Thread: Jeff Bezos spends $42 million on a clock

I find this rather bizarre; surely there are better things to drop $42 million on?

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared a video on Tuesday of his latest project: a giant clock designed to keep time for 10,000 years.
Buried deep in a west Texas mountain, the project is in partnership with San Francisco-based group The Long Now Foundation, which grew out of an idea for a 10,000 year clock that co-founder Danny Hillis proposed back in the '90s. Now, the 500-foot tall mechanical wonder is finally undergoing installation.

Bezos is fronting the cash for the $42 million project, saying on the project's website that the clock is "designed to be a symbol, an icon for long-term thinking."
The clock is powered by a large weight hanging on a gear, built out of materials durable enough to keep time for 10 millennia. Bezos isn't the only noteworthy name on the clock project. Musician Brian Eno and writers Kevin Kelly and Stewart Brand are also involved in the clock's construction.
The team has spent the last few years creating parts for the clock and drilling through the mountain to store the pieces. You can read Bezos's account of that and view photos of the progress here.
Bezos and the project team intend for visitors to be able to view the finished timepiece, although the site does note that the clock's remote location is hours from the nearest airport, with a rugged foot trail rising nearly 2,000 feet above the valley floor. Will the 10,000-year clock stand the exceptional test of time? We'll likely never know.

https://www.cnet.com/news/jeff-bezos...tag=CAD590a51e

Must be Energizer.

It's a wind up

Ozymandias

By Percy Bysshe Shelley



I met a traveller from an antique land,

Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,

Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,

And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;

And on the pedestal, these words appear:

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;

Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

He had a choice between this and giving his 8-bucks-an-hour employees a raise.

^ My thoughts exactly,pays less than mininum wage and pisses away 40mil on a clock.WTF

Originally Posted by uncle junior

giving his 8-bucks-an-hour employees a raise.