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Spaced Out Lunar Tick
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| System Name | Party On |
|---|---|
| Processor | Xeon w 3520 |
| Motherboard | DFI Lanparty |
| Cooling | Big tower thing |
| Memory | 6 gb Ballistix Tracer |
| Video Card(s) | HD 7970 |
| Case | a plank of wood |
| Audio Device(s) | seperate amp and 6 big speakers |
| Power Supply | Corsair |
| Mouse | cheap |
| Keyboard | under going restoration |
Footage has revealed construction work underway for a clock that will tick for the next 10,000 years.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who has invested $42 million (£30 million) in the project, revealed the clip on social media.
It shows workmen installing the mechanism inside a hollowed out chamber in a West Texas mountain.
The clock, powered by Earth's thermal cycles, will continue to keep time over the millennia, marking time with a chime once a day rather than each hour.
The clock is the brainchild of Danny Hillis, who's been thinking about and working on it since 1989.
Mr Hills wanted to build a clock that ticks once a year, where the century hand advances once every 100 years, and a cuckoo comes out on the millennium.
The clock is powered by a large weight hanging on a gear and is built out of stainless steel, titanium and dry running ceramic ball bearings.
It is buried 500 feet (150 metres) into a mountain in the Sierra Diablo range.
The clock’s chimes have been programmed to not repeat themselves for 10,000 years.
Each time the chimes ring, it’s a melody the clock has never played before.
Carved into the mountain are five room-sized anniversary chambers, each marking one year, 10 years, 100 years, 1,000 years, and 10,000 years.
The one year anniversary chamber is a special orrery, a mechanical model of the solar system.
In addition to the planets and the Earth's moon, it includes the interplanetary probes launched during the 20th century.
The Clock will activate and run the orrery once a year on a pre-determined date at solar noon.
THE CHIMES
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who has invested $42 million (£30 million) in the project, revealed the clip on social media.
It shows workmen installing the mechanism inside a hollowed out chamber in a West Texas mountain.
The clock, powered by Earth's thermal cycles, will continue to keep time over the millennia, marking time with a chime once a day rather than each hour.
The clock is the brainchild of Danny Hillis, who's been thinking about and working on it since 1989.
Mr Hills wanted to build a clock that ticks once a year, where the century hand advances once every 100 years, and a cuckoo comes out on the millennium.
The clock is powered by a large weight hanging on a gear and is built out of stainless steel, titanium and dry running ceramic ball bearings.
It is buried 500 feet (150 metres) into a mountain in the Sierra Diablo range.
The clock’s chimes have been programmed to not repeat themselves for 10,000 years.
Each time the chimes ring, it’s a melody the clock has never played before.
Carved into the mountain are five room-sized anniversary chambers, each marking one year, 10 years, 100 years, 1,000 years, and 10,000 years.
The one year anniversary chamber is a special orrery, a mechanical model of the solar system.
In addition to the planets and the Earth's moon, it includes the interplanetary probes launched during the 20th century.
The Clock will activate and run the orrery once a year on a pre-determined date at solar noon.
THE CHIMES
