{"id":6233,"date":"2022-01-03T22:53:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T22:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/?p=6233"},"modified":"2023-06-15T20:24:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T20:24:10","slug":"cosmic-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/cosmic-clock\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosmic clock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years I&#8217;ve had a memory of a video showing the rise and fall of a city, over hundreds of years, from the top of a nearby hill. In particular I remembered being stunned by the way an entire civilization would appear like a blip, to an observer with a much longer timespan.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve searched for a long time and finally found it; a clip called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WppJEf3ZtFU\">Cosmic Clock<\/a> by Al Jarnow, originally shown on 3-2-1 Contact:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WppJEf3ZtFU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In my mind it was a rock on the hill; looks like it was a kid with a stopwatch instead. Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/kottke.org\/11\/11\/a-billion-years-in-the-blink-of-an-eye\">Jason Kottke<\/a> for the link!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years I&#8217;ve had a memory of a video showing the rise and fall of a city, over hundreds of years, from the top of a nearby hill. In particular I remembered being stunned by the way an entire civilization would appear like a blip, to an observer with a much longer timespan. I&#8217;ve searched&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/cosmic-clock\/\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,376,384],"tags":[358],"class_list":["post-6233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-nature-2","category-world","tag-tagged"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-1Cx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6233"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6321,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6233\/revisions\/6321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}