Somehow the eich get richer and spend their money on some very unusual things.It sounds coo, is this really worth it?
COVID-19 has Amazon.com prioritizing “essential items” . . . however, JEFF BEZOS is building a NONESSENTIAL item in Texas.
According to “Popular Mechanics“, Bezos is paying engineers and contractors to build a massive, multi-room clock inside a mountain in West Texas.
The clock will tell time for the next 10,000 years . . . although there’s no way to guarantee that of course, since none of us will be around then, and there’s a chance that the Planet Earth won’t exist at that point.
The clock is designed to tick just once a year and chime once per millennium. It’ll be 500 feet tall, and quote, “all mechanical, powered by day / night thermal cycles, and synchronized at solar noon.”
So far, the clock has cost $42 million to build.
Bezos explained the clock as a way to remind people that the far future not only exists, but will happen to their descendants.
(Even if humanity makes it that long, this clock will totally be dug up by futuristic “American Pickers” before it even lasts 200 years.)
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