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Seeding the Stars from a Lunar Seed Bank: Ben Haldeman on Expanding Life Beyond Earth
In this five-minute Ignite talk for the Long Now Foundation, Ben Haldeman argues that humanity may have a role in helping Earth do the one thing it has not yet done: reproduce, by spreading life beyon
5:15From Reading DNA to Writing It: Andrew Hessel on the Age of Programming Life
In a five-minute Ignite talk for the Long Now Foundation, Andrew Hessel argues that biology is turning into an engineering discipline. Life can now be written as well as read, and he believes that onc
4:59Planting a Thousand Thousand-Year-Old Trees in Edmonton
Dustin Bajer opens with a scene from the future: walking down a dark street, you turn a corner and find an ancient tree planted a thousand years earlier, in 2024. What would it be like to live in a fu
5:16Rehearsing the Unthinkable: Jane McGonigal's Social Simulations of Strange Futures
In this five-minute Ignite talk for the Long Now Foundation, Jane McGonigal skips the argument at first and starts with a game of "what if." She describes three hypothetical futures and asks the audie
4:48Inside Long Now's Plan to Redesign The Interval's Exhibits for Its Tenth Anniversary
In this short talk from the 2024 Long Now Ignite Talks, Long Now Senior Project Manager Andrew Warner described a project the foundation had been working on for many months and was presenting publicly
4:46Imagining a World Without Nuclear Weapons: Jenny Johnston on Protopian Storytelling
In this five-minute Ignite talk for the Long Now Foundation, Jenny Johnston argues that protopian stories, which imagine better but not perfect futures, are a tool for getting past the dread that surr
4:58Designing Institutions for Belonging: Mark Bonchek on What the Internet Promised
In this five-minute Ignite talk for the Long Now Foundation, Mark Bonchek asks why the internet, which once seemed poised to create community and connection, has not delivered a widespread sense of be
5:07Building a Solar Metric Clock: Mike Olson on Decimal Time and "True" Noon
In this five-minute Ignite talk for the Long Now Foundation, Mike Olson asks why time is the one everyday measurement that never went metric. They describe building a working decimal clock that also t
5:13What Is Plurality? Rose Bloomin on Cooperation Across Difference
In this five-minute Ignite talk for the Long Now Foundation, Rose Bloomin asks how democracy can keep up with polarization, ungoverned social media, and now AI. Their answer is an emerging idea called
4:47Keeping a 3,000-Year-Old Chalk Horse White: Long Now London and the Uffington Horse
In this five-minute Ignite talk, Christopher Daniel of Long Now London asks what it takes for something to last for millennia. His example is the White Horse of Uffington, a chalk figure on an English
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Building and Giving Away 100 Houses Across Jamaica and Latin America
In this video, MrBeast and the team set out to build 100 houses and give them to families who lack a safe place to live. The video follows the project from Jamaica through El Salvador, Argentina, Mexi
1:01:59Eleven Five-Minute Visions of the Long Term: Long Now's 2024 Member Ignite Talks
The Long Now Foundation's fifth Ignite evening gave eleven members five minutes each to make a case about long-term thinking. The topics ranged from a metric clock on a desk to a DNA archive bound for
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Clearing FF1 with Zero EXP and Zero Gil: How Level 1 Warriors of Light Got Through the Boss Fights
The Pixel Remaster of Final Fantasy received a post-launch boost feature that lets players change the multipliers for EXP and gil earned. In this video, both are set to 0x, and the party stays at leve
28:18Mack's Third Shot: Six Obstacle Courses, 200 Feet Up, for $800,000
In this video, MrBeast (Jimmy) builds what he calls "the most deadly obstacle course in the world" and gives one contestant, his friend Mack, a final chance at a big prize. Mack has to complete six se
13:51Mass-Producing "People" in the ShapeHero Factory Demo and Surviving to the Final Boss
ShapeHero Factory combines factory building, roguelite, and tower defense. In this video, the streamer plays through one full run of the content available in the demo. The goal is to build a factory t
1:02:18Beating the Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Remake Without Taking Damage: A Record of Boss Fights Won Through Power-Ups and Charging
Can the Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door remake, released 20 years after the original, be cleared from start to finish without Mario's side taking any damage? This video is a playthrough that docum
26:08Hase and Grizz: Two Strangers, $10,000 a Day, and How Long They Lasted in the Wilderness
Jimmy (MrBeast) dropped two men who had never met, Hase and Grizz, in the middle of the wilderness. He offered them $10,000 for every day they both survived, with no upper limit. The video follows how
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Inside Bomb Squad Academy: Michelle Khare's Week Learning to Disable a Bomb in a 65-Pound Suit
In this episode of Challenge Accepted, Michelle Khare spends a week training with the Arapahoe County Sheriff's bomb squad. She is building toward a final test: approaching a suspicious device alone i
16:11Frying Illegal Eggs in 2091 Antarctica: An Arctic Eggs Playthrough to the Ending
Arctic Eggs is a game in which you become a cook in Antarctica and serve illegal fried eggs. This video follows the game through to the ending, with commentary voiced by the VOICEROID Kizuna Akari. Th
15:06Can One Man Keep a Yacht Alive Through Four Rounds of Attacks?
The premise of this MrBeast challenge is simple: Sean is handed a yacht and told it is officially his, with one catch. MrBeast promises to "do everything in my power to destroy it," and Sean has to pr