Bezos-Backed 10,000 Year Clock Site Preparation and Fabrication Underway

If you were worth a million dollars, you might buy a fine watch. Rolex, Breitling, Seiko, this watch might run a couple thousand dollars. If you're Jeff Bezos, you fund a 200-foot clock inside a mountain, engineered to withstand Armageddon and tick for 10,000 years. Bezos, the man behind Amazon and the new owner of the Washington Post, is worth a cool $25.2 billion, and he's contributed $42 million to the Long Now Foundation's 10,000 Year Clock project. That sounds like a lot of money, but to sc...