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Why is Jeff Bezos building a giant ‘millennial' clock inside a mountain? [$42M!]
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| 21 Feb 2018
| By Jamie Carter
Posted on 02/21/2018 7:18:04 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: spokeshave
Whoops, I guess Bezos forgot about the periodic nature of extreme climate.
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posted on
02/21/2018 11:10:31 AM PST
by
Crucial
To: Red Badger
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.
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posted on
02/21/2018 12:41:51 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
To: Red Badger
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.
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posted on
02/21/2018 4:39:52 PM PST
by
ADemocratNoMore
(The Fourth Estate is now the Fifth Column)
To: Red Badger
Percy Bysshe Shelley is spinning in his grave.
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posted on
02/21/2018 6:05:57 PM PST
by
CrazyIvan
(A gentleman arms himself for the protection of others.)
To: CrazyIvan
Percy Bysshe Shelley is spinning in his grave. I kinda doubt it. He was cremated!...................B^)
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posted on
02/22/2018 6:07:07 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Wanna surprise? Google your own name. Wanna have fun? Google your friends names......)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
02/22/2018 7:38:59 PM PST
by
CrazyIvan
(A gentleman arms himself for the protection of others.)
To: CrazyIvan
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.
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posted on
02/23/2018 6:07:03 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(The people who call Trump a tyrant are the same people who want the president to confiscate weapons.)
To: Red Badger
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.
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posted on
01/04/2019 10:09:41 PM PST
by
piasa
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To: Menehune56
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.
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posted on
01/04/2019 10:35:08 PM PST
by
piasa
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To: piasa
$42 million could build about 30 miles of The Wall..................
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posted on
01/07/2019 6:04:03 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: NewHampshireDuo
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01/07/2019 6:08:08 AM PST
by
dead
(Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
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