The Clock of the Long Now ticks ever closer to existence. It is back in the news again.
I blogged about it long ago (The Blog of the Long Now). But, it is laughable and quaint to think of last November as a long time ago, when considering the expansive longevity proposed by those at the Long Now Foundation who envision the clock tracking time for millennia to come.
It seems there's a new location for the 10,000-year clock, courtesy of benefactor Jeff Bezos (of amazon.com fame). Excavation has begun at a West Texas site north of Van Horn, where Bezos owns land around his secretive Blue Origin spaceport. Builders are drilling an access tunnel to the location deep in the earth where the clock will mark the progress of time for thousands of years.
The audacity of this project is quickly realized if you attempt think back 10,000 years ago and imagine a device, structure, or mechanism that might abide the slow march of time to present day.
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