Dubai Proposes Giant Simulated Mars City In the Desert (newatlas.com)

future guy shares a report from New Atlas: The UAE government has announced it is building the world's largest space simulation city, and to top it off it will be designed by one of the world's flashiest architects, Bjarke Ingels, whose company is literally called BIG. The project is called the Mars Science City and will cover 1.9 million sq ft (176,516 sq m) at a cost of nearly $140 million dollars. The city will span several domes, including a space for a team to live for up to a year as part of a Mars simulation. Several scientific laboratories will be included, focusing on developing methods for a Mars colony to produce food, energy and water. A museum exhibiting great space achievements will also be incorporated into the city with the walls of the museum being 3D printed using sand from the nearby Emirati desert.

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Significant figures and conversion precision

[Anonymous Coward]

1.9 million square feet is 180,000 square metres. It is not 176,516 square metres.

In fact, the number “1.9 million sq ft” is likely a conversion from an original number in square metres anyway!

Re:Dress rehearsal for the entire country

[DNS-and-BIND]

Wow, I love how you assume these new immigrants will be horrific and destructive to their host cultures. We know for a fact that diversity increases a country's vivacity as well as provides badly-needed low skill workers to keep costs down. It's win-win all the way around, and saying that's some kind of dystopia future is really deplorable.