*** AWESOME**** 2000 Year Old COMPUTER recreated

Actually it is a clock that can FIND the exact time anywhere anywhen. It is what would be needed to navagate a ship in open water. With the aid of such a device one could circumnavagate the Earth.

It is a clock that you can use to set all other clocks by. You got one of those?

It is a clock.

If you had the only clock on earth that'd make you pretty special wouldn't it.

So, it is a clock - terrestrial and astronomical

things like this were attempts by the "ancient" greco-romans to recreate devices thousands of years older, the details of which were carefully preserved by various secret orders. to cite just one thing, there is a carved object in egypt that has the aerodynamics of a fighter plane...if it were enlarged and placed in an air tunnel, it would qualify as an "aircraft". so what was it modeled from? von daniken was full of it in many ways but he DID do diligent research and stumbled upon some fantastic ancient artifacts. "a broken clock is still right twice a day"....

Is there any difference? You do live on a planet don't you?

Oh crap, took your "and" for an "or".

I doesn't measure the time, it COMPUTES the time. So I guess it is both.

It is all of it, a multiple type device.

pretty amazing!

except of course that it was invented nearly 2000 years prior. Give credit where its due jerk.

Hey guys ..!
And then there are here also:

"Antikythera, hoax:"
[link to www.google.com]
We're doing what?

The works that he did were a great.

the weird thing is the,recreated machine may do the same thing,but it didn't even look like the original,they have recreated it before,but not out of legos.the other recreation was more to the original design [link to www.cosmosmagazine.com]

Do some research on the things they made with weights, cogs and gears. That was over 2000 years ago. They could do a theater production with mechanical dolls that were life size.
They also used them for religions too.

Even 150 or less years ago they made music boxes that had birds that flapped their wing to the tune, doll figurines that
danced across the top of some base. They were done with tiny gears, cogs. You don't see that kind of workmanship now.

Just think of the watches made by hand back then. I think they were amazing.

if that thing existed 2000 yrs ago then something about it must have been written down somewhere.i refuse to believe that technology like that and the skills to build it just disappear. it must have been passed down to someone.

Or perhaps none of us know anything about a past on the other side of massive geological processes where frail humans simply are too weak to retain a collective memory that lasts more than a generation or two...

Why a secret order? Thousands of years of Egyptian history was written down in the Alexandria library,,, publicly available to Greek scholars among others. The Mayan texts were another store house of incredible knowledge. And the Aztecs stored treasures and books from conquered civilizations.

All was destroyed. Almost all. The institutions where scholars inherited knowledge also died. What would we be or how long would we retain knowledge without our material and institutions of learning?

Face it, we are just as primitive as cave dwelling humans without the massive accumulation of collective knowledge that we inherit...

THIS!

Morning from the UK

Regarding the BS about the egyption model plane, there's nothing weird here they used to use something like a boomerang to hunt birds so they where familier with the idea of an aerofoil the same as the Abo's in Australia. So no ancient airplane's I'm afraid. Still 2000 year old glider model is a bit shocking really.

Also the mechanism is not a clock since it does not tell time on its own you have to turn a handle, and as such you could use it to predict eclipse etc but not not to work out your longitude. It was also not designed to be mobile. In short it was not a navigation device.

The ancient Greeks where pretty clued up regarding astronomy,geometry and maths etc. I agree with what some other dude said regarding a coupple of things like this in antiquity being built by geniuses (or geniei or what ever is genuius in plural)

No one really knows what it was for and what it did. we just making guesses in what it could be. The problem with it being the only one that had been found; And there no others found anywhere else. It could be anything, from gears for manual control engines or even a entertainment device for all we knew.

Last Edited by Kennethmd on 12/15/2010 06:27 AM