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> development for 28 years now > given enough time This has been a lifetime for a slice of the human population. It’s getting into Sagrada Familia territory.

• KronisLV 4mo ago
  See, at this rate it won’t even take a century!
• rzzzt 4mo ago
  This is an absolute tangent (a perpendicular one if you will), but I thought the Sagrada Familia is completed: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ceciliarodriguez/2026/06/10/barcelonas-sagrada-familia-completed-after-144-years-celebrates-gauds-centenary/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/ceciliarodriguez/2026/06/10/bar... The article talks about construction on the exterior, the cross on the main tower, the Pope's visit and commemoration of the architect, etc. while on the official website the timeline says "Today, more than 140 years after the laying of the cornerstone, construction continues on the Basilica": https://sagradafamilia.org/en/history-of-the-temple https://sagradafamilia.org/en/history-of-the-temple So which one is it? Is this one of those cases where we have to define "done" first?
  • belinder 4mo ago
    The exterior is done, the interior not yet
    • slazaro 4mo ago
      That's not true, there's a lot to be done on the exterior as well, the main entrance is not even finished yet. The big achievement that happened recently is they completed the towers, so it finally reached its target height. Also the Pope's blessing.
    • hilbert42 4mo ago
      "…the interior not yet" Right, there is a long tradition in it taking centuries to build great cathedrals, Chartres, Notre Dame, etc. I've little issue with that, however taking so long to build something such as an O/S that it's obsoleted itself many times over before being finished is another matter altogether.
• RattlesnakeJake 4mo ago
  > It’s getting into Sagrada Familia territory. Or "A million monkeys with a million typewriters writing Shakespeare" territory