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Oh yes! Our cities and mega-structures, including things like roads and fields. Or more broadly, our terraforming of the planet. When you look at time lapse
by nosianu 5y ago
Oh yes!
Our cities and mega-structures, including things like roads and fields.
Or more broadly, our terraforming of the planet.
When you look at time lapse videos of human developments it looks pretty similar to watching swarm insects construct big structures over long periods.
We started it a long time ago and it sped up a lot over the last few centuries, and it's still going on.
No need to look at individual pieces opf technology, all you need is to "zoom out" in both space and time to see the human swarm busily at work on a project that not a single individual understands.
If you do want to look at individual smaller pieces, things like the space station or (space/air/road) vehicles in general: We keep tinkering and changing them through space (in parallel across the world) and time (across many generations).
- anyfoo 5y agoYeah, but those things are always in flux, made of many individual parts that may often been seen in isolation (I don't think many people except for city planers know which particular "project" a given set of roads belongs to), and have no definitive "completion". For the space station for example, I'd consider it "completed" the moment it was taken into operation, the rest is building upon it and maintaining. Cathedrals are single objects, though of course I don't know how they were built, and for how many hundred years they may have seemed "complete enough" to the untrained eye.