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History Channel stuff
Prof Edmunds said: "It makes you wonder what they would have achieved if the Romans hadn't taken over and put a stop to things. Would they have had a man on the Moon by AD300?
Maybe the "Prof" is not a professor in History, or maybe he's just a typical Marxist professor with an antipathy to anything "Roman"; yet, he is in error to impute that after Rome conquered Phillip the Macedonian and made Greece a province that they "put a stop to things"; it's simply not true. Whatever "science" the Greeks quit advancing in had taken place before the Roman's "took over" and whatever science the Greeks were still advancing in continued afterward. The Roman's may have considered the Greeks as weak and as a threat, politically and militarily, but the Greek Language and its arts and sciences were held in high esteem by the Romans.
Consider also the purpose and motive behind the fantastically engineered device - what the Greek inventor designed it for. It, the design, may have demonstrated great engineering, but, to modern humans it also would appear to lack practical priorities in terms of what such an accomplishment could achieve. I think the purpose of the device demonstrates that regardless of its engineering, the impetus for amassing that feat in superbly practical ways did not exist in Greek motives, and therefore, as great as it was it lacked the kind of purpose from which technological advances to spaceflight would develop.
The mechanism has been available for almost 100 years.
It has been examined, X-rayed and viewed from every possible angle and yet...
No one has yet attempted, or even suggested that the entire mechanism be reproduced by modern methods, and actually to see what it can do, rather than spin fanciful and increasingly moonbat theories about it...
My great, great, great, great grand son dropped that thing during one of his time trips to study Greek history. The truth will be headlined in every news outlet on Feb 10, 2118. Y’all just wait and see!