You can pretend that it is good for the economy, since it gives some income to the guy who repairs it. That guy will spend his money to buy food from a merchant who will spend his money to buy something else. The broken window has started a long chain of economic activities and spending. But that reasoning is obviously false, since the owner of the window would probably have spent his money on something else, if given the choice, maybe a book. And the librarian would have spent his money on something else etc. The chain of activities that starts with the broken window is obtained at the expenses of another chain. The only way to distinguish the two chains with any certainty is to look at their beginning. The broken window chain starts with a net loss. There is no way any convoluted reasoning can erase that fact. Bastia noticed that a lot of our economic reflections are expressed to present an indisputable waste as if it was "good for the economy". He gives many examples: buying artworks nobody cares about, building roads where nobody is traveling, posting soldiers in garrison just to support the local economy etc. All those things, artwork, roads, garrisons, should be considered for their own merits and not for hypothetical economic fallouts. Of course, it is even worse if you pay people for nothing. You lose the useful work that they would have done otherwise.
In order to serve all inhabitants along the line, the train needs to have stations every 2 or 3 kilometers. But, this prevents it from going full speed, because trains take a long time to accelerate, and before it even reaches its full speed it has to start slowing down as it reaches the next station. When aiming to travel at speeds of 500 km/h, you can't stop every 3 kilometers because that means you don't have enough time to accelerate to your full speed, rendering it impossible to travel the whole thing in 67 minutes. You can only have a station in the beginning and one in the end, but then it loses its purpose because it doesn't serve the people in the middle. There need to be multiple trains, each traveling at different speeds and each having more/less stations, like train systems in Italy. But this already impacts the cost; Japan's magnetic system(the only way a train can reach speeds of 500 km/h) already has a price of 65 billion USD dollars. Add more rails and the price of only the train part of the project will easily surpass 100 billion dollars.
That's THE irony, apparently unseen by the engineers and project owners, yet obvious to those who actually commute every day. If the train only has 2 stations at both ends, then it's virtually equal to connecting 2 separate circle-shaped cities. LOL.😅 As many people have pointed out, this project is 100% gimmick.
@@alexanderlobov1432 Thank-you! I noticed that nobody was talking about this problem, the biggest in my eyes; therefore I decided to write about it myself 😉
The canal reminds me of an 1800s Victorian-era canal project near me that would be possible today if it made sense, but turned out to be impossible at the time and half of the plans were abandoned. The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal was intended to connect the Chesapeake Bay near Washington, D.C. to the Ohio River in Pittsburgh, making a viable water transportation route from the Atlantic coast to the Ohio. However, it ended up starting in downtown Washington D.C. instead and only made it as far as Cumberland, Maryland. This is because scaling the Allegheny Plateau up to Pittsburgh would have required an 8-mile-long tunnel. The half-mile-long Paw Paw Tunnel had already nearly bankrupted the canal company. And what's worse, rail travel was beginning to take over as the dominant transportation means in the United States and the unfinished canal was already becoming obsolete. Though for most of the next century, the section of canal that was built was used to take logs and coal from Appalachia down to the D.C. area, so it ended up not being entirely useless.
2:15 wouldn't be a Railways but rather a maglev or pressure tube. 500+ km/h is possible. But with the stops in between it would become a bit difficult.
It would have to be maglev in a vacuum tube. Otherwise, air friction would make such speeds impossible underground. And at this point, it's just not technically and financially feasable to build hundreds of kilometers of near-perfect vaccuum tube with multiple "pressured" stops in between.
"Don't worry guys, we'll just get all these new unproven technologies working flawlessly to build this, nothing can go wrong" The railway alone would be an absurd megaproject, and on top of that they want to bury it? Sure thing.
7:44 - Crimea is a part of Ukraine occupied by Russia according to international law, including "United Nations A/RES/68/262 General Assembly". United Nations. 1 April 2014. Retrieved 24 April 2014. Please correct the map according to international law
Nah, it can't by concept. Cities expand circularly (grow in all directions) because that's the best way to increase value while reducing the distance from any point to any other point (and especially to the center). The line concept is a fun idea, but you throw away immense amounts of value for it which makes it not worth it. Also kinda why other cities aren't built in a line already.
It biggest problem is the financing it's investors will not invest, due to planning consultants. The concept of building a place along a central route (on a smaller scale and with at least more than one line) was bascially completed in Brasilia, it was an utter failure of urban living, it caused disconnection and made travel exceptionally tedious.
On the Dubai Creek Tower, I see one basic flaw in the design: The cables. To make sure they hold up to the stresses of stabilizing a twig thin tower (by comparison), the tower would have to sustain both massive weight pulling it on all sides, as well as its own weight. One stiff breeze would cause it to fall. Instead of using internal steel frames, with the cables you are effectively tripling or quadrupling the weight of the tower, as you would, rather than using traditional means and just building it up from there. Also, it's a horrible waste of space.
@@brianoconnell6459 reminds of a certain cold war era telescope that recently collapsed. When the first cable snapped, that brief moment where the weight transferred to the backup cables caused enough strain to take down the whole structure.
@@deadturret4049 I assume you are talking about the Arecibo Telescope, and to be fair, funding had been massively cut over the decades and was no longer being used. There were talks about completely decommissioning it prior to the collapse.
One of the big issues with the Istanbul canal project is that it would require multiple crossings. Road, highway, rail. Otherwise if there are just 1 or 2 main crossings it would create absolutely horrific congestion, especially if long distance trucking is mixed with local commuting. And these bridges wouldn't be cheap. They would need to be built high enough over the seaway so that large ships can pass below them.
1. According to the project, approximately 5 bridges will be built and the bridges will be free of charge. 2. They plan to carry commercial shipments to the European continent with the Çanakkale Bridge.
