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  • Well, f**k. If it wasn't for our propensity towards violence and religious fascism, we might have had faster-than-light space travel by now. Sure, that's all supposition, but we'd certainly be more advanced.

  • I feel so dumb! I'll rip my engineer computing diploma.

  • Where are the movies about this?

  • Who knows, this coulda been one of their least impressive technological devices. For all we know this was just a simple clock and the more advanced things they had would be even further from our comprehension.

  • greeks were racist 

  • IMAGINE HOW MANY THINGS,MECHANISMS BOOKS ETC ARE HIDDEN BENEATH THE GROUND AND THE SEAS!!!! maybe under our houses there are real treasures that will never come to surface...!!!!

  • 2:30 like a boss

  • @BurrzaTV hahaha

  • man if the ancient Greeks were still here, how big and fat would their wedding be

  • "The very young do not always do what they are told."

    <-- It is not about child or young people, but young cultures and races.

    Like US or Israel what are very young cultures when compared to even most european cultures. And when even thinking of very old cultures like greeks and mayas.... We have lost so many things because younger cultures wants to rebel and control the whole world.

  • 8elw poutso!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Aliens leaving back after visiting earth

    -Wait, where is my grandma's antique clock?

    -Oops, I forgot it...too late.

    -Damn, it's gonna make someone soo nervous in some 1800 years...

  • Some time traveller probably accidently dropped it in the water and was too lazy to jump in the water and go get it back.

    Probably figured no one would ever find it.

    So no great loss to him.

  • Someone please explain to me how someone could possibly dislike this? People baffle me some times.

  • truly amazing

  • We are so ignorant of this part of history. Its a fascinating periode. Todays Hellas, Tyrkia, Lebanon, Israel, Palestina, Syria, Egypt etc. etc was more city states. This area had trade and educational bounds to all the other parts. Teachers and studends travelled to other parts to learn. The Antikytherea mechanism could have been made in any place. Most think its made in part of todays Turky.

    Read some history, I like the idea behind the Library in Alexandria. Google/Wikipedia is ur friend!

  • @VogonJ In Rhodes actually by students of Archimedes.

  • @dimstiv Thats just a guess made from our limited understanding. Nobody knows, after reading more and more about ancient history i se that we are very ignorant about what was. Maybe some dogmatic sect removed and hid alot of the information, and tried to rewrite history...

  • @VogonJ Man Archimedes was the greatest inventor of that period. It is a very logical explanation. Well, if Alexandria's library hadn't been burned much knowledge would had probably been saved. But in antiquity it was not strange that knowledge was buried by wars, destructions etc. Take Eratosthenes for example. He had calculated all those stuff about earth that Galileo had figured out 16 centuries later.

  • @dimstiv I know, but it is still a guess. There was far more learned people around, we just know a few of them from surviving information and writings. It was a fantastic time. Archimedes was not alone, he also made use of earlier knowledge.

  • ...i was here for dubstep?

  • @SoulSacrifice58 are you tlaking about THE ALGORITHMN djent????

  • I doesn't feel like looking at something from the ancient past... it feels like looking at a future we completely lost.

    Just imagine what kind of technology we would have now, if we just kept advancing from the Antikythera Mechanism. It's the stuff of pure science fiction, but it could have been a Reality.. it's truly a shame we lost all of this for nearly 2000 years. All crushed by Politics, Religion, Dogma and lets face it.. human nature.

  • This really drives home two points:

    1. How little we actually know about ancient civilizations

    2. If the materials, necessary tools, and technical knowledge, were available, any civilization could have, and probably did, come up with this kind of device or something similarly complex.

  • We just keep inventing the wheel, don't we?

  • @sheleftmalfoy

    Naw, we just keep improving the mouse trap.

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  • gears. Like any transmission of a car, it is powered by a motor/engine. What is the antikythera mechanism powered by?

  • @sammysunny hand crank

    

  • if there weren't any wars against Greece the world would be thousands of years ahead

  • @mpoukoma only if we didnt burn down the middle east libraries first

  • @mpoukoma If the Cristian dark age would not have come we would most likely walk on mars right now.

  • @mpoukoma True and If religious Fascists hadn't suppressed scientific experimentation imagine where would we be?

