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1,000 Year Clock of planted trees

November 7th, 02007 by Alexander Rose - Twitter: @zander

Paolo Savagione (lead engineer on our Clock Project) sent in this nifty video of a 1000 year forestry-clock idea in France. We have talked about ideas like this for the 10,000 Year Clock, but this is the first simulation of such an idea I have seen. I think however that there might be more successful ways to use this idea that would be as interesting in the moment as they would be in time lapse.

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Stephanie Gerson

stunning. I'd thought of something like this for a yearly calendar (e.g. a circle of flowers that bloom consecutively for each month of the year; of course I live in the Bay Area ;) but I'd never considered something like this. wow. WOW.
Joel Thomas

Beautiful idea! Possibly species could be selected such that a few could be left at the starting point so that at 1000 yrs an example of millenium survivors might remain standing.
David

What a fascinating project! A great companion to the 10,000 Year Clock. I notice in their proposal they mention that after the first 1000 years the trees will begin their return trip. Now that's a slow pendulum!