1 00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:04,000 Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, it's me Josh, and my pick for s 2 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:06,280 Speaker 1: Y s K Selects this week is the one we 3 00:00:06,320 --> 00:00:09,600 Speaker 1: did on the ten thousand year Clock. Uh. Just looking back, 4 00:00:09,640 --> 00:00:12,239 Speaker 1: I think it's probably one of the coolest episodes we've 5 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:14,960 Speaker 1: ever done. And it's just kind of me and Chuck 6 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:18,720 Speaker 1: operating on all cylinders talking about something we're super jazzed about. 7 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:21,360 Speaker 1: So we hope you enjoy it. And my apologies for 8 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:26,279 Speaker 1: being sick in this one. It's still good. Welcome to 9 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:35,720 Speaker 1: stuff you should know from house Stuff Works dot com. Hey, 10 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:39,159 Speaker 1: and welcome to the podcast, Josh Clark. There's Charles W. 11 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:43,400 Speaker 1: W Chuck Bright and that makes this stuff you should 12 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:46,839 Speaker 1: That's right. How are you, sir? I said, it's a 13 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:49,760 Speaker 1: little under the weather. Other than that, I'll find I've 14 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:54,160 Speaker 1: got that. Remember the Happiness audio book. We talked to 15 00:00:54,240 --> 00:01:00,080 Speaker 1: it guy David Pierced and trans humanist about separating a 16 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:04,880 Speaker 1: susception pain, like the physical experience of pain, from suffering, 17 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:08,880 Speaker 1: like just getting rid of suffering, like I've reached that 18 00:01:08,959 --> 00:01:14,600 Speaker 1: point and being sick where like I see how intertwined 19 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:17,839 Speaker 1: the two are. Like I just keep saying, like woe 20 00:01:17,959 --> 00:01:21,760 Speaker 1: is me? Like I am suffering. It's pretty bad. So 21 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:23,800 Speaker 1: do you feel bad, like in a flu sense or 22 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:25,800 Speaker 1: is it just the head full of stuff it makes 23 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:30,080 Speaker 1: it unbearable. Uh? No, Luckily I don't have any flu 24 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:32,800 Speaker 1: symtom because that's what puts me under this when you 25 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:38,040 Speaker 1: literally feel those eggs in your skin is really sensitive. 26 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:41,360 Speaker 1: Was just what I had before you. We're taking turns. 27 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:43,960 Speaker 1: I don't know if I got it from you or not. 28 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:49,480 Speaker 1: Air air travel often will do that, so yeah, I 29 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:53,160 Speaker 1: got I got mine after air travel too. Stupid air travel. 30 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:56,160 Speaker 1: It's two thousand and twelve, you know you don't. Can 31 00:01:56,200 --> 00:02:01,240 Speaker 1: we do better with the recirculated air on a plane? Maybe? Yeah, 32 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:03,000 Speaker 1: just like surely you can crack a window a little 33 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:05,480 Speaker 1: bit or something, right, get some fresh air in there. 34 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 1: There's gotta be something there, right, So um, I guess 35 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:13,880 Speaker 1: we should do this one. No, we're not, you know why, 36 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:17,600 Speaker 1: because we got all the time in the world. Man, 37 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:20,600 Speaker 1: slow down, That's what I was saying. Yeah, and I'm 38 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:24,960 Speaker 1: just reiterating, well, thank you. There's no hurry, Josh. Well, 39 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:26,560 Speaker 1: let's just stay here for a little while. We're in 40 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 1: the foundation of the long now. Uh, you're misreading. It's 41 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:35,480 Speaker 1: the long now foundation. I like the foundation of the 42 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:40,840 Speaker 1: Long Now you Longer? Yeah it is. It's a couple 43 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:44,880 Speaker 1: of extra wards there named by Brian Eno. Yeah, the 44 00:02:44,919 --> 00:02:50,359 Speaker 1: great musical composer, father maybe of techno producer. I think 45 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:53,640 Speaker 1: he's called a rock musician in this article. Well the 46 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:58,160 Speaker 1: guy I watched a Setti talk from Alexander Rose, who 47 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:01,320 Speaker 1: you said is the project manager of the Long Nail 48 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:05,040 Speaker 1: Foundation's um clock of the Longmail project, which we're going 49 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 1: to talk about, And when he was doing his presentation, 50 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:11,079 Speaker 1: he said mentioned Brian Eno and he said, who was 51 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 1: an ambient music guy? Is that what he called him? Yeah? 52 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:17,600 Speaker 1: I was like, this is Brian Eno? Come on? What 53 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:21,920 Speaker 1: did he write? Um? What was his album music for Spaceports? Uh? 54 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:24,519 Speaker 1: Something like that? That was a solo thing after Roxy Music. 55 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:28,200 Speaker 1: Yeah wait, Brian you know was in Roxy Music? Yeah? 56 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:31,720 Speaker 1: I know, Brian Ferry was. They were, and they famously 57 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:35,680 Speaker 1: butted heads and Brian Eno left I think after one 58 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:38,520 Speaker 1: album did solo work until he hooked up with you 59 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:41,440 Speaker 1: two and the Talking Heads and as an uber producer. 60 00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:45,920 Speaker 1: Cool man, where you go, Chuck. Thanks, that was a 61 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:50,000 Speaker 1: great explanation. Okay, Mr Brian the ambient music guy? Right? 62 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:52,920 Speaker 1: But yeah, you're right, He's the one who coined the 63 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:58,560 Speaker 1: the name the long now Um. And uh, this whole foundation, 64 00:03:58,640 --> 00:04:01,320 Speaker 1: this group of people, the long now Foundation or the 65 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 1: foundation of the long now Um, are dedicated to forcing 66 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:11,840 Speaker 1: um hoisting upon humanity. Like you were saying, like just 67 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:16,240 Speaker 1: the idea of slowing down, of taking a longer view 68 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:20,240 Speaker 1: of everything, the long now. Yeah, And I think the 69 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:23,320 Speaker 1: way they put it was to try and think in 70 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:26,080 Speaker 1: the terms of if you live to be one thousand 71 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:31,200 Speaker 1: years old, so long term thinking for the world is 72 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:34,320 Speaker 1: better than short term thinking, although I would argue you 73 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:37,440 Speaker 1: need both. You know what I'm saying, Yeah, because it's like, 74 00:04:37,839 --> 00:04:40,240 Speaker 1: because exactly when should I get out of the way 75 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:42,400 Speaker 1: of the speeding car? We don't live to be a 76 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:45,240 Speaker 1: thousand that is, but I do like you hear it 77 00:04:45,279 --> 00:04:47,560 Speaker 1: behind it, I have a question for you. Would you 78 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 1: want to live to be a thousand years old if 79 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:53,719 Speaker 1: we aged like normally and would be like you don't 80 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:59,640 Speaker 1: turn into the dungeon Master from the from the cartoon. Uh, 81 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:02,280 Speaker 1: you mean if it was like a thousand years old 82 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:05,560 Speaker 1: would be the equivalent of like a hundred Heck, yeah, 83 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:09,400 Speaker 1: would you really? Why not? Well? I can think of 84 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:15,480 Speaker 1: a lot of reasons why not name one, Um, boredom 85 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:19,599 Speaker 1: you'd be worried about boredom. Boredom. I mean, think about 86 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:22,280 Speaker 1: all the stuff you can do in a century. Now, 87 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:26,359 Speaker 1: multiply that by ten. There's an amount of stuff to 88 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:30,839 Speaker 1: do on this planet. Well, if you I think everybody 89 00:05:30,839 --> 00:05:34,279 Speaker 1: would end up with huge, massive drug problems by age four, 90 00:05:36,279 --> 00:05:39,279 Speaker 1: you might be right, but hey, four year old should 91 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:46,440 Speaker 1: be able to handle his h So okay, despite how 92 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:49,520 Speaker 1: you feel about living, do a thousand long now foundation 93 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:52,360 Speaker 1: is Um, they're kind of into that way of thinking. 