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This is what being an engineer during WW2 must have been like. Near infinite money and resources, but very tough deadlines
by pie42000 5y ago
This is what being an engineer during WW2 must have been like. Near infinite money and resources, but very tough deadlines
- subsubzero 5y agoagree, The manhattan project alone was 1% of the US GDP during its most expensive year, that would equate to $230 Billion in today's dollars.
- xxpor 5y agoAlong these lines, for anyone who hasn't heard of it: At the Trinity test, there was a containment unit called Jumbo: https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/jumbo https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/jumbo Basically, if Trinity fizzled, they wanted to be able to recover the billion dollar plutonium core. It didn't actually end up being used, and so it was ordered destroyed. But the thing was so tough that they essentially couldn't blow it up. Normal bombs just weren't powerful enough. So now it's just sitting there at the site.
- tomatocracy 5y agoThere are still occasionally projects which approach this relative scale today. When Boeing (temporarily) shut down 737 MAX production in early 2020 it was reported that this would reduce US GDP by between 0.3% and 0.6% (depending on the economist doing the calculation), for example.
- rangoon626 5y agoStill can't get over WWII, so everyone has to larp. Truly, imagine having your main frame of reference pretending you are in WWII, for everything else you do in life.