Making A Billion-Year Lego Clock

[@BrickTechnology]

Find the hidden Lego minifigure

[@adam69master]

10:25

[@karaco-6931]

10:27

[@Mark_catface]

​@@karaco-6931 wow nice

[@official_julianvandermade]

10:29 top left 😮

[@michelemng4570]

12:55

[@swobiy1296]

Props to the camera man for spending hundreds of galactic years filming this clock for us.

[@patfre]

Serious dedication for our entertainment

[@rai8855]

Props to that editor for reviewing the whole footage tho 😮

[@thatcringyplaneguy]

You took me joke

[@patfre]

@@thatcringyplaneguy you took me grammar

[@Darklight811]

Oh burn😮

[@ora2j251]

I really wish Lego made official kits like these, that actually have a function. I'm sure i'm not the only one.

[@mikakorhonen5715]

LEGO has wrong type of designers. They care about only looks.

[@fishingnxj]

Yes,you're not the only one

[@verios44]

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.

[@Yomotomen]

Well, to be fair, because of friction loss, past a week this build is entirely inaccurate

[@dulussy]

@@Yomotomen wait, are you meaning to tell me that this won't ACTUALLY last until a billion years?

[@ouzoloves]

I love the concept that this is all accurate based on 25cm being the distance needed for exactly 1 second

[@dadbear5316]

In Earth's gravity at sea level

[@aoyuki1409]

its accurate enough for a few months i believe

[@ivorvp612]

The lenght should be 24.849 cm so it's pretty close but probably not close enough for a billion-year clock lol

[@danielchick1]

He forgot leap years

[@Infinite_Maelstrom]

@@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).

[@ultrasonicradiation]

The battery of the camera is amazing to last for a billion years filming the clock without recharge. Technology has improved so much.

[@mm-hl7gh]

i guess it was plugged into a wall socket

[@corypride5096]

I can no longer comprehend how a differential works so to me your creations are truly magical.

[@renzdeorodriguez7078]

W donation

[@BrickTechnology]

Thanks a lot

[@TRB_TheRedBrick]

​@@renzdeorodriguez7078 this isnt roblox pet simulator x

[@renzdeorodriguez7078]

@@TRB_TheRedBrick what? I ain't playin that p2w game lol

[@Billy_plays2017]

@@TRB_TheRedBrickthat game sucks

[@_ikako_]

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!

[@chrishartley4553]

Are you still using AOL? That might explain it.

[@MatthewConnellan-xc3oj]

Bruh

[@smallw2003]

Lego hasn't been around that long, this is ancient lego, which inspired lego. Ancient lego is the oldest material in the Milky Way.

[@senna7811]

🤣🤣

[@TheFelix07]

@@smallw2003 in the whole universe* Probably a Multiversal material

[@R_Dx_]

The amount of engineering you put in a 13 min video to make this masterpiece is much more than my 4yrs college engineering degree.

[@KasSo89]

Your degree must mean nothing then

[@GangOfVortex]

​@@KasSo89 buuuuh!!

[@Neptunes_Bounty]

​@@KasSo89Must Must?

[@Neptunes_Bounty]

​@@KasSo89Must Must?

[@SillySillygoose_]

Sooooo you’re gonna turn into rce?

[@IluminousOne-9.7.2]

I don't care about the cons of being immortal, I wanna live long enough to see this clock in its full power

[@imovieremixer]

This needs to be an official lego set. That’s how awesome it is.

[@MatthewConnellan-xc3oj]

Yeah!

[@MatthewConnellan-xc3oj]

120 dolllars!

[@helldronez]

That will be 5000 usd 😂

[@r00kiet80]

​@MegaMarianne5i would buy that in a heartbeat for 500$

[@118Shadow118]

​@MegaMarianne5 500¥ is just 3,34€

[@I.____.....__...__]

This went from interesting to impressive to amazing to existential dread to cosmic horror so quickly. 😲

[@berliandro]

Fact

[@SlartiMarvinbartfast]

I suddenly experienced this yawning chasm of time that stretched both behind and in front of me. And that was just for our universe ......

