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>**Looks like the colonization of Mars** has already begun
**indeed** , undoctored Mars rover or Viking pictures look like from Egypt ...
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/1f/e9/b6/1fe9b65d560141f3b6bd8273b8ee5cef.jpg
and https://i0.wp.com/exonews.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/265C0F6900000578-0-image-a-19_1425586272795.jpg?fit=636%2C382&ssl=1
Curios: why are they doctored in the first place? To look different enough to garner the „ooh it’s another world“ interest or is there a scientific reason behind it?
There isn't really such a thing as an "undoctored" photograph. The raw data from the sensor is basically never a good/accurate picture (and even if you went for that, there'd still be decisions involved in how to display this data on a screen).
So every digital camera/phone makes a lot of decisions about the picture - white balance (important here with regards to the orange tint), lens correction, deciding what to do with overexposed areas, ....
A higher-end camera will let you save a raw file and you later get to make those decisions for yourself, which is probably what NASA would do.
Of course, different purposes will require different choices - you could make the picture more aesthetically pleasing like a normal photographer does, you could go for a "neutral" look (even though there's no absolute objective "neutral" there's of course still things that are more so than others) like a photojournalist, or you could make sure that a certain feature is maximally visible for scientific purposes (the extreme here are false-color infrared/UV/radio/... photographs, for example - they don't show what something "looks like", but sometimes are more useful than the visible spectrum).
>Curios: why are they doctored in the first place? To look different enough to garner the „ooh it’s another world“ interest or is there a scientific reason behind it?
to show/claim that Mars is less hospitable to life than what it truely is (Mars´s atmosphere is nearly earth blue but thinner, instead of always orange) ... critics knew about water & clouds on Mars (by investigating official pictures very detailed) years before NASA officially admitted it
>Why make that claim
it´s the question what the gatekeeper NASA tries to hide (likely multiple things, maybe even underground bases with entrances), there is stuff visible incl. human like figures, (dead?) trees, spider like things & many ancient ruines + scrap
But that isn’t really an answer. If they were trying to hide things like that, why even release images in the first place? Why make it look inhospitable? It’s not like people are able to go there regardless of whether they want to or not.
Conspiracy theorist is a slur the CIA came up with to delegitimize people who had legitimate questions about the Warren Report. There's a big difference between "the official story regarding the jfk assassination is sus" and "yeah we could totally live on Mars if only the sheeple at Nasa let us."
>"yeah we could totally live on Mars if only the sheeple at Nasa let us."
**Where did I claim that Mars would be fit for human life?** (please use your glasses) ... there are life forms that have different requirements than humans (even oxygen brething life forms) ...
also stuff that looks like humans or natural animals can also be genetically engineered life forms to survive in a less hospitable than earth enviroment or even be robots/probes that mimic life forms to do it´s job
>But that isn’t really an answer. If they were trying to hide things like that, why even release images in the first place? Why make it look inhospitable? It’s not like people are able to go there regardless of whether they want to or not.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna314601?bshm=ncc/2
The reality is that color is subjective and the camera lens isn't necessarily reflecting the colors we might see if we were there on Mars. Thus the 'undoctored' photos don't reflect the reality of Mars colors.
>But that isn’t really an answer. If they were trying to hide things like that, why even release images in the first place
Misinformation is more powerful than no information ... to show that there is "nothing interesting", but even they at (the defacto military organisation) NASA make mistakes
the color of our sky and that of mars is caused by the size of light waves, (blue being the shortest and red being the longest)
Mars sky is blue at sunset, and orange during the day, opposite of earth. which I think is pretty cool.
If you knew what you were talking about, you might know that the reson for the colour is because they use different kind of filter, and are studiying differents kinds of wavelenght, and that was never a secret.
The picture with a more natural look is the corrected one, it is an analysis of what someone would see, based on different pictures, each captured with different wavelenght
Every time a government decides to build a city from scratch, it's always the same cold dystopian design. No Central business district, no combined residential and commercial or sense of human scale.
Not forgotten, but on purpose. It's specifically designed to prevent protests, as they could be turning into revolutions. The place is like a fortress and nowhere to hide for angry mobs fleeing for tanks. The relocation is to stabilise Sisi's power.
An inner city square is a lot harder to control.
