What do you spend your money on when you have as much money as Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon? Well, when he is not building spacecraft through his company Blue Origin, he is busy constructing a clock inside a mountain that he hopes will run for 10,000 years. To put that in perspective, the first stone egyptian pyramid was built in 2700 B.C. or only 4700 years ago. He expects this clock to keep running more than twice that length of time. Civilization as we know it will no longer exist. But the clock will keep running. And the clock’s chime generator will create a different bell ringing sequence each day for the 10,000 years.
If you are curious enough to learn more about this very cool project you can go to the official home page at http://www.10000yearclock.net or check out the article I discovered it on at Wired Magazine.