{"id":3761,"date":"2012-01-24T12:13:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T12:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2012\/01\/24\/the-long-now-foundation-breaks-ground\/"},"modified":"2012-01-24T12:13:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T12:13:00","slug":"the-long-now-foundation-breaks-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2012\/01\/24\/the-long-now-foundation-breaks-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"The Long Now Foundation breaks ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.longnow.org\/2012\/01\/19\/raiseboreupdate\/\">&#8220;We just completed the 12 &#8212; foot diameter, 500 foot deep vertical shaft for the 10,000 Year Clock.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We used a mining technique called raise boring. Take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/32862354\">the video<\/a> &#8212; it&#8217;s an interesting operation. Instead of drilling down from the top, you pull a large diameter reamer up to the surface from the bottom using a smaller diameter pilot hole &#8212; more efficient than a top-down drill because the rubble isn&#8217;t fighting gravity. It rains down beneath the advancing bore and gets hauled out a horizontal shaft at the bottom. Our next major step will be cutting the spiral stairway using a robotic stone cutting saw. In parallel, we&#8217;re also manufacturing and testing the Clock components.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We just completed the 12 &#8212; foot diameter, 500 foot deep vertical shaft for the 10,000 Year Clock.&#8221; We used a mining technique called raise boring. Take a look at the video &#8212; it&#8217;s an interesting operation. Instead of drilling down from the top, you pull a large diameter reamer up to the surface from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2012\/01\/24\/the-long-now-foundation-breaks-ground\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Long Now Foundation breaks ground&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[451,196,1230,1717,1147],"class_list":["post-3761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-awesome","tag-science","tag-science-fiction","tag-the-long-now","tag-truth-beauty-bombs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}