To: Alter Kaker
This thing has been known about for the past 100 years, and was X-Rayed more than 50 years ago. Several working prototypes have been built in the past decade.
Why now do we have two articles on this thing posted today? What's so special about this that suddenly it's back in the news?
31 posted on
11/29/2006 11:58:02 AM PST by
Junior
(Losing faith in humanity one person at a time.)
To: Junior
A new article was just published in Nature, revealing it to be more complex than previously believed. Regarding the date, according to the NY Times, it's 2nd century BC, not CE.
34 posted on
11/29/2006 12:01:24 PM PST by
Alter Kaker
("Whatever tears one sheds, in the end one always blows one's nose." - Heine)
To: Junior
Why now do we have two articles on this thing posted today? What's so special about this that suddenly it's back in the news? A new high resolution X-ray scan was just done on it. Official results are supposed to be released in the next couple of days.
I wonder how long it will be before the geeks at slashdot have Linux running on a copy of it?
37 posted on
11/29/2006 12:03:07 PM PST by
KarlInOhio
(Hey Kerry, What part of showing heels and ass is a winning strategy in Iraq?)
To: Junior
What's so special about this that suddenly it's back in the news? Bush is going to Jordan to try and get the Iraq situation on the right track
That would be important good news, but goond news isn't reported.
77 posted on
11/29/2006 1:48:41 PM PST by
Popman
("What I was doing wasn't living, it was dying. I really think God had better plans for me.")
To: Junior
This is why:
More research has come out (from the BBC). Those models of yours were either incomplete or only hypotheses of how the actually computer looked/functioned. Only pieces of the machine have apparently been found, and scientists merely surmised the rest.
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