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Interesting Shipwreck Find

DesertRatDesertRat Posts: 1,791 ✭
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The Antikythera Mechanism
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Explanation: What is it? It was found at the bottom of the sea aboard an ancient Greek ship. Its seeming complexity has prompted decades of study, although many of its functions remained unknown. Recent X-rays of the device have now confirmed the nature of the Antikythera mechanism, and discovered several surprising functions. The Antikythera mechanism has been discovered to be a mechanical computer of an accuracy thought impossible in 80 BC, when the ship that carried it sunk. Such sophisticated technology was not thought to be developed by humanity for another 1,000 years. Its wheels and gears create a portable orrery of the sky that predicted star and planet locations as well as lunar and solar eclipses. The Antikythera mechanism, shown above, is 33 centimeters high and similar in size to a large book.

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  • STONESTONE Posts: 15,275 ✭
    It's a primitive computer capable of allowing several different things to work simultaneously.
  • GoldenEyeNumismaticsGoldenEyeNumismatics Posts: 13,187 ✭✭✭
    very cool!
  • goldrush00013goldrush00013 Posts: 2,478 ✭
    Pretty fascinating device.

    Here is a good link about it.
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  • crispycrispy Posts: 792 ✭✭✭
    There are theories that a few civilizations may have existed that have been much more advanced than their relative positions in history would dictate. These societies became defunct and left little in their wake to provide evidence of their existence. The Earth is a very old place. Who knows?
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  • Musky1011Musky1011 Posts: 3,899 ✭✭✭✭
    according to the bible, the earth is about 10,000 years old

    Anything else would just be theory, just to get you to believe that EVOLUTION thing

    I am not a bible thumper, just an opinion

    If Evolution theory is correct and we evolved from apes, how come there is still apes image

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  • MPeterMPeter Posts: 568
    There are still apes so we have something to look at when we go to the zoo. The Inca's built walls out of huge stones that fit together like puzzle pieces. Now you can't even get a laborer to lay tiles in straight lines even with spacers!!! Folks, it's all in common sense and thinking. The human brain can come up with anything!
  • MPeterMPeter Posts: 568
    Back to the original mechanism........Brilliant!!! That took a lot of brain power for that. It's too bad they didn't put that into building a better boat!
  • DesertRatDesertRat Posts: 1,791 ✭


    << <i>Back to the original mechanism........Brilliant!!! That took a lot of brain power for that. It's too bad they didn't put that into building a better boat! >>




    I wonder how many of those were actually made?

    Was this one a prototype and since the ship sank they blamed it on the computer and never made another?
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  • bonkroodbonkrood Posts: 796 ✭✭✭
    There are still apes so we have something to look at when we go to the zoo. image
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  • BobGreeneBobGreene Posts: 952 ✭
    Perhaps it is a more modern device that was dumped overboard for some reason and just coincidentlly landed right on top of an ancient Greek shipwreck.
    Bob
  • DUBBADUBBA Posts: 935


    << <i>Perhaps it is a more modern device that was dumped overboard for some reason and just coincidentlly landed right on top of an ancient Greek shipwreck. >>



    now there's an interesting thought?
    "see ya at the beach"
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