From: naddy@mips.inka.de   
      
   On 2025-11-16, Thomas Koenig  wrote:   
      
   > Saudi-Arabia wanted to build a 170 km * 200 m (widht) * 500 m (height)   
   > building/city, outside totally made of glass, including high-speec   
   > trains.   
      
   I've been mystified why they chose a line.  Doesn't that maximize   
   the average distance between two arbitrary points?  Isn't that   
   exactly the opposite of what you want for a city?  Or was the idea   
   to build this out of repeating segments, so a citizen could spent   
   their life in one segment and would never have to travel the length   
   of the line?   
      
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   Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de   
      
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