Making A Billion-Year Lego Clock
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- Опубліковано 1 тра 2024
- Building a mechanical Lego clock that keeps time for 10000000 years. The clock has dials to display seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries, millenia, mega-annums and galactical years (time required for the Sun to orbit once around the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy).
The first component resembles a grandfather clock with a weight-driven pendulum anchor escapement. The escapement wheel rotates 1 tooth per second. Different gear trains transmit motion from the escapement to all complications from days to years to decades.
As soon as the weight touches the ground, a rewinding motor is triggered to raise the weight and “recharge the clock”. This happens every 2 minutes. A solar powered battery fuels the energy storage for the electric rewind motor. Under a cloudless sky the solar panel generates more energy than consumed by the Lego pendulum clock. A bigger energy storage could be added to run the clock at night time. To increase solar panel efficiency the solar panel is mounted on a tilting mechanism that is connected to the 24h complication, following the sun during daytime.
Similar to an astronomical clock, this Lego timepiece features complications beyond minutes and hours. It displays units of times based on orders of magnitude of the second. Days, mean months and years are counted. The biggest unit is the “billion year display” that is basically a mechanical counter displaying years in decimals.
Chapters:
00:00 Escapement
01:38 Winding
02:36 Automatic Winding
03:46 Gearing
05:15 Day
06:26 Year
07:50 Solar Panel
08:52 Lifetime
09:18 Year Counter
10:00 Cosmic Year
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Music: Hovering Thoughts by Spence
Cold Blue by Astron
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#time - Наука та технологія
Find the hidden Lego minifigure
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@@karaco-6931 wow nice
10:29 top left 😮
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Props to the camera man for spending hundreds of galactic years filming this clock for us.
Serious dedication for our entertainment
Props to that editor for reviewing the whole footage tho 😮
You took me joke
@@thatcringyplaneguy you took me grammar
Oh burn😮
I really wish Lego made official kits like these, that actually have a function. I'm sure i'm not the only one.
LEGO has wrong type of designers. They care about only looks.
Yes,you're not the only one
Its because they market 95% of their stuff towards kids. Heck they are scrapping mindstorms. That tells you everything you need to know. Still even with that not a factor the adult lego fan community is very small. They are a company that makes profit. Sadly money is the answer.
Well, to be fair, because of friction loss, past a week this build is entirely inaccurate
@@Yomotomen wait, are you meaning to tell me that this won't ACTUALLY last until a billion years?
The school, work, retire clock is just depressing
Agreed
Me too
Cheer up bro, we will enjoy this life
My Grandfather was a Horologist(watch/clock maker) and would appreciate this far more than I ever would, but I still find this fascinating. Awesome work man.
I'm a horologist too. But not the kind that works with watches....
Sorry to turn your very wholesome comment into such a dumb joke.
@@SWISS-1337less academically inclined, more horizontally reclined
@@blakeburrow5744 hahaha. I legitimately laughed out loud at that one.
@blakeburrow5744 less Chronometrically cognizant, more casual coitus.
So was my mum, but she didn't crow about it as loud as you
I love the concept that this is all accurate based on 25cm being the distance needed for exactly 1 second
In Earth's gravity at sea level
its accurate enough for a few months i believe
The lenght should be 24.849 cm so it's pretty close but probably not close enough for a billion-year clock lol
He forgot leap years
@@danielchick1 no he didn't, he used 365.25 days/year. The .25 accounts for a leap year every 4th year. He did forget to account for the fact that the year is actually closer to 365.24 days long, though (so every 100 years or so, the leap year is skipped).
Amazing that this was made billions of years ago and it was only uploaded today! I didn't know Lego has been around that long, but it's clearly a force of nature at this point!
Are you still using AOL? That might explain it.
Bruh
Lego hasn't been around that long, this is ancient lego, which inspired lego. Ancient lego is the oldest material in the Milky Way.
🤣🤣
@@smallw1991 in the whole universe* Probably a Multiversal material
This video single handedly make me understand how Grandfather Clock works.
I've been wondering for quite awhile but I never see a video that break down this simple.
You know, growing up I could tell you how to build an atomic bomb, but not how a mechanical clock works. Not until recently when I saw the escapement mechanism, then I understood it all.
Yeah no, you fucked up big time. Leap years are NOT every four years. They’re every four years except for every 100 years EXCEPT for every 400 years. So 1600 and 2000 are leap years, but 1700, 1800 and 1900 were NOT!!!!
