It's an emphasis on their point to think in long periods of time. Remember that their (I believe) first big public splash was the 10,000 year clock project (htt

It's an emphasis on their point to think in long periods of time. Remember that their (I believe) first big public splash was the 10,000 year clock project (http://longnow.org/clock http://longnow.org/clock). So in their representation of the year... they're really just playing the long game and avoiding the inevitable year 10,000 problem.... ... I wonder if all those COBOL systems still running will have the developers then to deal with the problem....