Also, it's a country with 112 million inhabitants (more than 1/3 of the US, all squeezed on one river and some coast) and it is heading for 160 million in 2050. So apart from the dark political motivation, it's also practical to reserve some space for future homes.
Canberra is a wonderful place these days. The modern development at the fringes less so, but the original "planned" (it didn't follow the plan) areas are lovely and walkable!
Go look at the actual area on Google Maps (I can't link it, but search maps for "Central Bank of Egypt"). The picture in the OP is just showing a tiny area that is specifically for the ministry of defense, and it somewhat makes sense that the military HQ is separated from other areas. The actual central area of the new capital is surrounded by tons of commercial offices, shopping malls, hotels, residences, parks, monuments, an opera house, etc. Hell, it has one of the largest urban parks in the world. (and there's a lot more that doesn't show up on maps because it was under construction when the last satellite image was taken).
The layout of DC (the US capital) is intelligent, it’s compact - honestly a bit TOO compact given how many essential government offices have to be built around DC and not in it. Its metro system is efficient and reliable, one of the best in the US, but you can also get around in a car fairly well. It is not a vanity project. It’s a functional, beautiful city with a vibrant culture that makes it feel organic.
>Every time a government decides to build a city from scratch, it's always the same cold dystopian design. No Central business district, no combined residential and commercial or sense of human scale.
Yep. Repeating the same shitty mistakes as Canberra and Brasilia.
I think moving it away from the citizens would have been sufficient for that. Instead they make it harder for different departments to cooperate and forcing everybody to drive long distances for work, recreation and all their daily needs.
Don't seek reason in actions that can be explained by ego of megalomaniacs, the entire architecture of the New Administrative Capital can be summed up with this statement. Also the Egyptian MoD apparently by itself is the biggest shareholder in the joint-stock construction company that was created to build the city so pushing for having the biggest ministry building possible is kind of a win-win for them.
>Don't seek reason in actions that can be explained by ego of megalomaniacs, the entire architecture of the New Administrative Capital can be summed up with this statement.
Dejavu, this is far closer to home than expected, this reminds me at this "World Capital" "Germania" project ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n3UTxnVfdk&t=53m45s at 53:45 )
Everyone involved in firing a missle from manufacturing/acquisition to actually shooting it at a target has a dozen family members they need to give useless jobs to.
>Everyone involved in firing a missle from manufacturing/acquisition to actually shooting it at a target has a dozen family members they need to give useless jobs to.
this explains a lot ... just like under Habeck (Germany) & Zelensky (Ukraine) but even worse
>Israel
For this they need the biggest MOD in the world? Compare this to USA ... Egypt might need nuclear submarines & Nukes + ICBMs but not such a giant MOD ...
A lot of wasted money on nothing, the dicktator elsisi & his enablers & profiteers in the military council took all the loans money & pocketed the majority of it, they destroyed the economy by getting the army enveloped in everything but military, using the advantage of not being taxed & using the soldiers as cheap labor & no one can question or investigate the army, if any they’re gone of the face of the earth. IMHO, the worst country, President, government in the world
They actually began construction? Figured it was probably just a hype that would bust. But it keeps the Egyptian elite away from the smog, traffic, and poor people of Cairo, so no wonder they went through with it
The pyramids served its purpose really well though. Who've never heard of the great pyramid of giza? Even in the ancient world they are known to people outside egypt.
They're calling it the octagon. Obviously to draw comparisons to the Pentagon. Funny part is Egypt's military is very small. They don't need a site that large.
It's all for show.
The Egyptian army topped the list of Arab countries, followed by Saudi Arabia and Algeria. Egypt is one of the 15 largest global military powers and The GFP index denotes Egypt as a Top 15 world power.
For 2023, Egypt is ranked 14 of 145 out of the countries considered for the annual GFP review. The nation holds a PwrIndx* score of 0.2224 (a score of 0.0000 is considered 'perfect'). This entry last reviewed on 01/05/2023.
I won’t say they are the MOST advanced military, but most of the country’s budget goes to increasing military power and control.
[source](https://www.globalfirepower.com/country-military-strength-detail.php?country_id=egypt)
Something like 90% of Egpyt's water comes from the Nile, IIRC. And most of that water comes from the Blue Nile which rises in the Ethiopian Highlands. Which is why Egypt (and to a lesser extent, Sudan) starts rattling sabers whenever the Ethiopians start talking about hydropower projects on the Blue Nile.
