Re: Analog and Digital Clocks, Part 2
julian, on host 194.213.87.193
Thursday, October 11, 2001, at 06:03:24
Re: Analog and Digital Clocks, Part 2 posted by The Other Matthew on Wednesday, October 10, 2001, at 12:14:10:
> I wear an analog watch now, mostly because I think they look cooler, and despite the "Water resistant" label on it, it's a little more difficult for me to believe that an analog watch is water-resistant. > > The Other "And besides, just what IS time, anyway?" Matthew
Huh? If anything, it'd be easier to make a "Water Resistant" analogue watch than a ditto digital one, because you could make it completely mechanical, in which case it wouldn't matter if water entered (cheating, I know, but in the end, we could tell the time under water, and at any depth we could possibly survive, to boot. On the downside, the mechanicals would probably be filled with dirt and rust before long). OK, I suppose that a mechanical digital (mechano-digital?) display could be fabricated, but that would only bring it on par with the analogue watch.
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