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Corrosion, dirt etc. How is that going to last 10,000 years?
by bitL 9y ago
Corrosion, dirt etc. How is that going to last 10,000 years?
- burnte 9y agoThey built it out of specifically engineered materials that are highly resistant to corrotion. It's in an underground hole carved into rock to be dry and fairly dirt free. This was planned for quite a long time, I assure you.
- bitL 9y ago> I assure you. Wonderful. I was simply asking how did they do that. Like in technical details.
- eridius 9y agoJust a hunch, but I'm pretty sure that in all the years they've been working on this and the millions of dollars they've sunk into it, they already thought of corrosion and dirt.
- mulmen 9y agoI think their website [1] has more detail but this article mentions the ceramic bearings. [1]: http://longnow.org/clock/ http://longnow.org/clock/