The canal Istanbul project is not a perpetrator, it is necessary because the Bosphorus can no longer handle ship traffic and large ships are a danger to the Bosphorus. Also, with the Lausanne treaty disaster, the dominance of the straits was taken from the Turks, it is an extremely necessary project for an independent Turkey.
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Ah the Dubai islands. I remember when these were first announced, my friends and I could see the massive dredging ships out at sea when we went surfing. Those islands blocked most of the fetch and by the time I left there weren't any good beaches left in Dubai.
The Istanbul canal is feasible, but may takes years to complete. And then Turkey can force ships to pass through that canal by closing the existing Bosphorus one.
They cannot close the Bosphorus to foreign ships due to a treaty signed in 1936. However, Canal Istanbul, if it's ever built, will be like a "Toll Road" for commercial ships. Instead of waiting to pass the Bosphorus, they will be able to pay 10s of thousands of dollars and pass through the Canal Istanbul to save time.
5:20 That the cables have to be over a kilometer long is not a problem. In Japan there's the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge, with a 2km long suspended span segment in the middle.
@@romiarkan450 And because the cables are horizontal, they have handle way more stress than if they were vertical. Here's a simple experiment you can do yourself: Take a weight of some sort and connect a 2 strings to it. Now hold the weight up on the with 1 hand and one string. Then hold one string in each hand and try to hold the weight up by pushing your hands away from each other (to the left and right instead of up) and tell me what was harder. The cables in this tower don't hold up their tower, they only support it from swaying. The cables in suspension bridges hold up the entire weight of the bridge besides the towers/anchor points..
"Most perople in Turkey and around the world are against the construction of the Istanbul Canal" Most people around the world have never even heard of the project let alone forming an opinion on it :D
The canal in Turkey makes sense since the Bosporus is one of the heavily traffic sea routes in the world, aside from the canal project giving Turkey additional income.
@@CelVini well Turkey can regulate that to their advantage. Aside from that, the US and other superpowers. can utilize also this alternate route for their armed ships.
@@CelVini “countries” don’t use the canal, companies do. Companies will pay if they can deliver their product faster. If profit out weigh the cost, they will pay happily.
@@michaelgamas6112 I hear this point very often, military ships can already pass the bosphorus; they just need to fit into protocol. And what ever america wants to get into the black sea, they probably can whilst still fitting into the montreux terms
@@de-ment it's all about control and getting economic gains from a logistics standpoint. Unlike Egpyt on Suez Canal, this important passage has little economic gains from Turkey.
Hyperloop are yet a thing it stupid to gamble ur whole country future in shitty way over the edge of what currently possible special when u don't have enough time.
@@michaelmichael2382 Dubai will stay the same, they are only 5% dependent on oil. btw Dubai isn't as rich in oil as most think, Abu Dhabi has more than double the oil reserves of Dubai.
I think that of Saudi Arabia could still proceed,the 500m dollar project is not a one time deal..it could be by phases, so under several administrations.
The point is the Saudi Corrupt Monarchy is running out of time since they have millions of young people already unemployed since the days of early 2000s when KSA was booming and oil industry was bathing in $110 and still they weren't able to control their national unemployment rate and when there was no concept of any kind of TAX in the minds of typical Saudi People because GOVT used to give out hefty subsidies on every single facility including Electricity, Food, & Petrol. They have already shown glossy blooming pictures of 2030 as being the Game Changer for the most unemployed jobless Young Saudis and the time is short and the COVID 19 PLANDEMIC has already fucked up the entire world's economy. So, you have to review your thoughts about NEOM and its success especially when it's right under the total grip of a one-man who is as brutal as Hitler and ready to Chop Chop anyone who comes in his way. Forgot the Saudi Journalist Jamal Khashoggi?
Hi, can you make a video about canals? Previously planned or controversial canals would be amazing, such as the one that would separate Thailand into two to skip the trip around Singapore and Malaysia.
Many "experts" also said that the new turkish airport (the biggest or second biggest on earth) would fail or wouldn't be finished in just 4 years but turkey did it. There are more projects around the world that are as hard to finish but not impossible. Just wait and we'll see what every country can do and will do in the next years.
The airport is a massive failure just like the 3rd bridge they constructed, they both destroyed the enviroment, costed billions, and make us still lose billions bc both projects dont meet their promised uses so the goverment has to make the difference, both are one of the biggest failures of the 21st century, they were just corrupy money laundering operations with the added bonus of being flashy to get new votes.
No they didn't. Stop making shit up. Experts said the location they used was shit (it's on a goddamn swamp, can't get any worse than that), dangerous wind-shear (which is still a big problem for take-off and landing), it's fog prone, and lies in the middle of one of the world’s most important bird migration corridors, casing A LOT of bird strikes. But sure, keep going with your made up bullshit from the straw man "experts" you pulled out of your ass.
Construction of the Line might be possible, but it is a wildly impractical way to make a city. No alternative transport routes? And designed in a way that still necessitates travelling between suburbs? Yeah I'll pass
richer in oil, businesses and ego all built in the foreign low payed & exploited workers.. sometimes i even fear for these types of cities being made, we already heard some are already living on them or have historical/cultural protection..
In India we have a white elephants called the " Statue of Unity"....The largest cricket stadium in Motera, Gujarat,....then the Vistas also the new Parliament building complex...when millions died in India during the second wave of Covid19 due to the lack of hospitals, oxygen cylinders and medical care ..…which was built and cost about 250 million dollars.....built to attract tourists....this project was due to narcissistic and megalomania from a undeclared dictator who is basically illiterate, delusional and dramatic....he is popularly called 'Feku' which means 'Fake guy'.... infact more than 30% of Indians are below the poverty line.....after the unplanned lockdowns and highhandedness of the ruling establishment the no of people who are pushed into poverty in India has risen to 45%.......India is the only country in Asia where the gap between the rich and the poor are highest in the world....😎🤔🐒
I think the canal will be a success but you never know . It’s also so useful too and I think the canal is better than all of these mega projects . I wish they can do it .
