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Rogi Ocnorb

Good find, Austin!
I was pretty sure it was some kind of differential computing device, but you nailed it. Except for a slight misrepresentation of "dark" it appears the be the one you posted. The Astronomical dial of the Prague Orloj

From what I can gather, the clock is simply reflecting a time at about 10:40am Prague (Central European Time) in the first few days of Gemini rising (May 23 or thereabouts) (EDIT-ADD: The moon is centered in Aquarius and the sun indicates there is a little more that 8 hours till sundown.). We can't know the exact date, as that's part of the Calendar dial which wasn't included. The outer ring indicates 15 hours, Bohemian time (Hours after sundown).

I think the real puzzle, here isn't what the readings say on the clock, but which bits of info haven't been removed.

Bohemian (Italian) Time Ring:
7, 8, 10, 16, 24

Roman (Sidereal) Time Ring:
Midnight, 1am, 5am, 4pm

Zodiac Ring:
Gemini, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Pisces
Or 3, 8, 9, 12 in the order seen on most zodiac calendars.
Gemini= 5/22-6/21
Scorpio=10/24-11/22
Sagittarius=11/23-12/22
Pisces=2/20-3/20

I'm not getting anything out of any of that, though.

**Posted:** Mon Mar 13, 2006 6:55 pm

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lurkette · Boot Joined: 17 Feb 2006 Posts: 14

mm, looks like there's a letter 'u' in red now. what order was it again? and what can we do with this? i haven't been following along lately.

**Posted:** Mon Mar 13, 2006 9:12 pm

Rogi Ocnorb

http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=222549&highlight=sairans#222549

But, based on the chat audioslave had, it looks like we're in for another round of "red-lettering".
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If this was a launch, I'm not overly impressed.

**Posted:** Mon Mar 13, 2006 9:28 pm

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lurkette · Boot Joined: 17 Feb 2006 Posts: 14

k, so i guess it's "sairansu"? nothing comes up on google.

EDIT: oh, hey
http://mum.atspace.com/sairansu.html

and no, i don't think this is a launch. the countdown is for the 15th, so i assume that's when it'll happen.

**Posted:** Mon Mar 13, 2006 9:30 pm

audioslave · Unfettered Joined: 25 Sep 2005 Posts: 547 Location: Canada

Yeah, they pushed back the time again, bummer...

**Posted:** Mon Mar 13, 2006 11:07 pm

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sairansu - an anagram for many things, including "A Russian".

On a lighter note... did some googling for the "quotes" that are located on the picture:

**Posted:** Tue Mar 14, 2006 12:01 am

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Where are we getting the 15th? From the counter script that disappeared and as far as I know showed the 13th as zero hour?
The original AIM said we would know on the 13th and the site updates, today would seem to indicate that this was the case. Did I miss another page that was in existence for only a few hours?

EDIT: Nevermind. I found it.
Regarding the new page and it's title "shinkan"... This is probably just a weird random hit in Google, but "shinkan" and "wolf" bring back a page with a quote: "Silence is the prologue to fear." .
Note also, the "Kilroy was here" scrawl in the upper left corner of the main window. Anybody familliar with the world of megaman who could offer their opinion on this?

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audioslave · Unfettered Joined: 25 Sep 2005 Posts: 547 Location: Canada

If you click on the image on the homepage, you get the page with the Base64 and the links, below that is a counter. I suggest clearing your cache if you can't see it, Rogi

**Posted:** Tue Mar 14, 2006 12:48 am

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Following the Shinkan thing....google returned a book called "The Kanji Dictionary" written by Wolfgang Hadamitzky. Shinkan is listed as meaning "Fuse"

**Posted:** Tue Mar 14, 2006 12:54 am

lurkette · Boot Joined: 17 Feb 2006 Posts: 14

**Posted:** Tue Mar 14, 2006 1:04 am

Jaded

hmm...was gone for a while din't have time to post...

does that odin logo look like a symbol on the korean flag?

I think it does...the upper right one

http://www.lib.noaa.gov/korea/bilateral/img_bilateral/koreaflag.gif

hmm...that symbol also reminds me of something from Jpn.

I'll ask my Jpn. Teacher about shinkan

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hmm...after some googling

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0785109250/102-6773849-0531325?v=glance&n=283155
heh heh

and wasn't Odin killed in Ragnorok?

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lurkette · Boot Joined: 17 Feb 2006 Posts: 14

reminds me of something from Lost too.

**Posted:** Tue Mar 14, 2006 2:11 am

JimK

Found this: http://www.sunnyway.com/runes/mythology.html

Not sure if it helps at all, but it concerns the Norse gods. "Vidar will get revenge for Odin". Fenrir is apparently a wolf of some kind. And it all leads to Ragnarok, which is apparently the twilight of the Norse gods.

I'm trying to see how the wolf, Fenrir, may relate to the father (which I'm assuming is Odin)...

EDIT: Apparently Fenrir (or Fenris) was the offspring of Loki and Angerboda

**Posted:** Tue Mar 14, 2006 10:18 am

JimK

Shinkan is a form of Imperial Japanese Calligraphy...

**Posted:** Tue Mar 14, 2006 10:27 am

JimK

Using the Korean flag as a starting point, the picture on the Shinkan page resembles the trigram for Water (Moon), which is one of 8 trigrams in the I Ching, which is an ancient Chinese oracle.. http://www.kheper.net/topics/I_Ching/trigrams.htm

**Posted:** Tue Mar 14, 2006 10:36 am