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Jeff Bezos spent $42 million building a 10,000-year cuckoo clock that ticks once a year — calls it a ‘symbol for long-term thinking’

Most people struggle to plan next year’s vacation. Amazon an d Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos helped build a clock designed to outlive entire civilizations. During an appearance on the "Lex Fridman ...
Hackaday

Building A Sliding Tile Clock

Hackers like making clocks, and we like reporting on them around these parts. Particularly if they’ve got a creative mechanism that we haven’t seen before. This fine timepiece from [gooikerjh] fits ...
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Is Jeff Bezos Building A 10,000-Year Clock Worth $42M? Here's What You Should Know

Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos has a hobby of his own – he is helping build a 10,000-year clock that ticks just once a year. In 2011, Bezos shared an update on the clock’s construction, stating ...
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Is Jeff Bezos Building a '10,000 Year Clock' Costing $42M?

The story of the 10,000-year clock began in 1995, when computer scientist and inventor Danny Hillis published an essay in Wired magazine's issue titled "Wired Scenarios: The Future Future." In it, he ...
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How to Build a Clock That Will Outlast the Apocalypse

The 10,000 Year Clock is up and running — and now that the plans are online, you can construct your own nigh-immortal timepiece The Long Now Foundation’s 10,000 Year Clock — a beautifully crafted ...
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Scientists build crystal for nuclear clock that will be up to 10 times more precise

Scientists at the Vienna Institute of Technology have found the perfect site inside a ...
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Jeff Bezos Spent $42 Million Building a 10,000-Year Cuckoo Clock That Ticks Once a Year — Calls It a ‘Symbol for Long-Term Thinking’

Most people struggle to plan next year's vacation. Amazon an d Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos helped build a clock designed to outlive entire civilizations. "The 10,000-year clock is an idea conceived ...