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Saudi Crown Prince wants to build a 75-mile long skyscraper

Even in a country where excess is often the norm, the plans for the Mirror Line project are eye popping.

The two buildings, if completed, will reach 1,600 feet into the sky—likely near 150 stories—and will run parallel for 75 miles. The price tag on the complex? A jaw dropping trillion dollars.

The Mirror Line is the pet project of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, reports The Wall Street Journal. It will house roughly 5 million people and will include a high-speed train under the buildings to let people move about in it.


Hopefully it’s not actual mirror outside because at just the right angles in a desert climate would cause lasers of light naturally. That’s already happened with some skyscrapers melting stuff. Aka death rays