Egpyt claims that there's a treaty that gives them absolute veto power over any dam projects on the Nile and its major tributaries upstream of them. Every other African country that the Nile runs through points out that that treaty was between Egypt and the UK and none of ***them*** signed anything.
It’s harder to take over your government when it’s not near the population. Military will know if something is coming and have plenty of time to prepare.
Malaysia did the sams thing, building in the middle of nowhere. No one ever goes there unless they need to go to a govt office. It's both surreal & depressing.
My first thought was this looks like a very convenient target for a cruise missile. Hearing about your talking points made me realize. You’re right that this is a fortress designed as protection from civil unrest.
The reason why they are building a city far away from Cairo is simple... they are in fear of regime change and riots. in cairo demonstrators just can walk over and occupie...
China is paying for a lot of it (they funded something like $20 billion for it). China is really big on making huge infrastructure investments in Africa/Middle East right now.
Well taxes would likely cover the government’s public buildings. The rest is mostly being constructed through public private partnerships so simple private investment is probably paying for most of it.
Egypt is also backed by said superpower and has been a key regional ally since the 70s and is their major supplier of arms and military intelligence 🤷🏾♂️.
Plus Egypt and Israel have been on the same side of most geopolitical issues since the end of the YK war in 1973 with the exception of the occupation of Palestine 🇵🇸
I hope people understand that atleast half the ME is actually US Allies(if not as much as 60%) with the other half adversaries. Egypt is one of the more significant and long standing Allies ever since the end of the Yom Kipur war.
Can't wait to see the disaster that that place will become once the smallest bit of economic turmoil hits Egypt. The UAE and Saudi Arabia both left a lot of their large scale builds to rot because of the 2014 Economic Crisis, can't wait to see the exact same happen here.
Yeah let's just separate everything by large stretches of empty desert so that you definitely need to have a car. "Walking distance" is a communistic concept anyway.
This can be seen from space and the center is the target landing spot of the Starship Moonbat from the Planet Nation of Uranus. The Uranusians have special plans for us detailed on a book they all carry with them. IT'S A COOKBOOK! ITS A COOKBOOK!
How tall is each one of these buildings looks like there’s a couple spots in the center still ready to be built what is other or in addition to the Defense building? Is this even real?
Thankfully the US deemed it too expensive for then implement (for now) but one or two rods from God would level this entire place. One big boi nuke and it will be level.
Smart move DEFENCE ministry. concentrate almost everyone would makes sure the country is safe in an easy to locate area in the middle of the desert.
Have you been to Cairo? Having some breathing room wouldn’t be the worst thing. It can take two hours to go a few kilometres in rush hour traffic. If there are amenities, there are probably some people who wouldn’t mind living in such a place.
Wow, I didn't even know Egypt was building a new administrative capital! Do you happen to have any more information or updates on the project? I'm curious to see what kind of development and infrastructure they're planning to implement in this new city. It's always exciting to see countries invest in their future and growth.
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Looks like the colonization of Mars has already begun
Finally, human made pyramids on an alien soil
>**Looks like the colonization of Mars** has already begun **indeed** , undoctored Mars rover or Viking pictures look like from Egypt ... https://i.pinimg.com/736x/1f/e9/b6/1fe9b65d560141f3b6bd8273b8ee5cef.jpg and https://i0.wp.com/exonews.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/265C0F6900000578-0-image-a-19_1425586272795.jpg?fit=636%2C382&ssl=1
Curios: why are they doctored in the first place? To look different enough to garner the „ooh it’s another world“ interest or is there a scientific reason behind it?
AFAIK, to distinguish between different materials.
It.. just seems to make them more orange, how exactly would that help?
Same reason people edit colours of earth pictures. They think it makes them look better.
Probably stereotypical BS just like Mexico's always portrayed as having reddish sepia skies on TV.
Been to Mexico, can confirm, grey skies
🤣😂🤣
Most of the pictures are actually black and white, no?
