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The once-per-millennium marks are captivating. They feel almost within our understanding, but not quite.
by DougBTX 1y ago
The once-per-millennium marks are captivating. They feel almost within our understanding, but not quite.
- DaveZale 1y agoclock of the Long Now!
- beej71 1y agoLike those insane gear ratio videos on YouTube... You know the final gear is turning, logically, but the fact that the Sun will eat the Earth long before the gear completes a single turn lends a strange perspective.
- daedrdev 1y agoI saw a neat one where they put the last gear in a block of cement while still spinning the first one quite fast.
- Chris2048 1y agoIs the idea that it never moves, or that the cement will degrade by the time it does?
- Piskvorrr 1y agoIt moves slowly enough that the wheel will approximately never turn enough to generate significant torque.
- Doxin 1y agoI think the artist put it as "and then the last gear turns so slowly it doesn't really matter, so I cast it in concrete." Assuming we're talking about Arthur Gansons "Machine with concrete"[0] of course. I quite like how a lot of his work seems to have a punchline to it. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q-BH-tvxEg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q-BH-tvxEg
- Chris2048 1y agoReminds me of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_drop_experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_drop_experiment "Each droplet forms and falls over a period of about a decade." "it is expected there is enough pitch in the funnel to allow it to continue for at least another hundred years" I guess with enough pitch you an make a millennium-scale "water" (liquid) clock?