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>> No.8916711

>>8916409
First differential geared mechanism

>> No.8917015

>>8916409
It's a computer dating back to Antiquity.

>> No.8917100

>>8917015
And a portable one. Imagine if they built building sized things like that.

>> No.8917173

>>8916409
probably a clock used on sailing vessels about 12000 years ago. Would explain why the had maps with good relative longitude.

>> No.8917368

Anybody else skeptical of this thing? Yes, it's very interesting. But some of the conclusions about what it's capable of seem grossly exaggerated.

I remember that CT study from a couple of years ago where they had a 3D computer reconstruction based on CT. I couldn't see much of what they said they could see in those CTs

>> No.8917388

>>8917173
It's not a clock. It's basically a small mechanical computer that gives you the position of the planets and the phases of the moons.

Here's a model of the mechanism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eUibFQKJqI

>> No.8917419

does this prove that there were technologically advanced civilizations in the past that we know nothing about?

>> No.8917424

>>8917419
I don't see how it proves that, since we know about the civilization that produced this one.

>> No.8917431

>>8917419
No.

>> No.8917437

>>8917419
It was made in greece and it was getting it taken to the roman empire.

>> No.8917462

>>8917424
>>8917431
>>8917437
but there are no versions of this that predate it right? how could something so complex just pop up in greece

>> No.8917469
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8917469

>>8917419
Yes

>> No.8917470

>>8917462
It's more likely that other devices of its kind were made by Greeks but were lost to history than to stipulate that some unknown civilization built them. You should always seek the simplest explanation, not the most sensational.

>> No.8917478

>>8917469
ok Ill bite whats the pseudo-science around this?

>> No.8917509

>>8917462
e know the Greeks had all sorts of mechanical devices -- contraptions to perform temple "miracles" were a growth industry.

Almost none survived because metal tends to get recycled or to weather away. This one survived because it got encased in ocean deposits and such quickly, and was not where metal scavengers could get at it.

The device did not "just pop up." It is part of a series of clever artifacts produced by clever artificers.

Also, do not let the word "computer" as applied to this confuse and mislead you.

>> No.8918741
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8918741

>>8917478
literally nothing

>> No.8919302

read this and you might understand
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism

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8919459

>>8917469
>every time i see this image

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8919478

>>8917478
>he doesn't know

>> No.8919581

>>8917469
>tfw the hwan will never pay for their sins
THEY CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT.

>> No.8920255

>>8919478
>King Wewuz I
kek

>> No.8920658

>>8917388
cool

>> No.8920942

>>8917478
>he doesn't know basic history
lmao gtfo brainlet

>> No.8921084

>>8917469
>>8919478
These have never been funny.

>> No.8921094

>>8921084
Why not?