94 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:56,599 Speaker 1: Like you said that long term thinking can lead to 95 00:05:56,680 --> 00:05:59,160 Speaker 1: short term gain and a good example of this is 96 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:03,760 Speaker 1: climb it change, right, So, UM, I think one of 97 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:07,720 Speaker 1: the people who are on the side of who are 98 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:13,640 Speaker 1: in favor of taking great action against climate change would 99 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:17,200 Speaker 1: would say that, Um, if we can take steps now, 100 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:20,000 Speaker 1: if we can think further out, then you know, we'd 101 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:22,600 Speaker 1: be able to mitigate this. But we're not. We're thinking 102 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:27,600 Speaker 1: about very immediate concerns, which some are are reasonable, like 103 00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:31,560 Speaker 1: economic concerns, that kind of thing. But it's just two 104 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:34,000 Speaker 1: schools of thought exactly. So, UM, you can kind of 105 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:37,880 Speaker 1: understand where the long Now Foundation UH would side or 106 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:41,800 Speaker 1: sit on that. UM, debate. But what they figured out 107 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:46,719 Speaker 1: is that we basically we humans to think like this, 108 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:51,440 Speaker 1: we need something to um lead our minds in that direction, 109 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:54,360 Speaker 1: because just saying like, man, what's it gonna be like 110 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:57,800 Speaker 1: ten thousand years from now? It's like who cares? You know, 111 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:02,560 Speaker 1: I'm thinking about food, like I am literally right now. 112 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:04,799 Speaker 1: I just pose the question, and I'm thinking about food 113 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:08,880 Speaker 1: already long term, right. But if they were saying, like 114 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:12,040 Speaker 1: a two ft clock in front of me that I 115 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:16,160 Speaker 1: knew was designed to tick off ten thousand years, I 116 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:18,840 Speaker 1: might take a much longer view of things. A beacon, 117 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:21,760 Speaker 1: if you will, a beacon. Indeed, so the long Now 118 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:25,560 Speaker 1: Foundation has undertaken its flagship projects and there's a bunch 119 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:29,160 Speaker 1: of other projects to UM called the Clock of the 120 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:31,640 Speaker 1: long Now a k a. The ten thousand year clock. 121 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:34,760 Speaker 1: Very cool, Yeah, and I think it's pretty awesome. I 122 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:37,120 Speaker 1: can tell you're a fan. Well, but if for no 123 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:42,680 Speaker 1: other reason than to uh get attention for for their 124 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:46,560 Speaker 1: foundation and their their school of thought, you know, right, 125 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:49,560 Speaker 1: And that's the whole point. Like, and it's gotten some 126 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:52,440 Speaker 1: pretty good attention, I think, Um, A lot of people 127 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:55,840 Speaker 1: have heard of the ten thousand year clock already. UM, 128 00:07:55,880 --> 00:08:02,280 Speaker 1: But it's actually being created. One's already done a tabletop version. Yeah, 129 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:06,400 Speaker 1: tabletop meaning eight ft. But the well, the prototype, um, 130 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:09,480 Speaker 1: and the whole thing was proposed by a guy named 131 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:15,760 Speaker 1: Danny Hillis. Um back in UH wrote in a like 132 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:20,880 Speaker 1: a Wired magazine scenarios article, the idea for this, the 133 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:24,280 Speaker 1: concept behind it, and um, there's been coome this kind 134 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:26,680 Speaker 1: of rallying cry that he wants a cuckoo to come 135 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:31,360 Speaker 1: out every millennium. Everybody that shows up in every article 136 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:34,840 Speaker 1: I've read on it, that's what they say. That's his thing, like, 137 00:08:34,920 --> 00:08:36,960 Speaker 1: he wants a cuckoo to come out on the millennium. 138 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:39,840 Speaker 1: What's crazy is I don't see anywhere in here that 139 00:08:39,920 --> 00:08:42,240 Speaker 1: there actually will be a cuckoo. Yeah. I didn't see 140 00:08:42,240 --> 00:08:45,240 Speaker 1: that either. So poor Danny Hillis will have to wait. 141 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:48,880 Speaker 1: But he's he's the guy behind the Long Nail Foundation, right. Yeah. 142 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:51,440 Speaker 1: The first thing that I noticed when I look at 143 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:53,360 Speaker 1: any of the writings about them and the long now 144 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:58,199 Speaker 1: clock is the zero that they just placed in front 145 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:03,120 Speaker 1: of the current year. So in when he wrote that article, 146 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:06,800 Speaker 1: he proposed, you know, not that they actually change it, 147 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:10,120 Speaker 1: but the way they look at things is zero one, nine, 148 00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:13,400 Speaker 1: nine five and Just seeing a date written in that 149 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:16,880 Speaker 1: way kind of makes me breathe a little relief, because 150 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:21,320 Speaker 1: all of a sudden, twenty twelve doesn't look like the future. 151 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:25,320 Speaker 1: Oh to one two looks like, oh well, we got 152 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:28,440 Speaker 1: a long way to go, like we're backwater Yokel's time wise. 153 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:31,000 Speaker 1: Yeah does that make sense? Oh yeah, totally, because I 154 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:33,120 Speaker 1: think they said we've been around, like civilization has been 155 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:36,760 Speaker 1: around for ten thousand years or so. So essentially this 156 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:42,200 Speaker 1: clock would represent our entire past. Well yeah, moving forward. Yeah, 157 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:45,280 Speaker 1: it would place us directly in the middle of two, 158 00:09:45,679 --> 00:09:49,480 Speaker 1: which I love so which I was curious about. Why 159 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:53,560 Speaker 1: they're not starting over then? Why not started zero years? 160 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:58,680 Speaker 1: Clark's clock, um starts you want to name it a 161 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:03,360 Speaker 1: Clark it's a millennium yea, uh maybe because they just 162 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:07,839 Speaker 1: they don't want to disrespect you know, time served if 163 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:10,079 Speaker 1: you will. But also so, what they've come up with 164 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:13,640 Speaker 1: is a clock then that will run until the year 165 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:18,520 Speaker 1: twelve thousand, twelve thousand, twelve twelve thousand and fifteen, depending 166 00:10:18,559 --> 00:10:21,960 Speaker 1: on how how fast they can get this thing built. Um, 167 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:24,440 Speaker 1: but that's their idea, is to come up with a 168 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:27,680 Speaker 1: ten thousand year clock, the clock that will run without 169 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:33,800 Speaker 1: human intervention for ten thousand years one um that can 170 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:38,000 Speaker 1: be easily understood by anybody. Um, which I think that 171 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:41,040 Speaker 1: they could have done something slightly different with the design, 172 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:46,000 Speaker 1: Like my eyes crossed when I look at like the face. Yeah, um, 173 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:50,120 Speaker 1: I feel like I'm living in zero two one two um. 174 00:10:50,160 --> 00:10:52,679 Speaker 1: But there there's some challenges to all this, right, Like 175 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:57,640 Speaker 1: there's humans haven't really made too many things, um that 176 00:10:57,679 --> 00:11:02,040 Speaker 1: have lasted ten thousand years yet. Yeah, why should this 177 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:04,520 Speaker 1: be any different? Well, you you outlined a couple of 178 00:11:04,559 --> 00:11:06,920 Speaker 1: the base. I think they have the five basic principles 179 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:09,319 Speaker 1: they were aiming for, and you outlined a couple of them. 180 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:13,400 Speaker 1: There to work relatively free of regular maintenance? Was one? Uh, 181 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:16,760 Speaker 1: simple enough to maintain that if all of a sudden 182 00:11:16,920 --> 00:11:21,080 Speaker 1: we go into some post apocalyptic world where there's no technology, 183 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:23,520 Speaker 1: we could still maintain it. Right, They were saying they 184 00:11:23,679 --> 00:11:26,600 Speaker 1: estimate it couldn't go back prior to the Bronze Age. 185 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:29,640 Speaker 1: But as long as we have Bronze Age technology, which 186 00:11:29,679 --> 00:11:35,080 Speaker 1: begin and the hallmark of the Bronze Ages metallurgy and 187 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:40,880 Speaker 1: um in black magic and of metal or separating ores 188 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:45,160 Speaker 1: from metal and um uh metal alloys. Okay, Well if dude, 189 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:48,000 Speaker 1: if we're sent back beyond the Bronze Age, then this 190 00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:49,719 Speaker 1: clock is not gonna matter very much. You know what 191 00:11:49,760 --> 00:11:55,120 Speaker 1: I'm saying. Uh, A close inspection of the operational principles 192 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:59,200 Speaker 1: should reveal the principles behind its operation. It's a little 193 00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:01,960 Speaker 1: bit of word play there that sounds like Danny hillis 194 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:05,880 Speaker 1: and then uh what else? No matter when someone comes 195 00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:08,240 Speaker 1: upon it, it should be able to be improved upon. 196 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:13,000 Speaker 1: And finally it should be able to be constructed small 197 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:15,480 Speaker 1: enough to fit on a table. That's what the prototype. 