00:00Jeff Bezos just dropped $42 million on a clock that ticks once a year.
00:04On top of that, it's built to last 10,000 years,
00:06and it's currently buried deep inside a mountain in West Texas.
00:10It's called the 10,000-year clock,
00:12a 500-foot mechanical marvel that ticks once a year,
00:15chimes every hundred, and has a cuckoo that pops out every thousand.
00:19Yes, there's an actual cuckoo.
00:21The idea? To force humanity to think beyond election cycles and quarterly earnings.
00:26Invented by Danny Hillis and funded by Bezos,
00:29it's meant to inspire long-term thinking,
00:31because the problems we face now go way beyond one lifetime.
00:34To visit it, you'll need to hike. That's intentional.
00:37It's a pilgrimage. You even have to wind it by hand.
00:40No batteries, no solar, just you and time.
00:44Bezos says humans may survive 10,000 years, but the United States won't.
00:49This clock is not about telling time.
00:51It's about reminding us what we do with it.
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