Re:10,000 year clock gets lowered into Texan mountain
by kragen on Sunday February 25, 2018 @06:00PM
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Yeah, it would be counterproductive to require all the construction workers to undertake a quasi-religious pilgrimage every day in order to reach the worksite. I'm talking about the plan for visitors, which doesn't require any actual heroism; it's based on Joseph Campbell's synthesis of world mythology described at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey or http://www.tlu.ee/~rajaleid/montaazh/Hero%27s%20Journey%20Ar.... The best textual source I've found online explaining the specific plan for the obstacles to reaching the Clock is at https://www.edge.org/conversation/the-mountain-and-the-clock, although that was talking about the Nevada site, which hasn't been finished yet, because Jeff has a lot more money than the Foundation does. Stewart Brand gave a TED talk on the subject in 2004; the Monomyth bit starts about 5'30": https://www.ted.com/talks/stewart_brand_on_the_long_now
Cookiemon's comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16451497 links to Danny Hillis's lecture at https://soundcloud.com/longnow/progress-on-the-10000-year-cl... which also talks about the Monomyth and theme park design.
It appears to be on privately owned land that is part of a huge ranch in the area. So maybe the hero's journey is avoiding angry texans with shotguns if you either (a) cut the padlock off the gate that blocks vehicle access to the road up the mountain, or (b) park your vehicle near the gate and ride a mountain bike up the road.