Hence your clock is gonna be ONE YEAR OFF COMPLETELY after ONLY 48,800 years.
Which makes this clock USELESS on a Billion Year time scale.
And don’t get me started on the extra seconds added on occasion.
@@yukelalexandre8885 what are talking about?
@@yukelalexandre8885 the days get longer as time passes, so for a billion year clock to be perfect it would need to be able to adapt to the change of duration of an earth year. The best we can do is approximation, and the one in the video is pretty cool in it's own. not perfect but still nice
@@yukelalexandre8885it's hard to tell if this is a joke, but in the case of it not being one this comment is unhinged
NGL, the final reveal was amazing, and it made me cry a little, because it also displays something VERY precious in us, we humans have a limited life span to 80-100 years of existance and we need to cherish every second of it. Stay healthy, stay safe, and most definitely take very good care, live your life, live it well!
Beautiful piece of artwork my guy!
Idk it's probably the music that's making me cry.
Trueee
Yeah no, you fucked up big time. Leap years are NOT every four years. They’re every four years except for every 100 years EXCEPT for every 400 years. So 1600 and 2000 are leap years, but 1700, 1800 and 1900 were NOT!!!!
Hence your clock is gonna be ONE YEAR OFF COMPLETELY after ONLY 48,800 years.
Which makes this clock USELESS on a Billion Year time scale.
And don’t get me started on the extra seconds added on occasion.
@@yukelalexandre8885 🤓 much?
@@GreenRobotCat6877Unsure what you mean by that emoji except acknowledging I’m 100% right and that the video’s title is a LIE.
This issue came in in 1582 when they moved the date by 11-12 days after 15 centuries of doing it wrong hence the 15 - 3 = 12. 400, 800 and 1200 were leap years, all other century years were NOT. They discovered the Maya had the math right and we didn’t, the winter solstice no longer had the sun at the lowest point on the horizon on December 21st. Also why the orthodox are offset: they stuck to the old wrong date.
Another interesting fact: Jesus is said to have been born on the 25th but thats likely false. The ONLY and MAIN reason that this is the chosen date is because the sun starts rising on the horizon again on that very day. Yup, it is that simple.
The amount of engineering you put in a 13 min video to make this masterpiece is much more than my 4yrs college engineering degree.
Your degree must mean nothing then
@@KasSo89 buuuuh!!
@@KasSo89Must Must?
@@KasSo89Must Must?
Sooooo you’re gonna turn into rce?
This man lived 230 million years to record this video. Thanks for his work.
Kidding? The galactic year counter spun hundreds of times during the demonstation, he must have started building this some time before the big bang.
@Kjamilex, that's, 💯 CORRECT
bruh left me in stitches 🤣🤣
yea this is so confusing
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Damn it looks like I'm going to have to get into a DMC-12 to go 230,000,000 years later to confirm this video.
I don't care about the cons of being immortal, I wanna live long enough to see this clock in its full power
I’m ASTOUNDED. It’s unbelievable that people can even come up with something as complex as this and then build it out of the same things my Technic McLaren F1 car is made out of. That’s amazing. I was glued to the screen for all 13 minutes. This is one of the greatest videos I’ve ever seen on UA-cam.
Yeah no, you fucked up big time. Leap years are NOT every four years. They’re every four years except for every 100 years EXCEPT for every 400 years. So 1600 and 2000 are leap years, but 1700, 1800 and 1900 were NOT!!!!
Hence your clock is gonna be ONE YEAR OFF COMPLETELY after ONLY 48,800 years.
Which makes this clock USELESS on a Billion Year time scale.
And don’t get me started on the extra seconds added on occasion.
This needs to be an official lego set. That’s how awesome it is.
Then it is 500 $/€/¢/£/¥/₱
Yeah!
120 dolllars!
For the true price it's research time 😏💻
The price of every brick in it
This went from interesting to impressive to amazing to existential dread to cosmic horror so quickly. 😲
Fact
I suddenly experienced this yawning chasm of time that stretched both behind and in front of me. And that was just for our universe ......
Right?! School ~ Work ~Retirement... that part got me thinking
I wanna buy it
It was all going so well, then the lifetime counter came in and I suddenly became very self aware, why Lego you gotta do this to me 😭
We need more smart people like this to build Lego. Lego is like a portal to creativity and so many people are missing out on it.
Subscribed. I've been looking all over for how mechanical pendelum clocks worked, but this guy not only explained it, but also built one from scratch, out of something as relatable as Lego, and while taking his time to educate us on each step in detail!
