- There is a Clock ringing deep inside a mountain. It is a huge Clock, hundreds of feet tall, designed to tick for 10,000 years. Every once in a while the bells of this buried Clock play a melody. Each time the chimes ring, it’s a melody the Clock has never played before. The Clock’s chimes have been programmed to not repeat themselves for 10,000 years. Most times the Clock rings when a visitor has wound it, but the Clock hoards energy from a different source and occasionally it will ring itself when no one is around to hear it. It’s anyone’s guess how many beautiful songs will never be heard over the Clock’s 10 millennial lifespan.
The Clock is real. It is now being built inside a mountain in western Texas.
I'd heard about this before, and DarkLinkXXXX's post here had it as an afterthought that triggered my memory.
The bottom of this comment was the only other mention of the clock that I could find on Hubski.
Also, #texas
What I meant to say the first time was thanks for the badge! :)
I can't find an update, but hopefully the effort is ongoing. I worry about large-scale projects like this with no market incentives :/
Here’s a source that is updated regularly; it’s another large-scale project that gets by without the profit motive. Jeff Bezos is funding the clock. The article mentions a new location in Nevada, as well as a great related Neal Stephenson book.
I just realized that's happening in Texas. I know we can't see the future, but maybe that's not the best place for it... Or, do you know, is this clock being built in a way that (hopefully) requires no maintenance?
West Texas is pretty remote, some of the most uninhabited land in the Continental United States. Conveniently far removed from fault lines as well. It does require occasional maintenance, I believe, but it isn't much more than a dozen men would have to tend to once every decade or so.