Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Merrigan Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom Subject: Re: Longest plan Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 12:33:30 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 21:33:31 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="3914e45d1d6eff3284eb1400a60af599"; logging-data="836246"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19tYDGWN9QQ6ibaKZgxVDV2" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:r5y0QqJjBDSxQyBtcB5Xe0cAfiQ= X-Antivirus: AVG (VPS 241121-6, 11/21/2024), Outbound message In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2088 On 11/19/2024 8:05 PM, Keith F. Lynch wrote: > I was just reading about the fact that Ben Franklin had a trust fund > he intended to be liquidated 200 years after his death. And it was. > > That makes me wonder what was the slowest plan that has ever been > successfully carried out according to schedule. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longplayer Longplayer is a very long piece of music by British composer and musician Jem Finer which is composed to play for 1000 years without looping. It started to play at midnight on 1 January 2000, and if all goes as planned, it will continue without repetition until 31 December 2999. I got to this after looking up John Cage's "As Slow as Possible". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Slow_as_Possible Which is, apparently, only the second longest piece of music. -- Qualified immunity = virtual impunity. Tim Merrigan -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG antivirus software. www.avg.com