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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Bezos is running out of time
2018-02-22
[DailyMail] Jeff Bezos reveals construction of a massive clock inside a Texas mountain that will chime every day for 10,000 years as a ‘symbol for long-term thinking’
  • The clock is being buried 500 feet inside a mountain in the Sierra Diablo range

  • It's programmed to play a different chime each year for the next ten millennia

  • Bezos revealed a clip on Twitter of construction work under way at the site

  • Visitors will able to climb down stairs and hear the daily chime at noon
Posted by:Skidmark

#4  It's the difference between "because we must" and "because we can".
Posted by: Iblis   2018-02-22 16:28  

#3  Kind of makes me feel good to know that I live in an age where private individuals have enough wealth and free time to indulge fancies like this and Musk's space Telsa. Kind of like the difference between a plain glass box office building and a cathedral. The world needs more things done just for the sh*ts and giggles. It does not need more glass boxes.
Posted by: Iblis   2018-02-22 16:24  

#2  "Alexa, what does Bezos do with the excess money he screws out of me?"
Posted by: ed in texas   2018-02-22 14:27  

#1  Van Horn can use the tourist business.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-02-22 08:10  

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