I would honestly even recommend that schools use this for teaching material for physics class
I can no longer comprehend how a differential works so to me your creations are truly magical.
W donation
Thanks a lot
@@renzdeorodriguez7078 this isnt roblox pet simulator x
@@TRB_TheRedBrick what? I ain't playin that p2w game lol
@@TRB_TheRedBrickthat game sucks
It’s absolutely astonishing it took this 1.46 billion years to make this video, props to the generations that took the time and effort to record and watch over this magnificent creation
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I love watches, especially mechanical ones, and this was just beautiful. Amazing how such a mechanically simple device can cause you to have to think about the nature of existence and ponder the impossible to comprehend.
I bet that one day he is gonna make a functioning 50 kiloton thermonuclear warhead one day
out of legos no less
Crazy how this man dedicated 3000 years of his life to make this. 🙏
Only 3000? More like few trillions 😅
And he travled back in time to upload this video in 2023.
@@Evilcarrot507 but how?
@@zkszentr lego technic time machine
his ancestors?
The amount of math, creativity and care that went into this is unbelievable.
Math not that much. Simple gear ratios and rough approximations that probably isn't mathematically accurate. Creativity is out of this world.
@@abhishekjain6452 phisics more likely
@@squaredcircle1111 Thank you for saving me the trouble of having to correct them.
Once you added the ratchet, i was like "aaah, that's why you turn that thing and this is what it does!". You've explained so much without saying a word. That's why learning things the practical way is so much better
Props to this guy for spending billions of years making this and then demonstrating it.
props to the cameraman filming all of these time transitions in real time he is a real hero
I knew that this damn comment was gonna be here
I called it that this would be here.
the real goat
he is the same cameraman who shot the flash movie
@@masterofscience4829 thanks, that's where I thought I saw it
Lego needs to hire this guy and make this an actual official product as this actually also looks good
Wait a few weeks and you can find ali😂
I mean look how intricate this is could you imagine building it even with instructions and surely a build like this would be insanely expensive
@@CaptainJamesCook-cl6qqThat sounds mad fun though, just a project you do for a few weeks. A much simpler one though, maybe from seconds to a year? That seems reasonable.
@@CaptainJamesCook-cl6qq dont care, take my money. i'd make this clock the center piece on my dining room wall.
Bro has more reboot cards then my friend on his left pocket hell nah
Can't wait for future archaeologists to find this and realize it's still working
Fun fact - In 1901 A.D. One Greek diver of a team exploring a sunken wreck off the island of Kythera stood on a small object among the debris, causing serious damage to his foot, which hurt for around ten to fifteen minutes.
Upon closer inspection of the retrieved item by the Emergency Services who responded to the call it was revealed to be a piece of ancient LEGO.
Furthermore, since LEGO wasn't known to have been available in Kythera during 1901, a secondary diving team was sent back down to the site of the wreckage to investigate some more, finally, they happened upon what we now know of as the 'Antikythera Mechanism' a small distance from where the original diver was injured.
The object, of course, had simply fallen off of this!
Finaly, the mystery was explained and so it goes that no questions were left unanswered. Yay!
I am honestly impressed. This is what I call determination. To record something for over 230 millions of years just to prove the concept. Briliant.
if PoC took this long, imagine how much longer it will take to build the actual thing ;)
Would love to start seeing this in the background, just ticking away and counting how long it's been since you first made it
Yes!
I agree
I concur
You have my agreement.
Il allow it
I can't believe you actually went through the trouble of filming the clock for 3000 years for this video. We would have taken your word for it
Not even in my dreams did i think this was even possible to build, you're unbelieveble, i can't believe you had enough patience to make this monstrosity.
Why is this the most meaningful video I’ve watched in a very long time- makes you realize how insane the concept of time is and also reminds you that your time here is limited…
ong i agree
Its legos chill tf out
@@expilidocios It’s literally a clock where there’s a measurement of a human lifetime multiple factors away from a single galactic year.
Yep, that 80 year module albeit genius is a bit eerie. 🥺
@@expilidocios your point is invalid. It's legos, so you should be anything but chill!
You made a solar-powered clock that can count higher than our sun will exist for. Impressive!
