[time-nuts] NPR: Danny Hillis, Long Now
Hal Murray
hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Wed Jan 1 07:31:01 EST 2014
10,000 Year Clock Challenges Approach To Time
http://tinyurl.com/ofguvu2
http://www.npr.org/2013/12/31/258548386/10-000-year-old-clock-challenges-appro
ach-to-time
Audio is 6:15
But the project began simply when Danny Hillis heard a story about New
College, one of the oldest colleges at the University of Oxford, founded in
the 1300s.
HILLIS: Sometime this century, they were renovating the common room and they
needed some 40-foot oak beams to replace the originals. And of course, by
then you couldn't just go down to the lumber yard and buy a 40 foot oak beam.
But they knew that Oxford had some forests that it owned and so they asked
the forester if there were any oak trees that they could harvest. and the
forester said, oh, yes. We have the ones that were planted to replace the
beams in New College.
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Google found this:
http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/oak-beams-new-college-oxford
"Well sirs, we was wonderin' when you'd be askin".
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