[@Aisenheim]

Right?! School ~ Work ~Retirement... that part got me thinking

[@leonardotonelli3946]

I wanna buy it

[@davidmolin8944]

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 😭

[@veryyousful90]

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

[@FriedRice3519]

Fr (French revolution)

[@hyrofx9124]

@@FriedRice3519 FR (Fried Rice)

[@DucHoangHoang]

@@hyrofx9124EFR(Egg Fried Rice)

[@KenzieIsKenzie]

​@@DucHoangHoangFr (frederick)

[@nalen49]

​@@KenzieIsKenzieFr Free Rices

[@Madcowe]

I can't believe you actually had the patience to record this for several galactic years just to make sure it worked. Massive respect, that's dedication!

[@Welocked]

This man lived 230 million years to record this video. Thanks for his work.

[@Kjamilex]

Kidding? The galactic year counter spun hundreds of times during the demonstation, he must have started building this some time before the big bang.

[@OrengarMK3]

@Kjamilex, that's, 💯 CORRECT

[@Oubergine990]

bruh left me in stitches 🤣🤣

[@Touplopl]

yea this is so confusing edit : just 5 lines to go * 4

[@delorean_time]

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.

[@xFarmerGilesOfHamx]

The amount of math, creativity and care that went into this is unbelievable.

[@abhishekjain6452]

Math not that much. Simple gear ratios and rough approximations that probably isn't mathematically accurate. Creativity is out of this world.

[@DatBoi_TheGudBIAS]

​@@abhishekjain6452 phisics more likely

[@Dyanosis]

@@squaredcircle1111 Thank you for saving me the trouble of having to correct them.

[@dAni-ik1hv]

props to the cameraman filming all of these time transitions in real time he is a real hero

[@MawDaws]

I knew that this damn comment was gonna be here

[@legojoseph]

the real goat

[@masterofscience4829]

he is the same cameraman who shot the flash movie

[@legojoseph]

@@masterofscience4829 thanks, that's where I thought I saw it

[@SussyBaka-j4h]

You're neither funny nor original.

[@GreenRobotCat6877]

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!

[@GreenRobotCat6877]

Idk it's probably the music that's making me cry.

[@hectorwu8729]

Trueee

[@yukelalexandre8885]

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.

[@GreenRobotCat6877]

@@yukelalexandre8885 🤓 much?

[@yukelalexandre8885]

@@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.

[@ibuildstuff]

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…

[@gunni1195]

ong i agree

[@expilidocios]

Its legos chill tf out

[@extremehauntergaming_]

@@expilidocios It’s literally a clock where there’s a measurement of a human lifetime multiple factors away from a single galactic year.

[@markmallory2528]

Yep, that 80 year module albeit genius is a bit eerie. 🥺

[@AshrZ]

@@expilidocios your point is invalid. It's legos, so you should be anything but chill!

[@fofish5392]

Crazy how this man dedicated 3000 years of his life to make this. 🙏

[@LevelUpGA]

Only 3000? More like few trillions 😅

[@Evilcarrot507]

And he travled back in time to upload this video in 2023.

[@zkszentr]

​@@Evilcarrot507 but how?

[@Sebdet9]

​​@@zkszentr lego technic time machine

[@zkszentr]

his ancestors?

[@andreheget]

Lego needs to hire this guy and make this an actual official product as this actually also looks good

[@rewonkawebber]

Wait a few weeks and you can find ali😂

[@CaptainJamesCook-cl6qq]

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

[@kimiyotodeidera6902]

​@@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.

[@davegaming6564]

@@CaptainJamesCook-cl6qq dont care, take my money. i'd make this clock the center piece on my dining room wall.

[@seychnor7720]

Bro has more reboot cards then my friend on his left pocket hell nah

[@henryogan2017]

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

[@Potatoshaneko]

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.

[@SWISS-1337]

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.

[@blakeburrow5744]

@@SWISS-1337less academically inclined, more horizontally reclined

[@SWISS-1337]

@@blakeburrow5744 hahaha. I legitimately laughed out loud at that one.

[@SWISS-1337]

@blakeburrow5744 less Chronometrically cognizant, more casual coitus.