I think the clock will last 5 billion years before it gets vaporised
How does it get energy at night? 😂
@@dasemifake Well the clock uses about 26 joules every two minutes but the solar panels generate about 30 joules every minute or about 60 joules every two minutes but for this example let’s say you could store an infinite amount of power and every year it was about 50% day and 50% night so every 2 minutes you would gain about 34 joules of power so every 20 minutes you saved about 340 and every hour you saved about 1020 joules of power and every 12 hours you saved about 12240 joules of power but then it’s night so let’s ignore moonlight gains and just say we didn’t generate any power now I’m using a calculator for the rest of this so every two minutes you spend about 26 joules of power and then you spend about 260 joules of power every 20 minutes and about 780 joules every hour and finally about 18720 but! we divide it by 2 because 18720 is based of 26 joules per minute not two so really you spend about 9360 joules per 12 hours and if we do 12240 (about the amount we gained)- 9360 (the about the amount we spent) = thus leaving us with about 2880 joules left and that is how much we gained over 24 hours aka 1 day so this clock would not stop during the night
@@dominicespinosa9154 Yes, but the battery (mechanical weight) is not that big/long... so about half a day. Also If we are going precise, during winter it does not generate enough electricity due to reduced sunlight intensity and time exposure. The solution is to place it on the equator or to put more complex orientating system for the panels to be perpendicular to sun rays or to simply add more.
Edit: Complex meaning one more perpendicular axis to move the panels one period every year.
@@dasemifaketrue but it’s just a theory … a game ther- nah that’s kinda out of place
This is quite possibly the coolest lego creation I've ever seen.
Can't believe people before some hundreds of galactic years built and recorded for future generations.... truly inspiring 😔
This honestly looks like some kind of time machine. It looks incredible
Which is what it is, of course. Nice!
It is
All clocks are time machines.
@@sayounsang I guess you're right lol
Oh if anyone could make a time machine out of lego, it would be the person who provides the content for this channel!
This contraption goes far beyond the confines of what I think of when hearing the word "clock". This is an astounding work of art. As both an artist and product designer, it brings me imense joy to see engineers push the boundaries of their medium every once and a while to make something as unique and thought provoking as this. In my experience working alongside countless engineers throughout my career, too often I see them forget that the fastest, most efficient way to solve a problem is not the end result, but the beginning. It takes as much if not more creativity as it does efficiency to create a truly memorable object/experience such as this; something far transcending conventional assumptions and subsequent applications. You are an amazing designer and I know for a fact that by continuing to make profound and engaging content such as this, you will go on to inspire the next generation of engineers, artists, and creators to pursue their passions. I have never subbed to a channel so fast and cannot wait to see what you come up with next.
Ye I’m not reading that…
Awesome comment. Thanks for your perspective.
Are you aware of the Clock of the Long Now? It's a project trying to design and build a mechanical clock that can actually run and keep accurate time for ten *thousand* years.
@@Rathmun Holy shit, I wasn't before but I am now. Seriously considering flying to Texas to hike up the mountain and wind that bad boy myself.
@@dudeguyduder3787 Takes less than a minute to read
This needs to be in a display case in the lobby of Lego's HQ.
I have never been more acutely aware of my own momentary and ephemeral existence compared to that of the Universe at large, and all because of a clock made from lego pieces.
Thank you
One of the most incredible videos I've ever watched. Difficult to describe what I felt towards the end. Thank you for this.
Melancholy and despair. You felt melancholy and despair.
This
It’s just a bit of spinning plastic
@@yesno7378 I guess you'd have trouble imagining not having breakfast.
@@ShamblerDK right?
I still, genuinely and seriously, believe that you have equalled, if not surpassed, what LEGO themselves are doing. That's considering every single project, although this one has topped it all. I am so damn jealous of what you're able to do here. Sure, it's painstakingly slow and twice as tedious, but your skills, knowledge, resources, talent, and intelligence types put so many others to shame. And it was a good idea to outsource certain individual mechanisms. Makes things easier for you while also leading the way towards potential collaborations.
The knowledge and skill it takes to make something like this is INSANE!
You NAILED it with this comment 👍
@@strangerofthe2067 I have the mind for mechanical engineering, although I failed to do anything important with it.
That's probably the coolest thing I've ever seen built with lego 😲 and this was so satisfying to watch!! Thank you!
The battery of the camera is amazing to last for a billion years filming the clock without recharge. Technology has improved so much.
I can't believe the cameraman watched this clock for several Galactic Years to get those amazing sped up shots. That's a feat of engineering that matches what the clock can do.
