Now that's a conspiracy theory I can get behind!

Feels more like "getting over it" where random buildings and stuff are scattered around the place

Oh my god it's true. It even has the hundreds of fancy buildings that are actually hollow shells with nothing inside.

its even has the villager halls!

It is not approved by Dubai City nor the UAE, it is just scam.

It's kind of you to assume that Dubai has city planners. I don't think they exist.

You laugh now, but once the Death Star is operational you'll change your tune.

I think they might be channel fans

Man, modern age architecture makes me appreciate Ancient and medieval Architectures. Like they made everything beautiful and something that could last ages. With Gardens and everything. Now it's just concrete walls of Loneliness

Well, the clue is in the title - "Lunatic" - originally referring to insanity of an intermittent kind attributed to changes of the *moon*

@@ktakashismith that's true, but lunatic also refers to madness in general, a term you could apply to many of Dubai's projects over the last few years

U.S just spent 14 billion on genocide how about that?

Starting the next 3rd fiscal quarter. Still not narrow enough.

This sort of looks like a blatant rip off of Las Vegas SPHERE, which kinda treads upon Expo 1986 SCIENCE CENTRE. (which kinda copies GLOBE OF DEATH motorcycle cage thingy)

Me as a dumb monkey: "Cool 🤤"

​@Grunchy005 You get in the big sphere and it's cool because it's a big sphere.

...then turn off the light and film any "(in)human(e) interaction". Winner gets a bottle of Gold Water.

@@Grunchy005 Heheh, or Bucky's dome at the Montreal Expo 1976. At the most generous, we might say it's 'inspired' by Etienne Boullée's Cenotaph for Newton... but that was intended as a visionary exploratory exercise. Not for a hotel that completely ignores the space and structure it's in.

and they do seem to understand that the near infinite income from oil is fast coming to and end. So they are trying to diversify, and this shows just how bad they are at the process.

The big difference is that Sphere's outside can be changed literally in a second. But Moon resort will forever be moon, even if tourist got bored eventually.

Yep. This is what, in the US military, we used to call a GOBI - General Officer Bright Idea. ALWAYS a disaster.

First thing I thought when I saw it😂

@@John.0z oil accounts for less than 1% of Dubai's GDP

You can reason with a toddler, not a brain dead Emir.

It’s like toddlers, but for some reason our society and economy and government are largely dictated by their whims.

You don't know many rich people then. Dubai is like a place run by rich toddlers. People who climbed the economic ladder on their own don't behave like that.

Toddlers have the chance to grow up into useful persons....

​@@jamescarter8311 that's why Elon Musk acts like a toddler as well

Yes and with the resources they have, they missed the opportunity to build something incredible

😂😂😂

Yeah not too surprising. I'm sure many upper class western expatriates think this way. It's a shame. Very classist and low-key racist.

The guy who proposed this project is not a native, and the project hasn't even been approved yet

yeah XDD 🤣🤣 this hit hard man! 🤣😂

Oh I'm sure someone did propose exactly that...

They probably just said they were bringing down the real one and hollowing it out.

We are definitely devolving as a species

Easy. The top half of the moon is filled with water and the visitors have to wear weighted space suits...

Tbf that's just something ChatGPT made up for it.

Even if they did somehow figure out how to reduce earth's gravitational pull, long-term exposure would likely cause negative effects on the human body.

I was wondering would one not be able to breathe in this moon thing, you know, for maximum authenticity?

@@BarryRowlingsonBaz Holding the sheer weight of all that water within an area that size would be an engineering nightmare.

A functioning town? Do they even know what that is?

What do you expect of the land of the 50% complete freedom

Even if there could’ve been, why should there be? Not every society has to mirror yours, you know.

@@Adam-326 Exactly, that's why they should accept they have a different culture and stop writing random western concepts in their websites. It would be so much better if they would build a modern Arabic city with Arabic architecture, domes and arcades. But for some reason they are stuck in this Disney World mall BS

@@Adam-326 if "not mirroring" my society includes oppression of people, thats morally wrong

@@baronnuuke7821 Are you talking about the UAE? What they choose to do in their country is their own business. Besides, it works, so why change?

Fuck all to see out of a Dubai window anyway. Unless perpetual construction sites are your thing.

