Millennial clocks. Bashny.Net

Imagine a watch that ticks regularly for thousands of years. They are in a secluded spot. These strings are drawn pilgrims. As to the idol, the mystery of which no one can unravel, and the purpose of which - the secret is no less. But do not look for this fantastic facility: this puzzle can be caught by our distant descendants. After all, the unique timepiece are already building our contemporaries.





This project - the fruit, above all, the efforts of the American Daniel Hillis (William Daniel Hillis) - scientist, inventor, engineer and writer.
"When I was a child three decades ago, the future was very far - as the turn of the millennium. 01984 and 02001 th-th years seemed equally remote ".In 01,996, entrepreneur Stewart Brand (Stewart Brand), one of the founders of Global Business Network, Hillis himself and another entire group of friends founded the fund" Long Now »(Long Now), designed to implement the most unusual long-term projects, including the project "Hours millennia" - 10, 000, or Year Clock Clock of the Long Now.



Hillis decided to build a watch in which one "tick" held to the year "because" - another year. Watches that have published a short jingle once in a century, and some melodic "cuckoo" (or rather, the overflow of bells, gong fight or something like that) - once in a thousand years. The clock, which would have been calculated for a hundred centuries of non-stop operation.
Why this number?
It is about the period in which people have built and nurtured a technological civilization. This term is more or less stable climate on Earth and sustained progress. It is the ascent of people from primitive communities preliterate era, through the first city and the first state, the first laws and the first mechanisms to present technical civilization to the Internet and space flight.



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05 Thus, for the next ten thousand revolutions around the sun - is "another story" of mankind, during which Daniel has a fantastic mechanism embody time and connect generations. In general, the philosophy of the project is similar to the underlying reason of living millennial hours.



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July 1 - drive, 2 - speed control, 3 - the dial showing the year and the position of the stars, 4 - "equation of time", 5 - ordinary clock dial, 6 - mechanical computer, 7 weight, 8 - the pendulum (photo Long Now Foundation ).



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