Respect 🫡
why use cgi when you can just sit there and record it for a few multiples of 230 million years amiright
True Indeed
@@alveolate i do it all the time
Imagine the file size of that footage. 🤯
Came in to see how a clock worked, came out with many existential questions
I love how at 12:31 you put 61.32 turns since big bang, I never considered that being a measurable value from a human machine, and honestly I think it's a beautiful concept, to think of a machine that existed since the beginnings of the universe and seen stars rise and fall to suddenly find peace in our World doing what it always has, keeping track of time
If he wanted to he might have been able to push this to the end of the Stelliferous era 100 trillion years from now.
Sadly don't think he could easily do the Degenerate or Black hole era's due to the sheer lengths of time withing them.
He is the god 🗿
@@Pyxis10 I feel if we disregard the wear on the plastic over the eon - never mind that the weight string would need replacing every few years - that entropy would probably tear it apart before it got anywhere close to the next Stelliferous era. 🙃
@@zelwinters1981well considering it uses solar energy to work, even without wear the clock should stop working when the sun dies.
Its not measurable because it never happened
I would buy this officially as a set man- this is damn cool.
Cara, isso tinha que estar em um Museu, simplesmente perfeito!
This has the same feeling as watching the beginning of a steampunk film with a clockmaker building the most fantastical, yet complex contraption you've ever seen in your life. Props to ya!
wat movie?
@@oijin6126 idk, a theoretical one
sell your idea to Steven Spielberg!
You should view " Wintergarten" gonevyils instrument
Everything you make is just amazing❤
agree
Now we gotta see if this thing still works after 1 Billion years haha.
This lego clock is not my creation but thank you!
@@anderstermansen130?
@@anderstermansen130bro thinks the world revolves around him/her💀
Needs to be in a museum.
I would 100% buy this kit. This should be in Lego Ideas!
12:02 this timelapse is so beautiful. I love how the motion blur quite literally blurs the motion of time.
12:37 also
Please please please note down all the bricks used ! This would be absolutely amazing as a set! Maybe not all the way to a billion, but having one that goes to a week is already so amazing and would be super cool as a desk ornament!
Excpecially seeing as it's 100% lego, besides the weights, and even gives itself energy (when the sun shines)
Definitely! I think it would be very loud tho, so i probably wouldn't get this either way
The weights are lego too. Lego made 19mm metal balls for an education set
@@BrickTechnology I ment the round weights on the pendulum, or are those lego as well?
@@BrickTechnology I think @Phoenix means the steel washer that replaced the wheel as a pendulum and was covered by white discs.
I've never seen a harmonic-ish gear in Lego before! I love that design in the year counter. It's so smart.
The fact that your contraption actually *ticks* just amazes me for some reason
Mind is blown completely. Can't imagine the time that went into making this video. The clock you added representing a lifetime really hit me hard. We won't be here forever, we've got to make the best of things while we're here!! Incredible video, absolutely astonishing.
I seem to know how. He probably has a "DMC-12" and traveled through time to confirm this video.
To start with the pendulum, and show every conceivable gear ratio to achieve all modern timetables. And then link them all together in one fully functioning system. That piece should be in the Smithsonian.
Every single engineer who is in here with me watching you is in awe of your brilliance.
This one is truly a work of art.
This is the most impressive thing I've seen in so long
This is super interesting, and actually helps people understand how clocks work in our modern electronics (real-time clocks using an oscillating crystal), both operate based on physical principles related to the conservation of energy and the laws of motion. Great video!
It’s crazy how some simple bricks can resemble such an unfathomably, incomprehensibly large amount of time
this should be put in the greenwich royal observatory with all the other clocks, it’s just incredible and also displays very well how a clock actually works.
gotta respect the guy for waiting over 3000 years to make this youtube clip
It'd be sick to have this play live 24/7.
the clock in my bedroom is sicker
@@zan7838
You should stream it 24/7.
love how this effectively explains how a clock works, really cool!
well, not modern clocks, modern clocks use quartz, this is showing how clocks worked before the pocket watch was invented
This could very well fit in a documentary such as cosmos. I almost feel I can hear Carl Sagan's voice in the end of the video. Kudos!
It's a very underrated and "underviewed" video, it deserves more fame. This masterpiece is so great, breathtaking...
i didnt know how clocks worked before this video, the precision required really uped my appreciation for clock craftsmanship!
Bro recorded this video for a billion years for us watching this. Props to the cameraman and this guy, deserves a lot.
I seem to know how. He probably has a "DMC-12" and traveled through time to confirm this video.
I just wish it came with build instructions.
I mean, seriously, just imagine how much SSD the guy needed to store 1 billion years of full HD footage. Mind blowing.