I feel like saying "workers" is a bit generous.. We like to think of workers as someone who chooses to work, for the sake of having roof over head, regular meals and all that jazz.. Now I don't know if all of Middle East rich oil kingdoms work the same, but for some other country I heard it works like this.. You are starving, there are no jobs in your country and likely you even have a family to feed.. Yet, cross a border and there is work, for good money.. So you go, only to be left without a passport as soon as you enter this workers promise land. Then you find out there will also be a minimum time you can stay and work there, just like when you apply to work on an oil rig, somewhere in the middle of the oceans.. Meanwhile, your accommodations would be humble.. If it was just you, but there is 7 others sharing that space.. How it ends and if you are paid, I don't know and I would rather not like to have to find out..

And jet the workers do in fact have windows in their rooms

Still better than most US cities. No opioid crisis, homelessness, gun violence, poor and decaying infrastructures.

​@@ViolentCabbage-ym7ko "Still better than...." Nope

Yup, that's the trooth! You are fully qualified to be a middle eastern multi-billionaire! 😆

​@@DrunkenUFOPilottrooth????? It is truth

@@user-cw5bq9pg7c I know u can’t read tone but he is being sarcastic by misspelling on purpose.

BS. How much internal wasted space. Also if so then why are spherical houses mega rare.

@@ekspatriat I'm pretty sure that was sarcasm.

brb gonna reach out to vc firms for this one

Don't forget Hyperambulance pods.

If you slap an American flag and a bald eagle on it it could work

In Rwanda they actually have a pretty neat system where they send off drones to supply remote villages with medicine. Maybe something like this

​@@je4a301American universal healthcare will never work cuz of american bureaucracy.

I mean yeah but they have 50 % gender equality at moon though.

Seriously. People mention it so little that this is literally the first time I’m learning about it.

they only care once the money stops. just look at how long it's taken people to criticize china or russia. only once they began trade wars and the sanctions started did the suits start to "care" what was going on

@@professoremeryeetus5292 tru I guess you win some you lose some

Despise*

Lol that's not the point at all but I imagined this except with Asian parents when their kid brings home a half sphere from school. "Why only half a sphere? Why not a full sphere?"

Phew, I'm glad he literally saw it, could you imagine what would have happened if he saw it metaphorically?

"literally saw the SUCCESS..." Success my ass. That Vegas monstrosity is already plagued with lots and lots of problems. It will not last long

​@@guillaumelagueyte1019because full sphere expensive, we dont need full sphere just half is ok.

@@maurice2572 the Sydney opera house and all those other overdesigned architectural nightmares designed to draw in rich people (because who tf goes to an opera in this century except pretentious rich people) are always massive money sinks to build and maintain and have lots of structural issues. Guangzhou opera house (jn China) is also a nice example. Or Calatrava opera house in Valencia. This happens way too often to be a coincidence. Some other numbskull once built a building, I think it was somewhere in the USA, with mirrored glass on the outside, that had a curvature which resulted in sunlight being concentrated on the ground around it. It set cars and houses on fire and could melt asphalt.

Money. :)

Saudi Arabia is giving them a run for their money

As does the fact that _this_ of all cities was chosen to host a world summit on how to stop destroying the planet. >.> It’s like holding a summit for democracy and freedom in North Korea.

@@Lyendith I would liken that particular move to the hosting of an AA meeting in the tasting room of a brewery or distillery. But yeah, stupidest possible timeline confirmed

wait until you hear about nasa

I mean it's clearly a scam. It's a money laundering project that will siphon off funds from investors who will then claim a tax write-off when it 'fails' and the elite will get a little richer. Just like that Line city, just like all modern art, just like a quarter of a trillion dollars sent to Ukraine that no one knows what happened to.

No, someone is playing money laundering…

I laughed when they said that. Ohh they are going to replicate the gravity conditions on the Moon are they? One question: How?!? 😂

Easy. Do you remember what was marketed as a hoverboard? Yes, that contraption that didn‘t do one important thing it was supposex to: hover.

Exactly this. The gravity and you know, being in space, is what makes the moon appealing. Otherwise it's just the desert that already exists, but like, cooler coloured for some reason.

​@@feonor26Well, they'll do what they usually do and just build it so high that it leaves the atmosphere.

Probably they hope to solve this problem with money spent on research to create such a space.

Don't we deserve it though?

And just like Night City in Cyberpunk 2077, Dubai has no water. lol

in fairness night city has public transport and is remarkably walkable

​@@RJLbwbNC has water? Have you not played the game lol, there's a lot of missions near the docks and piers

Night City but without the (very few) good things about it

So nice of them to provide enrichment for godzilla

sounds like Katamari hahahaha

@@alphaspearl9728 Sounds more like that old PS2 game "war of the monsters"😆

like the daily planet sphere when it fell off the building and it was about to crush everyone but superman stopped it

😂

Elon: A worthy opponent

Napoleon Bonaparté: Hey, that's my complex!

