{"id":5724,"date":"2008-10-17T08:42:18","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T07:09:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-11T13:09:24","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T07:09:24","slug":"long-clock-big-gear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/long-clock-big-gear\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Clock, Big Gear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nRemember that awesome 10,000-year clock the crazies at Long Now Foundation were constructing? The one that will be erected *inside* a mountain in Nevada? Powered by the changes in daily temperature a the top of the mountain (situated among the oldest living things on earth, Bristlecone pines), the Clock will serve to remind humanity of the long-term.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWell, here is the first completed part for the full-size clock. It&#8217;s an 8-foot Geneva gear, with custom roller bearings later to be replaced by ones made of ceramic. (Because the wheels of the clock move so slowly metal-to- metal contact will corrode over the hundreds of years the wheel will take to move.)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/ct2\/Largegeneva-chris-greg-1.jpg\" height=\"338\" width=\"450\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Largegeneva-Chris-Greg-1\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMore, including videos of the mechanism in motion, coming soon on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.longnow.org\/\">Long Now blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that awesome 10,000-year clock the crazies at Long Now Foundation were constructing? The one that will be erected *inside* a mountain in Nevada? Powered by the changes in daily temperature a the top of the mountain (situated among the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/long-clock-big-gear\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[269],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/thetechnium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}