Imaginative constructions are worthy even if is failed after 50 years. Out of that unimaginable information, invention , creation would come out which is more than the lose of imaginative constructions failure after 50 years.
I hope all the projects finishes and give inspiration for far-sighted view for developing nations. Growth of Dubai in a span of 50 years is remarkable. All the wonders of world would not have been possible if none took the initiative.
I got a short laugh at the start of the video, as the line is actually going into construction now... Very interested to see how far they get with the project.
I'm from Turkey and we don't want second Canal Istanbul. Turkey's economy is not good but Erdogan still want to finish the second Canal. And yea its impossible to finish it.
Assuming you have a 170 km stretch where you don’t have to replace anyone, the line still doesn’t sound that bad, of course, crossing it in 20 minutes is imposible but a high speed train could realistically cross it in 1 hour or 1 hour and a half, which it’s just fine for commute times, and having everything at reach from a single transport line makes it easier for everyone to use it
But the train has to stop every few kilometers, so it couldn't be much high speed. Otherwise without stops along the city it will only connect two ends, but what about the majority of people between these two ends? So it would be more like any other metro system, which is not bad, but 170 km would take hours.
even if its not that fast everything will be fine as it is not a big deal but maybe it can cross the line in 20 minutes who knows we can't underestimate the prince
What hasn't been explained in the video, is that the buildings that construct The Line are 500m high and both sides are glazed mirror facades. The problem is the scale, how to ventilate the interior of such a high rise, the effect in the sorroundings, plus the fact that people will be mostly confined in their habitat, etc.... I could also agree that a line is not the ideal configuration for a city, as same people have already commented.
The proposed train underneath "The line" city could work if it uses maglev technology. But you are right that they won't meet their goal with standard steel rails. I suspect they're going with maglev.
It wouldn’t and couldn’t work. Acceleration and deceleration are a thing, and stops cannot be astronomically far a part or else the entire concept is useless. This is just a ridiculous idea. We are needlessly creating our own issues to try and solve in the future.
My house is actually taller, than the Dubai Creek Tower at the moment! 😲😲😲
Aisa Hoi Nahi ho sakta
@@adolescenttv3267 Bhai Joke samajh nhi aata kya ?
I didnt understand earlier but nowi get what you mean
@@alternated122 You have big brain Bro .. Hats off .
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"The Line" sounds like a fantastic setting for a science fiction story. It might be too insane to actually build, but a fictional version of it is certainly possible to pull off..
Meanwhile, the Dubai Creek Tower looks like the headquarter of an intergalactic government administration
I refer again to "the line": have you thought about maintenance costs or operating or everyday costs? Cars are no longer necessary in the line. No elevators are necessary or costly facade cleaning. there is no time delay when you are stuck in a traffic jam, because there is no traffic jam. so i think it's crazy to want to build even higher to present your status. In my opinion, it is not crazy, but brave to have an idea that is not just about showing off, but an attempt to find a smart solution to problems of current events and the future. namasté नमस्ते
@@marcovonatzigen5494 first they should start terraforming a few deserts.
Watching these dumb billionaires build these things is just watching a dystopian scifi movie irl
They should first make a 2 or 3 km model of a line to see whether it works or not.
Yeap hehe, I think a loop would be better though!
ISTANBUL is not a capital city of TURKEY. The capital city is ANKARA bro.
Sorry our mistake.. :S
Also you have mistakes for ships passing through straits. Although number of ships are decreasing, weight of payload is constantly increasing. That means, companies are prefering bigger ships
Istambul is the most popular city in turkey
@@darusobu yes and it deserved to be The Capital just like -:
New York- USA,
Mumbai- India,
Sydney- Australia,
Shanghai/Shenzen -China,
Toronto- Canada,
Rio- Brazil
New Zealand - 1. Queenstown or
2. Auckland
Considering that there's no such thing as a city called istanbul
The Line sounds exactly like what the architect did before coming up with it
😂😂😂 funny
The original version for Arizona was literally a parody project. The Saudis didn't get it.
I once saw a Sim City Let's Play where someone made an entire city using just one road, it did not end well. Turns out making your city completely dependent on one method of transportation with very little to no redundancy is a very bad idea. One disaster could completely cut off the supply chain and severely cripple the city's ability to recover. Looks like the inspiration for "The Line" came from that, and I expect the end results to be the same.
RTGame?
@@corruptedplayer yep
@@OmegaZyion sorry for being pedantic but it was Cities Skylines, not Simcity
i guess that those games are not used for solutions in real world? (i ask as an interested and critical gamer)
and i ask all game developers to create a game to handle the whole world: -> Spatially based on the flight simulator, with the implementation of a completely networked system that allows business, trading, etc., although you can set your own rules such as: unconditional basic income, or basic care through minimal work to which every citizen is committed (all unemployed (no matter which status you belong to) could do a lot of useful things).... etc. etc. also a dictator mode where the dictator can decide for the good of all people (e.g. true equality of all people) etc. etc. The simulation should be shaped by the users (with "mods" or whatever you want to call it, which should be able to be created in a very simple programming environment), you should be able to register as an individual in every changed world. all other individuals (who would not be "played" by a full-fledged human) would have statistical process values in the background. Since probably 97% of people would play along, the 3% (de.wikipedia.org/wiki/3%25) could also be interested in what would come out of it without destroying the current state of the art.