  • They had technology, they had to. It's somewhere, in the ground, or the depths of the ocean.. it's out there.

  • it amazes the history we have of technology i love it

  • You can see a great deal about how the Mechanism's form and its astronomy relate all the way back to Minoan Cretan times in the Bronze Age at---ANCIENT LIGHTS, in the "Coda" to the new work "CALENDAR HOUSE: Clues to Minoan Time from Knossos Labyrinth," by Jack Dempsey.

  • greeks were geeks.

  • Children are more intelligent than adults apparently, Price's article is a good read and did a lot of work in Athens early last century.

  • Children are more intelligent than adults apparently, Price's article is a good read an a lot of work in Athens early last century.

  • @yeti30312 Your reasoning is crisp&clear.

    Humanity lost 1500 years because of wars against Hellas.

    I remind of the loss of Archimedes. He was killed by a Roman soldier because he complained for the destruction of his geometrical drawings.

    Today similar injustice happens. GERMANY denies to repay its 162 billion (+interest) WW II dept to Greece.

    Our complains are responded by (underbelt) smear campaign.

    Justice has not been restored, so humanity will not see the fruit of Hellenic spirit soon.

  • Fascinating!

  • When We see the Whole World as a Community, we will all then be able to take care of each other in that way. It's a community of Plants Animals and Elements.

    Understand That Wars are for Empire Building-NWO, and are a hidden tool for the Occult Private World Banks, to a World of Secret Knowledge, and Sacred Geometry, Search; The Origin of Religion and Hierarchy’s, "How It All Began With A Simple Trick" Aka Solar-Eclipse,

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  • why does the old bloke at 4:44 look like hes about to burst into tears?

  • It makes me think about how complex technology can be invented by a culture and then lost again, and then reinvented independently. Of course I'm wondering if this could all happen to our present high tech world, and of course it can. -- I envy the clockmaker who's going to reproduce this.

  • i love stuff like this!

  • This blows my mind.

  • this device is proof that ancient peoples knew more about the stars and heavens than they knew about the world itself, which is proof to me of ancient aliens, btw they didn't even know how the solar system worked and still the device worked perfectly, explain that

  • @hpensive

    Your assertion that "they didn't know how the solar system worked" is quite obviously wrong and the Antikythera mechanism is the proof of that. The truth is that but for the piece of barbarism known as "Christianity" mankind would have been exploring Outre Space in 500AD. Instead, courtesy of "Christians", who are just as nasty and stupid now as they were then, we got the Dark Ages.

  • this device is proof that ancient peoples knew more about the stars and heavens than they knew about the world itself, which is proof to me of ancient aliens

  • 7 people thought the Antikythera was a mechanized pagan Ouija.

  • This trinket is just an ancient ipod, they used to play things like Big booty bitches on it.

  • clearly god did it

  • This is such an incredible find! Thanks for sharing it with us.

  • This is truly amazing find. But it's not that "ground breaking" considering similar devices have been invented by arabs, chinese, mayans,and so many others. "Western Civilization" is an integration (stolen, copied, improved upon, etc.) of so many other civilizations' technology. In Australia, Greeks are not considered white and if I were Greek, I wouldn't want to be considered anything but Greek.

  • YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE?

    TURKISH PEOPLE.

  • man if the ancient Greeks where still here, they would be SO MUCH more advanced then we are

  • @allisinthepass the ancient greeks still exist in form of the today-greeks, but the ancients would be ashamed of what has happened to their people..

  • @allisinthepass I think some still are ;P At least I hope they are.

  • what is wrong with the users of youtube and their comment section. Its really scary to see that many people, not being able to communicate on a level higher than a five year old child. without any sense of moral, theese people make me embarrased on their behalf.

  • they made this thing out of lego, its truely amazing

  • gute euch doch mal meine videos an und gebt kommentare :D

  • This proves that mankind had a high level of technology thousands of years ago.And thru war and religious persecution it was demonized and destroyed.Think about how much was lost and never to be found.This computer is just the tip of the iceberg.

  • @yeti30312 It's all the fault of the dark ages

  • @yeti30312 I don't think the development of this technology was stopped by any war or disaster. The people who were smart enough to invent these instruments probably were also smart enough to know its implications. Somewhere, some culture kept developping these technologies in secrecy.