198 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:18,839 Speaker 1: So success, Yeah, success, And then for the rest of them, 199 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:21,360 Speaker 1: they're they're kind of abandoning that because, like we said, 200 00:12:21,559 --> 00:12:23,439 Speaker 1: this thing is going to be the one that's being 201 00:12:23,440 --> 00:12:27,240 Speaker 1: constructed right now, is going to be two ft tall. Yes, um, 202 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:30,360 Speaker 1: but looks like it I have ourselves, um powering such 203 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:35,160 Speaker 1: a clock. There's if you're looking at ten thousand years, 204 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:39,160 Speaker 1: I think it seems kind of likely that civilization will 205 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:45,040 Speaker 1: suffer at least one collapse, if not several, And we 206 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:48,320 Speaker 1: have no idea how far back humans will be set, 207 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:52,120 Speaker 1: hopefully not for the Bronze Age. But um, so this 208 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:57,120 Speaker 1: clock needs to somehow gain power from the environment, and 209 00:12:57,360 --> 00:13:00,000 Speaker 1: Danny hillis came up with a bunch of different ideas, right, 210 00:13:00,559 --> 00:13:04,880 Speaker 1: like atomic power. Yeah, most of that, Uh, that's poor 211 00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:10,440 Speaker 1: manageability and transparency. Most of these are scalability Like they 212 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:12,480 Speaker 1: may have been good ideas, but they're just what too 213 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:16,960 Speaker 1: large to fit their their needs either that there either 214 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:24,040 Speaker 1: they're too big or they there already like they're perfect 215 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:27,760 Speaker 1: for this clock, but you can't use that to power 216 00:13:27,880 --> 00:13:30,560 Speaker 1: Maybe if if something need if something's added on that 217 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:33,920 Speaker 1: requires more power, t s. You already are using all 218 00:13:33,960 --> 00:13:36,040 Speaker 1: the power you can, or you can't scale it up 219 00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:38,920 Speaker 1: and it wouldn't work the same maybe exactly so that 220 00:13:38,920 --> 00:13:45,400 Speaker 1: would be chemical pre stored potential, geothermal, tidal, gravitational changes, 221 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:50,160 Speaker 1: and seismic and plate tectonics. Those all had poor scalability, 222 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:54,439 Speaker 1: so says Hill us Um, you can't use pressure change 223 00:13:54,480 --> 00:13:56,560 Speaker 1: because you would need like a bellows or a seal. 224 00:13:56,640 --> 00:14:00,240 Speaker 1: You want this thing to be as um simple as possable, 225 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:03,640 Speaker 1: because as any engineer knows, the more moving parts you have, 226 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:07,520 Speaker 1: the more parts you have that can break down. Um. 227 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:10,440 Speaker 1: And the flow of water. That's a good one, right, 228 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:12,880 Speaker 1: there should be water on the on the planet for 229 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:16,720 Speaker 1: ten thousand years. Sorry, you're exposing the clock to water, 230 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:22,320 Speaker 1: so inherently waters is self defeating energy source. Wind. Yeah, 231 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:24,640 Speaker 1: any kind of exposure to weather. That's why this thing 232 00:14:24,760 --> 00:14:27,080 Speaker 1: is buried inside of a mountain, right, So what did 233 00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:29,080 Speaker 1: he come up with? He came up with two ideas 234 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:34,440 Speaker 1: to power this humans. That's one. Yeah, human winding, that's one, 235 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:38,320 Speaker 1: a novel idea. The other is temperature change, that's right, 236 00:14:38,760 --> 00:14:41,040 Speaker 1: but yeah, he wanted He said his favorite was human 237 00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:44,840 Speaker 1: winding because it fosters responsibility for the clock, which is 238 00:14:44,880 --> 00:14:47,320 Speaker 1: a great, great idea, I think, because ultimately the clock 239 00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:50,120 Speaker 1: is for humans, even though it's sequestered in a mountain 240 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:52,360 Speaker 1: and it can run by itself for ten thousand years, 241 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:56,120 Speaker 1: if no human ever lays eyes on it, it's for humans. 242 00:14:56,240 --> 00:14:58,120 Speaker 1: And we'll explain on that. If it sounds like we're 243 00:14:59,160 --> 00:15:01,440 Speaker 1: talking out above side to our amounts, will explain on 244 00:15:01,520 --> 00:15:06,400 Speaker 1: that by saying doesn't need humans. Yet, it doesn't need humans. 245 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:09,400 Speaker 1: I bet people can't wait. I could just feel attention. 246 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:13,600 Speaker 1: The hairs in the back of their necks bristly. All right. 247 00:15:13,640 --> 00:15:16,640 Speaker 1: So for the prototype, um, it's sort of like an 248 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:19,160 Speaker 1: old school clock in a way. Uh. They used to 249 00:15:20,600 --> 00:15:24,440 Speaker 1: helical weights, Uh, similar to the weight gravity systems just 250 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:27,080 Speaker 1: like clock towers, old clock towers, and they drive the 251 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:30,760 Speaker 1: energy going up and down these tubes which will drive 252 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:36,600 Speaker 1: the pendulum, right yeah, um. And ultimately the prototype, the 253 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:41,400 Speaker 1: drive assembly as you'd call it, Um, it served its purpose. 254 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:43,960 Speaker 1: There was a prototype and that it said, okay, we 255 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:46,600 Speaker 1: need to do something different, and they have. But for 256 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:50,160 Speaker 1: the prototype, Yeah, there's helical weights we're not familiar with, 257 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:57,680 Speaker 1: are you okay? Um, But the the prototype also still 258 00:15:57,760 --> 00:16:02,600 Speaker 1: had like a solar synchronizer, which we'll talk about later, um, 259 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:06,080 Speaker 1: and a pendulum, which will also get a little more 260 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:10,360 Speaker 1: into But the pendulum is kind of key to keeping 261 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:13,320 Speaker 1: the time. We should do that now you want to Yeah, yeah, okay. 262 00:16:13,360 --> 00:16:17,080 Speaker 1: So back in the six D people were trying to 263 00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:20,200 Speaker 1: figure out how to keep time better than they have 264 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:25,320 Speaker 1: him more accurately. UM. And somebody a Dutch astronomer. Back 265 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:29,440 Speaker 1: in the day the best astronomers were Dutch Christian holligans. 266 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:33,320 Speaker 1: He said, hey, why don't you try using a pendulum 267 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:38,360 Speaker 1: because a pendulum has pretty cool property and that the 268 00:16:38,560 --> 00:16:43,800 Speaker 1: only two um things that affect the swing of a pendulum. 269 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:46,360 Speaker 1: Nothing else affects the swinging of a Pendlum, not changes 270 00:16:46,360 --> 00:16:52,360 Speaker 1: in temperature, not humidity, not anything else except the force 271 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:55,240 Speaker 1: of gravity and the length of the pendulum. I didn't 272 00:16:55,240 --> 00:16:58,600 Speaker 1: know this well I didn't either. Um, if you take 273 00:16:58,800 --> 00:17:01,680 Speaker 1: a pendulum and put it just about anywhere on Earth, 274 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:05,560 Speaker 1: you're gonna find that the gravitational field is is so 275 00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:08,800 Speaker 1: close to the same that a pendulum will swing the 276 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:11,919 Speaker 1: same way anywhere on Earth. So the same rate to right, right, 277 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:15,000 Speaker 1: So what affects that rate The period, which is the 278 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:18,119 Speaker 1: amount of time it takes for a pendulum to swing 279 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:20,879 Speaker 1: all the way from one side to the other. So 280 00:17:20,960 --> 00:17:24,520 Speaker 1: not just one side, it's it's both. That's a pendulum period. 281 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:27,600 Speaker 1: So really the only thing that affects it is um, 282 00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:30,720 Speaker 1: the length of the pendulum. Right. The shorter the pendulum, 283 00:17:30,880 --> 00:17:35,520 Speaker 1: the faster uh they go. The longer the pendulum usually uh, 284 00:17:35,560 --> 00:17:38,280 Speaker 1: the um the longer it takes. And once you get 285 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:40,520 Speaker 1: a pendulum going, which doesn't require a lot, it will 286 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:43,960 Speaker 1: keep going. Yes, it takes a very small amount of 287 00:17:44,119 --> 00:17:46,600 Speaker 1: energy input to keep it going, right, yeah, which is 288 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:49,480 Speaker 1: perfect for something like a ten year clock. Right. So 289 00:17:49,640 --> 00:17:53,159 Speaker 1: if you put a pendulum and attached it to something 290 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:56,480 Speaker 1: called an escapement, right, Yeah, this is a part I 291 00:17:56,520 --> 00:17:58,679 Speaker 1: got confused on. Okay, we'll check this out. So you 292 00:17:58,720 --> 00:18:01,400 Speaker 1: have a pendulum, and you've figured out the exact length 293 00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:04,840 Speaker 1: you need for a pendulumce period to take one second 294 00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:07,120 Speaker 1: to tick off one second on on a second hand. 295 00:18:07,160 --> 00:18:10,280 Speaker 1: That's exactly right. So you can attach the pendulum to 296 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:12,359 Speaker 1: this thing called an escapement. An escapement is just like 297 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:15,080 Speaker 1: a wheel with some gears to it, right, And these 298 00:18:15,119 --> 00:18:18,240 Speaker 1: gears are attached to the second hand, Okay, and the 299 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:21,560 Speaker 1: escapement is always wanting to go forward, but it's being 300 00:18:21,560 --> 00:18:24,600 Speaker 1: held in place by the pendulum, which is attached to 301 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:26,880 Speaker 1: an anchor. But we'll just call it the pendulum, right, 302 00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:31,680 Speaker 1: So as the pendulum swings one way, the escapement gear 303 00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:34,960 Speaker 1: is being held in place, and it's when it swings 304 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:37,120 Speaker 1: the other way, which is the end of a second, 305 00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:41,000 Speaker 1: the pendulum opens up, allowing the escapement gear to take 306 00:18:41,119 --> 00:18:45,800 Speaker 1: forward one tooth, thus moving the second hand forward one 307 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:50,399 Speaker 1: movement in a second. So that's how you do it. 308 00:18:50,480 --> 00:18:53,119 Speaker 1: And if you're very, very clever, you can design the 309 00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:57,400 Speaker 1: escapement gear so that as it moves, as it escapes, 310 00:18:57,640 --> 00:19:01,040 Speaker 1: it also nudges that anchor that's a touched to the pendulum, 311 00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:03,720 Speaker 1: transferring energy back to the pendulum to keep it swinging 312 00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:08,800 Speaker 1: and that's basically the basics of a clock, mechanical clock, right, 313 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:11,080 Speaker 1: and that's what they use for the ten thousand year 314 00:19:11,119 --> 00:19:14,159 Speaker 1: clock too, very smartly inappropriately to Yeah. I love how 315 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:16,600 Speaker 1: when they do design something to work ten thousand years 316 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:19,640 Speaker 1: they go back to bronze age and well this wasn't 317 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:23,080 Speaker 1: bronze age, but a lot of just old mechanical technology. 