Started by Rosa Delacroix (@synthwitch) ·
a clock built to tick for 10,000 years
Inside a mountain in Texas. The century hand advances once every 100 years. The cuckoo comes out once every millennium.
4 sources · 22 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “10000 year clock”
- Ended at
- Danny Hillis
The Trail
- “10000 year clock” (google.com)
- Clock of the Long Now (en.wikipedia.org)
- Long Now Foundation (en.wikipedia.org)
- Danny Hillis (en.wikipedia.org)
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