  • isnt it funny that ppl 2000 years ago where many times more smart than us???

  • @USEPartyPeople greek people. not all people.. the rest were on trees like animals

  • @docnot1986 Yea, like India, China, Egypt or Persia didnt have any civilization..Read a book ffs..

  • @greken145 wtf? u compare the barbarian civilazation with the greek ? WTF?!

  • @docnot1986 Barbarians according to fascist greek yea. U act like u have never watched tv or opened a book..These "barbarians" were advanced when u still lived in caves..Egyptian pyramids and temples, Indias amazing architecture and litterature that makes Homers Iliada and Odyssea look like a kids book, chinese philosophy, science and art..dont u learn anything in your fucking country except greek history? Not strange u all become rasists..

  • @greken145 lol... wtf again and again.. check the mysticism and darkness in those civilizations and then speak man ... we give the lights in western civilazations. too pitty that now we are in darkness :(

  • @docnot1986 Mysticism and darkness? U watch too much 300, wake up idiot..u said it yourself "WESTERN" civilization..what about the civilizations from the east. Babylonians had advanced astronomic knowledge several thousand years before u even could imagine that the world was round. And about barbarism: werent greeks offering men and women or even their kids to Gods in order to get some wind from Aiolos in order to reach Troy? Who are barbarians then?

  • @greken145 Very well Said my friend.

    "Barbarians according to fascist greek yea. U act like u have never watched tv or opened a book..These "barbarians" were advanced when u still lived in caves..Egyptian pyramids and temples, Indias amazing architecture and litterature that makes Homers Iliada and Odyssea look like a kids book, chinese philosophy, science and art..dont u learn anything in your fucking country except greek history? Not strange u all become rasists.."

  • @Microglia1 The funny part is that i am greek myslef and once upon a time i was exactly like the most of the uneducated greek patriots..

  • @greken145 Pride comes from achievement. Anyone can be proud. All cultures have their own achievements. But if you travel the world then you'll see a lot of greatness at different times. Take medicine for example. The Arabs/Muslims invented many modern surgical techniques still in use today. The Chinese invented herbal medicine (basically what's know as pill medicine). The white people combine these concepts and call them "Western Medicine". So Western civilization includes "Egyptian" but...

  • @greken145 ..conveniently disregards many Arabic cultures because they're muslims, therefore bad. The West likes to replay the Greeks vs. Persia episode but the Persians at that time were very advanced. You have two advanced civilizations fighting each other, not what's often portrayed in Hollywood. I love the plays of Aeschylus and Euripides but I also love the works of African American authors, Chinese philosophers, and muslim poets. Greeks I've met, sadly, are not very educated like you.

  • @Microglia1 The problem in greece is that the politicians demonstrated for decades the mentality of "once upon a time, we have been best" in order to calm down the people and make them lazy and unmotivated for progress. Thats how 2 families have been ruling greece the last 30 years..by giving history and stealing the future. Its really not the peoples fault that they become nationalists. Schools dont teach anything else about other cultures. Its the same thing that happens in muslim countires..

  • You've made good points. What's astonishing is that the current world powers (America, Britain/Germany, Japan, South Africa, Brazil, Saudi Arabia-most powerful countries in their respective spheres) are all rather new entities. Germany was not even a country until the 19th century and Japan didn't industrialize until the 1920s. And you're surprised I didn't say Argentina? This, as I've said before, shows how fast a people can move forward with the right mindset. I know that Europe tries to..

  • @Microglia1 Do you believe who will be save in 2012? Is a way for dawning. A terrible light is comming and will blow away leaves....like something from the old rock music days. Do you think we can pretend?

  • @greken145 ..unite under one Europe, culturally and economically. Isn't it ironic that Belgium, the country that hosts the European Union headquarters, doesn't even have a general government over the entire populace. The Walloons in the South and Flanders in the North can't even understand each other let alone work together. I think in the coming decades, there will be a lot of instability in Europe, with borders changing all over the place and people move in and out. The Age of Migrants!

  • @Microglia1 A way to unite europe is a common enemy. Does european countries have one? Yea, the taliban movement growing up inside of europe. So we might see some new stuff soon..

