LongPlayer

[applePi]

http://longplayer.org/about/
It began playing at midnight on the 31st of December 1999, and will continue to play without repetition until the last moment of 2999
not sure if this task will be fulfilled.

[heartbone]

http://longplayer.org/about/
It began playing at midnight on the 31st of December 1999, and will continue to play without repetition until the last moment of 2999

WHY?

not sure if this task will be fulfilled.

It won't even make it to the next century.


LONG ENOUGH

[c4s]

http://longplayer.org/about/
It began playing at midnight on the 31st of December 1999, and will continue to play without repetition until the last moment of 2999

WHY?

I'd answer with a counter question: why not?

It reminds us on how irrelevant we -- as an individual, mankind and actually all living species on this planet (and everywhere else?!) -- are. Just thinking about how the world will be like in 1000 years makes clear on how ridiculous our current problems actually are relative to a tiny broader time frame (in the cosmical sense). No matter if this project will really fulfill its task, it's still a beautiful message that encourages you to appreciate your own existence in the now.

[Samuel]

I think it's a really cool project and I hope they find a way to make it last a full 1000 years.
I guess I won't be around at that time to know for sure if it makes it, but hopefully someone will be.

[applePi]

there is a short description about this project mathematics http://www.harpercollins.com.au/9780007 ... eb-sampler click on read a sample , then search the words jem finer and read from there.

also like this project there is a very long experiment started in 1927 in which a tar in a glass dropped one drop every 9 years or so, and after every drop there is a festival, look here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_drop_experiment but i am annoyed by the presence of the 9v battery near the glass or possibly they want to show us the glass size

[heartbone]

http://longplayer.org/about/
It began playing at midnight on the 31st of December 1999, and will continue to play without repetition until the last moment of 2999

WHY?

I'd answer with a counter question: why not?

When away from working on the DEDUCER, I'm trying to focus on the positive.

It reminds us on how irrelevant we -- as an individual, mankind and actually all living species on this planet (and everywhere else?!) -- are. Just thinking about how the world will be like in 1000 years makes clear on how ridiculous our current problems actually are relative to a tiny broader time frame (in the cosmical sense). No matter if this project will really fulfill its task, it's still a beautiful message that encourages you to appreciate your own existence in the now.

I 'm having quite the ying-yang moment trying to reconcile your opening thought with your last.

Yes, indeed.

[TI-994A]

Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1850