Ozymandias...................
Posted on 02/21/2018 7:18:04 AM PST by Red Badger
Idiot journalist.
They don’t teach ‘history’ in journalism school...................
If we’ve learned anything about this planet, it’s that it does a hard-reset every now and then - which is important. That’s how it works.
My guess is he wants to leave his “pyramid” behind so that if in the future something like that happens, it will be found.
Just my guess, but if you want to look at the bright side, think of all the mouths it fed to get it done.
Capitalism
This project can give a (admittedly tenuous) anchor to civilization. One theory is that a complete breakdown can be addressed by some at least focusing on maintaining the clock, as a connection to a civilized past and provide a focused hope for rebuilding anew.
One day we will be visited by aliens and as they are meandering around they will come across this clock. They will look at it, turn to each other and wonder who was the a$$hat who put it there.
Looks like Elon Musk envy to me.
“we can’t even find any evidence of them today.”
They will now, the damn clock. I’m reminded of the last scenes of Planet of the Apes and Heston’s discovery. Humanity never dies, it destroys itself like suicide and then is puzzled in why. We ain’t very smart. We can see the hole in the road filled with water, but we can’t seem to step over it.
rwood
Just as archeologists do today: dig up stuff in obscure locations, and often go “WTF were they thinking?”
Whose job is it to wind this thing for 10,000 years?
There will be a cave in.....
Insightful! This new batch of techno robber barons do seem to mirror the great Roman Leaders. Eventually they will bring back Caesar (or Anti-Christ)
Gobekli Teppe
I respectfully disagree. Plenty of evidence of a civilization that existed before a comet strike hit the ice caps 12,000 years ago
Can he make one I can wear? or at least one I could install in one of those old English style phone booths? ;-)
I’m surprised it wasn’t digital......................
A clock never fed a hungry child.
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter’d visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp’d on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock’d them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
I miss Robin, that crazy liberal.
I would be more impressed if he fixed his corrupt newspaper.
The new millennium began at 12:00:01 AM on January 1, 2001 - the clock is already off 365 days!
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Nice catch.
Ozymandias...................
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