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- modpancake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Next week on Digg: "10,000 Year Clock Attacked by Zombie Dogs as Hubble Space Telescope Snaps Close-up Image of New Digg Clone... using AJAX"
- ColdDimSum, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Please don't start the whole millenium-debate up.
Both usages are covered here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millenium - en3r0, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4how we keep time will probably change by then.
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http://virtenu.com - Eccles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Oh yeah, tonight I'm gonna party like it's 11,999!
- DefenderOrights, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@en3r0
You're probably right.
First of all we will probably have a base 10 system of time
Secondly if our sad little race survives that long we will probably have settled other worlds and need a 'universal' time standard. - kzinti, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Already, Prototype 2, displaying the orbits of the 6 naked-eye visible planets..."
Oh, GREAT. Now they're going to think that we didn't have telescopes. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You're just *now* hearing about the Long Now foundation? Please, read up http://www.longnow.org and listen to their excellent series of conferences on long-term thinking, http://www.longnow.org/shop/free-downloads/seminars/
- chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0lol Eccles.
That clock looked intricate as hell. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Jaxun, try adding a ? to the end of whatever url you're trying to access. This used to be how we were able to get around websense.
- jaxun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@geuis - Damn you and your 3 minute headstart!
- porplem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The folks in Star Trek still use our year system...
- mogebier, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What about when we switch to Stardates???
Sorry. The Trek Geek in me had to say it. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If the Taliban takes over the world, this clock ain't gonna survive their blow-the-hell-out-of-history policies.
- justinvt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I understand why this is being put in a cave, but I wish there was some way it could be made more public. Seems like something like this is too cool to keep out of the view of the public, but I know that spectators would just mess it up somehow. ARRRGHHHH
- Unknowndude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"using AJAX"
Haha! - dasil003, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It'll keep time for 10,000 years... unless it gets hit by a meteor, or an earthquake, or a flood, or some punk knocks it over, or it gets buried, or there's a new ice age, or ...
- jaxun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Of course, I meant @modpancake. I am officially shutting up now.
- jaxun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@en3r0
Most likely we will all have our chrono-implant synchronized with the Universal NTP server. And it will only be an implant if we are still stuck in this wetware. Either that or nobody will give a sh@t what time it is, as we will have bombed ourselves back to the stone age.
I can't get to this site @ work (f**kin' websense), so pardon perceived ignorance: Is this the same project associated with The Long Now Foundation (http://www.longnow.org)? - gotpaint547, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0cool i wonder who came up with idea to make it work and werer to store it. sorta a random location the middle of nevad desert?
- Sl4sh3r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Awesome idea but I could swear that when I was in London at the Science Museum one of the prototypes was on display AT A DEAD STOP. And I don't think they were cleaning the thing.
- adamchen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Maybe they can send a version of this thing to the Moon. Probably fewer things there to interfere with its operation. I hear that Armstrong's footprints are probably still there (no wind).
Maybe a future civilization will discover it and get evidence that we were once on the moon. Hum, maybe we should start looking for one already there. - Brak710101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@sonoca
It only lasts till your warrenty expires. When you buy something, before they give it to you they flip a secret switch that tells it when to break!
I hear the can tell things remotly now too! Don't miss your car payments!
(jk) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Does anything last more than 10 years anymore
- TridenTBoy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0In 10,000 years our average lifespan will grow to about 120(As about 10,000 years ago our average was 40 I think)..Maybe longer thanks to Futurama saying in 1,000 years or less we will have the ability to have our head float in a bottle.
- yodaj007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Can I get it in a wristwatch?
- stedios, on 10/12/2007, -0/+010? i'll bet you $20, 5:1 odds...
- 0Troy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That's fscking cool. Go human race!
- ihybridora, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0who needs a clock that will stop ticking in 10,000. we can always buy another one or a new battery. there will maybe be humans living...we've already been living for over 200,000 yrs, but as cavemen. will new technology we could be making it worse or better
- surfing, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"but no Human may hear the last tick"
I bet $10 they will. Any takers? - jaxun, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0@mogebier - You forgot to add "... to create awesome FREE wallpapers archive, which work better in Vista than OSX"
- jpyun, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Seriously, this was on Slashdot a year ago, and it was still old back then. What's wrong with you guys? Jeez.
- Brak710101, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0En3r0, agreed. By that time will will have HUDs installed in our eyes at birth that tell you almost everything you need to know.
To bad the avarage life span is 85... I want to live long enough to see that! - wjm0139, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2Interesting, but the author is a moron... "Prototype 1 was finished just in time to ring in the millennium on December 31st, 1999." the millenium started Jan 1, 2001 ***** :)
-b
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