1km long steel cables hanging from a 1km skyscraper, what could go possibly wrong?
When I saw that tiny foundation I was like NOPE
@@ellechim9302 same fam, the foundation is even weaker than a foundation of a wind turbine 😂
Can you image the weight of that cable net? All pulling down on the relatively skinny top structure.
Final fantasy X
NOTHING
- government maybe ?
The Line is the project dreamed up by someone with more money than sense.
Actually ALL the projects fall into this category.
We have a bigass line
Make it into a city
The train could work if it's maglev.
@@christopheraaron8299 cities are built as circles
Why circles? Because it has the highest area with the lowest perimeter, meaning that the average distance from any single point to another is the shortest
The train line serving the city could be much shorter if the city was *not a line*, like for example Tokyo
@@christopheraaron8299 no they won't. You still have to stop the train and re accelerate from 0 multiple times between the two end points.
New York City, which is mostly linear, you can walk from most subway stations to your East/West destination. If it were more constrained it would be completely walkable. But now that I think about it, The Line would not remain linear for very long and construction would spread out in prime locations.
wouldn't it be more clever to do "the circle" instead of "the line"? it could occupy fewer inhabitated areas and allow shorter travels even with "slower" trains
everyone is saying that
more likely points along the line are gonna debelop into circular cities naturally anyway
May be to cover larger population cluster
So a normal city?
I recommend a ball design ;)
I love the sales pitch for the line. "Cities suck right? Well what if we made one that sucked even harder?"
To validate a concept like The Line, you don't need to build an entire city.
If people hardly need to move around, or if transportation in exactly one (bi)direction is (for all intents and purposes) free, would a city naturally grow along that one direction?
Exactly.
Only if there was a coaatline or mountainrange along the side
It would indeed and we would call it a slum
There's a reason why cities are shaped similar to a circle, because a circle makes it equidistant from anywhere about a point, where businesses, goods and services can be accessible to many. "The Line" probably will not work because it is counterintuitive to this very reason
it will only work if it is a resort with a looo... ooong beach and millions of foreign tourists will come
Line cities are better. Only need one bus or train
@@87dramarama One train track fails, whole city in the toilet.
I could see the Line working as a multiple city center city. Essentially you have the centers based around the train stations along the line and suburbs created around it.
Yes. It's called Ribbon Development and happened a lot in Britain in the 1930s. Town planners after WW2 disliked it and the idea was not really used after 1947.
It's like when you start a new Minecraft world you have ambitious plans to build but stopped halfway because it's too tedious.
I would only stop in survival mode 💀
I actually end up finishing my megaprojects in Minecraft even it's tedious , margaritas help out alot lol
@@tylersoto7465 Adderall too
@@LawrBiteranta yep lol
This is whole mood
All these costs of construction pale in the face of the costs of maintenance.
This is always something that initial builders, investors and government forget: the costs of maintenance increase almost geometrically with the increase in size because of the increase in complexity.
Which is why we pay a lot in service charges. My condo in burj Khalifa has a $30k fee every year, and that's considered little when compared to bigger condos.
Investors that went rich via simple method aka "dig oil - sell oil" are not familiar with future planning
@@froggymusicman The city has a sewage system. The tower does not. It's just too tall, it's a pressure issue
@@happymolecule8894 I’m sure if they figured out how to build that high they definitely could figure out how to reduce the poop pressure
@@happymolecule8894 wait but not connected to sewer because of the pressure. So that doesn’t even solve the problem. And now all that pressure is directed to the closed of septic tanks. I think you’d be better off with a connected sewer system then…
3:42 - This looks like it was designed specifically to annoy Adam Something.
The problem with the Istanbul Canal is that most ships will keep going through the Bosporus Strait anyway, cause it's free!
Yeah but the Turks are planning to choke the Bosphorus Strait with random bullshit ways just to annoy the shipping industry into using the Istanbul canal like a highway vs motorway thing.
I guess there will be fair amount of ships that prefer to pay and pass straight instead of waiting for couple of weeks sometimes.
@@CAHA6 That sounds like a good way to piss off russia and things get tense when russia is pissed off.
@@FlashiestRed as of now the turks are chill with the ruskies (kind of) given the love they have begun to share with turkstream or the s-400 or russian tourist in turkey. plus from what i've known of the shipping industry there is huge mix of nationalities involved in the companies and crews so it's not confined to 1 guy only. also there's ukraine, romania, bulgaria and any other country with coastline in the black sea. best thing to do right now, wait and see.
actually not free :)
We reached a level of engineering and material science allowing us to say: the only thing stopping a project that got greenlit and already started to be built is almost ever money and politics.
or it being an absolutely awful idea even from its conception but dictators push the project along until physics kicks in
And for good reason. Some projects are just wastes of money. The ones listed in this video are prime examples of that.
Like so many others, the Designer of Neom has played "Cities:Skylines" a little bit too much
I was thinking about that game throughout this entire video😂
He played with Unlimited money mod
Actually, designed by a bunch of urbanists, city planners, city economists and a bunch of other specialists from all over the world, say what you want but you cant deny the ambition behind the project and the support of its leaders.
if he actually played it hed know its wrong to do it lol
@@faisalabdullah2418 Ambition and stupidity are often indistinguishable.
The argument of jobs and economic boost due to the construction itself is an excellent example of the broken window fallacy.
@Joxar The broken window is a metaphor imagined by the French economist Frédéric Bastia to explain some of the most common fallacies in economics.
Imagine that a window has been broken. You can pretend that it is good for the economy, since it gives some income to the guy who repairs it. That guy will spend his money to buy food from a merchant who will spend his money to buy something else. The broken window has started a long chain of economic activities and spending.
