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Jeff Bezos' $42M Clock That Runs for 10,000 Years
This Short discusses Jeff Bezos' unique project of building a 10,000-year clock within a Texas mountain, designed to tick once a year, with a century hand moving every 100 years and a chime ...
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Clock of the Long Now: 10,000 year clock
A monumental undertaking has broken ground in the wilderness outside of a small Texas town. A limestone mountain is being hollowed out to make room for a 200-foot-tall clock made from metal gears.
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10000 year clock
So you hear that someone is building a clock that will run for 10,000 years and you think ‘oh ... drilled in a limestone mountain in West Texas. The allusion to [Indian Jones] sprung to mind ...
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when did jeff bezos get interested in clock?
A video he posted showed the progress of work being done inside a mountain in Texas' Sierra Diablo mountain range. Bezos' tweet indicates that the mechanical clock is powered by thermal movements that ...
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Jeff Bezos Is Spending $42 Million On A Clock Designed To Last 10,000 Years – He 'Thinks' Humans Will Still Be Here, But Not United States
the 10,000-Year Clock. Nestled inside a mountain in West Texas, this engineering marvel ticks once a year, chimes every century and showcases a cuckoo every millennium. Why? Bezos explains it's a bold ...
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long now
So you hear that someone is building a clock that will run for 10,000 years and you think ‘oh ... drilled in a limestone mountain in West Texas. The allusion to [Indian Jones] sprung to mind ...