[time-nuts] NPR: Danny Hillis, Long Now

[Hal Murray]

10,000 Year Clock Challenges Approach To Time

http://tinyurl.com/ofguvu2
http://www.npr.org/2013/12/31/258548386/10-000-year-old-clock-challenges-appro
ach-to-time

Audio is 6:15


But the project began simply when Danny Hillis heard a story about New 
College, one of the oldest colleges at the University of Oxford, founded in 
the 1300s.

HILLIS: Sometime this century, they were renovating the common room and they 
needed some 40-foot oak beams to replace the originals. And of course, by 
then you couldn't just go down to the lumber yard and buy a 40 foot oak beam. 
But they knew that Oxford had some forests that it owned and so they asked 
the forester if there were any oak trees that they could harvest. and the 
forester said, oh, yes. We have the ones that were planted to replace the 
beams in New College.

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Google found this:
  http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/oak-beams-new-college-oxford
  "Well sirs, we was wonderin' when you'd be askin".


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