Aluna

As a member of the The Long Now Foundation and supporter of the ten thousand year clock they are building, I have long been interested in any project that gives humans a greater sense of the scale of time.

Contemporary culture encourages us to think in ever smaller scales of time; a year, a quarter, a month, day, hour, minute, second.  At this rate we'll soon have no sense of the future or the past.  In fact I believe many of us have lost that ability already and it is evident in the way we frame our ideas of how things are going and how they proceed.  We now want instant solutions; instant economic recoveries, instant health care and an instant end to our problems.

The Aluna project is another antidote to the irrational short term thinking of our time. Larger than Stonehenge, Aluna is will be the world’s first tidal powered moon clock. It will change the way we consider time and our understanding of our planet.

Things take time.  Have a look at the video.



http:///www.alunatime.org/