When this civilization falls it will be an incredibly short period of time before there is almost no trace it existed.just a little sliver in the geologic record.
Cool engineering project in remote desert to build a desert clock that will outlast the destruction of everything you know as us.
Difficult task…the earth tends to swallow everything
“Welcome to the 10,000 Year Clock website
We are building a 10,000 Year Clock. It’s a special Clock, designed to be a symbol, an icon for long-term thinking. It’s of monumental scale inside a mountain in West Texas. The father of the Clock is Danny Hillis. He’s been thinking about and working on the Clock since 1989. He wanted to build a Clock that ticks once a year, where the century hand advances once every 100 years, and the cuckoo comes out on the millennium. The vision was, and still is, to build a Clock that will keep time for the next 10,000 years. I’ve been helping Danny with the project for the last half dozen years. As I see it, humans are now technologically advanced enough that we can create not only extraordinary wonders but also civilization-scale problems. We’re likely to need more long-term thinking.”
