Last year , the United Arab Emirates ( UAE ) declared that they wanted to build an artificial , full - scale mountainin their territory in social club to give rise more rain . Now , ramping up their ambition just a tad , they have foretell that they fancy building an entirely new city – on Mars .
indisputable , other space agenciesacross the world are still worrying aboutgetting mass to the Red Planetin the first post , but the denizens of the megacity of Dubai manage not for such trivialities . Emirati engineers have already present concept art for the Chicago - sized Martian city , one that will calculate to be completed by the rather arbitrary date of 2117 .
Rather superbly , the so - called “ City of Wisdom ” was rendered in 3-D and was made available to visitor to the confederacy theory - sound World Government Summit in Dubai earlier this calendar month .
As report by theWashington Post , Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum , Dubai ’s top official and the frailty prexy of the UAE , declare at the issue that “ human dream have no limits , and whoever reckon into the scientific breakthroughs in the current century believes that human power can realize the most significant human dream . ”
A lot of the plans for the Martian city right now are by all odds faint and abstract . Where is it hold up to be build on Mars , precisely ? Will there be any terraforming involved ? Will the metropolis be build up there or ship in piece by patch ?
Its universe capacity will be around 600,000 , according to the scientific and research commission manager Saaed Al Gergawi , who verbalize toCNBC Newsat the event .
“ We came up with that number because it ’s like someone going to an exotic island , not everyone can go first , then we get forward motion of rocket tech , which bring in people move there easy , then the advancement of oxygen tech to make it more dry land like , which would incentivize masses . ”
Well , that ’s cleared that up then . Still , they ’ve baffle an intact 100 to build it , so possibly we should cut them some slack .
These ambitions are all the more telling considering the UAE only come out its very own outer space agencyback in 2014 . They ’re already be after to send an remote-controlled mission to Mars by 2021 which , if successful , could beat rapidly rising world power China to the post .
“ Our part is a provenance of great civilizations , ” the sheikhtweetedin 2014 . “ Given the right tools Arabs , once again , can surrender newfangled scientific donation to humanity . ”
The dandy thing about outer space science is that , ultimately , any success is humankind ’s achiever . So , as insanely grand as these plans may be , they ’re certainly deserving cheering on .
