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That is exactly how I envision the clacks based on Pratchett's descriptions. Maybe without exactly that many wires ...
by bombcar 1y ago
That is exactly how I envision the clacks based on Pratchett's descriptions. Maybe without exactly that many wires ...
- atombender 1y agoBut clacks are optical telegraphs [1]; they communicate by semaphores, not wires. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_telegraph https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_telegraph
- shantara 1y agoFor me, this picture is more of China Miéville than Pratchett.
- dmd 1y agoWouldn’t the number of wires be…. zero? The clacks are optical. They’re semaphore.