Monday, August 17, 2015

Long-term thinking

How to warn people of the future about the presence of nuclear waste that will remain dangerously radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years? How to construct a clock that will tell the time for millennia? Motherboard's Elmo Keep has taken a look at some of the extraordinary projects that exemplify the hubristic human desire to overcome the passage of time.

(Thanks to Simon for the link.)

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