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To: Maelstorm

I remember reading about the Antikythera mechanism in a “Ripley’s Believe It Or Not” back when I was a kid in the 50’s.

There was a program on one of the science channels a year or so back about the mechanism which they pretty much understand now. It was even more complex than originally thought.

I believe some guy has even made a working copy of it.


12 posted on 05/02/2009 6:48:52 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: yarddog

Yep that is a picture of it. I just watched something about it last night on the History channel. It is horrible that the library of Alexandria was lost.


13 posted on 05/02/2009 6:52:16 PM PDT by Maelstorm
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To: yarddog
I read about this in one of Frank Edwards' books. Those books were great. And scary!
50 posted on 05/02/2009 9:47:01 PM PDT by Ken H
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