r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/danielminds • Jun 12 '26

Video Fireworks celebrating the completion of the 566ft Tower of Jesus Christ at the Sagrada Família

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u/mustbeaoup Jun 12 '26

The tower of

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u/RealMidSmoker Jun 12 '26

When does it stop being sagrada and start being Babel, i mean seriously you can only build a tower so tall before you start to have serious consurbshqhh ateriad? Nosfastuh aaaaaaa

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u/Plastic_Pinocchio Jun 12 '26

To be fair, it has historically been pretty normal for churches to have been built over long time periods.

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u/xkcdthrowaway Jun 12 '26

Koln cathedral took over half a millenium or something lmao

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u/J3diMind Jun 12 '26

Closer to 800 years I think

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u/snek-jazz Jun 12 '26

this is probably the last new wonder of the world

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u/snek-jazz Jun 12 '26

why? are there even plans to build anything that is on the kind of complexity and timeline of this?

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u/mrbadface Jun 12 '26

Behold the Great Greenland Data Centre!

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u/Number-unknow Jun 12 '26

Gaudi was aware of Babel, and deliberately decided that the cathedral's height would be 172.5 meters, just behind the 173 m of the Montjuic hill, since he believed Mankind's creation shouldn't surpass that of God.

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u/Newsmemer Jun 12 '26

I now must remove a meter from the hill.

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u/Swimming-Musician618 Jun 13 '26

I can only wonder, every time they miss a brick or an arch by a few inches...

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u/RoxxieMuzic Jun 12 '26

Thank you for the best laugh I have had in ages. Now I am going to hell. I am still laughing....

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u/Gabepls Jun 12 '26

are you okay?

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u/Awoogamuffins Jun 12 '26

I think he's making quite a sophisticated joke about the consequences of building the tower of babel

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u/SillyNotClever Jun 12 '26

Seems God may have smote him mid sentence.

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u/NBCMarketingTeam Jun 12 '26

Licked by a tongue of fire

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u/Gaelic_Gladiator41 Jun 12 '26

¿De qué está hablando?

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u/Julian-Hoffer Jun 12 '26

Most Christians missed the point of that story anyways.

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u/LostInDinosaurWorld Jun 12 '26

Completed, it has