But that reasoning is obviously false, since the owner of the window would probably have spent his money on something else, if given the choice, maybe a book. And the librarian would have spent his money on something else etc. The chain of activities that starts with the broken window is obtained at the expenses of another chain.
The only way to distinguish the two chains with any certainty is to look at their beginning. The broken window chain starts with a net loss.
There is no way any convoluted reasoning can erase that fact.
Bastia noticed that a lot of our economic reflections are expressed to present an indisputable waste as if it was "good for the economy". He gives many examples: buying artworks nobody cares about, building roads where nobody is traveling, posting soldiers in garrison just to support the local economy etc.
All those things, artwork, roads, garrisons, should be considered for their own merits and not for hypothetical economic fallouts.
Of course, it is even worse if you pay people for nothing. You lose the useful work that they would have done otherwise.
@@stanislaskowalski7461 that was clever, thanks !
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In order to serve all inhabitants along the line, the train needs to have stations every 2 or 3 kilometers. But, this prevents it from going full speed, because trains take a long time to accelerate, and before it even reaches its full speed it has to start slowing down as it reaches the next station. When aiming to travel at speeds of 500 km/h, you can't stop every 3 kilometers because that means you don't have enough time to accelerate to your full speed, rendering it impossible to travel the whole thing in 67 minutes. You can only have a station in the beginning and one in the end, but then it loses its purpose because it doesn't serve the people in the middle. There need to be multiple trains, each traveling at different speeds and each having more/less stations, like train systems in Italy. But this already impacts the cost; Japan's magnetic system(the only way a train can reach speeds of 500 km/h) already has a price of 65 billion USD dollars. Add more rails and the price of only the train part of the project will easily surpass 100 billion dollars.
at last someone understands it! Thank you...
That's THE irony, apparently unseen by the engineers and project owners, yet obvious to those who actually commute every day. If the train only has 2 stations at both ends, then it's virtually equal to connecting 2 separate circle-shaped cities. LOL.😅 As many people have pointed out, this project is 100% gimmick.
@@alexanderlobov1432 Thank-you! I noticed that nobody was talking about this problem, the biggest in my eyes; therefore I decided to write about it myself 😉
@@indrapratama7668 Exactly!!!
@@indrapratama7668 also unseen by a lot of commenters trying to justify this bullshit.
The canal reminds me of an 1800s Victorian-era canal project near me that would be possible today if it made sense, but turned out to be impossible at the time and half of the plans were abandoned. The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal was intended to connect the Chesapeake Bay near Washington, D.C. to the Ohio River in Pittsburgh, making a viable water transportation route from the Atlantic coast to the Ohio. However, it ended up starting in downtown Washington D.C. instead and only made it as far as Cumberland, Maryland. This is because scaling the Allegheny Plateau up to Pittsburgh would have required an 8-mile-long tunnel. The half-mile-long Paw Paw Tunnel had already nearly bankrupted the canal company. And what's worse, rail travel was beginning to take over as the dominant transportation means in the United States and the unfinished canal was already becoming obsolete. Though for most of the next century, the section of canal that was built was used to take logs and coal from Appalachia down to the D.C. area, so it ended up not being entirely useless.
Dubai should invest in modern plumbing before chasing useless skyscrapers.
As a resident of dubai I can confirm we have modern plumbing for a long while actually.
@@ultla321 Tell this to the poop lorries out from Burj Khalifa
@@Lylly_Bett poop lorries are actually not a problem to anyone,Right?
How does it help me.I never got to go for Hajj.Its been four years.
@@MustangGT200 Egypt is better off.
It is sad how some countries waste a lot of money to carryout projects that never see the light of the day.
keeps lots of foreign consultants employed though
The Bosporus is NOT a canal. It’s a natural straight, just like The Dardanelles.
I was about to post the same thing. That would have been one massive dig!
The producers of the video have no clue about many of these projects. They understand youtube metrics tho.
"a length of water wider than a strait, joining two larger areas of water, especially two seas."
its a sea to be honest
6:27 animation says strait though...
Every ambitious project begins from the word IMPOSSIBLE. And yet some of it turns out to be wonders. Only time can tell...
Hlw
Time for Asr or Magribh now in Khi.What year.Am or pm.Time ki bat karta he..
“Destroy tense of thousands of trees” I don’t think theres a way around cutting down trees when creating a canal.
Thats the point lol
There is a way around it by not building the canal
5:59 Turkey's capital city is not Istanbul, it is Ankara. Please Google if there's any doubt ☺️
Even if these projects are built , the maintenance costs would break any budget .
China's high speed rail system loses 24 million dollars a day
@@Automedon2 Most passanger trains suffer heavy loss, it is compensated by Cargo trains.
2:15 wouldn't be a Railways but rather a maglev or pressure tube. 500+ km/h is possible. But with the stops in between it would become a bit difficult.
Exactly! I was like "What this guy is talking about?!"
Exactly! I was like "What this guy is talking about?!"
It would have to be maglev in a vacuum tube. Otherwise, air friction would make such speeds impossible underground. And at this point, it's just not technically and financially feasable to build hundreds of kilometers of near-perfect vaccuum tube with multiple "pressured" stops in between.
people will jump off on there stops
"Don't worry guys, we'll just get all these new unproven technologies working flawlessly to build this, nothing can go wrong"
The railway alone would be an absurd megaproject, and on top of that they want to bury it? Sure thing.
7:44 - Crimea is a part of Ukraine occupied by Russia according to international law, including "United Nations A/RES/68/262 General Assembly". United Nations. 1 April 2014. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
Please correct the map according to international law
Yes you are right!!
Ukraine is occupied by Russia ...