318 00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:27,439 Speaker 1: Well yeah, I mean it's I think we've advanced in 319 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:29,920 Speaker 1: a lot. I mean, if you're gonna make a digital clock, 320 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:32,159 Speaker 1: yeah we know what we're doing, but how are you 321 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:34,240 Speaker 1: going to power it? And you want to just use 322 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:40,080 Speaker 1: some really old, perfect technology exactly? That's called long thinking, Josh. 323 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:46,400 Speaker 1: So we've got winding and temperature changes, differences in temperature 324 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:50,280 Speaker 1: changes that are powering this clock, now right, that's right, um. 325 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:53,080 Speaker 1: And then those are the two principles that are powering 326 00:19:53,119 --> 00:19:55,320 Speaker 1: the clock. And there are different parts of the clock 327 00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:58,880 Speaker 1: that need to be powered, like your favorite the Geneva wheels, 328 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:03,160 Speaker 1: right Yeah, Aneva wheel sounds intimidating a Geneva drive until 329 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:05,800 Speaker 1: you look it up on YouTube and see what it is, 330 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:09,159 Speaker 1: and it's really just um. And it can come in 331 00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:11,320 Speaker 1: all kinds of shapes and in this case, it's sort 332 00:20:11,359 --> 00:20:15,680 Speaker 1: of the shape of a star, and it's imagine each 333 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:17,800 Speaker 1: point of a star has a notch cut in it, 334 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:21,440 Speaker 1: and sitting underneath that is a is a wheel, a 335 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:24,239 Speaker 1: drive wheel that spins with a peg coming out of it, 336 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:27,800 Speaker 1: and it slips into the little slot on the star, 337 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:31,159 Speaker 1: advancing it one little click, keeps turning and and spins 338 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:33,160 Speaker 1: out of it and then by the time it comes 339 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:35,239 Speaker 1: back around, it slips back into the next one. So 340 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:39,359 Speaker 1: it's just a slow ticking around in a circle. Right, 341 00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:41,760 Speaker 1: And so there's I think twenty of these for the 342 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:45,719 Speaker 1: big clock. But they're designed with a bunch of holes 343 00:20:45,760 --> 00:20:50,080 Speaker 1: in a pins and holes system basically, which essentially is 344 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:55,480 Speaker 1: making a mechanical Babbage Babbage difference engine like an early computer, 345 00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:59,720 Speaker 1: like a punch hole computer. Yeah. Right, they use before calculators. 346 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:03,679 Speaker 1: They is mechanical summers or actors, and this is you. 347 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:07,080 Speaker 1: But it's adding in binary ones and zeros. So it's 348 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:12,560 Speaker 1: carrying out digital calculations through mechanical means, which is astounding. 349 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:17,040 Speaker 1: And they're using this astounding technology to power basically what 350 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:20,119 Speaker 1: um in this article that we're reading. It's the world's 351 00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:24,679 Speaker 1: slowest computer, and that computer is being used to calculate, uh, 352 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:28,840 Speaker 1: an algorithm that will produce a different chime using ten 353 00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:33,320 Speaker 1: different chimes or two bells, um so that this thing 354 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:37,520 Speaker 1: supposedly will never make the same chime twice. Yeah. I 355 00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:40,960 Speaker 1: think the algorithm maxes out at three point five million 356 00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:45,120 Speaker 1: chimes of course, designed composed by Brian Eno, the ambient 357 00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:49,320 Speaker 1: music guy, right and uh and that that doesn't have 358 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:51,760 Speaker 1: anything to do with the powering of the clock. That's 359 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:54,119 Speaker 1: just the chimes. No, but the dirty secret of the 360 00:21:54,119 --> 00:21:57,960 Speaker 1: Long Mouth Foundation is that three point five million different 361 00:21:58,160 --> 00:22:03,879 Speaker 1: possible chime tones uh or combinations is about ninety thousand 362 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:07,600 Speaker 1: days short of ten thousand years. Oh really, yeah, it 363 00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:11,240 Speaker 1: wasn't ninety thousand days and years. I don't know, you 364 00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:16,800 Speaker 1: have a binary add we need some Geneva wheels in here. 365 00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:20,680 Speaker 1: Stat Well, they're not telling anyone that though obviously no 366 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:24,240 Speaker 1: they did actually wired. Yeah, They're like, you know, this 367 00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:27,520 Speaker 1: thing's not gonna chime every day, so I'm sure it'll 368 00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:31,680 Speaker 1: be fine, Okay, But basically no one's speaking to probably 369 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:36,160 Speaker 1: Needo right now. He's been demoted to ambient music guy 370 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:40,760 Speaker 1: from legendary producer. Uh. So the prototype, that's the prototype. 371 00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:43,280 Speaker 1: It's eight ft tall roughly eight and a half. It 372 00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:47,000 Speaker 1: is um at the Science Museum in London. You can 373 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:51,119 Speaker 1: go see it there. And it first started ticking on 374 00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:56,399 Speaker 1: December thirty first, nineteen or O one if you're a 375 00:22:56,400 --> 00:23:00,040 Speaker 1: long hour, and it worked the gong twice at the 376 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:03,960 Speaker 1: turn of the millennium to indicate that two millenniums are 377 00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:08,600 Speaker 1: now past, which is funny because technically the millennium didn't 378 00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:12,280 Speaker 1: start until two one. That's true. But they don't care. 379 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:16,119 Speaker 1: They don't care about a lot of stuff I'm finding out. Uh, 380 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:18,600 Speaker 1: So let's talk about the real deal when this article 381 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:21,280 Speaker 1: is written. The real deal was just proposed and it 382 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:23,520 Speaker 1: was going to be about sixty ft tall. That was 383 00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:26,119 Speaker 1: two years ago. Well, that one is the one in Nevada. 384 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:30,080 Speaker 1: I think that's still gonna be sixty. They just decided 385 00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:33,240 Speaker 1: to start on the Texas one first, gotcha because Bezos 386 00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:35,240 Speaker 1: was like, Hey, here's forty two million bucks, can we 387 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:37,240 Speaker 1: get started? Well, go ahead and spill the means there. 388 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:41,080 Speaker 1: I just Jeffrey Bezos, founder of Amazon dot com, UH 389 00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:43,359 Speaker 1: is heavily involved in this, to the tune of money 390 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:46,879 Speaker 1: and UH it being built on a mountain inside a 391 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:51,160 Speaker 1: mountain in West Texas, on his property. Yeah, so he 392 00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:54,119 Speaker 1: he owns it sort of kind of. I get the 393 00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:57,000 Speaker 1: impression that, yes, he definitely has This project is his, 394 00:23:57,160 --> 00:23:59,399 Speaker 1: but it's one of many that are going to be 395 00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:02,560 Speaker 1: built around the world, Like they got approval to build 396 00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:06,960 Speaker 1: one in a Smithsonian just this past year. Um and 397 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:09,520 Speaker 1: uh also Bezos by the way, he said that the 398 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:12,680 Speaker 1: two are unrelated. It's just a cool coincidence or whatever. 399 00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:16,000 Speaker 1: But he's also building a spaceport by the mountain too, 400 00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:19,920 Speaker 1: and he says that's unrelated to the clock. Yeah, he 401 00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:23,000 Speaker 1: just said, Hey, that's why not there's a space port. 402 00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:25,359 Speaker 1: There's gonna be ten thousand year clock. We'll see what happens. 