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Scientists Have Unlocked the Secrets of the Ancient 'Antikythera Mechanism'
Vice.com ^ | 3/12/2021 | Becky Ferreira

Posted on 03/14/2021 11:25:42 AM PDT by tbw2

A digital model has revealed a complex planetarium on the ancient device's face. “Unless it's from outer space, we have to find a way in which the Greeks could have made it,” researchers say.

(Excerpt) Read more at vice.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; History
KEYWORDS: antikythera; antikytheramechanism; archeology; godsgravesglyphs; greece; greeks; history; romanempire; sunkenciv; vicesux
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To: tbw2

Great, thanks!


41 posted on 03/14/2021 1:34:01 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The Republican Party is dead. Long live the MAGA Party.)
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To: tbw2

video of animated model:

https://vimeo.com/518734183


42 posted on 03/14/2021 1:42:49 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: a fool in paradise

Thanks, but:

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3848213/posts?page=62#62

https://www.freerepublic.com/tag/antikytheramechanism/index


43 posted on 03/14/2021 1:46:15 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
Thanks a fool in paradise.

44 posted on 03/14/2021 1:46:59 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Pez149; All
And scholars said ancient man were dumb hunter’s and gatherers and spoke using grunts and groans.

Obviously they were smarter than a lot of people alive today.

Anyone who knows anything about hunting and gathering knows such an opinion is exceptionally ignorant.

Just try to live by hunting and gathering.

It takes a great deal of specialized knowledge, talent, and thinking.

45 posted on 03/14/2021 1:50:55 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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To: marktwain
"Just try to live by hunting and gathering. It takes a great deal of specialized knowledge, talent, and thinking."

Ask ANY Democrat. Any knuckle dragging Red Neck can survive in the woods. What's it take to shoot Bambi with a gun? Just point and pull a trigger. They've seen it on TV.

Democrats are too civilized to do this, when they can go to Whole Foods in their Tesla, and pay three times the going price for raw, organic food that will go bad before they get it home...

46 posted on 03/14/2021 2:08:36 PM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: Robert DeLong
The ancient Greeks were responsible for such marvels as the catapult and the camera obscura.

And how about that aeolipile? A steam engine or turbine!

47 posted on 03/14/2021 2:34:26 PM PDT by Buttons12 ( )
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To: tbw2

There is little doubt in my mind that there were many brilliant minds at home in ancient Greece however I doubt that they had the mechanical capability for machining such a precision device. It may have been handed on down or inherited from some highly advanced society perhaps “Atlantean’s” which had disappeared pretty much without leaving a trace. Even today with some highly precise machinery, not to mention the knowledge required to put such an object together, it would be a challenge to come up with something of this order.


48 posted on 03/14/2021 2:44:10 PM PDT by saintgermaine (THE TIME TRAVELLER )
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To: PIF

Greeks?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVc8jwYexjE


49 posted on 03/14/2021 2:48:16 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (This space for rant.)
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To: Pez149

My question is—What would it be used for? Could it aid navigation at sea? It seems to have been made for a practical purpose of some sort besides when the next Olympic Games would be held.


50 posted on 03/14/2021 3:02:56 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade ( ALWAYS GO FORWARD AND NEVER GO BACK.)
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To: Buttons12
I just copied a brief part of the story from another site. 8>)

If they invented that too, well good on them. 8>)

51 posted on 03/14/2021 3:05:15 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: tbw2

You Tube Video of a Dr. Jo Marchant lecture at Darwin College University of Cambridge in which she pleasantly explains the mechanism, its history, attempts to understand it, how it was reverse engineered, and classical and later references to it, its possible source, and whether it’s technology has survived.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv-zWbxm2lY

(Beautiful hair! She made it easy to listen the entire hour!)


52 posted on 03/14/2021 3:07:46 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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To: Thumper1960

Having the earth as the center makes sense since the user was observing from earth. Copernican astronomy is not really an advance over Ptolemaic, in a way it was a step backwards. These days it would be viewed as a change of coordinates, and to a less convenient coordinate system. Copernicus also imposed on himself the additional Aristolean constraint that motion be resolved into uniform circular motion, a constraint that only imposes unnecessary complexity.

To depict the how the sky looks to an observer on earth, an earth centered coordinate system just makes sense.


53 posted on 03/14/2021 3:17:49 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Ever notice no "champion of the working man" ever died of overwork?)
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To: Thumper1960

Agreed


54 posted on 03/14/2021 3:58:42 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: tbw2

Some interesting scholarship attesting to the distinctly terrestial, in fact Hellenistic origins of the mechanism. The mechanism was not at all unique, but may have been one of the better exemplars of the art:

https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jarchae/2016/8760513/


55 posted on 03/14/2021 4:24:54 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Ever notice no "champion of the working man" ever died of overwork?)
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To: BenLurkin
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56 posted on 03/14/2021 5:14:10 PM PDT by null and void (The media decides what news you can see and NOT SEE. But don't you dare call 'em Not-Sees)
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To: null and void

57 posted on 03/14/2021 5:17:32 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Da Coyote
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58 posted on 03/14/2021 5:19:50 PM PDT by null and void (The media decides what news you can see and NOT SEE. But don't you dare call 'em Not-Sees)
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To: Da Coyote

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59 posted on 03/14/2021 5:24:16 PM PDT by null and void (The media decides what news you can see and NOT SEE. But don't you dare call 'em Not-Sees)
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To: tbw2
Scientists Have Unlocked the Secrets of the Ancient 'Antikythera Mechanism'

Again?

60 posted on 03/14/2021 5:51:47 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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