Why is Jeff Bezos building a giant ‘millennial' clock inside a mountain? [$42M!]

www.techradar.com ^ | 21 Feb 2018 | By Jamie Carter

[Crucial]

Whoops, I guess Bezos forgot about the periodic nature of extreme climate.

[SunkenCiv]

If I were going for self-aggrandizement, and had a rocket company, I'd set up an artificial meteor shower to arrive on my birthday, exactly, for the next 10,000 years.

[ADemocratNoMore]

Meh, I’ll see your clock and raise you Paulstretch.

Paul’s Extreme Sound Stretch http://hypermammut.sourceforge.net/paulstretch/

In hyperstretch mode it will stretch an audio file 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 times (10^18) so a one minute file will take 1.90129 trillion years to play.

Source code available at the link above. Try it, it’s fun.

[CrazyIvan]

Percy Bysshe Shelley is spinning in his grave.

[Red Badger]

Percy Bysshe Shelley is spinning in his grave.

I kinda doubt it. He was cremated!...................B^)

[CrazyIvan]

Dang know it all!

[Red Badger]

The Funeral of Shelley by Louis Édouard Fournier (1889). Pictured in the centre are, from left, Trelawny, Hunt, and Byron. In fact, Hunt did not observe the cremation, and Byron left early.

[piasa]

Designed to stay accurate for that huge time period, the giant clock will tick once a year, moving its century hand every 100 years, and send out a cuckoo once a millennia

I'd hate to be the artist who had to body cast Al Gore or the more economical Nancy Pelosi to be cast as that big bronze cuckoo.

[piasa]

That’s also predicated on the theory that future civilizations will want to put effort into maintaining a pointless artifact rather than scrap that sucker like the plumbing at Pruitt-Igoe and sell it.

[Red Badger]

$42 million could build about 30 miles of The Wall..................

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