403 00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:27,920 Speaker 1: But if you want to see he's um funding this, 404 00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:31,919 Speaker 1: uh this space program called Blue Origin. And you know 405 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:34,960 Speaker 1: how like in the fifties, like science fiction rockets would 406 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:40,080 Speaker 1: like land just going straight up and straight down, you know, yeah, yeah, Okay, 407 00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:43,040 Speaker 1: that's what his rockets do. And there's you can see 408 00:24:43,119 --> 00:24:46,000 Speaker 1: video of It's the most amazing thing I've ever seen that. 409 00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:49,200 Speaker 1: I'm I'm like, is this real? Like we're pretty good 410 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:53,080 Speaker 1: at after effects these days, it's gotta be. I think 411 00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:57,320 Speaker 1: it's real. You can make it happen blue Origin dot com. 412 00:24:57,440 --> 00:24:59,679 Speaker 1: I will I will look that up, sir. So, like 413 00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:02,600 Speaker 1: you said, Bezo says, or the one in Texas, I 414 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:04,440 Speaker 1: guess is what you should call it. The one that's 415 00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:07,840 Speaker 1: under construction is going to be about two hundred feet tall, um, 416 00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:10,040 Speaker 1: and it's kinda it's out in the middle of nowhere, 417 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:13,200 Speaker 1: very purposefully. Yeah. I think it's hours from the nearest airport. 418 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:17,240 Speaker 1: It requires a full days hike to reach the mouth 419 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:21,440 Speaker 1: of the cave opening, which is like a steel door, 420 00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:24,720 Speaker 1: and it's a mountain rising up from the the desert, 421 00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:27,359 Speaker 1: so you have a fifteen hundred foot climb just to 422 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:30,200 Speaker 1: get to the steel door the first door. So vandals, 423 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:32,520 Speaker 1: not only will you be trespassing, but you need to 424 00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:34,800 Speaker 1: be a mountaineer if you want to go mess with 425 00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:39,080 Speaker 1: this thing, which we don't encourage one, but they have 426 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:42,000 Speaker 1: they The first door is going to be jade, which 427 00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:44,800 Speaker 1: is pretty cool. It's gonna be hidden behind the rock face, 428 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:47,320 Speaker 1: so like you have to, I guess you could stumble 429 00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:51,480 Speaker 1: upon it. I think that's part of the idea, the fun. Yeah. Um, 430 00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:53,679 Speaker 1: but you will know when you do stumble upon it 431 00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:55,960 Speaker 1: that there's something very cool there because it's going to 432 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:58,400 Speaker 1: be a carved jade door in the rock face. Well, 433 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:00,440 Speaker 1: they're gonna open it up when they finish, they said 434 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:03,480 Speaker 1: they are. But I'm saying, like, if if this if 435 00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:05,760 Speaker 1: the location or the idea or anything you're having to 436 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:08,840 Speaker 1: do with the clock, it'll still be there and people 437 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:11,400 Speaker 1: can find it accidentally. Yeah. What really bothers me about 438 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:15,000 Speaker 1: this is I'm not going to know the result. You know, 439 00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:17,600 Speaker 1: if you lived to a thousand, maybe you would, but 440 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:21,080 Speaker 1: I can't live to ten thousand regardless. But does that 441 00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:24,120 Speaker 1: bother you? Yeah? Like I want to know how this ends. 442 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:25,840 Speaker 1: I want to know if in ten thousand years, if 443 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:28,679 Speaker 1: it's still running, Well, what happens if if? Okay, so 444 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:31,320 Speaker 1: just the clock just you don't care what happens like 445 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:37,080 Speaker 1: hundred years from now, not just the clock. Um, So, 446 00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:38,880 Speaker 1: if you want to access this thing, you go through 447 00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:41,800 Speaker 1: those two doors. It's in complete darkness. It's not all 448 00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:44,240 Speaker 1: lit up, which is kind of cool, right because I 449 00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:45,960 Speaker 1: guess any kind and they don't want any kind of 450 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:49,560 Speaker 1: electricity to be needed obviously why they're building it. They're 451 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:53,600 Speaker 1: using stuff but for a visitor later on, Yeah, exactly, 452 00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:57,600 Speaker 1: a post Bronze age visitor. It's going to be housed 453 00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:01,400 Speaker 1: in a five hundred foot tall tunnel about twelve ft 454 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:07,200 Speaker 1: in diameter, Yeah, a vertical tunnel. Yeah, it's like a shaft. Basically, 455 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:10,800 Speaker 1: it's a twelve ft diameter shaft that's five ft tall, 456 00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:15,440 Speaker 1: very tall. And um, it's got a very precise rock 457 00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:20,600 Speaker 1: staircase that was carved with a robot slicing machine. You 458 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:22,960 Speaker 1: see video that I think it was awesome. And it 459 00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:26,280 Speaker 1: starts at the top, which is cool. Basically it starts 460 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:28,960 Speaker 1: at the top with this just big hunk of rock 461 00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:32,400 Speaker 1: and just cuts in a circle, down, down, down, one 462 00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:36,120 Speaker 1: stair at a time, like the golden ratio kind of nautilus. Yeah, 463 00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:38,760 Speaker 1: very cool. Yeah, And so that's how you're gonna access 464 00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:42,600 Speaker 1: the gears. So let's go ahead and get to that. 465 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:44,600 Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and get to the counterweights at least. 466 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:46,720 Speaker 1: Well that's the first thing you would kind of come 467 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:49,879 Speaker 1: upon if you walked in on this thing and it's completed. 468 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:52,840 Speaker 1: And the counterweights are made up of stone discs, each 469 00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:55,320 Speaker 1: about the size of a car, each waying about ten 470 00:27:55,359 --> 00:28:01,400 Speaker 1: thousand pounds um. And we said that winding is winding 471 00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:04,440 Speaker 1: in differences in temperature change of the principles that provide 472 00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:09,280 Speaker 1: energy for this clock, but um, the weights are what 473 00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:13,320 Speaker 1: keep it running. Um. And when you come upon the weights, 474 00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:16,240 Speaker 1: you're gonna come upon a platform. And you know there's 475 00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:20,240 Speaker 1: like old um those old movies or whatever where there's 476 00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:24,320 Speaker 1: you know, slaves or um, somebody on a ship and 477 00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:27,520 Speaker 1: they're having to like crank a wheel. Like there's three 478 00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:29,680 Speaker 1: guys like all moving in the same direction, and each 479 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:32,040 Speaker 1: one has like a pole that is pushing like a 480 00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:34,800 Speaker 1: horizontal wheel. Right. Yeah, they're gonna have one of those 481 00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:39,240 Speaker 1: for visitors to crank, and that will raise these enormous 482 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:44,520 Speaker 1: counterweights and once they're fully raised, they'll have enough stored 483 00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:49,000 Speaker 1: potential energy to power the clock for about a century 484 00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:52,440 Speaker 1: without a single dash of sunlight or another human visitor. 485 00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:55,160 Speaker 1: So that's essentially winding the clock. I think they said 486 00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:58,280 Speaker 1: two or three people it takes to do this, and 487 00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:02,560 Speaker 1: um it what's it called a cap stand? I think 488 00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:05,160 Speaker 1: that that is what it's called. It's called a cap stand, right, Yeah, 489 00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:09,240 Speaker 1: that's the horizontal wheel. That's yeah. Yeah, so it's pretty cool, 490 00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:13,479 Speaker 1: like it requires human intervention. But as we said, and 491 00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:15,400 Speaker 1: let's go ahead and spill the beans how that works. 