Thursday, August 18, 2011

10,000 Year Clock

Saw this super cool article on 10,000 year clock. A clock about 200 feet tall that is built to tick for 10,000 year in mountain in west Texas.
Casually told my parents about this and browsed through some commentaries posted by readers, some thought it was wu liao.
The concept of time and sophisticated technology of clock has always intrigue me, let alone technology put into mechanism built to outlive civilization. This project is wonderful, idealistic it may be. Perhaps I watch too much sci-fic that imagine people discovering civilisation from past/future. But great project almost always requires some crazy persistent visionaries to realise. Just like 10,000 years ago, who would have thought there would be The Great Wall, The Pyramids, aeroplanes, space travel, mobile phone, or ridiculous idea of cyber space.
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