SYSK Selects: What's the 10,000 Year Clock?

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🗓️ 6 May 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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In this week's SYSK Select episode, in a desert in Texas a 200-feet-tall clock is being constructed deep inside a mountain. Once completed, it will keep time for the next 10,000 years, even if there are no humans around to use it. Tune in as Chuck and Jos

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.0	Hey everybody, it's me Josh and my pick for SISK Selects this week is the one we did on the 10,000 year clock.
0:38.7	Just looking back, I think it's probably one of the coolest episodes we've ever done.
0:43.3	And it's just kind of me and Chuck operating on all cylinders talking about something we're super jazzed about.
0:49.1	So we hope you enjoy it and my apologies for being sick in this one.
0:53.0	It's still good.
0:55.8	Welcome to Stucky Should Know, GrimhouseStarForks.com.
1:05.7	Hey and welcome to The Podcast on Josh Clark.
1:08.7	There's Charles Dudley Chuck and Bright and that makes this stuff you should know.
1:14.1	That's right.
1:15.7	How are you sir? Besides a little under the weather.
1:18.1	Other than that I'm fine. I've got that um, you remember in the Happiness Audio book we talked to it.
1:25.1	Guy David Pierce from Transhumanist about separating no-susception, pain like the physical experience of pain.
1:34.1	From suffering, just getting rid of suffering.
1:37.1	I've reached that point in being sick where I see how intertwined the two are.
1:46.1	Like I just keep saying like, whoa is me? Like I am suffering.
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