[ntp:questions] Re: A Clock That Runs for 10,000 Years

Folkert van Heusden folkert at vanheusden.com
Wed Oct 19 14:04:21 UTC 2005


As the original site seems to be slashdotted, here's a mirror:
http://keetweej.vanheusden.com/redir.php?id=35

On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 04:00:50PM +0200, Folkert van Heusden wrote:
> Read on slashdot:
> "Discover magazine is running an article about a clock designed to run
> accurately for 10,000 years. It's essentially a "future-proof" clock
> that blurs the line between art and functionality through advanced
> engineering. From the article: 'Everything about this clock is deeply
> unusual. For example, while nearly every mechanical clock made in the
> last millennium consists of a series of propelled gears, this one uses a
> stack of mechanical binary computers capable of singling out one moment
> in 3.65 million days. Like other clocks, this one can track seconds,
> hours, days, and years. Unlike any other clock, this one is being
> constructed to keep track of leap centuries, the orbits of the six
> innermost planets in our solar system, even the ultraslow wobbles of
> Earth's axis.'"
> http://keetweej.vanheusden.com/redir.php?id=34
> 
> 
> Folkert van Heusden
> 
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