Making a One Billion Year Clock from Lego

June 6, 2024 11:44 PM

Building a mechanical Lego clock that keeps time for 1000000000 years. The clock has dials to display seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries, millennia, mega-annums and galactical years. It rewinds itself automatically every 2 minutes. The (12 minute) video starts with a simple pendulum and progressively adds gears - and more gears.
posted by rongorongo (3 comments total)

I’m currently on holiday with my kids, wife and parents in Legoland, and seeing the “lifetime clock” felt uncomfortably poignant. Like, if this was a scene in a novel I’d be a bit annoyed at how on the nose it was. But since it was real life I just let the feeling of time passing wash over me.
posted by Kattullus at 12:24 AM on June 7 [1 favorite]

The lifetime clock is cyclical but lacks a "re-birth" label. The smug 9-lived cat makes an appearance at the right moment.
posted by rongorongo at 12:29 AM on June 7 [1 favorite]

double
posted by lalochezia at 8:01 AM on June 7