[All] About - The Long Now

[Susan Koswan]

Hi GRENers,

A friend of mine forwarded the link below to me this morning about the Long
Now project - I've had a bit of a look at it and it's fascinating,
particularly as (coincidentally) my family was just watching a show on
Discovery last night about an astronomical water clock invented (?) created
(?) by Su Song in China in 1092 (that's not a typo, it is 1092).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Su_Song. 

What I find charming about Long Now is that they would write our current
year as  02010 to plan ahead for thinking in a 10,000 year time frame and
avoid any computer glitches like Y2K. 

I challenge all of you to figure out how many generations 10,000 years is.
Maybe GREN needs to rethink it's 7 generations goal.  8-)

http://www.longnow.org/about/ 

Susan K

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