492 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:19,120 Speaker 1: If no one came around ever, it would still run 493 00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:24,200 Speaker 1: because of uh differences, and it collects sun's rays. The 494 00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:27,720 Speaker 1: prism that sticks out at the top a sapphire couple 495 00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:30,160 Speaker 1: of I bet that looks nice. And that's the only 496 00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:33,320 Speaker 1: part that's visible from outside. They said, yes, And it 497 00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:37,240 Speaker 1: collects the sun's rays and then channels them down through 498 00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:41,160 Speaker 1: metal rods. And the difference in that was it the cave, 499 00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:44,280 Speaker 1: the interior cave temperature and the temperature that collects between 500 00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:46,680 Speaker 1: day and night. It changes okay and night, which is 501 00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:50,200 Speaker 1: pretty ingenious because you think about what they're probably still 502 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:53,560 Speaker 1: will be over ten thousand years, there probably will still 503 00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:58,600 Speaker 1: be day and night. Yes, and that's ultimately what powers this. Well, 504 00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:02,080 Speaker 1: they're with no human intervention, Yeah, exactly. This dude though, 505 00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:06,520 Speaker 1: the Alexander uh what was his name? Rose? He said 506 00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:08,240 Speaker 1: that what they had to figure out there's something called 507 00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:12,640 Speaker 1: the equation of time, and it's not constant, like the 508 00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:15,880 Speaker 1: Earth is slowing its rotation by about a second every 509 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:18,360 Speaker 1: couple of hundred years, and all this stuff sounds like 510 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:19,920 Speaker 1: you have a big deal, but when you look on 511 00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:23,800 Speaker 1: a ten thousand of your timeline, it is a big deal. Um, 512 00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:25,760 Speaker 1: So the Earth is slowing by about a second every 513 00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:30,400 Speaker 1: couple of hundred years. Uh, it's also processing on its 514 00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:33,760 Speaker 1: pole every twenty six thousand years, so they have to 515 00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:38,000 Speaker 1: take that into account. And then climate change, it's gonna 516 00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:41,280 Speaker 1: if poles continue to melt, water is gonna be pushed out, 517 00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:44,400 Speaker 1: it's gonna rotate even slower. So what they figured out 518 00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:48,040 Speaker 1: there was a variance, Well, normally there's a variance of 519 00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:51,400 Speaker 1: about ten or fifteen minutes throughout the course of a 520 00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:54,600 Speaker 1: year from where the Sun should be. And they designed 521 00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:57,880 Speaker 1: this thing too self correct to still be able to 522 00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:00,560 Speaker 1: pick up the Sun's rays. Yeah, pretty ingenious, but they 523 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:02,760 Speaker 1: needed to do it on a ten thousand year scale. 524 00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:07,560 Speaker 1: So they basically formulated this massive equation and they figured 525 00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:10,640 Speaker 1: out how time would evolve over ten thousand years according 526 00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:13,360 Speaker 1: to all these variables, and they found out it is 527 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:16,360 Speaker 1: a plus or minus and this worst case scenario with 528 00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:20,120 Speaker 1: climate change of twenty three days from where they think 529 00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:23,040 Speaker 1: the sun should be over ten thousand years, which means 530 00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:25,680 Speaker 1: that the clock is way off by the end of 531 00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:28,080 Speaker 1: the ten thousand years. Well, but they accounted for that 532 00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:30,040 Speaker 1: with this equation they did. And the way that they 533 00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:33,360 Speaker 1: accounted for it though, also is through the solar synchronizer. 534 00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:40,800 Speaker 1: So every sunny day that um. At noontime, the sun 535 00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:43,960 Speaker 1: will hit that prism. We'll heat up this little rod 536 00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:47,840 Speaker 1: that sends a signal to the clock center working. So 537 00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:50,760 Speaker 1: the the smart part of the clock that keeps time 538 00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:55,520 Speaker 1: all the time, no matter what um and says, hey 539 00:31:55,560 --> 00:32:00,520 Speaker 1: it's solar noon, and they the clocks readjusts itself. So 540 00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:02,920 Speaker 1: the most it's ever going to get off is say, 541 00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:06,360 Speaker 1: you know, however, many days or maybe a couple of 542 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:10,440 Speaker 1: centuries without sunlight if there's some sort of horrible nuclear 543 00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:13,040 Speaker 1: winner or whatever. But let's say a couple of hundred 544 00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:16,320 Speaker 1: years without sunlight. The next time there's sunlight, it'll say, oh, 545 00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:18,920 Speaker 1: it's noon, and the clock will just readjust itself kind 546 00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:21,440 Speaker 1: of wake back up. Yeah that's crazy, but but it 547 00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:23,720 Speaker 1: will go back to Okay, it's noon now. No matter 548 00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:26,720 Speaker 1: how far it drifted, it will now know it's noon. 549 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:31,320 Speaker 1: Solar nude. It is very awesome. And the timber. The 550 00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:35,720 Speaker 1: differences in temperature also, it's it's called the thermoelectric effect UM. 551 00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:39,920 Speaker 1: The electrons. If you have a thermoelectric device, electrons will 552 00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:43,200 Speaker 1: go from a hot side to the cold side. And 553 00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:45,120 Speaker 1: you know as well as I do that the flow 554 00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:49,080 Speaker 1: electrons equals electricity, that's right, So that will keep things 555 00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:52,200 Speaker 1: in check as well. That will keep the inner workings 556 00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:55,640 Speaker 1: powered too. They thought of everything they did, and they 557 00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:58,160 Speaker 1: also thought of ways to store energy or to keep 558 00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:01,480 Speaker 1: from using energy, saving energy. He's another way to put it, well, yeah, 559 00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:03,560 Speaker 1: I mean over time. I think they said that if 560 00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:06,720 Speaker 1: the difference in temperature is great enough, it will just 561 00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:10,240 Speaker 1: store that temperature and over a timeline. If that keeps happening, 562 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,880 Speaker 1: it won't even have to you know, stop and catch up. 563 00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:17,680 Speaker 1: It'll just start operating fully mechanically by itself. Right. So 564 00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:21,240 Speaker 1: here in the order of winding exactly, So in the 565 00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:26,280 Speaker 1: order of um preference or of importance, the solar energy 566 00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:31,120 Speaker 1: or the diurnal temperature change energy UM goes from the 567 00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:35,800 Speaker 1: inner workings of the clock, yes, spills over to the weights, yes, 568 00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:39,240 Speaker 1: and then if the weights are wound, then you will 569 00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:44,600 Speaker 1: have the Geneva drive operating. Right, So it goes basically 570 00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:48,720 Speaker 1: like the clock knowing the correct time, the clock operating 571 00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:52,800 Speaker 1: and showing the correct time or whatever information that's supposed 572 00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:56,000 Speaker 1: to and then the clock making sounds. Those are the 573 00:33:56,720 --> 00:34:00,440 Speaker 1: levels of importance as far as energy distribution. Sure, yeah, 574 00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:02,920 Speaker 1: that makes sense because the chimes, they gotta come last 575 00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:05,920 Speaker 1: they do. It's nice and all, but they're also they're 576 00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:10,800 Speaker 1: meant for human consumption. But if enough of that diurnal 577 00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:15,080 Speaker 1: temperature difference uh energy spills over to the weights, then 578 00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:19,560 Speaker 1: the clock will ostensibly um be chime when nobody's there. 579 00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:22,600 Speaker 1: That's pretty cool. That's very cool. And next to his 580 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:26,879 Speaker 1: little rocket station. Right, he's got it all. He's got 581 00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:30,840 Speaker 1: all figured out. Um So, while we mentioned the Geneva 582 00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:33,440 Speaker 1: gears on on the on the main uh the two 583 00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:36,760 Speaker 1: ft when they're building these are about eight ft in diameter, 584 00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:42,879 Speaker 1: each one weighing about a thousand pounds. Yeah, and it's 585 00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:44,759 Speaker 1: it's pretty remarkable. I mean, if you think if you 586 00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:47,239 Speaker 1: ever been inside a clock tower and seeing that, it's like, 587 00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:50,720 Speaker 1: imagine that times twenty. And remember the Geneva drive system 588 00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:54,680 Speaker 1: is the the mechanical computer that's come that's calculating the 589 00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:57,600 Speaker 1: algorithm to play the chimes. It's the whole reason it's there, 590 00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:01,200 Speaker 1: that's right, and it's being powered by winding or the weights. 