<story><title>10,000 year clock gets lowered into Texan mountain</title><url>https://www.theengineer.co.uk/10000-year-clock-texan-mountain/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kragen</author><text>This is great news!  Thank you for posting this, Tony!&lt;p&gt;The Long Now site says, &amp;quot;Located under a remote limestone mountain near Van Horn, Texas, it will require a day’s hike to reach its interior gears. Just reaching the entrance tunnel situated 1500 feet above the high scrub desert will leave some visitors out of breath, nicked by thorns, and wondering what they got themselves into.&amp;quot;  Presumably that means Jeff wants to make it a little bit challenging for people to find the Clock, at least for a few years.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;longnow.org&amp;#x2F;clock&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;longnow.org&amp;#x2F;clock&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Clock is designed to require the Hero&amp;#x27;s Journey to reach, because it&amp;#x27;s primarily designed to inspire, to bring people to spiritual experiences, not to tell time.&lt;p&gt;Also, keep in mind that the greatest risk to the Clock is human vandalism and looting — the one thing you can&amp;#x27;t protect against by design, although they&amp;#x27;ve certainly tried.  If the Clock survives a century without anyone visiting it, it will have made it 1% of the way to its design lifespan.&lt;p&gt;They&amp;#x27;ve published enough photos and videos that it should be possible to find, though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>walrus01</author><text>I wouldn&amp;#x27;t really say it requires a &amp;quot;hero&amp;#x27;s journey&amp;quot; to reach when the road they have bulldozed to the top of the mountain is apparently passable by 5-ton sized flatbed cargo trucks.&lt;p&gt;It appears to be on privately owned land that is part of a huge ranch in the area. So maybe the hero&amp;#x27;s journey is avoiding angry texans with shotguns if you either (a) cut the padlock off the gate that blocks vehicle access to the road up the mountain, or (b) park your vehicle near the gate and ride a mountain bike up the road.</text></comment>
<story><title>10,000 year clock gets lowered into Texan mountain</title><url>https://www.theengineer.co.uk/10000-year-clock-texan-mountain/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kragen</author><text>This is great news!  Thank you for posting this, Tony!&lt;p&gt;The Long Now site says, &amp;quot;Located under a remote limestone mountain near Van Horn, Texas, it will require a day’s hike to reach its interior gears. Just reaching the entrance tunnel situated 1500 feet above the high scrub desert will leave some visitors out of breath, nicked by thorns, and wondering what they got themselves into.&amp;quot;  Presumably that means Jeff wants to make it a little bit challenging for people to find the Clock, at least for a few years.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;longnow.org&amp;#x2F;clock&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;longnow.org&amp;#x2F;clock&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Clock is designed to require the Hero&amp;#x27;s Journey to reach, because it&amp;#x27;s primarily designed to inspire, to bring people to spiritual experiences, not to tell time.&lt;p&gt;Also, keep in mind that the greatest risk to the Clock is human vandalism and looting — the one thing you can&amp;#x27;t protect against by design, although they&amp;#x27;ve certainly tried.  If the Clock survives a century without anyone visiting it, it will have made it 1% of the way to its design lifespan.&lt;p&gt;They&amp;#x27;ve published enough photos and videos that it should be possible to find, though.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CookieMon</author><text>Danny Hillis discusses the thinking behind locating it in a remote mountain here &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;soundcloud.com&amp;#x2F;longnow&amp;#x2F;progress-on-the-10000-year-clock#c=1559&amp;amp;t=36:43&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;soundcloud.com&amp;#x2F;longnow&amp;#x2F;progress-on-the-10000-year-cl...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;But the entire talk is worth listening to.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not intended to be a secret - it&amp;#x27;s there to be visited (I hope one day to visit it myself), the mountain is part of a pilgrimage to better frame the experience.</text></comment>