The thousand-year clock

[The Right Reverend Nigel]

Pretty fucking neat!

http://www.10000yearclock.net/learnmore.html

This is where I feel the need to point out that "Oh shit, we're starting to make millennia-scale problems that our descendants will have to deal with for centuries, we'd better build a giant eternal clock thing that future generations can use to remind them of the cycle of life and sustainability" is pretty much the death keen of every civilization that has ever existed.

That and genetically engineered bright turquoise agave.

End times.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

Pretty fucking neat!

http://www.10000yearclock.net/learnmore.html

This is where I feel the need to point out that "Oh shit, we're starting to make millennia-scale problems that our descendants will have to deal with for centuries, we'd better build a giant eternal clock thing that future generations can use to remind them of the cycle of life and sustainability" is pretty much the death keen of every civilization that has ever existed.

That and genetically engineered bright turquoise agave.

End times.

It's like humanity is genetically pre-disposed to have each civilization set its own egg-timer of doom. But hey, this clock has a different chime pattern for every one of 10,000 days. And special anniversary chambers. That's a twist.

[Mangrove]

Pretty fucking neat!

http://www.10000yearclock.net/learnmore.html

This is where I feel the need to point out that "Oh shit, we're starting to make millennia-scale problems that our descendants will have to deal with for centuries, we'd better build a giant eternal clock thing that future generations can use to remind them of the cycle of life and sustainability" is pretty much the death keen of every civilization that has ever existed.

That and genetically engineered bright turquoise agave.

End times.

It's like humanity is genetically pre-disposed to have each civilization set its own egg-timer of doom. But hey, this clock has a different chime pattern for every one of 10,000 days. And special anniversary chambers. That's a twist.

Phrase of the day! 

[Tiddleywomp Cockletit]

Pretty fucking neat!

http://www.10000yearclock.net/learnmore.html

This is where I feel the need to point out that "Oh shit, we're starting to make millennia-scale problems that our descendants will have to deal with for centuries, we'd better build a giant eternal clock thing that future generations can use to remind them of the cycle of life and sustainability" is pretty much the death keen of every civilization that has ever existed.

That and genetically engineered bright turquoise agave.

End times.

It's of monumental scale inside a mountain in West Texas.

It figures. 

[The Right Reverend Nigel]

Pretty fucking neat!

http://www.10000yearclock.net/learnmore.html

This is where I feel the need to point out that "Oh shit, we're starting to make millennia-scale problems that our descendants will have to deal with for centuries, we'd better build a giant eternal clock thing that future generations can use to remind them of the cycle of life and sustainability" is pretty much the death keen of every civilization that has ever existed.

That and genetically engineered bright turquoise agave.

End times.

It's like humanity is genetically pre-disposed to have each civilization set its own egg-timer of doom. But hey, this clock has a different chime pattern for every one of 10,000 days. And special anniversary chambers. That's a twist.

SQUEEEEEE!!!

[The Right Reverend Nigel]

Prediction: a future civilization is going to find this thing and conclude that what it means is that the world is going to end when the clock chimes 10,000 years.

[Cain]

Another sign of doom is the proliferation of state-backed lotteries.

[The Right Reverend Nigel]

Another sign of doom is the proliferation of state-backed lotteries.

 

[Mangrove]

Prediction: a future civilization is going to find this thing and conclude that what it means is that the world is going to end when the clock chimes 10,000 years.

Absolutely. Some commentators will go so far to suggest that the people of Texaswere a spiritually advanced culture with unprecedented levels of technology that we can neither understand nor replicate. However, we can offer expensive seminars in which we will teach you to be just like them!

[P3nT4gR4m]

This strikes me as totally fucking awesome and totally fucking retarded in equal measure. It's FUCKING PERFECT! 

[Ållnephew Tvýðleþøn]

[P3nT4gR4m]

I pray to death that there's some kind of cataclysm (preferably zombie-based) that wipes out civilisation and, millions of years in the future the only trace that remains is an awesome giant clockwork edifice, buried in a mountain and some intergalactic civilisation finds it and it totally fucks with their heads.

[Dodo Argentino]

This is also pretty good. I listen to it regularly, and it is slowly but definitely and creepily changey.

http://longplayer.org

[Mistre]

I am just waiting until it turns into the ninth simphony of beethoven. Know the saying about monkeys trapped in a room full of typpewriters and William Shakeaspere?


Have to admit that it sounds weird when I say it.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Know the saying about monkeys trapped in a room full of typpewriters and William Shakeaspere?

Internet proved THAT wrong.