[@GuyFromJupiter]

So was my mum, but she didn't crow about it as loud as you

[@hendrikpoggenpoel4508]

This honestly looks like some kind of time machine. It looks incredible

[@thromboid]

Which is what it is, of course. Nice!

[@ckv1985]

It is

[@sayounsang]

All clocks are time machines.

[@hendrikpoggenpoel4508]

@@sayounsang I guess you're right lol

[@D-Bri]

Oh if anyone could make a time machine out of lego, it would be the person who provides the content for this channel!

[@ObscureHedgehog]

One of the most incredible videos I've ever watched. Difficult to describe what I felt towards the end. Thank you for this.

[@EnjoyCocaColaLight]

Melancholy and despair. You felt melancholy and despair.

[@larsdebaat2157]

This

[@yesno7378]

It’s just a bit of spinning plastic

[@ShamblerDK]

@@yesno7378 I guess you'd have trouble imagining not having breakfast.

[@yesno7378]

@@ShamblerDK right?

[@TheXtremeBoltGuy]

I would like to request instructions on how to build this myself, this is awesome!

[@teflons]

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.

[@dudeguyduder3787]

Ye I’m not reading that…

[@pendergastselim]

Awesome comment. Thanks for your perspective.

[@Rathmun]

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.

[@teflons]

​@@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.

[@ned2938]

​@@dudeguyduder3787 Takes less than a minute to read

[@dfwrailvideos]

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.

[@ZanderStrom10]

Respect 🫡

[@alveolate]

why use cgi when you can just sit there and record it for a few multiples of 230 million years amiright

[@BlueCat16]

True Indeed

[@foooosh]

​@@alveolate i do it all the time

[@herrgerd1684]

Imagine the file size of that footage. 🤯

[@jimyvanloock3510]

Would love to start seeing this in the background, just ticking away and counting how long it's been since you first made it

[@-jl.]

Yes!

[@unjacaranda890]

I agree

[@GrumpyGrampa]

I concur

[@isaiahmaljaars3109]

You have my agreement.

[@kamikaze12]

Il allow it

[@CazFrFr]

One of those “I don’t really understand what I just watched but it was cool!”

[@vladimirpain3942]

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.

[@vaakdemandante8772]

if PoC took this long, imagine how much longer it will take to build the actual thing ;)

[@vladimirpain3942]

@@vaakdemandante8772 This guy must have started somewhere around first generation of stars :D

[@LEGOCOOKING]

Everything you make is just amazing❤

[@Titanium2w]

agree

[@victorsamsung2921]

Now we gotta see if this thing still works after 1 Billion years haha.

[@anderstermansen130]

This lego clock is not my creation but thank you!

[@aliciachapman2956]

@@anderstermansen130?

[@Soldier_from_tf2_omg]

​@@anderstermansen130bro thinks the world revolves around him/her💀

[@omgodification]

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!

[@oijin6126]

wat movie?

[@omgodification]

@@oijin6126 idk, a theoretical one

[@rollozucco209]

sell your idea to Steven Spielberg!

[@rollozucco209]

You should view " Wintergarten" gonevyils instrument

[@Bambuzzsprosse]

That differential completely blew my mind. I had no clue how absolutely awesome that invention is, damn.

[@TimothyBoersma99]

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.

[@delorean_time]

I seem to know how. He probably has a "DMC-12" and traveled through time to confirm this video.

[@lachlanparker570]

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.

[@strangerofthe2067]

The knowledge and skill it takes to make something like this is INSANE! You NAILED it with this comment 👍

[@lachlanparker570]

@@strangerofthe2067 I have the mind for mechanical engineering, although I failed to do anything important with it.

[@AlphinedMiles]

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

[@Pyxis10]

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.

[@chieseledboockshelf]

He is the god 🗿

[@zelwinters1981]

@@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. 🙃

[@pitthepig]

​​@@zelwinters1981well considering it uses solar energy to work, even without wear the clock should stop working when the sun dies.

[@elicapone4954]

Its not measurable because it never happened

[@CygnusiaX1]

I would 100% buy this kit. This should be in Lego Ideas!

