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Jeff Bezos is one of the richest people on the planet, with 99 percent of us not even being able to imagine the amount of dollar in his bank account.
Of course, forming and owning one of the biggest companies in the world - Amazon - is going to bring a fair few zeros at the end of the bank statements.
Bezos certainly has lot of money to play with, and when you have so much sitting in your bank account, what are you supposed to do with it?
Build a giant clock that's going to outlast human civilization, of course.
Jeff Bezos has spent $42 million on the clock. Credit: Karwai Tang/WireImage
Back in 2018, it was announced Bezos had invested in a project that would see a giant 10,000-year clock inside a mountain in West Texas - a clock that has set Bezos back $42 million by the way.
The whole goal of building the clock is so it can run for 10 millennia and be powered by Earth's thermal cycles.
Construction on the clock has since started and remains ongoing, but once work has been completed, it will stand at 500 feet (152 meters).
"The Clock is hundreds of feet tall, engineered to require minimal maintenance, and powered by mechanical energy harvested from sunlight as well as the people that visit it," the clock's official website states.
It adds: "The Clock will mark time with astronomic and calendric displays and a chime generator designed with the help of Brian Eno that can produce over 3.5 million unique bell chime sequences — one for every day the Clock is visited for the next 10,000 years."
While Bezos may be fitting the bill, the idea for the clock actually stemmed from a man named Danny Hillis, who proposed the idea as a way to think about the long-term future of humanity and the planet as a whole.
Jeff Bezos is one of the richest people on the planet, with 99 percent of us not even being able to imagine the amount of dollar in his bank account.
Of course, forming and owning one of the biggest companies in the world - Amazon - is going to bring a fair few zeros at the end of the bank statements.
Bezos certainly has lot of money to play with, and when you have so much sitting in your bank account, what are you supposed to do with it?
Build a giant clock that's going to outlast human civilization, of course.
Back in 2018, it was announced Bezos had invested in a project that would see a giant 10,000-year clock inside a mountain in West Texas - a clock that has set Bezos back $42 million by the way.
The whole goal of building the clock is so it can run for 10 millennia and be powered by Earth's thermal cycles.
Construction on the clock has since started and remains ongoing, but once work has been completed, it will stand at 500 feet (152 meters).
"The Clock is hundreds of feet tall, engineered to require minimal maintenance, and powered by mechanical energy harvested from sunlight as well as the people that visit it," the clock's official website states.
It adds: "The Clock will mark time with astronomic and calendric displays and a chime generator designed with the help of Brian Eno that can produce over 3.5 million unique bell chime sequences — one for every day the Clock is visited for the next 10,000 years."
While Bezos may be fitting the bill, the idea for the clock actually stemmed from a man named Danny Hillis, who proposed the idea as a way to think about the long-term future of humanity and the planet as a whole.