​@@kamukamehYes, the most successful general of all time was obviously an idiot...... Not saying he didn't stumble in other topics, but there's a reason he got to make those stumbles in the first place, after conquering all of the European land mass.

Arab leaders be like: "it's haram to criticise the ruler"

@@mattevans4377 "Yes, the most successful general of all time..." yeah... that IS Napoleon complex! 😁 Conquering is the one thing, holding it is another one.

Thats the power of toxic positivity for you

It is a Muslim Arab country. Even 10% is very ambitious.

@@muxecoidGotta love backwards countries.

You know the UAE has higher gender equality than the states, 31st compared to 46th in the world, according to the UN’s Human Development Index? You can google to verify

Camel riders don't need maths.

@@silviuvisan505 Well...that until they find lots of oil. Then they need it to understand how much money exactly should be thrown at problem. Luckily they dont even have to make any of this themselves, cause other people are willing to count money for money.

Lolololol. Best comment for this video! Thanks and have a Happy New Year!

lol If I had that kind of money and power I'd probably build a full working replica of SDF Macross or some shit. Then again, nobody ever said unironically that I'm a genius.

Honestly it makes me wonder how some of the people in power in this region are even alive still, like how are you this incompetent and aimless running your country and none of the people behind you have killed you and taken over yet?

Why bother if you can already milk the gravy train? Plus, if you kill number 1, who's to say no one will return the favour...@@courier6960

​@@courier6960 Probably because it's easier and less risky to appease the big baby in order to get your own piece of the pie. And everyone in the cabinet is probably in on how stupid it is.

Your probably punished for saying no.

You from South America?

Same with Saudi

Add Egypt

If Adam lived 5000 years ago. We wouldn't have the Pyramids today

@@Music-xp5wg 🤔😱

​​@@Music-xp5wgThe more I think about that, the better it seems 🤔

Dubai literally is the problem

Dubai the prime example of how public transport and pedestrian and bicycle lanes are needed since you cannot move around the city without using a car Edit: the ilusion of freedom of choice if your only option is being forced to use a car

​@@GwainSagaFanChannel it's bad in so many besides that, which is particularly bad since most of it is relatively new, so they should have known better

​@@tomlxyz it serves as a good example of how the city is build in the image of the elite and not the people otherwise they would actually have build the needed infrastructure

hahahahhaha france plane

1000 bar is an insane amount of pressure for cleaning something. It's a good amount of pressure for cutting something instantly.

Sounds like nepotism at it finest.

Stadiums for the Fifa World Cup in Qatar were frequently changed during construction - "we need an giant arch here; we need a tunnel there; we need the whole structure rotated, so the sun will shine in a different direction on a certain day of the year" etc etc. Almost impossible to keep suppliers and contractors on to finish the projects with the number of change requests after each milestone was achieved.

@@philscott7949 I saw those weird changes too. Get to work in the morning and find out we are no longer serving our 2nd biggest client. One of the biggest multinationals in upstream O&G. I was going to dish the dirt for the hell of it (and you seem a litlle invested anyway :D) but I realised two things. I'm not sober and the story might still get me in trouble.

Holy crap this is the stuff we'd find in comic strips and laugh about how insane it is. The corporate world is completely out of touch with anything

Yes and he is desperatly trying to impress the other kids in class with how much money he has.

And all of that mindset reached through their adulthood.

Yes but no. Dubai got rich on oil. And for all their faults the sheiks are aware that they will at some point be unable to profit from it anymore. All those megaprojects and the hotel craze come from the attempts to branch into tourism industry as an alternative source of money when oil becomes unprofitable. At least that's the take I heard.

There is a sad but funny quote from a sheikh/prince that went something like: “My grandfather rode a camel, his grandkids drives a Ferrari and my grandkids will ride a camel”

@@kacperdrabikowski5074 I heard that too but it's not sustainable. Imagine just the maintenance cost of all the stupid bullshit they build.

Yeah. I appreciated the pun.

Except this time, they were already crazy

Yes.

​@@sluggastar2 This comment deserves a LOT more up votes!!

100% intentional

Why? NASA has neutral buoyancy facilities and also a sloped surface with bungees. They literally invented the shit.

Nepalese and Bangladeshi workers hold 5/6ths your weight up

@@Welcome2TheInternet "NASA invented swimming pools"

@@Welcome2TheInternet no I'm sure this boomer pitch literally envisioned low gravity, with tourists still being able to walk around, and not go for a swim. And the whole thing doesn't look like it's sloped.