[@y2kona]

12:02 this timelapse is so beautiful. I love how the motion blur quite literally blurs the motion of time.

[@jostromp7380]

12:37 also

[@boblodiablo]

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.

[@torvasdh]

The school, work, retire clock is just depressing

[@EmmanuelGiouvanopoulos]

Agreed

[@matheusandrade1260]

Me too

[@Si7ne]

Cheer up bro, we will enjoy this life

[@IluminousOne-9.7.2]

From beyond the grave maybe​@@Si7ne

[@alaginhoOficial]

Yep..

[@MatthewFarmer-dw8np]

Put labels so people in the future will know how long ago it was built but you shuld also put it in a glass box in a museum

[@zatywy6706]

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!

[@Phoenix-Saika]

Excpecially seeing as it's 100% lego, besides the weights, and even gives itself energy (when the sun shines)

[@Dannymon]

Definitely! I think it would be very loud tho, so i probably wouldn't get this either way

[@BrickTechnology]

The weights are lego too. Lego made 19mm metal balls for an education set

[@Phoenix-Saika]

​@@BrickTechnology I ment the round weights on the pendulum, or are those lego as well?

[@FactorySoylent]

@@BrickTechnology I think @Phoenix means the steel washer that replaced the wheel as a pendulum and was covered by white discs.

[@ezmna57]

It’s crazy how some simple bricks can resemble such an unfathomably, incomprehensibly large amount of time

[@AlexanderWilithinIII]

This is quite possibly the coolest lego creation I've ever seen.

[@autopick1902]

i didnt know how clocks worked before this video, the precision required really uped my appreciation for clock craftsmanship!

[@broncoxy]

love how this effectively explains how a clock works, really cool!

[@thearmoredpanda6669]

well, not modern clocks, modern clocks use quartz, this is showing how clocks worked before the pocket watch was invented

[@AndyAtHome]

You made a solar-powered clock that can count higher than our sun will exist for. Impressive!

[@OrengarMK3]

I think the clock will last 5 billion years before it gets vaporised

[@dasemifake]

How does it get energy at night? 😂

[@dominicespinosa9154]

@@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

[@dasemifake]

@@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.

[@dominicespinosa9154]

@@dasemifaketrue but it’s just a theory … a game ther- nah that’s kinda out of place

[@devilboykrishu2105]

Saying this in serious way that i like your thought process of gears system and conceptual knowledge of it. I think you must be a scientist in NASA for designing defrencial machinery. You are great one, about buliding small to big concepts with just lego. BIG HAT'S TO YOU YOUNG MAN.

[@DrummondsPoint]

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.

[@nefiaplays...]

It'd be sick to have this play live 24/7.

[@zan7838]

the clock in my bedroom is sicker

[@nefiaplays...]

@@zan7838 You should stream it 24/7.

[@Hoo_Dini]

I've seen my fair share of bizarre lego these past months, but this is taking it to the next LEVEL! I applaud you for your talentend mind. And the bricks that were chosen to make the masterpiece.

[@darksionXII]

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

[@dingdongmotherlover]

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

[@SaltyAsTheSea]

That's the only way to describe what I'm seeing 😂 this is just....incredible

[@MrCmon113]

It's a pendulum clock like old people have.

[@rhyswoodman6781]

How has lego not approached you and instantly made you head designer? I'm blown away by your ability. Yet again!

[@Dudleymiddleton]

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!

[@heroknaderi]

That is true craftsmanship. Amazing job 😆😎😎

[@Dainurian]

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.

[@D-Bri]

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!!

[@CamTheWarlock]

Maybe not a billion year clock, but giving a normal clock set like this would be cool.

[@edomite2277]

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!

[@t1northshore]

i don't think i've ever been so in awe at lego: my childhood toy, conveying not just my entire lifetime but tens of millions of years past such a time my mind can grasp. i am watching time unfold on a series of lego gears, and i'm stunned. thank you.

[@miguelhimschoot2801]

This should be in a museum, every following generation should maintain the power of it, nice work !

[@sakotathefox3484]

This needs to be put on display in a museum forever, we need the parts to operate forever, when they wear down they need to be replaced, this is incredible!

