>The nearly 1000 year old Gothic cathedral
So anon is to believe that 1000 years ago, folks with horse and wagon, no power tools or dynamite were just pumping out these massive structures that last forever?
>Iirc they weren't 'pumping them out', some of those structures took 100 years to build.
Yet Horse and wagon incorporated were able to pump out the Scott Monument in Scotland in only 4 years.
If we could throw up monuments to famous authors then, why don't we build them now? Evolution and all.
The Scott Monument is a Victorian Gothic monument to Scottish author Sir Walter Scott. It is the second-largest monument to a writer in the world after the José Martí monument in Havana.[1] It stands in Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh, opposite the former Jenners building on Princes Street and near Edinburgh Waverley Railway Station, which is named after Scott's Waverley novels.
The foundation stone was laid on 15 August 1840by Sir James Forrest of Comiston in his capacity as Lord Provost and as Grand Master Mason of Scotland.[8] Construction began in 1841 following permission by Parliament's Monument to Sir Walter Scott Act and ran for nearly four years.It was completed in the autumn of 1844, with Kemp's son placing the finial in August of the year. The total cost was just over £16,154.[9] The monument was inaugurated on 15 August 1846, but George Meikle Kemp was absent. He had fallen into the Union Canal while walking home from the site and drowned on the foggy evening of 6 March 1844.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Monument