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ferrel_hadley t1_j1z9ynh wrote

Not a lot of information here. Not sure who they are planning on working with.

Though this image in the article:

https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/yV2MdcI2s1hAsBUXHr3MkCvM9Lo=/800x0/filters:format(jpg):quality(70)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/thenational/7Z5UVOJD6JBHPIFXD7HWWPJAXI.jpg

Reminded me of this image

https://shortyawards.imgix.net/entries/8th/glow_shortys_header_expanse-1.png?auto=format&fit=crop&h=300&q=65&w=500&s=f18123e0d4c53b04e661fe44a25083f3

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lgnsqr t1_j1znesc wrote

Each space station will have sections for families and single men. Women will only be able to move around the space station with written approval from a male.

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johnbburg t1_j20c4ip wrote

Is it just me, or has Saudi Arabia announced a lot of very lofty plans lately, that don't seem likely to actually happen?

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Normal-Professor2876 t1_j20coto wrote

We need to start making space regulations that protect the space around our planet and not make the same mistakes we made with our environment on this planet

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sungod-1 t1_j20r8li wrote

We must stop buying all oil from Saudi Arabia and the Middle East

The US, Canada, Venezuela, Guyana and Mexico can supply oil to the world

We don’t need Saudi Arabia anymore

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MadFish4736 t1_j212ovo wrote

Looking at the pictures, NASA has the better idea of a lunar gateway

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sailing_steve t1_j212wfg wrote

KSA needs to be ostracized from the world community under MBS is brought to Justice for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi under diplomatic cover. No one should do any business with them, again, until the murderer MBS is brought to Justice

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ForscherVerrat t1_j21a54v wrote

Sounds like the lamest space station ever. “Fun is illegal, and even in space we will try to push our religious bullshit on you.” No thanks.

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Assadistpig123 t1_j21jsn3 wrote

Replying to Jahobes (#1,130,053)

This is around the eighth or so mega project that I can remember in the past thirty years.

All of em have been bust. If this pans out in any shape, it’ll be then buying a company and tacking “Saudi” in the name.

The country doesn’t really produce much in terms of intellectual, mechanical, or academic material. They don’t have the brainpower to achieve this from the ground up.

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No_Bet_1687 t1_j21jtg7 wrote

Replying to johnbburg (#1,123,607)

Seems like a lot of oil rich middle eastern nations are doing that these day. Instead of improving the lives of the ppl in the region they turn it into a theme park for the rich and stupid.

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LPulseL11 t1_j21mice wrote

Replying to Assadistpig123 (#1,131,053)

Yea but they can just pay companies in other countries to do it.

They seem like the rich tech companies I am contracted by. They get sold a dream by a designer, come to us and say "can we do this" and we say "yes, but...". Anything is possible with time and money, and likely some concessions from the designer to make it realistic. You end up with a costly product that takes longer than expected and doesn't look / function as smooth as it was drawn up.

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TheBobInSonoma t1_j21mk0s wrote

Looking for ways to make money once people start moving away from oil.

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Jahobes t1_j21mooo wrote

Replying to Assadistpig123 (#1,131,053)

If you think about it the very country itself is a ibn Saud mega project. I mean the current king is only the son of the founder of Saudi Arabia. Before they discovered oil in the 1920s the country didn't have anything more sophisticated than mud huts or the occasional palace/mosque that would fit in fine in the 16th century.

To basically accomplish going from goat herders in mud huts to sky scrapes and global relevancy in a single monarstic generation would inflate the egos of any family.

I'm not saying that they will succeed, but I am saying that you didn't count all the mega projects they actually succeed in such as building multiple modern cities in the desert and they did so within a generation.

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jdragun2 t1_j21nd3x wrote

Replying to DefNotANerd (#1,131,121)

Only for the individuals who die in attempts to launch from faulty equipment and logistics. They need to bring in a lot of outside talent, probably all of the technical talent, to even begin to think about this. Not to mention test pilots. The endeavor could cost a lot of lives if they don't do it right. So yes, there is harm in trying. Especially if done so poorly.

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AirNo7163 t1_j21vbn8 wrote

So long as there's no embassy or acid there im down.

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robboblobbo t1_j2205p7 wrote

I wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw them.

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sotonohito t1_j220vgk wrote

Replying to DefNotANerd (#1,125,308)

Yeah, and the oil money will be gone in 20 or 30 years, there's no time for all those huge megaprojects they're talking about to be built.

The Saudi citizenry mostly does no work at all, almost all labor is performed by imported workers who are kept in near slavery conditions. They don't have an economy outside pumping oil out of the ground, and they have no workforce trained to do anything.

Once the oil is gone Saudi Arabia will collapse to become an impoverished nation.

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werdnak84 t1_j22ivpo wrote

Replying to sotonohito (#1,134,010)

This the same reason why they're trying to develop tourist attractions on manmade islands, and why they're starting a golf league to compete with PGA. Oil is on its way out, and they're panicking.

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redd-this t1_j22j293 wrote

Before you jump to the “space age”, SA.. can you please update your current state to modern age and give women equal rights.. fucking morons.

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HungryTreasure t1_j22m2lw wrote

I get the feeling that space is going to be weaponized pretty soon. Maybe I’m paranoid though.

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Glaborage t1_j238fb2 wrote

That's a great plan, but before that, maybe they could try to build a fucking car for a start? Just to display their engineering prowess.

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unquietwiki t1_j23b5sh wrote

Replying to ForscherVerrat (#1,129,431)

Serious question... has anyone figured out how you do a salat in orbit? How do you prostrate? Which direction to face Mecca, if you're going around the planet at a speed you'd have to spin yourself like a compass to match? Can there be an exemption, given the State's religious obligations?

