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<blockquote data-quote="Stalker0" data-source="post: 8703183" data-attributes="member: 5889"><p>It's an interesting question, I mean our pace of construction is so quick we can build a LOT in your 80+ year timespan. What engineering marvel could we conceive of that would take longer than that? Human Genome project took only about 13-15 years. 3 Georges Dam was 17 years. Probably the new "Millenium Clock" might be the closest to a classic wonder of the world under construction, a clock designed to keep accurate time for 10,000 years. But again, most of the difficulties in that project are conceptual, how do we actually do this accurate timekeeping. The construction will take a while, but longer than 80+ years, probably not.</p><p></p><p>A lot of our challenges now are more conceptual than they are the simple pace of construction. Take the space elevator concept, the problem isn't the time to build it (once we got things moving we could easily complete it in 20 year time timespans), its the fact that we don't know how...no material we have could do the job, we literally need to science up something new.</p><p></p><p>A common multigenerational challenge is the "generational starship", the idea of sending humans across multiple generations to another planet. But first we have to find one that would fit the bill, and we haven't found Earth 2 yet. Maybe the James Webb Telescope will help with that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stalker0, post: 8703183, member: 5889"] It's an interesting question, I mean our pace of construction is so quick we can build a LOT in your 80+ year timespan. What engineering marvel could we conceive of that would take longer than that? Human Genome project took only about 13-15 years. 3 Georges Dam was 17 years. Probably the new "Millenium Clock" might be the closest to a classic wonder of the world under construction, a clock designed to keep accurate time for 10,000 years. But again, most of the difficulties in that project are conceptual, how do we actually do this accurate timekeeping. The construction will take a while, but longer than 80+ years, probably not. A lot of our challenges now are more conceptual than they are the simple pace of construction. Take the space elevator concept, the problem isn't the time to build it (once we got things moving we could easily complete it in 20 year time timespans), its the fact that we don't know how...no material we have could do the job, we literally need to science up something new. A common multigenerational challenge is the "generational starship", the idea of sending humans across multiple generations to another planet. But first we have to find one that would fit the bill, and we haven't found Earth 2 yet. Maybe the James Webb Telescope will help with that. [/QUOTE]
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