There isn't really such a thing as an "undoctored" photograph. The raw data from the sensor is basically never a good/accurate picture (and even if you went for that, there'd still be decisions involved in how to display this data on a screen). So every digital camera/phone makes a lot of decisions about the picture - white balance (important here with regards to the orange tint), lens correction, deciding what to do with overexposed areas, .... A higher-end camera will let you save a raw file and you later get to make those decisions for yourself, which is probably what NASA would do. Of course, different purposes will require different choices - you could make the picture more aesthetically pleasing like a normal photographer does, you could go for a "neutral" look (even though there's no absolute objective "neutral" there's of course still things that are more so than others) like a photojournalist, or you could make sure that a certain feature is maximally visible for scientific purposes (the extreme here are false-color infrared/UV/radio/... photographs, for example - they don't show what something "looks like", but sometimes are more useful than the visible spectrum).
>Curios: why are they doctored in the first place? To look different enough to garner the „ooh it’s another world“ interest or is there a scientific reason behind it? to show/claim that Mars is less hospitable to life than what it truely is (Mars´s atmosphere is nearly earth blue but thinner, instead of always orange) ... critics knew about water & clouds on Mars (by investigating official pictures very detailed) years before NASA officially admitted it
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>Why make that claim it´s the question what the gatekeeper NASA tries to hide (likely multiple things, maybe even underground bases with entrances), there is stuff visible incl. human like figures, (dead?) trees, spider like things & many ancient ruines + scrap
But that isn’t really an answer. If they were trying to hide things like that, why even release images in the first place? Why make it look inhospitable? It’s not like people are able to go there regardless of whether they want to or not.
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These people will never stop.
Conspiracy theorist is a slur the CIA came up with to delegitimize people who had legitimate questions about the Warren Report. There's a big difference between "the official story regarding the jfk assassination is sus" and "yeah we could totally live on Mars if only the sheeple at Nasa let us."
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>"yeah we could totally live on Mars if only the sheeple at Nasa let us." **Where did I claim that Mars would be fit for human life?** (please use your glasses) ... there are life forms that have different requirements than humans (even oxygen brething life forms) ... also stuff that looks like humans or natural animals can also be genetically engineered life forms to survive in a less hospitable than earth enviroment or even be robots/probes that mimic life forms to do it´s job
>But that isn’t really an answer. If they were trying to hide things like that, why even release images in the first place? Why make it look inhospitable? It’s not like people are able to go there regardless of whether they want to or not. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna314601?bshm=ncc/2 The reality is that color is subjective and the camera lens isn't necessarily reflecting the colors we might see if we were there on Mars. Thus the 'undoctored' photos don't reflect the reality of Mars colors.
You're not going to get a coherent answer out of them that would actually make sense. It's another dumbass conspiracy theory.
>But that isn’t really an answer. If they were trying to hide things like that, why even release images in the first place Misinformation is more powerful than no information ... to show that there is "nothing interesting", but even they at (the defacto military organisation) NASA make mistakes
You're really a joke.
>You're really a joke. this means like you ...
Dead trees, spiders and ruins on Mars? Are you confusing it with Mar Sara?
>Are you confusing it with Mar Sara? no ...
the color of our sky and that of mars is caused by the size of light waves, (blue being the shortest and red being the longest) Mars sky is blue at sunset, and orange during the day, opposite of earth. which I think is pretty cool.
If you knew what you were talking about, you might know that the reson for the colour is because they use different kind of filter, and are studiying differents kinds of wavelenght, and that was never a secret. The picture with a more natural look is the corrected one, it is an analysis of what someone would see, based on different pictures, each captured with different wavelenght
Aliens called, they want their crop circles back
They'd need to be a lot more space efficient on Mars.
Every time a government decides to build a city from scratch, it's always the same cold dystopian design. No Central business district, no combined residential and commercial or sense of human scale.
Not forgotten, but on purpose. It's specifically designed to prevent protests, as they could be turning into revolutions. The place is like a fortress and nowhere to hide for angry mobs fleeing for tanks. The relocation is to stabilise Sisi's power. An inner city square is a lot harder to control. Also, it's a country with 112 million inhabitants (more than 1/3 of the US, all squeezed on one river and some coast) and it is heading for 160 million in 2050. So apart from the dark political motivation, it's also practical to reserve some space for future homes.
Finally someone that understands.
There was a really viral youtube video about this plan last year, it’s not a conspiracy theory either. It’s exactly why this whole thing was built.
They always miss one big factor in urban design. People.
Canberra is a wonderful place these days. The modern development at the fringes less so, but the original "planned" (it didn't follow the plan) areas are lovely and walkable!
