Once you get to the facility, there will be a series of steel doors (to keep out animals), one of which is an airlock, followed by long tunnels and, eventually, a rock-hewn spiral staircase leading to the clock chamber. However, it is possible to reach the clock facility if you're prepared to drive several hours from the nearest airport and hike a trail 2,000 ft. That's kinda the point of it in the first place. The fact that a clock is being designed to last for 10,000 years immediately gets us thinking about whether it will really last that long without being demolished or destroyed – and our civilisation along with it. It's no accident that the clock is being built in an ultra-remote location in the Texan desert. The 10,000 Year Clock facility will be built inside a mountain on Bezos' land in the Sierra Diablo mountains in West Texas, near the town of Van Horn. Firstly, he is financially supporting the project, and secondly, it's being built on his land in Texas. Most of the publicity surrounding the 10,000 Year Clock comes from Jeff Bezos for two reasons. Credit: Rolfe Horn & The Long Now Foundation The clock self-corrects by phase-locking to the Sun at midday. The clock is being built by Hillis' company Applied Minds. There is no completion date, but the video in his tweet shows that the clock is quickly coming together. The finished clock is destined to be 500 ft tall, and Bezos' tweet is to congratulate the team on drilling the 500ft deep vertical shaft in a mountain – his mountain – and beginning the clock’s installation. It chimed twice to start the new millennium on New Year’s Eve 1999, and now resides in London's Science Museum. He built a working 8ft prototype called the Clock of the Long Now in the 1990s. He's referring to the Long Now, a San Francisco-based group for scientists, inventors, writers and futurists who “hope to provide a counterpoint to today's accelerating culture and help make long-term thinking more common.”Ĭomputer scientist Danny Hillis planned the clock way back in 1989. In his tweet he name-checked “the genius of Danny Hillis, Zander Rose & the whole Clock team”.
shaftĬredit: The Long Now Foundation Who came up with the idea for the 10,000 Year Clock? The clock is now being installed inside a 500 ft.
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