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.
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.
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.
Phrase of the day! :lol:
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.
QuoteIt's of monumental scale inside a mountain in West Texas.
It figures. :x
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!!!
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.
Another sign of doom is the proliferation of state-backed lotteries.
Quote from: Cain on November 09, 2012, 06:24:57 PM
Another sign of doom is the proliferation of state-backed lotteries.
:lulz:
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!
This strikes me as totally fucking awesome and totally fucking retarded in equal measure. It's FUCKING PERFECT! :fap:
:horrormirth:
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.
This is also pretty good. I listen to it regularly, and it is slowly but definitely and creepily changey.
http://longplayer.org
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.
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.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on November 12, 2012, 09:56:07 PM
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.
Actually Shakespere proved it right. Didn't even require an infinte number, just a couple of million and a few thousand years of evolution 8)
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on November 12, 2012, 10:10:27 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on November 12, 2012, 09:56:07 PM
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.
Actually Shakespere proved it right. Didn't even require an infinte number, just a couple of million and a few thousand years of evolution 8)
I was just about to post that you...HAGGIS EATING DRESS WEARER!!!!
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on November 09, 2012, 07:18:48 PM
This strikes me as totally fucking awesome and totally fucking retarded in equal measure. It's FUCKING PERFECT! :fap:
:lulz: My thoughts exactly.