Let's push human math and ingenuity to its theoretical limits.
When it comes to building big things, megascale engineering is where"there's no way you could build that" loses out to our knowledge of mathematics.
Typically, megascale is defined to include any structure greater than 1,000 kilometers in any dimension, making it one megameter long. These are obviously the kinds of structures that can be found in the worlds and minds of science fiction writers, but not exclusively. Another notable case of this from history was Christoph Grienberger's"Golden Earth" mover. Born in 1561, Grienberger was a Jesuit priest who became essentially the academic peer reviewer of scientific work put out by Jesuit authors at that time. He also had a fundamental grasp of the uses of torque to amplify human power.
One such project, Altantropa, was the brainchild of the German architect and engineer Herman Sörgel who proposed in 1927 that Europe should erect a dam across the straits of Gibraltar and other key locations in and around the Mediterranean Sea.
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