Stewart Brand
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 24 Apr
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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.
How about a Statue of Continuity?
And that's what this thing is.
It's become kind of a genre of land art, which, in a sense, our clock is.
It also happens that the Long Knapp Foundation owns the only privately owned grove of bristlecone pine trees up on top of a mountain in eastern Nevada.
And one artist has gone up there and has figured out a way to measure bristlecone pine time, different from clock time, and then it changes from year to year.
He's measuring it basically by the growth characteristics of the bristlecones.
And so this is an exhibit in Reno, Nevada at an art school there showing bristlecone pine time for the next maybe 10,000 years.
Well, sure.
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