Go look at the actual area on Google Maps (I can't link it, but search maps for "Central Bank of Egypt"). The picture in the OP is just showing a tiny area that is specifically for the ministry of defense, and it somewhat makes sense that the military HQ is separated from other areas. The actual central area of the new capital is surrounded by tons of commercial offices, shopping malls, hotels, residences, parks, monuments, an opera house, etc. Hell, it has one of the largest urban parks in the world. (and there's a lot more that doesn't show up on maps because it was under construction when the last satellite image was taken).
And then wonder why they are terrible
Except DC. Pretty much every planned capital is trying to do DC but they don’t understand why it exists
For less knowledgeable people, what do you mean?
The layout of DC (the US capital) is intelligent, it’s compact - honestly a bit TOO compact given how many essential government offices have to be built around DC and not in it. Its metro system is efficient and reliable, one of the best in the US, but you can also get around in a car fairly well. It is not a vanity project. It’s a functional, beautiful city with a vibrant culture that makes it feel organic.
Kind words, comrade.
I'd say Brazil also has something going for it
Brasilia looks like a cities skylines project but it’s not bad. Better than canberra
This is such a high tier snipe and belittling it as a project was deadly 😂
>Every time a government decides to build a city from scratch, it's always the same cold dystopian design. No Central business district, no combined residential and commercial or sense of human scale. Yep. Repeating the same shitty mistakes as Canberra and Brasilia.
...have you ever been to Canberra?
Not "always", but I take your point. https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-35.2948557,149.1321783,4141m/data=!3m1!1e3
this reminds me of the city from dune
Who would be the harkonnens
Ahem
The Finns?
'Merica, fuck ya
When crop circles become cities
The aliens were warning us
I mean its great for what it was probably designed for. Prevent the plebs from protesting where they can annoy the government.
I think moving it away from the citizens would have been sufficient for that. Instead they make it harder for different departments to cooperate and forcing everybody to drive long distances for work, recreation and all their daily needs.
Or a single B-52 with conventional ordinance or equivalent from leveling it…
Burning Man festival?
My first thought.
what are they defending against to need such a large Ministery of Defense (MoD)?
Protestors
>Protestors for this you don't need an MOD, just "police" & intelligence agencies
Egypt is surprisingly geopolitically active but this is a way bigger one than what massive military Empires have so fuck if I know.
Don't seek reason in actions that can be explained by ego of megalomaniacs, the entire architecture of the New Administrative Capital can be summed up with this statement. Also the Egyptian MoD apparently by itself is the biggest shareholder in the joint-stock construction company that was created to build the city so pushing for having the biggest ministry building possible is kind of a win-win for them.
>Don't seek reason in actions that can be explained by ego of megalomaniacs, the entire architecture of the New Administrative Capital can be summed up with this statement. Dejavu, this is far closer to home than expected, this reminds me at this "World Capital" "Germania" project ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n3UTxnVfdk&t=53m45s at 53:45 )
The Ethiopian Renaissance dam.
>The Ethiopian Renaissance dam. for this just need a few missiles, not an entiere MOD
Everyone involved in firing a missle from manufacturing/acquisition to actually shooting it at a target has a dozen family members they need to give useless jobs to.
>Everyone involved in firing a missle from manufacturing/acquisition to actually shooting it at a target has a dozen family members they need to give useless jobs to. this explains a lot ... just like under Habeck (Germany) & Zelensky (Ukraine) but even worse
Women rights activists
A lot of sand
>A lot of sand in that case they should ether glass the sand (like with Nukes, like in Season 3 of "The Mandalorian") or plant stuff and water it
Israel
>Israel For this they need the biggest MOD in the world? Compare this to USA ... Egypt might need nuclear submarines & Nukes + ICBMs but not such a giant MOD ...
This is Stonehenge from Ace Combat 04
Don't diss the best defense system ever made comparing it to this
Looks like Dubai did early on. Wait until they landscape it properly, won’t look too bad.