Plot Twist: The Emiratis are going to achieve a low-g environment the same way NASA already does with the Vomit Comet. They're just going to strap a shitload of solid boosters to the Moon, you get about a minute of low gravity as it arcs over the top of a suborbital trajectory, then you "land safely" in the Gulf of Oman.

I mean, you are overestimating Adam's reach given Dubai's tourism is booming.

​@@soundscape26It is still a novelty in a way. How many tourists will come back to a place that is known only for its extravagance, but has hardly any cultural feats?

@@vullings1968 Well, the Burj Al Arab opened in 1999, the Atlantis and the Dubai Mall in 2008 for instance, it's been a novelty for 20 odd years then. Still we shouldn't assume people only travel because of culture... in Dubai's case I think most people who decide to go there are more interested in resort-like holidays and yes, the extravagant attractions and constructions. Dubai is exactly what it says on the tin.

They need no help with destroying anything

And say "no" to rich people? At least, he would become one with the walkways he loves.... when he is thrown out the window from a nearby skyscraper.

People that are wise with their money, tend to not purchase lotteries. Just saying.

They probably won't have to do that until the oil runs out...or we stop our insane dependency on it.

This just in; all transport powered by ultrafast Tesla LunarPods™️

Open the pod bay doors HAL

Moon shaped monocycle pod, with wheel wrapped around the moon pod.

No hovering? Shocking!

He's milking random projects while sharing half truths and misinformation. Adam's work is 4chan level effort while he dangles his quick editing style to attract your attention. And here you are paying a subscription to this dude for his f tier journalism effort.

​@@B0SajwahYour name betrays your bias Dubai boi

@@B0Sajwah Subscriptions to KZfaq channels don't cost money

Cry harder

I call this syndrome "West Envy". When a country tries to imitate the western world without actually improving themselves in all the correct ways to rival them. Other countries suffering from this include, but are not limited to, China, India, and any other developing nation that spends resources on mega projects rather than fixing foundational issues like clean drinking water and proper indoor plumbing.

How else will you suggest them to diversify on a large scale? What else can they to do generate more income ? Can you explain all the steps that will a water purification system will lead to income of a country that is at par at income from oil ?

@@manveensingh3494ummm what about doing it for the people and not profit?

@@manveensingh3494it’s about recognizing that oil has hard limits and preparing to transition their society away from resource extraction. You don’t have to be morally good to recognize the very real practicalities.

Or trying to transform desert into forests. There was some Chinese project doing that presented in the press and I remember thinking that would be a game-changer

@@SuperXDARKSTAR You can't trade people - Hedge fund boys

Yep, the regular giant billboards are bad enough. I hate seeing the massive ones that use a huge steel structure. Feels so wasteful

Nothing says dystopia more than the mayor of London.

I bet it will be cold inside, because all heat is going into gigant sphere of nothing.

In the western region right?

@@cylemons8099 around Riyadh and then west to Tabuk

🗣They try to buy respect but never earn it 🗣🔥

Yes...Everybody envies your kafala system 😆

@@morganspacey Did the joke fly over your head? The joke is that Dubai envies all those things, not that others are envious of Dubai allegedly having such.

built on the backs of underpaid, horrid conditions and slave labour. fun

I´m not so sure that is a joke,the mentioning of buildings makes no sense,if it is a joke@@Darca1n

played on a Bassoon.

At noon!

corporate of what the spoon is like: moon lagoon spoon cartoon

@@heliofaros1344 by a Racoon.

​@@heliofaros1344 And it's only available to buy in the summer. So it's a moon lagoon spoon bassoon tune at noon in June.

Nah. The main thing about it being a low pressure tube is incomapible with burning oil. They wouldn't go for it.

Just use diesel generators to power the vacuum pumps...

They tried selling the Hyperloop to Dubai.

Dubai needs to build a teleporter this year and place it in NEOM or the Line

Yeah I'm starting to think that concept design for oil royalty might be the best paying temporary art grift there is honestly. A single project to secure a retirement fund and it doesn't even have to look good!

It’s all about the priorities.

Sometimes i feel like people on this channel never touched grass or actually lived in those countries. Healthcare in middle eastern countries are free , Dubai has pretty good transport system compared to most countries in the area. The environment there is hostile af ,there aren’t many sustainable technologies you can use there. The heat ends up frying alot of the equipment

​@Dee-yj1im sounds like a good reason to put those immense budgets and resources towards something helpful instead of worthless mega projects that are doomed to fail.