It's difficult to believe that such a simple pendulum core can drive so many gears with such less loss
Cannot help but find my own mortality and humanity, pretty damn humbling.
Puts a smile on my face.
I'd never have thought that Lego could make me feel stupid af. My brain can't comprehend your Danish plastic brick wizardry. I love your videos!
10/10
That's the only way to describe what I'm seeing 😂 this is just....incredible
It's a pendulum clock like old people have.
How has lego not approached you and instantly made you head designer? I'm blown away by your ability. Yet again!
Put it in a big time capsule (with a opening for the solar panel to get sunlight) and leave it for the next generations
There are two types of people:
Those who played with Lego and studied machine engineering and those, who studied machine engineering to play with lego.
This is the kind of content the internet was made for.
11:28 The madlad actually sat there and recorded it running for almost 1070 years, just for us. Respect.
This became increasingly existential. Brilliant.
This shows that you can literally build anything out of LEGOs.
Every time I watch one of these videos I have the biggest dumb grin on my face. I just graduated with a degree in biomedical engineering, and while this stuff is definitely in the mechanical engineering field, the universal process of iteration and improvement on display in your videos is always inspirational.
Maybe it's just wishful thinking, but I feel like Lego could make a really successful line of sets based on displaying practical concepts in interesting ways similar to this. As someone who spent countless hours with their Lego as a kid but felt like I eventually "grew out of it," I'd absolutely go out of my way to buy and build something like this as an adult. I've even sent this video to a couple of my younger cousins who are into Lego and they were amazed as well, so I don't even think its appeal would be purely limited to the adult Lego community - it's inspirational to people of any age who love to build functional things. Incredible work, both in the build itself and the video production to show us parts of the process.
Never think that Lego is JUST for kids...my God, this person teaches you all about mechanical physics, maths and just about everything in one video..just with bits of plastic!!
Maybe not a billion year clock, but giving a normal clock set like this would be cool.
Of all the astonishing creations you've made so far, this is the most captivating. I was blown away by the 24 hour clock movement - and then there was everything that came after it. Wow.
Simply the best lego construction I ve ever seen.
I love it how the subtitles explain everything for people like me
Wow such dedication. Imagine waiting all those galactic years to make this video. Jokes aside, this is really a one of a kind channel. Congratulations for all of the work and imagination you pour in here.
*you poor, not your pour. 🤓
@@halifur my bad for "your"(typed fast), "pour" is correct tho
Man this felt good to watch! It reminded me of when I was younger. Me and my dad would build a massive gear train with my entire collection of lego, then calculate how long it would take for the last gear to turn. We got all the way up to 4 times the length of the universe!
it’s amazing how you can turn a few pieces of plastic into something that can literally count galactic years. simple little beams turn into clock hands, then days, then an earth rotation, the lifetime of the average Joe, a galactic year, and so much more.
I had to lego of my preconceived notions of time and space to understand this beautiful machine.
If that's not how you cause an existential crisis using legos, I don't know what is. Nicely done >v
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This may be the most educational and interesting Lego video every made.
Props to the camera man for filming for 10 billion years
Amazing. I tried to do a regular clock when I was a kid.IIRC the old motors would go at 3000 RPMS and I tried to work out the math to slow it down to show hours and minutes.
Wow… I can't believe you filmed the clock working for 1069 years. A true legend.
Bro is from the american revolution
Respect the author!
He was filming this video for several galactic years so we could enjoy it!!!!
Man this one was extremely complex! Great job!
Crazy that you recorded this video for a billion years, that's real dedication. 🔥🔥
Perhaps he already made time machine
@@Delta_z-cj2uc*from legos
Wonna live billions years, to see the full rotation of this peace of art!
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I seem to know how. He probably has a "DMC-12" and traveled through time to confirm this video.
I feel like I just got done playing an incredibly profound game. This needs to go in a museum.
What if someone took the Lego game engine and made it a mission to Save The Universe™? You, a watch-maker, finds a portal in the back of your shop. You go through it and there is Father Time. The clock has broken, and without it the Universe Ends™. So you have to go back and find or make the parts needed, but it gets more complicated as it goes on. Then congratulations you Saved The Universe!™
@@zelwinters1981 lego needs to hire you
I'm always so amazed by your creations! This video made me cry a lot harder than your others, though. We really need to cherish what little time have, don't we?
I bet the clock makers of yesteryear would have loved a lego technics set! Fascinating stuff thank you for creating and taking apart and creating again!