Nine years ago, we posted about the building of a 10,000-year clock. The project by the Long Now Foundation got a real boost in 2016 with a $42 million donation as well as some land in West Texas from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Now the clock is there, tucked underneath a mountain. It's not quite complete, but it's ticking, very slowly.
It ticks once a year, the century hand advances once every 100 years, the cuckoo comes out on the millennium, and it will keep time for the next 10,000 years. In the belly of a Texas mountain, picture a huge clock, hundreds of feet tall, and as you read this, it’s quietly ticking away against Doomsday. Over thirty years in the making, and now bankrolled by the world’s richest man, it’s a Jules Verne-worthy project that Jeff Bezos himself had to be a part of. The goal is to create an icon of long-term thinking, something that can keep time without human intervention and survive several millennia in the process. Got a minute to find out why?
Read about the philosophy behind the Long Now Foundation and its giant slow clock at Messy Messy Chic. You'll even find out how you can visit it ...although it won't be easy.