My cover story on The Clock of the Long Now is running in this week’s Pacific Sun. Scientists are creating a clock that will be installed in a mountain in Nevada. There, it will quietly tick away the days, years, centuries and finally millennia for the next 10,000 years.
Comment by TWM
September 20, 2006 @ 1:49 pm
I’m fascinated with time, so this story was of great interest to me!
The only drawback I can see to their plan came from the conclusion of a book I read on ancient weaponry: we have an awful lot of dangerous things buried deep in underground bunkers all over the US, each of them sealed up tight and marked with bright red danger signs. Right? But even there, they aren’t safe from earthquakes, seismic shifts, etc. (And what if someone in the DISTANT future were to stumble upon the entrance to this Pandora’s Box; what if our language changes so MUCH in the far flung future that the word DANGER simply has no bearing on the language of Tomorrow?)
*sigh* I’m focusing on the clock; I know I shouldn’t. It should be on TIME, and the idea of outlasting ourselves. I just hate to think that this fantastic machine may not last to serve it’s purpose!
Great article. Do you have any more?
TWM
Comment by Jordan
September 20, 2006 @ 5:42 pm
I came across your article before I realized it was your article and was thinking how incredibly cool it was…then I was so happy to see it was you!
J
Comment by joy
September 21, 2006 @ 11:55 am
Jordan, thank you! 
TWM, I’m glad you liked the article. It was really a fascinating subject. If you want to see more of my articles, feel free to look in the clips page: http://www.joylanzendorfer.com/clips/.
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