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How to build something that lasts 10,000 years


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the 10,000 Year Clock

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SOURCE: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190611-how-to-build-something-that-lasts-10000-years
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Summary

Alexander Rose and a team of engineers at The Long Now Foundation are building a clock in the Texan desert that will last for 10,000 years. But if you reset the scale to 500 years, even the impossible can start to seem tractable.You might also like:Building a 10,000-year machine required diving into both history and the present to see how artefacts have lasted. While we can slow the workings of the clock itself down so that it only ticks as many times in 10,000 years as a watch does in a person’s lifetime, what about the materials and location? Since the clock project is meant to change the way people think about time, the remote site gives both anticipation and time to process the visit, making the isolation as crucial to the mythic qualities as it is to preservation.UndergroundMany of the best preserved artefacts probably spent most of their time underground. The ancient rice paddies of Asia are a testament to the effectiveness of carefully directing water over thousands of years.DEEP CIVILISATIONThis article is part of a BBC Future series about the long view of humanity, which aims to stand back from the daily news cycle and widen the lens of our current place in time. “If one is mentally out of breath all the time from dealing with the present, there is no energy left for imagining the future,” she wrote.That’s why the Deep Civilisation season is exploring what really matters in the broader arc of human history and what it means for us and our descendants.Building the 10,000 Year Clock underground is important not only for preservation, but for timekeeping as well. When we imagine materials that may last for thousands of years, most people think of stone or precious metals like gold – because they don't oxidise readily. To build a working machine that people can visit for 10,000 years, the materials themselves must be long-lasting. This is the true question when we ask how to build something like the 10,000 Year Clock.

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