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Scientists Unravel Mystery of Ancient Greek Machine
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| Wed Nov 29, 1:25 PM ET
| Ker Than
Posted on 11/29/2006 3:44:39 PM PST by Redcitizen
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The Original Timex.
To: Redcitizen
ike Edmunds of Cardiff University in the UK. "The design is beautiful, the astronomy is exactly right…In terms of historical and scarcity value, I have to regard this mechanism as being more valuable than the Mona Lisa."
Spoken like a scientist. I agree with him but then I think a Gulfstream IV is far more beautiful than anything modern art ever produced.
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11/29/2006 3:51:14 PM PST
by
saganite
(Billions and billions and billions-------and that's just the NASA budget!)
To: Redcitizen
Something to bring up the next time somebody on the Apocalypto boards gushes on about how advanced the Mayans were...
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11/29/2006 3:51:20 PM PST
by
ClaudiusI
To: Redcitizen
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11/29/2006 3:54:07 PM PST
by
ElkGroveDan
( What does it profit a man to gain the whole world but lose his own soul?)
To: Redcitizen
The history of the history of this machine is extensive on FR.
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11/29/2006 3:55:44 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(RTRA DLQS GSCW)
To: Redcitizen
The History Channel did an interesting show about this device. I think it was an episode of "Ancient Mysteries." Its all very interesting.
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11/29/2006 3:57:05 PM PST
by
Aetius
To: saganite
I agree with him but then I think a Gulfstream IV is far more beautiful than anything modern art ever produced. Heck, my dog produces anything more beautiful than anything modern art ever produced, and he does it on a regular basis.
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11/29/2006 3:58:05 PM PST
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
To: Redcitizen
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11/29/2006 3:58:27 PM PST
by
gridlock
(We just got dumped. McCain and Rudy are Rebound Guys. Let's not marry the Rebound Guy.)
To: Mr Ramsbotham
Has your dog applied for a NEA grant?
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posted on
11/29/2006 4:00:02 PM PST
by
saganite
(Billions and billions and billions-------and that's just the NASA budget!)
To: Redcitizen
WEll, now the question.
Does the sun go around the earth or the earth go around the sun on this calculator.
To: Redcitizen
I bet the guy in Egypt, Rome or Carthage who had bought it had a real bad day when he found out the ship went down.
To: Redcitizen
Its purpose is clear... it was the original bilge pump.
To: gridlock
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11/29/2006 4:16:40 PM PST
by
P.O.E.
To: SunkenCiv
ping
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11/29/2006 4:19:18 PM PST
by
kitchen
(Over gunned? Hell, that's better than the alternative!)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar; Redcitizen
Does the sun go around the earth or the earth go around the sun on this calculator. It appears that they understood retrograde motion well enough to accurately show it in their machine..
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6191462.stm
I also found it interesting that it is surmised this calculator may have been "mass produced".. ( near the end of the linked article.. )
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11/29/2006 4:23:30 PM PST
by
Drammach
(Freedom... Not just a job, it's an adventure..)
To: Redcitizen
Here's the reconstruction:
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posted on
11/29/2006 4:26:58 PM PST
by
Stultis
To: gridlock
The original Flux Capacitor...
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11/29/2006 4:27:40 PM PST
by
WestVirginiaRebel
(Common sense will do to liberalism what the atomic bomb did to Nagasaki-Rush Limbaugh)
To: kitchen
Thanks, kitchen. Believe it or not, there were two others today (that I know of).
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11/29/2006 4:29:28 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
(I last updated my profile on Thursday, November 16, 2006 https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: ElkGroveDan
Maybe humans are the "aliens"? Makes more sense than some of the crazy theories out there.
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