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Futuristic Cuckoo Clocks - 10,000 Year Clock (GALLERY)
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The Long Now Foundation is a small group of folks who like to think… well, long term. The group “hopes to provide counterpoint to today’s “faster/cheaper” mind set and promote “slower/better” thinking.
Neat concept but, enough about the philosophical banter. The really cool part of this group is that they are making a 10,000 year clock and putting it on the top of a Nevada mountain. The clock will tick once a year and the cuckoo will come out every 1,000 years. Talk about a party!
When I was a child, people used to talk about what would happen by the year 2000. For the next thirty years they kept talking about what would happen by the year 2000, and now no one mentions a future date at all. The future has been shrinking by one year per year for my entire life. I think it is time for us to start a long-term project that gets people thinking past the mental barrier of an ever-shortening future. I would like to propose a large (think Stonehenge) mechanical clock, powered by seasonal temperature changes. It ticks once a year, bongs once a century, and the cuckoo comes out every millennium.
(dvice)
Read More: secure.longnow.org Via: dvice
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