[@TakeMeOffYourMailingList]

My assumption would be that losses due to friction/tolerance in the mechanism would render it fairly useless past the scale of a few months, maybe years. Still an interesting project though.

[@martyndavies1482]

Imagine the plastic would literally melt after a few decades or centuries even without the wear aspect. First I thought make from gold as the most stable element, but that is maybe too soft to overcome wear, though it would look good.

[@GuildOfCalamity]

This may be the most educational and interesting Lego video every made.

[@JakeHolko]

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.

[@lcf34]

This made me melancholic and thinking of my grand-father. Thanks for putting things in perspective!

[@AxelTheNorth]

Wonna live billions years, to see the full rotation of this peace of art!

[@MrCoolEnEspanolOfficialYT]

yos

[@andee2126]

yos

[@andee2126]

@@MrCoolEnEspanolOfficialYTdating

[@delorean_time]

I seem to know how. He probably has a "DMC-12" and traveled through time to confirm this video.

[@JJ_Binks]

11:28 The madlad actually sat there and recorded it running for almost 1070 years, just for us. Respect.

[@travishoyt]

I can only imagine the research that went into the various gear ratios to get all of this right. Great work and great content. Thank you!

[@Dyanosis]

I mean... gear rations are pretty easy to figure out. You just need ratios that get you to where you want. Need to compute 60 seconds? Then get a gear that, when turned 60 times, will move something else once. The ratio is literally in the units.

[@delorean_time]

Well, then I'm going to get into the DMC-12 right now and travel back in time to confirm this video.

[@Breexee]

The fact this can be made with legos is absolutely crazy.

[@svenrawandreloaded]

Crazy that you recorded this video for a billion years, that's real dedication. 🔥🔥

[@Delta_47cz]

Perhaps he already made time machine

[@mikorsky_s.92]

​@@Delta_47cz*from legos

[@comicsansgreenkirby]

If that's not how you cause an existential crisis using legos, I don't know what is. Nicely done >v

[@OttersGame]

E

[@Lgame0143]

Bro recorded this video for a billion years for us watching this. Props to the cameraman and this guy, deserves a lot.

[@delorean_time]

I seem to know how. He probably has a "DMC-12" and traveled through time to confirm this video.

[@Lucas-Stl]

I just wish it came with build instructions.

[@leonardmilcin7798]

I mean, seriously, just imagine how much SSD the guy needed to store 1 billion years of full HD footage. Mind blowing.

[@Schnickenpick]

I love it how the subtitles explain everything for people like me

[@IsawU]

Wow… I can't believe you filmed the clock working for 1069 years. A true legend.

[@MESTOR_1324]

Bro is from the american revolution

[@agilis1]

As an applications programmer, I often find myself doing a lot of date and time arithmetic, as well as presentation. But this… this complexity is something I’m sure many viewers, from no fault of their own, will not be able to appreciate or comprehend. This is truly a one of a kind masterpiece 😳👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@TheophilosPorter]

PLEASE make a parts list and instruction set. I would love to make this

[@bikerdude923]

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.

[@TheARESClanGaming]

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 KZbin.

[@yukelalexandre8885]

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.

[@HuskiesRGoated]

@yukelalexandre8885 Dude first off it’s literally a harmless Lego video u don’t gotta spend 61718282939 billion hours researching why this isn’t accurate 🤓💀 edit: also bro stop copy and pasting

[@thebodhiverse]

This is so sick! Awesome job!!!

[@lowercase_koppa]

Honestly, you could've stopped at the Week clock. Your dedication for completing a task is always remembered. Not to be rude, but it's impressive enough that you made a working LEGO clock.

[@BLAZER-xy4qc]

im absolutely enchanted from these videos, watching a crude build turn into a lego masterpiece reminds me of my childhood

[@Schofield101]

Absolutely mesmerising, so many precise calculations and very satisfying to watch.

[@saikou_no_koi]

Not even mentioning how awesome it is It touched me emotionally, it's something beautiful A work of art

[@SpectriumLyrics]

This is insane, i can't believe you made this. What if it rains? Theres no sunlight then. It needs sunlight right?

