How long would it take, a 500 pound Silver Back Gorilla, with a 10mm wrench, to fully assemble a US Navy aircraft carrier ? Looks like he would have issues finding any 10mm bolts, his raw strength would save him time from needed to lift heavy things by crane and, if he was among 1,000,000 other 500 pound silver back gorillas, they could do it in just 6 days. Pretty damn smart primate.

You high?

Its the heat and insects here. I ask the question, in the exact same wording, multiple times and, I think Google is catching on to me. It never answers the same but, is quite entertaining to read.

US Navy does not use metric fasteners.

https://quicksearch.dla.mil/qs...px?ident_number=2901

Well, Google played along with an absurd answer about the gorilla having better luck, were it a giant Ikea kit..

I asked Grok your question.

Never. Or, more precisely: longer than the age of the universe, for all practical purposes.

A modern U.S. Navy aircraft carrier (e.g., Gerald R. Ford-class) is a ~100,000-ton nuclear-powered vessel built over roughly 5–12 years (often closer to 8–12 for first-in-class or recent examples) by thousands of specialized shipyard workers using massive cranes, modular construction, welding, heavy fabrication, precision machining, nuclear engineering, electrical systems, and an enormous supply chain. One older reference for a Nimitz-class ship cited on the order of 40 million man-hours.

A 500-pound silverback gorilla is impressively strong—estimates commonly put adult males at several times (roughly 4–10× in various upper-body or pulling metrics) the strength of an average human, with high bite force and the ability to move very heavy loads relative to body weight. That strength is real and impressive for forest living, charging, or breaking vegetation.
None of that helps here.
Why the 10mm wrench dooms the project

Aircraft carriers are not assembled primarily (or even significantly) with 10mm bolts. Construction relies on welding structural steel modules (“superlifts”), heavy fasteners of many sizes (often imperial in U.S. naval practice), riveting/bolting systems far outside 10mm, pipefitting, electrical work, reactor installation, radar/avionics integration, painting, outfitting of thousands of compartments, and testing.

A single 10mm wrench can only turn 10mm fasteners. Anything else is inaccessible. The gorilla cannot weld, cut plate, lift multi-ton modules into place without crane infrastructure, wire nuclear systems, or perform precision alignment.

Even if every relevant fastener magically happened to be 10mm and pre-positioned, the gorilla still lacks blueprints it can read, technical knowledge, fine motor skills for complex assemblies, the ability to work continuously for years without rest/food/support, and the capacity to handle the sheer scale (flight deck, hangars, propulsion, weapons elevators, etc.).

Strength helps with brute force tasks, but shipbuilding is dominated by skill, specialized tools, coordination, and sequential processes that one animal with one wrong-sized hand tool cannot replicate.

Rough “math” for illustration (still leads to never)

Take ~40 million human man-hours as a baseline order-of-magnitude figure. Scale by a generous 6–8× strength multiplier for the gorilla on pure physical labor tasks, and you still end up with millions of “gorilla-hours.” Spread over a realistic work schedule (gorillas need to eat, sleep, and recover; they are not industrial robots), that is already many human lifetimes. Then subtract the fact that the vast majority of the work is simply impossible with only a 10mm wrench, and the effective time becomes infinite.
In short: the silverback could angrily bash the wrench against steel plates for the rest of its life (and the lives of many successors) and the carrier would remain a pile of unassembled, unwelded, unoutfitted components. The limiting factor is not strength or endurance—it is the tool, the knowledge, and the nature of the work.