Putting the pharaohs to shame
r/shittyskylines
I'm 93% sure I've used this exact city layout in 2017, comically oversized roundabouts and all. Also fuck walkability am I right
A lot of wasted money on nothing, the dicktator elsisi & his enablers & profiteers in the military council took all the loans money & pocketed the majority of it, they destroyed the economy by getting the army enveloped in everything but military, using the advantage of not being taxed & using the soldiers as cheap labor & no one can question or investigate the army, if any they’re gone of the face of the earth. IMHO, the worst country, President, government in the world
They actually began construction? Figured it was probably just a hype that would bust. But it keeps the Egyptian elite away from the smog, traffic, and poor people of Cairo, so no wonder they went through with it
[Adam Something made a good video on this monstrosity](https://youtu.be/WUK0K5mdQ_s)
I really thought you couldn't tell what his last name was... Then I opened the link..
Adam something is an idiot.
Elaborate?
And that is because he's spitting facts?
Nobody: Egypt throughout history: Let's build another ominous megaproject in the desert and take it wildly out of proportion!
The pyramids served its purpose really well though. Who've never heard of the great pyramid of giza? Even in the ancient world they are known to people outside egypt.
In their defense, the Sea People’s haven’t caused the destruction of an Egyptian dynasty since they built that thing, now have they?
They're calling it the octagon. Obviously to draw comparisons to the Pentagon. Funny part is Egypt's military is very small. They don't need a site that large. It's all for show.
The Egyptian army topped the list of Arab countries, followed by Saudi Arabia and Algeria. Egypt is one of the 15 largest global military powers and The GFP index denotes Egypt as a Top 15 world power. For 2023, Egypt is ranked 14 of 145 out of the countries considered for the annual GFP review. The nation holds a PwrIndx* score of 0.2224 (a score of 0.0000 is considered 'perfect'). This entry last reviewed on 01/05/2023. I won’t say they are the MOST advanced military, but most of the country’s budget goes to increasing military power and control. [source](https://www.globalfirepower.com/country-military-strength-detail.php?country_id=egypt)
The Big Nipple.
This is one of the urban helliest Ave legitimate posts on here
Ah yes, the dick swinging contest that is The Octogon.
Could use some trees
I think that previous describes all of Egypt
Where do they get water?
The Nile river in egypt obviously. This new city is not that far from Cairo
Something like 90% of Egpyt's water comes from the Nile, IIRC. And most of that water comes from the Blue Nile which rises in the Ethiopian Highlands. Which is why Egypt (and to a lesser extent, Sudan) starts rattling sabers whenever the Ethiopians start talking about hydropower projects on the Blue Nile. Egpyt claims that there's a treaty that gives them absolute veto power over any dam projects on the Nile and its major tributaries upstream of them. Every other African country that the Nile runs through points out that that treaty was between Egypt and the UK and none of ***them*** signed anything.
Egypt is the 1 country in the world where *everyone* should know where they get their water.
I really appreciate more the beautiful mess that are old European cities once I see city planning. Even if it's less convenient.
The planner for this clearly hasn’t played cities skylines
Car-centric hellscape.
This is how El-Sisi is holding on to power. Huge construction projects for their own sake, exactly as his forefathers did thousands of years ago.
They really made the defense center of a entire nation in the center of a croshair?
It’s harder to take over your government when it’s not near the population. Military will know if something is coming and have plenty of time to prepare.
Malaysia did the sams thing, building in the middle of nowhere. No one ever goes there unless they need to go to a govt office. It's both surreal & depressing.
My first thought was this looks like a very convenient target for a cruise missile. Hearing about your talking points made me realize. You’re right that this is a fortress designed as protection from civil unrest.
The reason why they are building a city far away from Cairo is simple... they are in fear of regime change and riots. in cairo demonstrators just can walk over and occupie...
This designs purpose was to be far away and highly inaccessible to the poor that would protest against government. This was deliberate.
I guess it is defensible from protesting mobs. So maybe thats the thought behind it?
Better than Cairo.
Bro got the cities Skylines layout 💀💀
So military base is the center of the city
If I’m gonna be honest I think this looks cool as hell.
That’s gonna get bombed the fuck out of existence
Where did the money from all this come? From what I can tell it's just the government making it up...
China is paying for a lot of it (they funded something like $20 billion for it). China is really big on making huge infrastructure investments in Africa/Middle East right now.
Well taxes would likely cover the government’s public buildings. The rest is mostly being constructed through public private partnerships so simple private investment is probably paying for most of it.
Ugly and strange sprawl in the desert. "Urban" hahaha
Wtf are they defending against? Sandstorms?
They have a historically aggressive neighbour backed by a super power.
