50 billion already spent
this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2025
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They could've built a space elevator with the level of hubris this project had and it would've been more genuinely useful and just as much of a statement. They have an excellent location for it.
You can see it on google maps too, they've dug out 106km of foundations for it, some straight through actual mountains. What they've done is an environmental blight.
Right? Plus if you build that thing nobody else is ever building one. The city that owns the space elevator will be one of the most important locations in the world eventually and putting it on the route through the most important trade corridor through the panama canal is a very good location even if it's not on the equator.
The best equatorial location for it is Singapore or near Macapa, Brazil though probably.
Yeah, but a space elevator is beyond our current capabilities of materials science. Neom has the benefit of being physically buildable even if the end result isn’t desirable.
The oversized rectangular prism, sure, if you can get the materials in the quantities necessary. I'd be very surprised if any structural engineers said the chandelier idea was feasible without being paid a lot of money to say exactly that.
Picking up my coffee at Starbucks Neom Community-1, anyone want anything?