of monumental scale it's about five hundred feet tall it's inside a mountain and west texas in a chamber that's about twelve feet in diameter and five hundred feet tall

ten thousand year clock is an idea conceived by brilliant guy knew danny hillis way back in the eighties the ideas to build a clock as a symbol for long-term thinking that ticks once a year the chimes once you know every hundred years and the

cuckoo comes out once every thousand years so just sort of slows everything down

and um it's a completely mechanical clock

it is

designed to last ten thousand years with no human intervention

so the material choices and everything else it's in a remote location both to protect it but also so that visitors have to kind of make a pilgrimage