It’s the brainchild of Danny Hillis, a computer scientist and entrepreneur who first imagined the 10,000-year clock in 1986. There are a lot of surprises in the story of the Clock of the Long Now. And despite an informal website with a whiff of Blogspot template, this is a Jeff Bezos project. Jeff Bezos and a millionaire scientist friend are building the clock on Bezos's property in Texas.Įngineers and contractors are building a massive, multi-room clock inside a mountain in West Texas-a clock that will tell time for the next 10,000 years.The huge mechanical clock ticks once per year and chimes once per millennium.The " Clock of the Long Now," which will tell time for the next 10,000 years, has cost $42 million to build so far.If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.Ĭheers.If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at (last update: 18 January 2022). If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I have just modified one external link on Clock of the Long Now. ![]() Davefoc ( talk) 08:28, 27 November 2015 (UTC) Reply Flawed clock ![]() My thought is that the current wording is probably OK, albeit not specific enough to inform a person not familiar with gears about the issue. I don't know how to convey the above idea in the few words appropriate to cover the topic in the article. However, it would be physically difficult to build gears with enough teeth to obtain ratios with small fractional components. Theoretically the number of teeth on each gear could be any arbitrary number and therefore any ratio between the rates of rotation of the two shafts is possible. The number of teeth in a gear is an integer. Could someone more mechanically minded rephrase or expand it? Tlogmer 08:11, 26 February 2006 (UTC) Reply The sentence refers to the fact that the ratio between the rate of rotation of two shafts connected by engaged gears is determined by the ratio of the number of teeth in each gear. I have a general idea, but I'm not sure exactly what this means. ![]() "gears necessarily require a ratio relationship between the timing source and the display." Time Wikipedia:WikiProject Time Template:WikiProject Time Time articles If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks. This article is within the scope of WikiProject Time, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Time on Wikipedia. This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale. ![]() This article has been rated as C-Class on the project's quality scale. London Wikipedia:WikiProject London Template:WikiProject London London-related articles This article is within the scope of WikiProject London, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of London on Wikipedia.
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