Galaxies on Instagram: "Jeff Bezos is funding the construction of the 10,000-Year Clock, also called the Clock of the Long Now, deep inside a mountain on his land in West Texas. The idea comes from the Long Now Foundation, which wanted to build a monument to long-term thinking—a clock designed to keep time for ten millennia. Bezos put in about $42 million to make it a reality. The clock is entirely mechanical and designed to move with extreme slowness. It ticks once a year, its century hand move

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