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Herbadoo t1_j23c16i wrote

Yea okay. They gonna use leaky Russian rockets and make use their own oil

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TheKingsPride t1_j23gxuc wrote

Replying to DefNotANerd (#1,142,466)

I think dreaming big is a great ideal. I just don’t think you should trust the Saudis of all regimes with those dreams. Not with their long history of oppression, corruption, and human rights violations. You’re basically trusting the dingo with your baby at that point.

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TheKingsPride t1_j23hsa6 wrote

Replying to DefNotANerd (#1,142,539)

All you need to do is look at the Burj Khalifa or Palm Islands to see how this will turn out. A massive vanity project built on blood and serving no purpose. The Burj Khalifa is actually a massive joke. It has a constant line of trucks pumping septic waste out of the building because they didn’t even bother making a sewer for it. It has a fucking poem dedicated to its own might and glory in the lobby. It’s entirely the vanity project of rich princes, the product of oil and blood. They’re not going to make this happen.

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sotonohito t1_j23p2dk wrote

Replying to werdnak84 (#1,137,186)

Which is why they're doing stupid things like golf courses. No one wants to travel thousands of miles to a sand pit to play golf. And the water requirements of a golf course are expensive in a place like Saudi Arabia.

They'll always have at least some tourism simply because of Mecca, but I'm doubtful that they can sustain an entire national economy on that.

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budfox75 t1_j23q0jn wrote

KSA trying to have it both ways is ridiculous and I don’t know why the world even pays attention anymore…the constant “we’re advancing all of our National capabilities to be super modern and advanced” with all these generational timelines “2030 Vision” blah blah. These motherfuckers just started to let women drive! They are so far behind the rest of the modern world in basic human rights, equality, education etc. and continually launch these bullshit “KSA will lead the world in technology and innovation” while not having the fundamentals of human existence post enlightenment. Look at the thug that runs the country does anyone think innovation and future economic leadership will come from such people? They are on third base because of the black gold in the ground and they act like they hit a triple

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jdragun2 t1_j23thda wrote

Replying to DefNotANerd (#1,143,937)

It appeared what you were implying is that caution means no progress. Where caution means progress without deaths due to stupidity. There is a huge difference between being careful and not doing anything out of fear. No matter how you try and spin that "question" it doesn't get any better.

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domods t1_j2415zx wrote

Replying to FayOriginal (#1,141,449)

According to Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, women in Saudi Arabia experience discrimination in relation to marriage, family, and divorce, despite recent reforms. The Saudi government continues to target and repress women's rights activists and movements.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_rights_in_Saudi_Arabia#:~:text=According%20to%20Human%20Rights%20Watch,women's%20rights%20activists%20and%20movements.

Looks like gender mixing is forbidden but also allowed, so like 50% chance ur gonna get killed for hanging out with the opposite sex. Jobs for women are almost entirely in the secretarial/office work sector and they can tell you to go home we don't employ women at any time because its technically still the law. You also can't divorce a husband unless you have solid proof of abuse or infidelity, even then there's a good chance the whole fam will disown you for dishonoring the family name.

So...Not the worst....but also not as awesome as they think they are. An absolute monarchy supported entirely on oil money and slave labor tends to do that.

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zeeblecroid t1_j24699b wrote

Replying to unquietwiki (#1,141,683)

That's actually been talked about quite a bit over the years. The general consensus is "schedule things based on the time zone you launched from, face towards the Earth's surface, and do your best to approximate the physical motions given you're in microgravity."

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FayOriginal t1_j24m2ud wrote

Replying to domods (#1,146,136)

Wikipedia isn’t really a reliable source. Since like 2019 No one is coming for women for hanging out with men.

Women can also work as a nurse, doctor, athlete or even in the military since 2021.

Women can definitely file for a divorce for any reason, A recent study shows that every 10 minutes a couple get divorced. You also said Women can ONLY file for a divorce if the husband proven to be cheating or abusing which is not true at all, in 2019 the most common reason why women divorce their husbands is because the husbands “were against letting them drive a car”.

Saudi Arabia’s system isn’t really an absolute monarchy although it appears to westerners in that way. I wish my English was better to explain it but It’s more of tribes pledging allegiance every year to a leader to rule them, and it’s been used for thousands of years so you can’t say “it’s because of oil” The king still doesn’t have full power he still needs to keep good relations to the leaders of each tribe and not piss them off.

Finally, slave labors to extract oil?? Whattt? Where is your source please. Saudis been doing this by themselves since the 30s until recently but still the company which is responsible for extracting oil is ranked as the 46th best company for employees

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stormhawk427 t1_j24tb05 wrote

Replying to johnbburg (#1,123,607)

The Line (Clearly never heard of Spec Ops). Turtle Megafloat, and now space stations. The Saudi Royals and oligarchs have run out of terrestrial ideas so there’s no where to go but up. Burj Khalifa IN SPACE!

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sungod-1 t1_j24wagx wrote

Replying to FayOriginal (#1,141,470)

We as in the EU and USA

WE have enough oil to supply the world with Canada, Venezuela, Guyana and Mexico

WE can finally stop money from flowing into the middle east

It’s funny but Russia and OPEC+ don’t understand that China is a bigger threat than the US or EU

China is starting to flood the world with cheap electric vehicles and solar cells

China uses LFP battery technology which does not require nickel, cobalt or manganese. It uses lithium and iron

The world has massive iron supply lines and can just recycle old ICE cars into LFP batteries

Hahahaha hahahaha, so OPEC+ and Russia are friends with China. The country who is literally putting them out of the oil business

Hahahaha hahahaha hahahaha

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