The 10,000 Year Clock
It's the anniversary of my entry into the cosmos. Spaceship earth has completed its thirty-seventh transit around the sun with me on board. Speaking of anniversaries with the earth, here is a project that I have been watching for several years now: The 10,000 year clock of the Long Now Foundation. This monument is intended to inspire us to think beyond the quarterly business cycle in our decisions. It is a 200-foot-tall clock under a mountain, intended to last more than 10,000 years and measure minutes, hours, days, years, decades, centuries, and millennia. Brian Eno composed a melody generator that will not repeat the same chime for 10,000 years. The clock has been planned for decades, and has an unspecified number of years remaining before its completion. Here is a more extensive article about the construction process, archival environment, and long-lasting materials. Check out the video of the machine that will hew a spiral staircase out of the rock.
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amanda_lodden on Jun. 18, 2011 1:41 AM
Happy birthday!
matt-arnold on Jun. 18, 2011 3:33 AM
Thanks!
sarahmichigan on Jun. 20, 2011 1:52 PM
Happy b-day, a bit belated!
matt-arnold on Jun. 20, 2011 4:50 PM
Thanks!
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