Stewart Brand

There's a certain amount of upkeep, but very, very little.

It can be forgotten underground for centuries, and it'll be just fine.

Yep.

And that turned out to be... There's ways, as you know, to allow the engineers to run parts of your system as if it's for a very long time.

You just run it fast.

And...

They've done that.

And so these systems that are built into it are very, very, very robust.

Right.

And which has happened with lots of things in the past and could happen with this, but it's hard to get to.

It is pretty sequestered inside a mountain, inside airlocks and things like that.

One would like that it be not like Stonehenge or the pyramids, where whatever the original spiritual reasons were have gone away, and be more like the Ise Shrine in Japan,

which is the beating heart of Shintoism for the Japanese.

They rebuild this wooden temple every 20 years and have done for a couple thousand years now, more than a thousand, less than 2,000.

And they rebuild it perfectly exactly like it was before.

And the people that are doing it are...

espousing the Shinto frame of thinking about the world exactly the way it was done before.

And so it'd be nice if our 10,000-year clock has a set of people who are continuous along with the clock and know about its history, know about its reasons for being,

What is its reasons for being?

You know, we have a Statue of Liberty.