The Bosphorus Strait is NOT a canal. You’ve got to be kidding me. Canals are man made transportation infrastructure like roads or pipelines
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One thing that’s common to this list is that all these nations are declining economies, and they are gasping for breath but eventually drown.
Isn't that the case with the entire world?
@@msj1131 nope?
@@msj1131 entire world except Afghanistan, North Korea, Bhutan, and other autocracies isolated from the West
All these countries are also ruled by egomaniac autocrats.
@@williamduke1756 true that.
Line can be a reality if built in phases. It might take decades to achieve that feat.
Nah, it can't by concept. Cities expand circularly (grow in all directions) because that's the best way to increase value while reducing the distance from any point to any other point (and especially to the center). The line concept is a fun idea, but you throw away immense amounts of value for it which makes it not worth it.
Also kinda why other cities aren't built in a line already.
China can probably do it in a decade. Canada probably take them 5 generations because all that tax money goes to policitians
@@calvinwong365 In any amount of time: China won't - too impractical. Canada can't - too many administrations in and out of office.
It biggest problem is the financing it's investors will not invest, due to planning consultants. The concept of building a place along a central route (on a smaller scale and with at least more than one line) was bascially completed in Brasilia, it was an utter failure of urban living, it caused disconnection and made travel exceptionally tedious.
It won't. It has far to much engeneering problems
I can't believe these countries sink so much money into projects just to say "my building taller!" - "no, my building taller!"
And exploit so many poor workers immigrant ... this is in fact crazy, yeah
Imagine what mirrored walls would do the temperature of the surroundings in this hot climate - Melt sand
The bullet trains traveling between Beijing and Shanghai only reaching 350km per hour at its peak, and the average speed is around 300km per hour.
"Nothing is to wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature", Michael Faraday.
On the Dubai Creek Tower, I see one basic flaw in the design: The cables. To make sure they hold up to the stresses of stabilizing a twig thin tower (by comparison), the tower would have to sustain both massive weight pulling it on all sides, as well as its own weight. One stiff breeze would cause it to fall. Instead of using internal steel frames, with the cables you are effectively tripling or quadrupling the weight of the tower, as you would, rather than using traditional means and just building it up from there. Also, it's a horrible waste of space.
And imagine if some event caused one of those cables to fail. Domino effect.
@@brianoconnell6459 reminds of a certain cold war era telescope that recently collapsed.
When the first cable snapped, that brief moment where the weight transferred to the backup cables caused enough strain to take down the whole structure.
@@deadturret4049 well it worked just fine umtil.funding got.cut off to maintain it
@@deadturret4049 I assume you are talking about the Arecibo Telescope, and to be fair, funding had been massively cut over the decades and was no longer being used. There were talks about completely decommissioning it prior to the collapse.
The 'train' in the Line project couldn't be a bullet train but would need to be a hyperloop
If only Hyperloops weren't a screaming metal death trap.
the high speed rail only works between 2 end points with no stops in between, not for the Line project if it wants to serve anyone else along the line
One of the big issues with the Istanbul canal project is that it would require multiple crossings. Road, highway, rail. Otherwise if there are just 1 or 2 main crossings it would create absolutely horrific congestion, especially if long distance trucking is mixed with local commuting. And these bridges wouldn't be cheap. They would need to be built high enough over the seaway so that large ships can pass below them.
1. According to the project, approximately 5 bridges will be built and the bridges will be free of charge.
2. They plan to carry commercial shipments to the European continent with the Çanakkale Bridge.
they will build also tunels for cars and rails.
The solution is obvious. Just drain the canal whenever a car wants to cross! Don't think too much about it.
The canal Istanbul project is not a perpetrator, it is necessary because the Bosphorus can no longer handle ship traffic and large ships are a danger to the Bosphorus. Also, with the Lausanne treaty disaster, the dominance of the straits was taken from the Turks, it is an extremely necessary project for an independent Turkey.
"the line" as a concept is the way to the goal "one world one future"
ua-cam.com/video/irqyoxRxoD0/v-deo.html _ Of course, human rights violations do not work and such political questions (all over the world) must and can be clarified. the harmony of the future, sustainability in ecology and economy, as well as cultural heritage is possible, of that i am convinced.
As someone who worked on schools in neom I guarantee the Saudi government will follow through with the project
imagine him making a list of the world's shortest buildings lol
Time to check all the houses in the world
Here you go, this might help that itch, lol
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@@dummyspittinglamma6494 Roof scraper
All of the mega projects are awesome I’ll check back next week to see what your next video is
they're really not
Meanwhile Malaysia 🇲🇾 had successfully completed construction of Exchange 106. Its tallest building in Kuala Lumpur.
Ah the Dubai islands. I remember when these were first announced, my friends and I could see the massive dredging ships out at sea when we went surfing. Those islands blocked most of the fetch and by the time I left there weren't any good beaches left in Dubai.
Title: Impossible Megaprojects that will Fail
Petro-monarchies: Allow us to introduce ourselves.
People: starving
Governments: haha, my big tower beat your big tower
Nah, the people are fine.
The slaves might be another story, but that's another story.
Just talk about your country
The Istanbul canal is feasible, but may takes years to complete. And then Turkey can force ships to pass through that canal by closing the existing Bosphorus one.
They cannot close the Bosphorus to foreign ships due to a treaty signed in 1936. However, Canal Istanbul, if it's ever built, will be like a "Toll Road" for commercial ships. Instead of waiting to pass the Bosphorus, they will be able to pay 10s of thousands of dollars and pass through the Canal Istanbul to save time.
5:20 That the cables have to be over a kilometer long is not a problem. In Japan there's the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge, with a 2km long suspended span segment in the middle.
