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The Clock of the Long Now is a 10,000-year-long timepiece backed by Jeff Bezos
贝佐斯资助的万年钟是如何诞生的?

Deep inside a Texas mountain, a vast mechanical clock tries to make humanity measure time on the scale of civilisation itself
在得克萨斯的一座山腹深处,一座巨型机械钟正试图让人类以文明自身的尺度来丈量时间。
Artwork combining planetary imagery and circular instrument dials, showing Earth surrounded by nested mechanical rings and a central metallic structure.

On the midsummer solstice this year, shining down through a window built into a Texas mountain, the sun woke up a clock in the process of being constructed to measure precisely 10,000 years to come. The rays passed through the window, made from sapphire, and on to a giant round quartz lens, warming air in a chamber beneath.

今年仲夏至这一天,阳光透过嵌在得克萨斯一座山体中的一扇窗洒下,唤醒了一座正在建造中的时钟,这座时钟旨在精确计量未来一万年的时光。阳光穿过由蓝宝石制成的窗,再投射到一枚巨大的圆形石英透镜上,使其下方腔室中的空气变暖。

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