CHINESE DEMOCRACY The Guns N' Roses timeline

Sure, it took Axl Rose 17 years to follow up his last album. But hey, monumental achievements take time. Here's how Chinese Democracy's gestation stacks up next to some of mankind's other colossal accomplishments:

Building the Titanic -- 3 years (1909-1912)

Constructing Golden Gate Bridge -- 4 years (1933-1937)

Painting the Sistine Chapel Ceiling -- 4 years (1508-1512)

The Galileo Space Mission to Jupiter -- 6 years (1989-1995)

Digging the Chunnel -- 6 years (1988-1994)

Assembling Statue of Liberty -- 9 years (1875-1884)

Creating the Brooklyn Bridge -- 13 years (1870-1873)

Building the Taj Mahal -- 16 years (1632-1648)

Chinese Democracy -- 17 years (1991-2008)

Constructing the Great Pyramid at Giza -- 120 years (2600BC-2480BC)

Creating Stonehenge -- 500 years (3000 BC-2500 BC)

Building the Great Wall of China -- 2300 years (700BC-1600)

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