Engineering marvels

LHC deserves a mention.

Any modern processor has roughly 10 billion transistors and are insanely complex. I just thought I'd mention something small since everyone seems to want to talk about big stuff.

Stonehenge and the other megalithic sites dotted around North West Europe just because of the difficulty for the civilizations that were around then in constructing these things.

@deepthought said
Stonehenge and the other megalithic sites dotted around North West Europe just because of the difficulty for the civilizations that were around then in constructing these things.

They were built the Great Pyramid at Giza while Stonehenge was going up!

@deepthought said
LHC deserves a mention.

LHC- Yes! The engineering is impressive., But more important is the valuable data they are gathering as the result of smashing particles into one another at close to the speed of light. These 'physical' experiments are bringing us closer to a grand unified theory, (damn you gravity)

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They weren't ignored. And yes, it was constructed without much regard to human life. But this thread is about the marvels of engineering upon completion- not the sacrifices those men and women made during construction. That discussion deserves its own thread.

@ponderable said
as you can the "chinese wall" another marvel 😉

No, that's the point: that's a myth, you can't. It's just a few yards wide, no chance of seeing it from anywhere that can reasonably be called "space" without a spy sat - maybe not even with. Our polders are kilometers wide in all direction, and I have a satelite photo of them from as far back as the 80s.

@shallow-blue said
No, that's the point: that's a myth, you can't. It's just a few yards wide, no chance of seeing it from anywhere that can reasonably be called "space" without a spy sat - maybe not even with. Our polders are kilometers wide in all direction, and I have a satelite photo of them from as far back as the 80s.

Ahh the Dutch with their below sea level water excavation mastery.

They did scar me for life the Dutch did, like the story of when the little kid stuck his finger in the Duke, and he turned blue.

@xyyz said
I'll start: and not just the U.S- engineers from all over the world
-The Panama canal

I like this one: A man, a plan, a canal. PANAMA.......

@kmax87

Who, the Duke or the kid? I guess it depends on just where the kid stuck his thumb in the Duke.

@wolfgang59 said
They were built the Great Pyramid at Giza while Stonehenge was going up!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe

Thought to be almost 12,000 years old! The first monoliths it would appear, literally 6000 odd years before any of the pyramids.

Roman roads, aqueducts, bridges etc

@kmax87 said
Ahh the Dutch with their below sea level water excavation mastery.

They did scar me for life the Dutch did, like the story of when the little kid stuck his finger in the Duke, and he turned blue.

Well, he would. On the side of the dike where you can try that trick, he'd be underwater.

@shallow-blue said
Well, he would. On the side of the dike where you can try that trick, he'd be underwater.

The Norfolk broads

https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Mechanical_Engineer/Salary I make 150k a year (40 hrs a week) pipefitting. Have to teach these guys on the job. They are a dime a dozen