Horisontal - Vertical = Not the same
Cable bridges are largely horizontal. The highest points don't, and might never, get even closer to 500 m in the air.
@@romiarkan450 And because the cables are horizontal, they have handle way more stress than if they were vertical.
Here's a simple experiment you can do yourself: Take a weight of some sort and connect a 2 strings to it. Now hold the weight up on the with 1 hand and one string. Then hold one string in each hand and try to hold the weight up by pushing your hands away from each other (to the left and right instead of up) and tell me what was harder.
The cables in this tower don't hold up their tower, they only support it from swaying. The cables in suspension bridges hold up the entire weight of the bridge besides the towers/anchor points..
"Most perople in Turkey and around the world are against the construction of the Istanbul Canal"
Most people around the world have never even heard of the project let alone forming an opinion on it :D
The canal in Turkey makes sense since the Bosporus is one of the heavily traffic sea routes in the world, aside from the canal project giving Turkey additional income.
I'm sure Countries will prefer the waiting and delay to travel through Bosporus than paying for Turkey
@@CelVini well Turkey can regulate that to their advantage. Aside from that, the US and other superpowers. can utilize also this alternate route for their armed ships.
@@CelVini “countries” don’t use the canal, companies do. Companies will pay if they can deliver their product faster. If profit out weigh the cost, they will pay happily.
@@michaelgamas6112 I hear this point very often, military ships can already pass the bosphorus; they just need to fit into protocol. And what ever america wants to get into the black sea, they probably can whilst still fitting into the montreux terms
@@de-ment it's all about control and getting economic gains from a logistics standpoint. Unlike Egpyt on Suez Canal, this important passage has little economic gains from Turkey.
Actually is not train, it's hyperloop that they are implementing, only hyperloop has the ability to do so as intended in the "The Line" Project
it doesn't because it can't get built
Hyperloop are yet a thing it stupid to gamble ur whole country future in shitty way over the edge of what currently possible special when u don't have enough time.
Hyperloop hasnt even been properly created yet. Its still sketches and cgi designs.
The real life embodiment of a gofundme page.
Hyperloop? More like getting crushed under the pressure of a vacuum, am I rite?
Hyperloop is even worse
I personally feel The Turkish Canal project has a very bright future a few decades down the line. Very futuristic.
Yep, definitely the most realistic and plausible project on the video.
0:51 It looks like a realistic view of the world in 2050.
I wonder what Dubai is like when the oil is Spend
@@michaelmichael2382 Dubai will stay the same, they are only 5% dependent on oil. btw Dubai isn't as rich in oil as most think, Abu Dhabi has more than double the oil reserves of Dubai.
0:51 is the new administrative capital of Egypt. They are already doing great with this project.
I think that of Saudi Arabia could still proceed,the 500m dollar project is not a one time deal..it could be by phases, so under several administrations.
The point is the Saudi Corrupt Monarchy is running out of time since they have millions of young people already unemployed since the days of early 2000s when KSA was booming and oil industry was bathing in $110 and still they weren't able to control their national unemployment rate and when there was no concept of any kind of TAX in the minds of typical Saudi People because GOVT used to give out hefty subsidies on every single facility including Electricity, Food, & Petrol. They have already shown glossy blooming pictures of 2030 as being the Game Changer for the most unemployed jobless Young Saudis and the time is short and the COVID 19 PLANDEMIC has already fucked up the entire world's economy. So, you have to review your thoughts about NEOM and its success especially when it's right under the total grip of a one-man who is as brutal as Hitler and ready to Chop Chop anyone who comes in his way. Forgot the Saudi Journalist Jamal Khashoggi?
@@enduringwave87 taxes gives no benefit in return here at all
it's just paying more money
how long does it take to walk down the emergency staircase of a tallest building? do you have time to escape any disaster?
Burj khalifa Lift goes 22mph 10meter per seconds.
Hi, can you make a video about canals? Previously planned or controversial canals would be amazing, such as the one that would separate Thailand into two to skip the trip around Singapore and Malaysia.
Many "experts" also said that the new turkish airport (the biggest or second biggest on earth) would fail or wouldn't be finished in just 4 years but turkey did it. There are more projects around the world that are as hard to finish but not impossible. Just wait and we'll see what every country can do and will do in the next years.
The airport is a massive failure just like the 3rd bridge they constructed, they both destroyed the enviroment, costed billions, and make us still lose billions bc both projects dont meet their promised uses so the goverment has to make the difference, both are one of the biggest failures of the 21st century, they were just corrupy money laundering operations with the added bonus of being flashy to get new votes.
No they didn't. Stop making shit up. Experts said the location they used was shit (it's on a goddamn swamp, can't get any worse than that), dangerous wind-shear (which is still a big problem for take-off and landing), it's fog prone, and lies in the middle of one of the world’s most important bird migration corridors, casing A LOT of bird strikes.
But sure, keep going with your made up bullshit from the straw man "experts" you pulled out of your ass.
Construction of the Line might be possible, but it is a wildly impractical way to make a city. No alternative transport routes? And designed in a way that still necessitates travelling between suburbs? Yeah I'll pass
Big projects endure a lot of challenges it fails in one generation but success is in the next generation..
If there is a next generation…
You don’t know the capital city of Turkey but you have an opinion about Turkey. Very convincing!!!
I’m surprised that the California High speed rail project was not on the list
The Line is basically a reedition of Disney's Epcot city dream.
This channel is going to blew up .......
Hope you don't forget us .
Dubai artificial islands are constructed on coral reefs as well. And they can't use see sands for it, since see sand is too big.
The idea that the act of building a canal would create jobs and boost the economy falls under what is know as "The Broken Window Fallacy"
The money should be spent on human health not on bragging rights on who got the biggest ,fastest of anything 🤔
Innovation is the key, for us humans, to move forward.
