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What happened to their Nevada site up in the White Pine Mountains? What made them choose the Van Horn area instead? Long Now, by the way, has a great center a
by chrissnell 9y ago
What happened to their Nevada site up in the White Pine Mountains? What made them choose the Van Horn area instead?
Long Now, by the way, has a great center and bar at Fort Mason in San Francisco. It's my favorite place to get a drink in the city--great bartenders, very low-key, and lots of interesting stuff to look at.
- jaggederest 9y agoJeff Bezos donated umptymillion dollars and said "build it on my ranch". When he donates enough to build two clocks on the condition you build him one, it seems fair enough. It also turns out that Texas is very similar to Nevada in terms of geological stability, so it makes a similar amount of sense.
- spc476 9y agoPerhaps similar to The Foundation and the Second Foundation---one to be public, the other, private.
- eludwig 9y agoWhat would you be inclined to do if you were making something truly unique, something that required amazing attention to detail and custom effort? Make two.
- schoen 9y agoOne of the web sites claims that the Texas site is just a prototype (!) and that they're still planning to build the real clock in Nevada. But it also seems conceivable that there might be different factions or funders favoring different sites and that that sort of thing might lead to a bifurcation in the plans and timelines.