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11 Jul 2012, 7:37 pm

I haven't seen this posted yet and I think it's fascinating:

http://longnow.org/clock/

If it actually works for even a tenth of the intended time it would surely be one of the greatest engineering achievements of our time! The thought of a human-made mechanism that can work for 10,000 years without human intervention is mind-boggling. 8O It sounds like science-fiction stuff - but the creators are quite serious.



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11 Jul 2012, 8:01 pm

FMX wrote:
I haven't seen this posted yet and I think it's fascinating:

http://longnow.org/clock/

If it actually works for even a tenth of the intended time it would surely be one of the greatest engineering achievements of our time! The thought of a human-made mechanism that can work for 10,000 years without human intervention is mind-boggling. 8O It sounds like science-fiction stuff - but the creators are quite serious.


Is this c;lock supposed to work without any maintenance at all?

Who is going to clean and dust it?

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11 Jul 2012, 8:49 pm

Thanks for the link.



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11 Jul 2012, 9:48 pm

ruveyn wrote:
FMX wrote:
I haven't seen this posted yet and I think it's fascinating:

http://longnow.org/clock/

If it actually works for even a tenth of the intended time it would surely be one of the greatest engineering achievements of our time! The thought of a human-made mechanism that can work for 10,000 years without human intervention is mind-boggling. 8O It sounds like science-fiction stuff - but the creators are quite serious.


Is this c;lock supposed to work without any maintenance at all?

Who is going to clean and dust it?

ruveyn


i think they are minimizing the impact of dust in the mechanism through scale.

if a gear is 5 meters across a few mm of dust doesnt mean much.(that amount in itself is excessive)


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