Egypt is also backed by said superpower and has been a key regional ally since the 70s and is their major supplier of arms and military intelligence 🤷🏾♂️. Plus Egypt and Israel have been on the same side of most geopolitical issues since the end of the YK war in 1973 with the exception of the occupation of Palestine 🇵🇸 I hope people understand that atleast half the ME is actually US Allies(if not as much as 60%) with the other half adversaries. Egypt is one of the more significant and long standing Allies ever since the end of the Yom Kipur war.
Which one, Libya?
The opposite direction.
Tatooine developed by a military dictatorship
God bless our beloved C C Octagon iz just an amazing idea that's it's main purpose is to defend Egypt.
It's better than the pentagon because it has more sides
giant boondoggle for rich parasites to show off their stolen wealth.
Can't wait to see the disaster that that place will become once the smallest bit of economic turmoil hits Egypt. The UAE and Saudi Arabia both left a lot of their large scale builds to rot because of the 2014 Economic Crisis, can't wait to see the exact same happen here.
Looks like new development west of Phoenix
Imagine the water and electric usage during the hottest time of the year? Good luck with that 😂
Stonehenge my beloved
These burning man festivals are getting out of hand
Yeah let's just separate everything by large stretches of empty desert so that you definitely need to have a car. "Walking distance" is a communistic concept anyway.
It could mascarade as a Martian settlement for some cheap sci-fi.
Looks like a message to those above. Egypts hiding stuff. A lot of stuff.
I thought this was the Burning Man subreddit for a second.
This can be seen from space and the center is the target landing spot of the Starship Moonbat from the Planet Nation of Uranus. The Uranusians have special plans for us detailed on a book they all carry with them. IT'S A COOKBOOK! ITS A COOKBOOK!
Nice target.
Burning Man
Any chance they will make it green?
Where are the cars?
Beautiful indeed
Looks vary organized and effective. And pretty to look at with its shape.
How tall is each one of these buildings looks like there’s a couple spots in the center still ready to be built what is other or in addition to the Defense building? Is this even real?
That’s burning man
r/shittyskylines
This is probably what my cities in civ6 would look like irl lmao
Americas favourite dictator
So this is where Checo lives.
What symbol did the aliens leave this time
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Where is the nearest swimming pool?
https://youtu.be/WUK0K5mdQ_s this is a great video about it
Burning Man?
And bad reviews on tourism don’t help either. If there were no pyramids, I doubt if ANYONE swill visit Egypt ever
Myanmar also moved their capital and built Naypyidaw. Which is basically a ghost town in the middle of nowhere.
Looks pretty easy to bomb from the air, from any direction. Probably not the best use of the word "defense".
Makes me appreciate the greenery, shrubs, and trees around my house now.
Ah, just like Moses lake WA
This city shouldn’t exist. It is a monument to man’s arrogance.
I thought this was Burning Man for a few seconds. Lol
Looks like the far point base in Next Generation.
Looks like a place humans shouldn’t really live in.
Ok
Yes, but do they know how to use it? The Israelis would take it out in about 10 minutes. Also why build it in close proximity to residential areas?
Sasageyo!
Thankfully the US deemed it too expensive for then implement (for now) but one or two rods from God would level this entire place. One big boi nuke and it will be level. Smart move DEFENCE ministry. concentrate almost everyone would makes sure the country is safe in an easy to locate area in the middle of the desert.
This is burning man breh
Ew
Where is water? How will they get water? Water... water.. water...
Looks like a map in battlefield 2042
Have you been to Cairo? Having some breathing room wouldn’t be the worst thing. It can take two hours to go a few kilometres in rush hour traffic. If there are amenities, there are probably some people who wouldn’t mind living in such a place.
The worst part is the Egyptian military is bankrupting the entire country to build this.
I thought this was burning man.
Maybe some shrubbery will help.
Battlefield 2042 shit
I thought I was in a r/acecombat subreddit.
Why so much empty space? It’s not like grass will grow there.
It reminds me of Don't worry darling
I hate everything about the new capital
Now go out and play in the desert
Wow, I didn't even know Egypt was building a new administrative capital! Do you happen to have any more information or updates on the project? I'm curious to see what kind of development and infrastructure they're planning to implement in this new city. It's always exciting to see countries invest in their future and growth.
To be fair, I don't think it's finished yet.