New West TX pilgrimage: really big, really slow clock under construction near Van Horn

by Bill Davenport June 21, 2011

OK, so you’ been to Roden Crater, You’ve visited Magee’s Hill, Chinati, Spiral Jetty and all . . .what next?  Inventor Danny Hillis, futurist Stewart Brand, musician Brian Eno, Wired editor Kevin Kelly and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and a cast of West coast dreamers are all involved in the Long Now Foundation, whose project is to build an enormous mechanical clock inside a West Texas mountain near Van Horn that will tick once a day, and chime once a century, if there’s anybody there to listen.  If the clock were installed next to a nuclear waste disposal site, it would be sort of like a big oven timer!

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