591 00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:04,960 Speaker 1: Winding the weights. Uh So, if you keep climbing up 592 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,720 Speaker 1: in this thing, you will get to the primary chamber, 593 00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:10,640 Speaker 1: and that is where you finally see the face of 594 00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:13,759 Speaker 1: the clock, which is the most important thing. If you're 595 00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:16,880 Speaker 1: building a clock, it's also gonna be baffling thing. Yeah, 596 00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:19,840 Speaker 1: I mean the face of this clock is uh or 597 00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:24,759 Speaker 1: if it's anything like the prototype, it's not like any 598 00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:27,239 Speaker 1: clock I've ever seen. It's very awesome, Like you can 599 00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:29,680 Speaker 1: clearly say, oh, I see the century, and I see 600 00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:34,600 Speaker 1: them the millennium, maybe even the year. But like when 601 00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:36,839 Speaker 1: I get to the star field, I imagine like so 602 00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:40,120 Speaker 1: the starfields being displayed, I get that. I think that 603 00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:42,000 Speaker 1: that means that if it were nighttime and you can 604 00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:44,080 Speaker 1: see the star field and you went outside and looked up, 605 00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:47,920 Speaker 1: you would see the same stars, right right, Okay, But 606 00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:51,680 Speaker 1: the horizons are what's throwing me off the most. The 607 00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:56,600 Speaker 1: ret r e t e. It shows horizons. I don't 608 00:35:56,719 --> 00:35:59,919 Speaker 1: understand what that, what that means, or what you're gonna 609 00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:03,400 Speaker 1: it from that fortunately, and I haven't seen it. But 610 00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:07,920 Speaker 1: supposedly there's going to be a manual, some sort of explanation. Yeah, 611 00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:10,560 Speaker 1: I'm sure they'll have it, some sort of uh it. 612 00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:12,360 Speaker 1: Once they open it up for people to come visit. 613 00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:14,800 Speaker 1: There'll be some like a little button you push and 614 00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:18,920 Speaker 1: it will be Morgan Freeman's boy explaining our works or 615 00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:22,480 Speaker 1: what the horizon means. Um If you want to know 616 00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:25,320 Speaker 1: the time of day, though, you have to ask the clock. 617 00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:27,279 Speaker 1: Chuck I thought this was one of the coolest parts 618 00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:31,440 Speaker 1: of this whole deal because they built it to to 619 00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:35,759 Speaker 1: operate at its most frugal over the years, obviously, and 620 00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:38,399 Speaker 1: one thing that you don't need is a current read 621 00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:40,879 Speaker 1: out if no one's there to read it. And so 622 00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:42,880 Speaker 1: they says, well, why don't you ask the clock, like 623 00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:46,800 Speaker 1: you said, So whatever time you see when you approach 624 00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:50,600 Speaker 1: the clock is the last time that it read when 625 00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:55,200 Speaker 1: someone wound not the clock itself, but the clock's face 626 00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:58,680 Speaker 1: right the display the yeah, the clocks. So there's two 627 00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:01,640 Speaker 1: ways to win. The cap stay and that raises the weights, 628 00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:05,279 Speaker 1: and then there's the there's a little hand wheel that 629 00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:08,560 Speaker 1: just one single person can do to wind the clock 630 00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:12,200 Speaker 1: the clocks display and it'll correct itself and say, we'll 631 00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:15,759 Speaker 1: ring it's now you know whatever time it is. And 632 00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:18,840 Speaker 1: here's the horizon, which Josh doesn't get. Here's where the 633 00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:21,719 Speaker 1: moon and sun phases are, and here's what year it 634 00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:23,480 Speaker 1: is with the zero in the front of it. It's 635 00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:26,880 Speaker 1: pretty cool. So the clock always knows what time it is. 636 00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:29,680 Speaker 1: It's just not necessarily displaying it. It's just not gonna 637 00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:33,719 Speaker 1: tell it's asked. Pretty cool, so chuck. Um, there's some 638 00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:36,600 Speaker 1: pretty obvious reasons to choose the inside of a mountain 639 00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:42,640 Speaker 1: to put this clock in earthquake protection, nuclear bomb protection mountains. 640 00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:46,760 Speaker 1: They're they're long lasting, yeah, um. But there's other reasons 641 00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:50,640 Speaker 1: that they chose the interior of a mountain as well, Like, um, 642 00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:54,480 Speaker 1: the differences in temperature between seasons and day within the 643 00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:59,600 Speaker 1: mountain um are very minimal, which means that you're not 644 00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:04,319 Speaker 1: gonna have a freeze thaw cycle, which is apparently very corrosive. Yeah, 645 00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:07,080 Speaker 1: but it's great enough to where you're gonna get the 646 00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:10,279 Speaker 1: energy out of it, right, especially at the top. So 647 00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:13,640 Speaker 1: remember like there's the mountain top that from the entrance 648 00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:17,120 Speaker 1: the bottom of the clock, the top is five feet, 649 00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:19,560 Speaker 1: but the clocks only two d feet, so the extra 650 00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:23,120 Speaker 1: three feet is above there is where the temperature differences 651 00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:28,680 Speaker 1: will really be noticeable. Right. Uh. So they've picked a 652 00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:30,520 Speaker 1: very good place. And also the one in Nevada has 653 00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:33,080 Speaker 1: got similar conditions, I think so, which is why they 654 00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:36,000 Speaker 1: picked that high dried desert, highdried desert. Uh. And then 655 00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:38,640 Speaker 1: the parts this is remarkable to me, Um, if you're 656 00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:40,960 Speaker 1: going to construct something at last for ten thousand years, 657 00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:44,680 Speaker 1: you're not gonna want to throw a bunch of thirty 658 00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:48,920 Speaker 1: weight oil in there, because oil uh has the potential 659 00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:52,719 Speaker 1: to fail and leak, and oil will attract dirt like crazy, 660 00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:56,960 Speaker 1: and little hairs in like fuzzy pieces of grit over 661 00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:00,239 Speaker 1: ten thousand years will stop any machine from running. So 662 00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:05,400 Speaker 1: what they did was they barring from NASA, who originally 663 00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:09,600 Speaker 1: developed ceramic bearings to use on satellites. So because you 664 00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:12,200 Speaker 1: don't want to have satellites that need oiling either, uh, 665 00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:16,600 Speaker 1: they used uh ceramic, which nowadays can be harder than diamonds. 666 00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:20,440 Speaker 1: Ceramic bearings, like the moving parts are ceramic. And remember 667 00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:23,000 Speaker 1: earlier I said, like humans haven't made too many things 668 00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:27,000 Speaker 1: that have lasted ten thousand years. Ceramic pot shirts are 669 00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:30,240 Speaker 1: one example of something. Boom Uh we have pot shirts 670 00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:33,480 Speaker 1: that are like seventeen thousand years old, and that's just 671 00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:36,759 Speaker 1: like from a pot. What they're making today should be 672 00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:40,400 Speaker 1: able to last way longer because these parts move so 673 00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:44,520 Speaker 1: slowly they don't require any lubrication. So the ceramic ball 674 00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:47,080 Speaker 1: bearings are keeping the metal parts away from one another, 675 00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:49,400 Speaker 1: because if you have to like metals that are in 676 00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:53,440 Speaker 1: contact and aren't moving really like the millennium dial um 677 00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:56,240 Speaker 1: basically won't move the whole time you or I are alive, 678 00:39:56,920 --> 00:40:00,680 Speaker 1: children are alive. Um. And if you have the same 679 00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:05,000 Speaker 1: kind of metal and like one gear touching the other gear, um, 680 00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:10,799 Speaker 1: they're's gonna fuse together. You know. Micro vibration. I did 681 00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:14,800 Speaker 1: not enlighten me. No, it's micro vibration, Like it's not moving, 682 00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:18,839 Speaker 1: quote unquote, but micro vibration over ten thousand years will 683 00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:21,359 Speaker 1: cause it to weld itself. That's pretty cool. And that's 684 00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:24,239 Speaker 1: if it's a like metal, and if they're unlike, they 685 00:40:24,239 --> 00:40:27,080 Speaker 1: will corrode over time in that right, Yeah, it's um 686 00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:31,560 Speaker 1: galvanic corrosion. If they're dissimilar metals, they'll just eat into 687 00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:33,399 Speaker 1: each other. So either