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Were Greeks 1,400 years ahead of their time?
The Scotsman ^
| June 7, 2006
| EBEN HARRELL
Posted on 06/07/2006 3:58:41 PM PDT by aculeus
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A handout photo shows the Antikythera Mechanism (R), a mysterious bronze device recovered from a Roman-era shipwreck located in 1900, and its x-ray made by a Greek-British team of scientists at the Athens National Archaeological Museum. Photograph:X-TEK GROUP/AFP/Getty Images
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posted on
06/07/2006 3:58:43 PM PDT
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aculeus
To: aculeus
The History Channel program on the Antikythera mechanism was awesome...as were their other shows on ancient technologies like the first steam engine...
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posted on
06/07/2006 4:02:13 PM PDT
by
Al Simmons
(Hillary Clinton is Stalin in a Dress)
To: aculeus
Yeah, I had one of those.
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posted on
06/07/2006 4:02:39 PM PDT
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billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: billorites
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posted on
06/07/2006 4:04:17 PM PDT
by
MarkeyD
(Make Love, Not Cartoons. I really, really loathe liberals.)
To: MarkeyD
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posted on
06/07/2006 4:07:16 PM PDT
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: billorites
To: aculeus
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posted on
06/07/2006 4:12:50 PM PDT
by
clyde asbury
(Adagio sostenuto)
To: ShakeNJake
I have even mapped Word to the Wordstar Diamond.
Damn Word and it's lack of persistent blocks.
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posted on
06/07/2006 4:12:54 PM PDT
by
MarkeyD
(Make Love, Not Cartoons. I really, really loathe liberals.)
To: aculeus
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posted on
06/07/2006 4:13:35 PM PDT
by
xcamel
(Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
To: billorites
Remember "Electric Pencil" running on TRSDOS in the 70s.
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posted on
06/07/2006 4:14:50 PM PDT
by
MindBender26
(Having my own CAR-15 in RVN meant never having to say I was sorry....)
To: aculeus
The mechanism contains over 30 bronze wheels and dials and was probably operated by hand, Mr Edmunds said. That or they had a nuclear reactor way ahead of their time...
To: tortoise; SunkenCiv
the Antikythera Mechanism may be the world's oldest computer, used by the Greeks to predict the motion of the planets.
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posted on
06/07/2006 4:16:28 PM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: MarkeyD
LOL! I hated Word when it first came out and refused to use it.
Hey, I even used the CPM/80 version for Apple IIe of Wordstar, Calcstar, and Datastar! Now that was back in the day!
To: aculeus
"FOR decades, researchers have been baffled by the intricate bronze mechanism of wheels and dials created 80 years before the birth of Christ." ----
Patrick Heron -
http://www.nephilimapocalypse.com/_welcome/welcome.asp
By the way .................. Apocalypse in Greek means the UNVEILING.
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posted on
06/07/2006 4:17:06 PM PDT
by
beyond the sea
(Scientists Itching to Blame Poison Ivy's Effect on Global Warming)
To: Billthedrill
To: billorites
Yeah, I had one of those. .Dir
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posted on
06/07/2006 4:18:11 PM PDT
by
humblegunner
(If you're gonna die, die with your boots on.)
To: ShakeNJake
Me too, but I used it on this:
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Heath Z-100
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posted on
06/07/2006 4:19:56 PM PDT
by
MarkeyD
(Make Love, Not Cartoons. I really, really loathe liberals.)
To: Al Simmons; aculeus
I saw the program on the History Channel. What was really impressive was the fact the mechanism was hand-made. The show also demonstrated how the Greeks also had an early version of the flame-thrower and napalm. They used it as a devastating naval weapon. Great show.
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posted on
06/07/2006 4:21:32 PM PDT
by
edpc
To: aculeus
Xenophon Moussas Typical Greek geek name!
To: edpc
And don't forget "Archimedes' Death Ray" that he used to set the ships of the Roman Navy afire during the Roman siege of Syracuse...both a Greek historian in the 1970s, and, more recently, The Myth Busters showed that it could (fairly easily) be accomplished by focusing the sun's rays with hundreds of mirrors (or highly polished shields, as Archimedes had the Syracusan Army do) on one point on the side of the ship......
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posted on
06/07/2006 4:31:08 PM PDT
by
Al Simmons
(Hillary Clinton is Stalin in a Dress)
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