13. Deep Time

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So I just found something, might be something, might be nothing but as soon as I heard it I just thought "No way, this is what they used for the 'harp' in Deep Time."

I was sure it was a koto initially as it has more of a 'twang' than a harp does, but then I heard this at 41m in Zabriskie Point, a young kid sitting plucking the strings of a demolished, abandoned piano as it lies on the ground. It gave me Deep Time vibes instantly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz5qwASzFRo

Given their love for the film, I wonder if this was the inspiration.

[Redd Panderson]

Huh, this popped up on my feed. They are opening a trail in Scotland this year called The Deep Time Trail:

"Walk the Scottish coast that changed science": https://share.google/4IdYN3Ao6GoxnUPNo

From the article:

I am standing on the grassy cliffs above Siccar Point, a rocky outcrop on Scotland's east coast, looking out over the steel blue of the North Sea from the final viewpoint of the new Deep Time Trail. This gentle one-hour return walk leads to the site of one of the most important discoveries in scientific history – a place that transformed our understanding of Earth.

The route has been created to mark the 300th anniversary of the birth of James Hutton, the founding father of geology, who was born in nearby Edinburgh in 1726. Long before Hutton set eyes on Siccar Point in 1788, he developed his radical theory that the Earth's surface was formed by cycles of erosion and renewal. But it was this rock formation – known as Hutton's Unconformity – that provided the evidence he needed to convince the world.

At Siccar Point, ancient rock standing upright are capped by much younger, horizontal layers of sandstone, revealing a vast gap in Earth's history that couldn't be explained by 18th-Century ideas. This immense span of geological time is now known as "deep time" – the concept at the heart of the new trail.

I guess this James Hutton is credited with being the first to develop and find evidence for the idea of "deep time." It's interesting the trail is opening the same year Inferno came out. I wonder if BOC was similarly commemorating this Scottish scientist.

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Huh, this popped up on my feed. They are opening a trail in Scotland this year called The Deep Time Trail:

"Walk the Scottish coast that changed science": https://share.google/4IdYN3Ao6GoxnUPNo

From the article:

I am standing on the grassy cliffs above Siccar Point, a rocky outcrop on Scotland's east coast, looking out over the steel blue of the North Sea from the final viewpoint of the new Deep Time Trail. This gentle one-hour return walk leads to the site of one of the most important discoveries in scientific history – a place that transformed our understanding of Earth.

The route has been created to mark the 300th anniversary of the birth of James Hutton, the founding father of geology, who was born in nearby Edinburgh in 1726. Long before Hutton set eyes on Siccar Point in 1788, he developed his radical theory that the Earth's surface was formed by cycles of erosion and renewal. But it was this rock formation – known as Hutton's Unconformity – that provided the evidence he needed to convince the world.

At Siccar Point, ancient rock standing upright are capped by much younger, horizontal layers of sandstone, revealing a vast gap in Earth's history that couldn't be explained by 18th-Century ideas. This immense span of geological time is now known as "deep time" – the concept at the heart of the new trail.

I guess this James Hutton is credited with being the first to develop and find evidence for the idea of "deep time." It's interesting the trail is opening the same year Inferno came out. I wonder if BOC was similarly commemorating this Scottish scientist.

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I guess this James Hutton is credited with being the first to develop and find evidence for the idea of "deep time." It's interesting the trail is opening the same year Inferno came out. I wonder if BOC was similarly commemorating this Scottish scientist.

This is amazing, and could well be bang on the money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_time

I highly recommend the book Huttons Arse, all about the geology of North West Scotland and the Torridonian sandstone (which gives the sand at Red Point it's red colour btw).