Few human inventions are meant to last hundreds of year , much less thousands . But the10,000 Year Clockis designed to keep accurate time for millennium . First proposed in 1989 , the long - last timekeeper is finally being installed inside a mountain in westerly Texas , according toCNET .
The organisation building the clock , the Long Now Foundation , need to create a tribute to consider about the future . establish by figurer scientist Danny Hillis andWhole Earth Catalogpublisher Stewart Brand , the group boasts famous extremity like musician Brian Eno and numerous Silicon Valley giant . Amazonfounder Jeff Bezos is putting up the $ 42 million necessary to finish the task , writingthat “ it ’s a limited Clock , designed to be a symbol , an icon for tenacious - term thinking . "
Measuring 500 ft improbable when it ’s completed , the clock will run on thermal great power and synchronize each daytime at solar noon . Every day , a “ chime generator ” will come up with a unlike sequence of rings , never repeating a sequence sidereal day to twenty-four hour period . On specific anniversary — one year , 10 years , 100 years , 1000 years , 10,000 years — it will recreate a mechanical organization within one of five rooms carved into the mountain . On the first anniversary , for case , the clock will inspire anorrery , a model of the solar arrangement . Since they do n’t expect to be alive for many of the succeeding anniversary , the clock ’s creators wo n’t determine animations for 100 , 1000 , or 10,000 years — that’ll be leave up to future generation . ( To give you an estimation of just how far away 10,000 year is , in 8000 B.C.E. , humanity had just started todomesticate cowsfor the first sentence . )
Though you may sign up to be notified when the clock is finished , it wo n’t be easygoing to see it up close . The nearest airport is several hours ’ drive away , and the mountain is 2000 feet above the vale floor . So you may have to be contented with seeing it nearly in the video below .
Clock of the Long Now - Installation BeginsfromThe Long Now FoundationonVimeo .
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