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The thousand-year clock

Started by Mesozoic Mister Nigel, November 09, 2012, 05:54:56 PM

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Mesozoic Mister 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.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.

Quote from: CAKE on November 09, 2012, 05:54:56 PM
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.
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Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on November 09, 2012, 06:00:27 PM
Quote from: CAKE on November 09, 2012, 05:54:56 PM
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.

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Quote from: CAKE on November 09, 2012, 05:54:56 PM
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.

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Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Quote from: Cardinal Pizza Deliverance. on November 09, 2012, 06:00:27 PM
Quote from: CAKE on November 09, 2012, 05:54:56 PM
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!!!
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Mesozoic Mister 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.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Cain

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

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Quote from: Cain on November 09, 2012, 06:24:57 PM
Another sign of doom is the proliferation of state-backed lotteries.

:lulz:
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Mangrove

Quote from: CAKE on November 09, 2012, 06:17:20 PM
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!
What makes it so? Making it so is what makes it so.

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

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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.

I'm up to my arse in Brexit Numpties, but I want more.  Target-rich environments are the new sexy.
Not actually a meat product.
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walking the fine line line between genius and batshit fucking crazy

"computation is a pattern in the spacetime arrangement of particles, and it's not the particles but the pattern that really matters! Matter doesn't matter." -- Max Tegmark

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

http://longplayer.org

Not too keen on rigor, myself - reminds me of mortis

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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?


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Quote from: Mistre on November 12, 2012, 09:41:10 PM
Know the saying about monkeys trapped in a room full of typpewriters and William Shakeaspere?

Internet proved THAT wrong.
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