Work Progresses On 10,000 Year Clock

KindMind writes "CNet has pictures of a planned 10,000 year clock to be built in eastern Nevada by the Long Now Foundation. From the article: 'Running under its own power, the clock is an experiment in art, science, and engineering. The six dials on the face of this machine will represent the year, century, horizons, sun position, lunar phase, and the stars of the night sky over a 10,000-year period. Likely to span multiple generations and evolutions in culture, the thinking and design put into the monument makes it a moving sculpture as beautiful as it is complex.' This was reviewed on Slashdot in 2005. Really cool pictures, including one of a mechanical 'binary computer' that converts the pendulum into positions on the dial."

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solid state solar watches will last longer

[tjstork]

If you really want something to last 10,000 years, build it, then throw it away. It will get buried in the landfill and will sit there for all eternity.

In the future our ancestors will be happily discovering that a reasonable percentage of the stuff we've thrown away will still be repairable and made workable.

Indeed, 10,000 year old watches will be so common in the future that its probable that the clock won't even be worth a post on some future slashdot when it is unearthed.