This Advanced Camera to Take a 1,000-year long Exposure Photo

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The pinhole was pierced through 24 carat gold, which will “not corrode,” according to the professor.

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“The resulting image should be a time capsule and also a portal through time that requires interpretations,” he remarked. 

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For example, a thousand-year exposure of Manhattan, started in 1024 and viewed today, would only faintly display its most famous skyscrapers, which have only been around for a century or so.

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If a major urban development sprouted up in 500 years, “you would see the ghosts of those skyscrapers but they wouldn’t be as opaque an image as the mountains that had been there” for the entire duration of the photo shoot,” Keats explained.

“Or if all the buildings currently there would be removed, you’d see them as ghosts,” he said, adding that “gradual movement would be a blur, like sports photography.”

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Of course anything could happen in 1,000 years. Humans might go extinct. The area could be leveled by an asteroid or a natural disaster. Alien invaders might make Tucson their Earth capitol.

At the very least, the plaque marking the project would need to be replaced multiple times over the centuries.

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Keats is also working on installing other thousand-year cameras in Los Angeles, the Austrian Alps and Chongqing, China

“So many things could go wrong and I think that regardless of what happens, it is an image of the world and how the world changes,” said the innovator, as reported from New York Post site. 

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1 September 2026
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