Commissar SFLUFAN Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 Scientists may have solved ancient mystery of 'first computer' | Astronomy | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM Researchers claim breakthrough in study of 2,000-year-old Antikythera mechanism, an astronomical calculator found in sea Quote From the moment it was discovered more than a century ago, scholars have puzzled over the Antikythera mechanism, a remarkable and baffling astronomical calculator that survives from the ancient world. The hand-powered, 2,000-year-old device displayed the motion of the universe, predicting the movement of the five known planets, the phases of the moon and the solar and lunar eclipses. But quite how it achieved such impressive feats has proved fiendishly hard to untangle. Now researchers at UCL believe they have solved the mystery – at least in part – and have set about reconstructing the device, gearwheels and all, to test whether their proposal works. If they can build a replica with modern machinery, they aim to do the same with techniques from antiquity. This is totally going to result in the end of the world, isn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 Shit like this just proves that we’re in a simulation and some asshole got to the ocean biome before they were supposed to and managed to sneak out without dying. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mclumber1 Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 If you are into building things, machining, etcetera, there is a great Youtube channel with a guy building this mechanism as sort of a hobby. What's cool is he also builds his own tools (often using ancient techniques) in order to build the device. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzzzle Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 I've always thought that the mechanism just really wasn't that useful, otherwise we would have found a lot more of them. I'm still curious about it, though. Kind of like how the ancient Greeks actually invented the steam engine, but at the time they just didn't really have a use for it. Or Mesoamericans did actually invent a wheel, but without draft animals they were kind of pointless, so they just put them on toys and such. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mclumber1 Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 1 minute ago, Fizzzzle said: I've always thought that the mechanism just really wasn't that useful, otherwise we would have found a lot more of them. I'm still curious about it, though. Kind of like how the ancient Greeks actually invented the steam engine, but at the time they just didn't really have a use for it. Or Mesoamericans did actually invent a wheel, but without draft animals they were kind of pointless, so they just put them on toys and such. Or how Baghdadis invented the battery, but they didn't have a laser pointer to put it in. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Greatoneshere Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 So is China finally going to go into that ancient tomb they are so scared of? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted March 12, 2021 Author Share Posted March 12, 2021 56 minutes ago, Greatoneshere said: So is China finally going to go into that ancient tomb they are so scared of? Not unless they're really sure that the tomb is structually sound enough that it won't collapse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatoneshere Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 29 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said: Not unless they're really sure that the tomb is structually sound enough that it won't collapse. I mean, when's a good time? What happened to adventurers and explorers? This shit is lame, who knows what's in there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uaarkson Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 I ain’t afraid of no cave. Dope me up and send me in so I don’t feel anything if it collapses. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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