by Ian Skellern
Believe it or not, this stylized peacock pecking at a bowl full of ears of wheat is actually a fully functional horological component. The “bowl” is a cam, while the peacock controls the instantaneous second time zone jump mechanism of the Fabergé DTZ Visionnaire.
But what other story might explain what’s going on here? Could it actually be a new avian constellation in the night sky? Please share your ideas in the comments below.
Congratulations to imageWIS for his “Star Trek” caption, featuring Scotty not being a watchmaker caption in last week’s caption competition. Don’t miss that and all of last week’s excellent entries, including David’s exceptional Iain M. Banks “Culture” spaceship reference, at Surely Created By Extraterrestrials: Caption Competition #34.
For more on the Fabergé DTZ, please see First Look: The Surprising Movement Of The Fabergé Visionnaire DTZ (Dual Time Zone) and Fabergé’s Visionnaire DTZ: A Surprising Way To Display A Second Time Zone.
Leave a Reply
Want to join the discussion?Feel free to contribute!
This newly discovered constellation called Peacock Feeding was in the news recently as the Russians picked up a radio signal from its direction, which intriguingly turned out to be playing a loop of old re-runs of ‘Star Trek.’