Yep.
Their people are already well off
@@soysauce4223 building a huge tower that does nothing isnt innovation
@@Zack-fu4lo you didn't get the point
These arabs are way richer than i thought of.
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Modern Day slavery makes it possible☠️
richer in oil, businesses and ego all built in the foreign low payed & exploited workers.. sometimes i even fear for these types of cities being made, we already heard some are already living on them or have historical/cultural protection..
Is your brother the famous Sheikh Valadimir Carbohydrates?
your name.
In India we have a white elephants called the " Statue of Unity"....The largest cricket stadium in Motera, Gujarat,....then the Vistas also the new Parliament building complex...when millions died in India during the second wave of Covid19 due to the lack of hospitals, oxygen cylinders and medical care
..…which was built and cost about 250 million dollars.....built to attract tourists....this project was due to narcissistic and megalomania from a undeclared dictator who is basically illiterate, delusional and dramatic....he is popularly called 'Feku' which means 'Fake guy'.... infact more than 30% of Indians are below the poverty line.....after the unplanned lockdowns and highhandedness of the ruling establishment the no of people who are pushed into poverty in India has risen to 45%.......India is the only country in Asia where the gap between the rich and the poor are highest in the world....😎🤔🐒
this is very sad to hear since indians are caring people, they always support their family and family bond is very strong.
Bhai gale lag ja.
I think the canal will be a success but you never know .
It’s also so useful too and I think the canal is better than all of these mega projects .
I wish they can do it .
Fantastic- imagine how fast a virus can spread if you make everyone huddle together in a singular line
Imaginative constructions are worthy even if is failed after 50 years. Out of that unimaginable information, invention , creation would come out which is more than the lose of imaginative constructions failure after 50 years.
at the end of the lifespan of the building materials, what do you do with the tallest and biggest structures?
I hope all the projects finishes and give inspiration for far-sighted view for developing nations. Growth of Dubai in a span of 50 years is remarkable. All the wonders of world would not have been possible if none took the initiative.
Same for china right I mean they did it with 70-80 years to become a superpower right?
I hope not. They’re decadent and useless monuments to hubris
"Growth of Dubai". Please. Painting a turd gold and throwing confetti on it doesn't make it any less of a turd.
"Turkey's capital city ISTANBUL" nah bro that shows how much effort you've put into the script 🤣🤣
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Dubai has proved time and time again that it's capable of defying the impossible. I'll be back a few years from now to remind you.
When the first thing on the list starts at #4
Well then, it’s StarWars math
But when I want to build my company inside an active volcano I'm called "insane".
😂
I got a short laugh at the start of the video, as the line is actually going into construction now... Very interested to see how far they get with the project.
Such an interesting video. As a frensh person, I love what you do cause it’s easily understable ^^
Yeah, France !
love your video! great job mate, keep it coming!
I'm from Turkey and we don't want second Canal Istanbul. Turkey's economy is not good but Erdogan still want to finish the second Canal. And yea its impossible to finish it.
Assuming you have a 170 km stretch where you don’t have to replace anyone, the line still doesn’t sound that bad, of course, crossing it in 20 minutes is imposible but a high speed train could realistically cross it in 1 hour or 1 hour and a half, which it’s just fine for commute times, and having everything at reach from a single transport line makes it easier for everyone to use it
Hyperloop
But the train has to stop every few kilometers, so it couldn't be much high speed. Otherwise without stops along the city it will only connect two ends, but what about the majority of people between these two ends? So it would be more like any other metro system, which is not bad, but 170 km would take hours.
They do have to replace people. Plus I agree that the 20 minutes claim is laughable.
even if its not that fast everything will be fine as it is not a big deal but maybe it can cross the line in 20 minutes who knows we can't underestimate the prince
Dubai - Palm Jumeirah is sinking ... they say the same about London, but lo-and-behold, it's still there!
Dubai will never fail 💙
Dubai Islands already failed 20 years ago.
In The line mega project, they will not use a normal electric train .. they will build a hyperloop train which has a speed of 760 mph
Hyperloop is unproven technology and more or less fraud
They are better off running maglev in there
Woah! Its so awesome to call projects "failures" two weeks after theyre announced.
Never call something impossible. There’s always one person who does the thing nobody could
It could be done maybe a few centuries into the future. But right now, nope.
Nope, some things are straight up impossible. These are such cases. They serve no real purpose and are nothing short of total wastes of money.
The line is a superexpensive stupid idea.
Your thinking comes from not knowing all the times humans failed
Alright then, Show me how to fly, twat.
What hasn't been explained in the video, is that the buildings that construct The Line are 500m high and both sides are glazed mirror facades. The problem is the scale, how to ventilate the interior of such a high rise, the effect in the sorroundings, plus the fact that people will be mostly confined in their habitat, etc.... I could also agree that a line is not the ideal configuration for a city, as same people have already commented.
Love how two of these megaprojects are in Dubai
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Great video👌
Thanks!
In my fictional world, all projects in this video already finished and successful
The damage that "creating" an island must have on the oceans...I just can't wrap my head around that much damage.
The proposed train underneath "The line" city could work if it uses maglev technology. But you are right that they won't meet their goal with standard steel rails. I suspect they're going with maglev.
It wouldn’t and couldn’t work. Acceleration and deceleration are a thing, and stops cannot be astronomically far a part or else the entire concept is useless. This is just a ridiculous idea. We are needlessly creating our own issues to try and solve in the future.
Let’s be clear. There’s a difference between the tallest building and the flimsy tallest “Tower”.
The flimsy tower looks better in my opinion.
@@DrAliWD LOL - as potentially unpractical and possibly unrealizable as it is it does look cool.