Ping!.................I don’t know what category this would fall under.....................
Yes, all the previous civilizations vanished so completely after 10,000 years that we can't even find any evidence of them today. :)
This is actually a really interesting project and it’s been going on for quite awhile. This was conceived by Danny Hillis about 30 years ago.
Bezos is a funder, but it’s not exactly his idea.
The Mayans has different calendars and concepts of time. One of their time units the Long Count turned over every 7,885 solar years.
Were the funds for this extravagance derived from shareholder funds?
Does this meet the fiduciary standards for corporate governance?
I hope Clock Boy is part of this project.
yep ,money to burn
History repeats. Ancient Rome has a character eerily similar to Jeff Bezos. His name was Marcus Crassus. Things did not end well for him.
Hmmm, the Long Count...didn’t seem to help the Mayans
that much.
Why 10,000 years exactly? Most civilizations last about 10,000 years.
Really? Now what civilizations would those be?
Hmmmmm.....west Texas and NV.
$42m for a legend in his own mind.
Most civilizations last about 10,000 years
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Who told them? Besides, recorded history only goes back 6,000 years and gets sketchy. So what precious groups of civilizations is the idiot. Jamie Carter, talking about?
I think its cool. Better than funding SJWs or building yet another office building. And even if if it breaks it will still be right twice a day which is more often than his newspaper is.
Well, ....Its about time!
Well, you wouldn’t expect a fellow like Bezos to fund anything like the restoration of a cathedral, would you?
“... the 10,000 Year Clock can be maintained by simple bronze-age technology. That’s predicated on the theory that human societies of the future could easily be more primitive than our own.”
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That implies that the civilization(s) prior to our own were more advanced than we are. Also the statement implies mankind is getting stupider, less intelligent (other than lefties like Bezos, the Bozo).
Too bad that when the next ice age kicks in the 500 ft tunnel will be filled with sold ice....capped with a glacier....so sad.
“...It chimed twice to start the new millennium on New Year’s Eve 1999...”
The new millennium began at 12:00:01 AM on January 1, 2001 - the clock is already off 365 days!