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Jeff Bezos is having a giant clock built 500 feet into a Texas mountain that will chime every day for 10,000 years. It's powered by the Earth's thermal cycle.
Jeff Bezos reveals footage of 10,000 year clock in Texas | Daily Mail Online
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Jeff Bezos reveals footage of 10,000 year clock in Texas | Daily Mail Online
Incredible footage has revealed construction work underway for a clock that will tick for the next 10,000 years.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who has invested $42 million (£30 million) in the project, revealed the clip on social media.
It shows workmen installing the mechanism inside a hollowed out chamber in a West Texas mountain.
The clock, powered by Earth's thermal cycles, will continue to keep time over the millennia, marking time with a chime once a day rather than each hour.
Its creators hope that this will encourage humanity to consider about their impact on the planet and act as a 'symbol for long-term thinking'.
The clock is the brainchild of Danny Hillis, who's been thinking about and working on it since 1989.
Mr Hills wanted to build a clock that ticks once a year, where the century hand advances once every 100 years, and a cuckoo comes out on the millennium.
The clock is powered by a large weight hanging on a gear and is built out of stainless steel, titanium and dry running ceramic ball bearings.
It is buried 500 feet (150 metres) into a mountain in the Sierra Diablo range.
The clock’s chimes have been programmed to not repeat themselves for 10,000 years.
Each time the chimes ring, it’s a melody the clock has never played before.
While there is no completion date scheduled, Long Now Foundation behind its creation do plan to open it to the public once it is ready.
Visitors will able to climb down the stairs and hear the daily chime at noon.
Billionaire Bezos first got behind the project in 2011.
In a blog post about the project, Bezos wrote: 'We are building a 10,000 Year Clock.
'It's a special Clock, designed to be a symbol, an icon for long-term thinking.
'As I see it, humans are now technologically advanced enough that we can create not only extraordinary wonders but also civilization-scale problems.
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