either way, you don't want these 688 00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:37,040 Speaker 1: metals touch you another. So the ceramic ball bearings that 689 00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:39,839 Speaker 1: don't need any lubrication are perfect. It's right. The rest 690 00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:43,040 Speaker 1: of it is made from three sixteen sainless steel, which 691 00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:46,560 Speaker 1: this Alexander guy said that'll last ten thousand years. And 692 00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:49,400 Speaker 1: even if it starts to rust. The movements of this 693 00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:54,960 Speaker 1: clock because it moves so slowly, because it's so large Um, 694 00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:59,000 Speaker 1: the the precision doesn't need to be like thousands of 695 00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:00,799 Speaker 1: an inch, that's what's cool. It can be like a 696 00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:03,520 Speaker 1: quarter of an inch. Last plenty of room for rust, right, 697 00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:06,160 Speaker 1: so if there is rust, it really doesn't matter. And 698 00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:09,080 Speaker 1: also saw where he said in the video that all 699 00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:13,919 Speaker 1: the gear teeth were cut three dimensionally, and uh, what 700 00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:17,839 Speaker 1: that means is it uses rollers to roll the gear, 701 00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:21,000 Speaker 1: so it's a rolling mechanism instead of what he called 702 00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:24,480 Speaker 1: a scrubbing friction. So I guess a rolling friction is 703 00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:27,680 Speaker 1: much easier on the parts and scrubbing. And um, I 704 00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:30,320 Speaker 1: was reading a Wired article on it, and the reporters 705 00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:33,600 Speaker 1: said that he came upon a Geneva wheel, remember their 706 00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:37,960 Speaker 1: eight feet in diameter. Yeah, these are um and they 707 00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:40,640 Speaker 1: had the ceramic ball bearings in it and he could 708 00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:43,799 Speaker 1: turn it very easily with just like gentle pressure from 709 00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:46,440 Speaker 1: his finger. So they're going to be working just fine. 710 00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:48,359 Speaker 1: I can't I want to visit this thing when it's done, 711 00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:51,000 Speaker 1: at least I know I won't see the end, but 712 00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:52,920 Speaker 1: I'd like to be there for the beginning. Well you 713 00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:56,239 Speaker 1: can actually you can go join the long Now Foundation 714 00:41:56,560 --> 00:41:59,680 Speaker 1: at long now dot org. Right, Yeah, they operate on 715 00:41:59,719 --> 00:42:02,279 Speaker 1: don't nations. I don't think we ever even mentioned. It's 716 00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:07,200 Speaker 1: a private organization and funded by people like Bezos. And 717 00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:11,919 Speaker 1: I think the the UM basic membership costs like eight 718 00:42:11,960 --> 00:42:15,600 Speaker 1: bucks a month. Um, you probably have a pretty good 719 00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:19,360 Speaker 1: idea of where your money is going. Uh, their website 720 00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:22,279 Speaker 1: long now dot org, long now dot Oregon. Then there's 721 00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:25,239 Speaker 1: also now ten thousand year clock dot net and that's 722 00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:28,239 Speaker 1: bezos website. Yeah, and there's not a whole lot there yet, 723 00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:33,440 Speaker 1: but no, I mean it's just give overview, but um, 724 00:42:33,560 --> 00:42:35,759 Speaker 1: there's there. We were left out this one part and 725 00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:39,680 Speaker 1: the one in Texas Bezos is millennium Clock. There's gonna 726 00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:43,839 Speaker 1: be little alcoves, different rooms. There's a one year room, 727 00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:47,040 Speaker 1: a ten year room, hundred a thousand and ten thousand 728 00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:49,960 Speaker 1: year room, and like they're leaving it to later civilizations 729 00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:52,360 Speaker 1: to figure out what artifact to put in there. But 730 00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:54,839 Speaker 1: in the one year room they're putting the ory which 731 00:42:54,960 --> 00:42:58,480 Speaker 1: tracks the motion of the calculates the movement of the planets, 732 00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:02,800 Speaker 1: and it also is an animation of I think Voyager 733 00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:05,719 Speaker 1: two on this grand tour of like some of the 734 00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:09,360 Speaker 1: outer planets. UM. And that's going into one year and 735 00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:11,280 Speaker 1: they're going to figure out what to put in the tenure. 736 00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:16,680 Speaker 1: So they're soliciting um ideas from any if you have 737 00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:18,480 Speaker 1: an idea of what you what should be put in 738 00:43:18,520 --> 00:43:21,239 Speaker 1: the ten year alcove. But I guess some of that 739 00:43:21,239 --> 00:43:25,000 Speaker 1: stuff would require electricity though, right, I know, I don't 740 00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:27,440 Speaker 1: think so now, I don't think any of it's going 741 00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:32,719 Speaker 1: to or if it does, it will just be a thermoelectricity. Right, 742 00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:37,680 Speaker 1: So I feel like we covered that pretty well. Yeah, 743 00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:40,840 Speaker 1: ten year clock. I mean it's a way more basic 744 00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:44,719 Speaker 1: than it appears like when you first look at it. 745 00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:49,080 Speaker 1: It's like simple gears moving pendulum swinging. It's also going 746 00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:51,680 Speaker 1: up and fully and genius. Though, Yeah, the way they 747 00:43:51,719 --> 00:43:55,240 Speaker 1: put it together overcame problems that it may not encounter 748 00:43:55,600 --> 00:43:59,440 Speaker 1: for thousands of very smart, dudish indies. If you want 749 00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:01,680 Speaker 1: to learn more about the ten thousand year clock, you 750 00:44:01,719 --> 00:44:04,480 Speaker 1: can type in ten thousand year clock in the search 751 00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:08,080 Speaker 1: bart how stuff works dot com And that I said 752 00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:11,480 Speaker 1: search bar, So that means it's time for listener mail. 753 00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:16,360 Speaker 1: That's right, Josh, I'm gonna call this the cone snail 754 00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:20,000 Speaker 1: saved my life. Yes, remember when we talked about the 755 00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:24,920 Speaker 1: cone snail in the Venom podcast No, it wasn't venom. 756 00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:29,600 Speaker 1: What was it? It was? Probably? Was it just called venom? No, 757 00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:32,759 Speaker 1: it's like, what's the most venomous animal on earth? That's right? 758 00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:35,800 Speaker 1: This from David Miami. Hey, guys, love the show. I 759 00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:38,600 Speaker 1: recently listened to the show on venom and you mentioned 760 00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:41,880 Speaker 1: the cone snail. Five years ago, cone snail venom saved 761 00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:45,880 Speaker 1: my life. Was diagnosed with cancer and due to the 762 00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:49,000 Speaker 1: cancer chronic pain. After many years have failed attempts to 763 00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:52,880 Speaker 1: control my pain with conventional medication, I was extremely frustrated 764 00:44:52,920 --> 00:44:56,920 Speaker 1: and still suffering intolerable pain. Luckily, I found out about 765 00:44:57,000 --> 00:45:01,279 Speaker 1: the ziconotide cone snail venom because remember I think we 766 00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:05,799 Speaker 1: talked about scorpion venom being used in cancer. Yeah, that's right, okay. Uh. 767 00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:07,840 Speaker 1: The only problem with using the cone snail venom to 768 00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:11,120 Speaker 1: control pain is that I needed an implant. It can't 769 00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:14,080 Speaker 1: be taken in pill form. One needs to be implanted 770 00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:17,360 Speaker 1: with a hockey puck sized implant that slowly releases the 771 00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:21,560 Speaker 1: medication into my intrathecal fluid. What which is the fluid 772 00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:24,160 Speaker 1: surrounding the spinal cord? I might be pronouncing it wrong. 773 00:45:25,120 --> 00:45:26,759 Speaker 1: Every three months, I need to go in for a 774 00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:29,520 Speaker 1: refill so using a small needle. This guy's like Iron Man. 775 00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:33,280 Speaker 1: The doctor refills the pump that's inside of his body 776 00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:36,359 Speaker 1: with Cone Snail venom. It has been a godsend and 777 00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:39,279 Speaker 1: greatly improved my quality of life and some days I 778 00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:43,160 Speaker 1: am completely pain free. That is cool. So David Miami, 779 00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:46,839 Speaker 1: kudos to you, sir and continued good health. Hats off 780 00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:50,720 Speaker 1: to your medical pioneering. Absolutely, what's old is new again 781 00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:54,480 Speaker 1: and thank you Cone Snail. Yeah, thanks Cone Steele. Uh 782 00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:58,880 Speaker 1: let's see if you have an email about a past 783 00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:02,719 Speaker 1: episode and how it affected your life. We always want 784 00:46:02,719 --> 00:46:05,680 Speaker 1: to hear that kind of thing. Sure, you can tweet 785 00:46:05,719 --> 00:46:09,360 Speaker 1: to us at s y s K Podcast. That's our handle. 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