I noticed that the topic of the Long Now 10,000-year clock came up here last month. A paper on its timekeeping issues will be published in the proceedings of "Decoupling Civil Timekeeping from Earth Rotation", a meeting held in Pennsylvania in October:
http://futureofutc.org The preprint is available at: http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/futureofutc/preprints/10_AAS_11-665_Hillis.pdf Slides, transcribed discussions, and other papers may also be of interest to list members. Rob Seaman National Optical Astronomy Observatory _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.