Yes, This GIF Takes 1,000 Years To Loop

Counting from 1 to 48,140,288, this GIF needs a home for the next millenia.

GIFs are designed to loop short clips—generally a couple seconds long—over and over until you close your browser window. But As Long As Possible is a different kind of GIF; one rendered on a geologic time scale. Created by Helsinki-based artists Juha van Ingen and Janne Särkelä, it's designed to loop only once every thousand years.

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