Here’s something you might not know: Jeff Bezos – the founder of Amazon and rocket company Blue Origin – owns a mountain. Yep, an entire mountain in Texas.
Not only that, but the (sometimes) richest person on the planet has figured out the perfect thing to store inside his mountain: a giant mechanical clock designed to last 10,000 years. Hey, you don’t get that rich without thinking outside the box a little, right?
Seriously though, what’s the deal with this insane-sounding clock project, said to cost a whopping US$42 million?
It’s actually the brainchild of inventor and scientist Danny Hillis, who came up with the concept decades ago, envisaging a clock that would truly stand the test of time – ticking only once per year, with a ‘century hand’ moving once per century, and keeping perfect time for the next 10 millennia.
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