@@fuzzydude64 are some of the mega projects doomed to fail? Sure , but others work, and various of those megaprojects end up being private sector backed and the companies end up flopping, its not mostly governmental. I only lived in UAE for couple of months but i do visit and i live in the Middle east. As far as i know UAE , Qatar and KSA do try to invest in those technologies. UAE for example has a space program , they also invested in cloud seeding and various programs. KSA is heavily investing into agriculture and what not, so did Qatar after the blockade. But the local environment doesn’t help , they try to invest but the problem here is that you actually need new scientific breakthrough to come up with technology that MIGHT work in the local climate. Obviously every country has its fair share of nepotism and etc… and those countries could have planned better. But given the mix of history, being newly independent countries , didn’t have much time to iron out the thousands of years of tribalism, island mentality etc… All in all what they are pulling off is not bad at all. As for megaprojects they can kind of be necessary for the local economy, for example china pumped alot of money into megaprojects that went nowhere. But they needed that so they can keep local companies and people employed. In the GCC its even more necessary since the economy is not as diverse, for example after Qatar’s big projects finished namely Fifa and everything related, the economy went downhill, alot of people lost their jobs and moved to KSA as well as local companies shutting down.

The same can be said for the US if they stop funding hundreds of billions of dollars to the military yearly

The real tyrants are those in the West who steals African resources and wealth

I mean one of the biggest moments is when everyone sells out the one guy who could have stopped the kid, like only by their collective support is he really protected, and they are just too scared to say no

Of course, in real life, faster than light tech, or increasing speed of light don't seem like options, so travel to any other stellar body would be very slow. NASA says there and back journey to Mars would take 21 months, with three month wait time on Mars. A trip to moon would take a week.

"We're whalers on the moon! We carry a harpoon!"

thats standard rich country oversight and expected, only reason the uae is getting the coverage smackdown is because theres a higher chance some of these are cancelled or changed in course because of the criticism so its a net positive, nothing the US or other well established powers would listen to though, this is a developing city with a rapid rise that was handled with somewhat poor longterm planning so its understandable how horrid the actual accommodations are but its greatly improving in all aspects as far as recent records show so if the criticism on bad decisions is kept and they keep improving give it about 2 decades and itll be somewhat good (i hope), i wrote too much mb this is a topic im invested in as ive seen the improvements firsthand as a person who used to live in (and still visits regularly) another mainly muslim arab country with worse accommodations (jordan, jaywalking is mandatory to get around) and just thankful i got an improvement. TLDR; yeah shit place, but its improving, no need to defend people who can buy their bloodline's weight in gold even though the text above kinda is, if i said anything false please correct me im not qualified for this

if by soon you mean a few hundred years then yeah bro maybe soon

@@adamahmed366 Pay attention to where they are investing their money and not what they are telling you. Same country that's building a half trillion dollar trench for billionaires to live in has not spent a significant amount of money on their oil refineries in 10 years.

meds @@criticalevent

​@@adamahmed366They're expecting a crash in oil prices within a few decades. The oil can still be sold, but it will mainly be as feedstock for chemicals and aviation fuel. Cars going electric, electricity and heating switching to renewable energy and nuclear (heck even the UAE got a nuclear power plant), and industry switching to other energy sources (the fact that electrolytic steel is on its way to market should indicate a few things about that) will lead to oil being needed for plastics, jets and a few other things. Aviation is sensitive to the fuel price and plastic can be replaced with metal, glass or alternative feedstocks. All of this means that oil prices will crash, due to a crash in demand.

More precisely, the oil money is going to run out. Still plenty of oil, but in more and more situations it'll be more expensive than options like solar.

Maybe the real megaproject was the youtube channels making fun of it we met along the way.

Fr, This guy is nothing without misinformations of Arabs lmao

In the first movie it was revealed he stole the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower…. but the replicas from Vegas and not the actual things

based

Sounds like a generous estimate to me ⚖ Oh wait, that's in the future 🔮😏

@@JohnSmithKZfaq you dont say

@@JohnSmithKZfaq I'd be surprised if it's not more than 50%, as they're paid less 😉

Yes. It's just a load of balls.

I think the Las Vegas sphere was stupid and wasteful too. How much electricity does it take to run that thing?

Fun fact: the Las Vegas sphere operationally lost $100 million in it's first fiscal quarter 🤷‍♂️🤣

It's not Dubai the author of the project

they gonna make biosphere 3