Friday, March 8, 2013

How the World's Biggest Clock Tried to Change the Center of Time

For the multitudes of cultural differences that exist throughout human civilization, we do share a single, universal goal: to build stuff bigger and better than the schmucks next door. Every single one of the seven wonders of the ancient world was created as a chest-thumping, neighbor-shaming testament to its builder's awesomeness. That proud tradition continues even today with Saudi Arabia's massive Mecca-clock, a timepiece so enormous it almost ended Greenwich Mean Time. More »


Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/w5zc_lNt-TY/how-the-worlds-biggest-clock-tried-to-change-the-center-of-time

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