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Amazing antikythera mechanism model
January 12th, 2010 The Antikythera mechanism dates back to ancient Greece around 150 BC. It was discovered in 1901, but only recently have scientists been able to examine its guts. They say it predates similarly-complex clockwork machinery by about 1,500 years. This is the first time I’ve seen a working model that isn’t just a rusted-out wad of gears: How many more objects like this will never be uncovered? It’s sheer luck we happened to find this wearable spacetime locator beacon, clearly standard issue for the ancient Greeks’ Pantemporal Phalanx. Discussion (6)¬ |
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The Pantemporal Phalanx was guided by the precognitive Pythia, the priestess of Apollo, more commonly known as the Oracle of Delphi. It was previously thought that the Pantemporal Phalanx had destroyed all of their specialist equipment to prevent any of it from falling into the hands of the Roman Empire. Having seen Rome's eventual dominance over Greece, the Phalanx knew that the rapacious appetite of the Caesars for conquest had to be restricted to one time period alone.
Impressive
"Comment, Mr. Spock?" "Fascinating, Captain! An engineering marvel, considering they had little beyond stone knives and bearskins to work with . . ."
Wonderful work on the reconstruction!
i wondered where i left that
Legitimately snazzy.
@kev: I understand the Phalanx was also forced to intervene with Hero of Alexandria and so eliminate the invention of the coal-powered trireme.
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