[HN Gopher] Prazsky Orloj: Prague astronomical clock simulator. ...
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       Prazsky Orloj: Prague astronomical clock simulator. (2022)
        
       Author : fanf2
       Score  : 44 points
       Date   : 2024-05-12 10:42 UTC (12 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (orloj.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (orloj.org)
        
       | AdhemarVandamme wrote:
       | In Firefox, the 24 (with the old-style 4 looking like a turned
       | alpha) is missing from the outer dark band. However, in Edge, the
       | 24 is there.
        
       | dvh wrote:
       | This completely missed the point of visiting Orloj. You don't go
       | there to see the clock, you go there to see the animated
       | skeleton.
       | 
       | Slovak 80s pop rock band Elan even made a song about her:
       | https://youtu.be/1Gctnn-vCfM
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       | "Tourists, sparrows, school trips, orloj and apostles. Skeleton
       | is standing on the side and everybody is afraid of her..."
        
         | BossingAround wrote:
         | True. But, it's also a clock, which is presumably difficult to
         | read, hence the simulation.
        
         | Toutouxc wrote:
         | Literally listened to it today in the car (I have a soft spot
         | for Elan). Also, as someone who lives in Prague, I don't really
         | go anywhere near the clock. That's tourist land. It doesn't
         | feel like home.
        
           | mcepl wrote:
           | Lived for some time five minutes walking from the Clock, and
           | so I can heartily appreciate the old Prague joke:
           | 
           | "Daddy, why they call it the tourist season, when we cannot
           | shoot them?"
        
         | 082349872349872 wrote:
         | > _[Smrtka] is standing on the side..._
         | 
         | I had a moment of cognitive dissonance when skimming through a
         | recent russian WWII series about a group of (Yak-1?) pilots and
         | the romances between them, for at one point there was a SmerSh
         | (Smert Shpionen) agent, and --unlike in Bond flicks- he was a
         | good guy.
         | 
         | EDIT: looks like it was Istrebiteli (2013).
        
       | ccppurcell wrote:
       | The first day after the lockdowns here I went to Prague. It was
       | amazing to see the clock and Charles bridge without the usual
       | crowds of tourists.
        
       | internet2000 wrote:
       | But, if you want to simulate the Prague astronomical clock in
       | style, check out the Quake-like FPS game HROT:
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUuFBPN2YDE It includes the
       | skeleton.
        
         | 082349872349872 wrote:
         | > _It includes the skeleton_
         | 
         | but unfortunately not the saints' days around the edge of the
         | bottom circle: https://www.orloj.eu/en/orloj_cisiojan.htm
         | 
         | (you can tell the day when spanish explorers first "discovered"
         | what would become Californian coastal cities because they named
         | each location after which day it was they got there: San Diego,
         | Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, San Francisco, etc.)
        
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