
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Deep inside a mountain, a full day’s hike from any road, in a dry, deserted part of West Texas, a foundation funded by Jeff Bezos is building a giant clock that’s hundreds of feet tall. It’s been called the Millennium Clock, the 10,000 Year Clock and the Clock of the Long Now. Like the Pyramids, Stonehenge and the Colosseum, its makers hope it will outlast our civilization and tick for 10 millennia. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Alexander Rose, executive director of the Long Now Foundation, which has been building the roughly $40 million prototype of the clock in Texas.
4.5
12341,234 ratings
Deep inside a mountain, a full day’s hike from any road, in a dry, deserted part of West Texas, a foundation funded by Jeff Bezos is building a giant clock that’s hundreds of feet tall. It’s been called the Millennium Clock, the 10,000 Year Clock and the Clock of the Long Now. Like the Pyramids, Stonehenge and the Colosseum, its makers hope it will outlast our civilization and tick for 10 millennia. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Alexander Rose, executive director of the Long Now Foundation, which has been building the roughly $40 million prototype of the clock in Texas.
6,056 Listeners
886 Listeners
8,644 Listeners
30,864 Listeners
1,359 Listeners
32,253 Listeners
43,367 Listeners
2,168 Listeners
5,495 Listeners
1,436 Listeners
9,552 Listeners
3,594 Listeners
6,240 Listeners
163 Listeners
2,688 Listeners
1,320 Listeners
1,601 Listeners
82 Listeners
221 Listeners