The World's Largest Clock Starts Ticking in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Meghan Young — August 16, 2010 — Unique
References: blog.foreignpolicy & gizmodo
The World's Largest Clock is going to be so huge, Saudi Arabia hopes to move the Greenwich Mean Time to Mecca. That's saying a lot, considering that Greenwich has been the international timekeeper since 1884. Yet change is always good, so perhaps the Prime Meridian may benefit from a new location.
Resembling Big Ben, "if Ben was on steroids," as the Foreign Policy blog notes, the World's Largest Clock spans 46 meters in diameter on a skyscraper 380 meters high. This means that it will be visible 17 kilometers away during the evening. Pretty impressive, no?
Resembling Big Ben, "if Ben was on steroids," as the Foreign Policy blog notes, the World's Largest Clock spans 46 meters in diameter on a skyscraper 380 meters high. This means that it will be visible 17 kilometers away during the evening. Pretty impressive, no?
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