The Golden Gate Bridge was built in 4.2 years. Starting in 2009, the replacement of 1.5 miles of road just south of it took 8 years.
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Empire State Building. 13.5 months from the first steel beam - *18 months from the start of demolition.* And they developed many of the techniques for building it along the way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_State_Building …pic.twitter.com/DUY9O32VQ8
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Apollo 8. NASA decided to make it the first mission to orbit the moon and had four months to do it.https://www.amazon.com/Rocket-Men-Odyssey-Astronauts-Journey/dp/0812988701 …
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Have you read the book? I just heard Kurson interviewed the other day and it sounds fantastic
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Hoover Dam, ~5 years, 2 years ahead of schedule, in a hot, remote location with no infrastructure, and never done before. 2016 dollars cost $630 million, $300-400 million less than the new Vikings Stadium, and still in use 82 years later… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_Dam
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It's still amazing to me that Kind of Blue was recorded in two days.
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General Atomics' first fission reactor. They went from napkin sketch to critical in about 18 months.
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Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks was recorded over three days with musicians he’d never met and no rehearsals. And it’s perfect.
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