Posted on 09/25/2009 4:12:01 PM PDT by Perdogg
Science journalist and author Jo Marchant will discuss the century-long quest to understand the purpose of a mysterious Greek artifact buried beneath the sea for 2,000 years.
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THX.
WILL CHECK IT OUT. MAYBE AFTER A NAP.
I love CTCAM !!! Miss Art Bell, though...
The device was based on the geocentric model, which believed that the Earth was the center of the universe.
Basically, they’ve run out of things to talk about, and are starting over, right?
The Antikythera mechanism is an amazingly sophisticated calculator. It performs very complex calculations. One of its functions was to calculate the times to hold the Olympic games. It also calculated eclipses of the sun and moon.
LOL!
How long has he been retired this time?
Used to love listening to him and his guests topics. Tried to listen to his replacement for awhile but it just wasn’t the same. Art Bell is just irreplaceable imo.
I learned how to detect lies from listening to that show. It wasn’t Art that necessarily lied, but his guests.
Some of them, sure. But it didn’t matter to me. It was great entertainment. Like a radio variety show.
Interesting... the antikythera mechanism has got to be one of the more intriquing artifacts ever. I’m not convinced at all that we know very much about what it’s for.
It was a good show, sometimes it would make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
i hear ya.
And it was just so cool to listen to Art because he was so compelled to be on the radio, so passionate about that. I don’t recall ever getting the impression that Art passed judgment on his guests. He always seemed open minded and objective at least.
It was really strange about how he met his new wife.
New wife? How did he meet her?
Remarriage
By the end of January, Bell began hinting that he was making a significant life decision, but that he would keep it a secret for at least one year, asking listeners to remind him in 2007 to let them in on it. By March, he was saying that he would soon take a “huge risk” and “do something rash.” On April 15, 2006, he ended the mystery and, to the mild surprise of listeners, revealed that, after several weeks of mourning, he had recently gone to the Philippines and married Airyn Ruiz,[15] whose name is pronounced like the name “Irene,” but Art likes to pronounce her name as “Arin.” This is because during their Internet dating Art imprinted the spelling of her name with that pronunciation. Airyn Ruiz Bell is a recent college graduate. Ruiz — given Bell’s private e-mail address by an amateur radio friend—had contacted Bell to offer condolences shortly after Ramona’s death. After “dating” via Internet video conferencing for “hundreds of hours,” the two married one week after Bell arrived in the Philippines to actually meet her in person . Bell also paid for his friend—who was courting Airyn’s sister—to accompany him to the Philippines and marry her. The two couples wed in a double marriage ceremony on April 11, 2006.
On October 7, 2006, Bell announced on Coast to Coast that Ruiz was pregnant with the couple’s first child. Art told listeners that the couple’s child was indeed a girl as many listeners suspected. He noted that they had been hoping for a girl and had announced only a girl’s name for their unborn child in hopes of receiving a girl.
Art and Airyn’s baby girl, Asia Rayne Bell, was born on May 30, 2007.
Ping.
Hmm interesting. A 15 year old. seriously? And it wasn’t too long after Ramona’s death either was it?
I always got the impression that Art was madly passionately in love with whomever he was married to and that he would not ever like to be without a wife.
Whatever happened to his son who contracted HIV from a guy who molested him? Has his son survived?
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