[@wickedwilliwonka]

You put so much effort in your videos, I highly appreciate it! My parents have a grandfather's clock (it was built at around 1910-1920) which works exactly the same way. I always wondered why it had so many gears inside, thanks to your video now I get a better understanding of it. Sometimes when I'm at their place I pull up the weights while hearing the ratchet inside of it. It makes so much sense now. My parents inherited that clock when my great grandmother died in 1990. Still works up until today just fine and rings to the half and full hour!

[@joscefs]

I didn't even know what billion year clock was ... I also didn't even think that such a fine mechanism can be made with Lego . It's an absolute work of art

[@fedbureaucrate]

11:00 MEGA thanx to cameraman who spent billion years on recording this video.

[@DaVintageMan129]

I feel like I just got done playing an incredibly profound game. This needs to go in a museum.

[@zelwinters1981]

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!™

[@DaVintageMan129]

@@zelwinters1981 lego needs to hire you

[@AnthonyantARBY]

The initial build before it was even at a billion years helped me understand how old grandfather clocks worked. Thank you for this knowledge!

[@delorean_time]

Well, then I'm going to get into the DMC-12 right now and travel back in time to confirm this video.

[@maxfieryflames]

Now the question is, how long will it take to desync from real time or if it even will

[@OrganicOyster]

Precision of the half second has been set within +/-1cm so it's easy to calculate the precision of the clock and the average excpected offset

[@OrganicOyster]

What is not easy to calculate is how much the pendulum is slowed down because of all the gears connected

[@CensoredUsername_]

Considering it's got a few minutes of charge, and it's solar powered, as soon as the sun goes down.

[@maxfieryflames]

@@CensoredUsername_ oh yeah. You could just attach more solar panels (or a bigger panel) and a battery and itd work fine

[@Reptilia12]

@@OrganicOyster The pendulum is not attached to the gear train, the escapement wheel is. The escapement advances one tick every time the pendulum swings. There just has to be enough weight to drive the geartrain.

[@spezistyle]

This is the kind of content the internet was made for.

[@Amigo1048]

It’s honestly rather mesmerizing, although I’m getting a bit existential thinking about my mortality as I watch this clock lol-

[@Noorthia]

why the dash-?

[@xardas6579]

I like most of your videos for their scientific and education purpose, but this one is by far the best and also very touching as it puts time in perspective.

[@NevermindThee]

Beautifully eerie. Perhaps my favourite creation of yours, yet. Thank you.

[@sharptoothtrex4486]

Excellent science project you made, y'all!

[@demulazer6223]

This is so good! It feels like a huge step-up from previous videos, which were already one of my favorites

[@Berandaro]

This is my favourite creation so far on this channel, well done!!

[@Forgionepatrick]

Math, science, creativity, and education. The kind of channel everyone should be seeing. Such an awesome video!

[@henrytang2203]

I would have been super impressed at the year. But you went above and beyond to include the galactic year.

[@lennoxtvthingy7408]

Imagine billions of years in the future this thing is still ticking.

[@FLYUPPER]

I feel stupid but it actually makes me wanna cry how amazing this is. I mean everything: the lego, the fact that everything is made of clean energy and the time representation !

[@alveolate]

ahem, legos are made of dirty dirty oil plastics

[@OddManeuver]

Clockmaking is a really interesting profession.

[@FLYUPPER]

@@alveolate ha sorry ure right wasn’t thinking about that 😅

[@Avetho]

@@FLYUPPER Well, to be fair we aren't ever really going to replace oil-based plastics, that'll come once we finally figure out how to synthesize equally good plastics at industrial scales, but that's many decades away at least. Even if we stop burning oil as a fuel it'll still be needed for basically everything we use since every device and vehicle and factory and boat and plane out there needs plastic, even medical tech and implants and spacecraft all use plastic. So the thing that makes this clock cooler is that its all in immortal plastic that has been the one thing that really revolutionized mankind's place in the universe and extended our lifespans closer to being able to watch more of this clock turn over in one lifetime.

[@FLYUPPER]

@@Avetho u are hell right ! Tks for these infos about plastics (aint joking)