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Prepared for Todd D. | Delivered February 8, 2020
Significant collaborative projects
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Goals
To identify the biggest collaborative projects in history that required the coordination of complex arrangements of specialized roles working in coordination toward achieving a single development goal.
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Early Findings
Humans have achieved a wide range of possibilities by working together. Below are some huge but successful projects achieved through human collaboration in various endeavours:
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
The Hadron Collider is the largest and most powerful particle accelerator ever built. The collider measures
27 kilometers
in circumference and is located 100 meters underground.
Work began on developing the LHC in
1992
when ATLAS and CMS published letters of intent and was not completed until 2008. According to the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN),
2,500 individuals
worked on developing the design, construction, and operation of the collider, while another
17,500 people
from all over the world, comprising of over
12 200 scientists
, work together to push the limits of knowledge. These groups of specialists worked together for over ten years in order to successfully develop this facility.
The advent of the LHC led to the discovery of the Higgs field in July 2012, which was its primary purpose and a landmark achievement in the history of physics. The total cost of achieving this feat was estimated at
$13.5 billion
, while the cost of physically putting the facility together was placed at
$4.75 billion
.
The creation of the LHC was inspired by the works of two men:
François Englert
and
Peter W. Higgs
. The two men theorized the possibility of identifying a particle that gives other particles their mass.
On 8 October 2013,
the two men were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for their work in the field.
Apollo 11
The Apollo 11 mission eclipses every other achievement known to man due to its sheer size, tenacity, and complexity. Sending
humans to space
was an almost impossible task at the time, and the Apollo mission was created in 1961 to achieve this very goal.
The Apollo mission was physically led by a man named Neil Amstrong, but it was backed by over
400,000
staff comprising of several engineers, technicians, and scientists, most of whom worked together for eight years to get Neil Amstrong and his fellow team of astronauts to the moon on July 20, 1969.
Cohesion, agreement, and collaboration was of crucial importance to the Apollo 11 mission because no other mission had previously achieved anything of its nature, and several modules had to be built from scratch to accommodate the new harsh environment. There was virtually no room
for error
.
The mission turned out to be highly successful, with only a significant error encountered in the entire journey, which is the famous error
1202
.
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