  • @Microglia1 You are just proving you are jealous towards Greeks by saying that Homer wrote books for kids. Ancient Greek civilization has no prior or posterior counterpart, neither Chinese, Indian, British, Jewish, Roman etc. When you decide you must believe that, you will stop saying crap. And I am not talking about pyramids or temples, I am talking about minds, books or stuff like the one in this video. And also Greeks did not live in caves, when you refer to. Google "Sesklo" and you will see

  • @Microglia1 You are jealous of the country you call "fucking". And remember once again what I told you 2 days ago. Your nation (whatever that is!) will never reach what ancient Greeks have accomplished.period-

  • @USEPartyPeople Not really. They didn't have useless shit like Jersey Shore standing in their way of figuring actual important things out.

  • Must have been running vista, I'd have tossed it overboard too.

  • @WhatIAm99 Dumbass.

  • 7 Dislikes? Are those people retarded???

  • Thanks medieval age for fucking up technological development.

  • Amazing.

  • THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE EARTH HUMAN REMAINS HIDDEN FOR THE VAST MAJORITY OF OUR BELOVED CHILDREN AND PEOPLE ON EARTH, due to selfishness, greedy and megalomaniac idiots and insane degenerated humans who have ruled the human nations of the earth since immemorial time up today.

  • @JavierVMaldonado

    The Antikythera mechanism (pronounced /ˌæntɪkɪˈθɪərə/ AN-ti-ki-THEER-ə, or pronounced /ˌæntɪˈkɪθərə/ anti-KI-thərə - which is closer to the Greek), is an ancientmechanical computer[1][2] designed to calculate astronomical positions. It was recovered in 1900–01 from the Antikythera wreck,[3] but its complexity and significance were not understood until decades later. It is now thought to have been built about 150–100 BCE.

  • @JavierVMaldonado

    The degree of mechanical sophistication is comparable to late medieval Swiss watchmaking. Technological artifacts of similar complexity and workmanship did not reappear until the 14th century, when mechanical astronomical clocks appeared inEurope.[4]

  • @JavierVMaldonado

    It is unfortunate that the evil and insane “powerful” people on this planet, The Empire of Evil on Earth and their coward and submissive allies and mercenaries continue to conceal/hide great earth human mass from the true human history in this world.

    TERRA Planet, SOL-System, Milky Way galaxy, of the DERN material Universe

    Always they argue "eloquently" with its mannered (gay) "English" accent of the "wonders" of its "unpublished discoveries."

  • @JavierVMaldonado

    They (the Evil Empire of Earth) are just very unfortunate inhumane and pedantic or arrogant humans, who have caused the irrational, miserable and inhuman condition of our most beloved children and people on this planet.

    Especially taking the facts of the unfortunate and inevitable natural events, terrestrial and stellar origin, which are beginning to feel and appreciate, even for the most blind and foolish human beings on Earth.

  • @JavierVMaldonado

    And them will find our beloved innocent and defenseless earth children and people completely behind in their real progress or human evolution in relation to human evolution in this universe,

    So primitive human evolution found on this planet, which might only end with the total collapse of the natural and healthy life on this planet.

    And the main and original responsible of this madness and mess are the cynical and stupidly rulers of these human nations on Earth planet.

  • @JavierVMaldonado

    A small group of people "privileged" foolish, greedy, selfish and totally degenerate humans, who never cared about our beloved children and people of this world, nor even care about their own children and descendants.

    Because they have made from this planet, a world of ignorant, foolish, credulous, wicked, greedy, selfish and degenerate people.

  • @JavierVMaldonado

    Where the real values and real human and spiritual treasures like:

    Love, Wisdom, Generosity, Compassion, Courage, Truth, Justice, Honor and the human Dignity…have been lost on time-space dimension.

    These have been completely forgotten, forbidden and sidelined by the most of earth humans.

  • @JavierVMaldonado

    When these are the main foundation upon which you, man and woman of Earth planet, must build our true development and real human evolution on this planet or any other place in the wonderful and infinite universe of our beloved mother and origin The Creation is.

  • @JavierVMaldonado

    Because only a true, brave and wise human beings on Earth and on any other planet or place in the universe, are the true hope and spiritual power to forge a better future, destiny and well being for the planet itself and for their innocent and defenseless creatures which inhabit on this world.

    The true truth will prevail upon the times and spaces.

  • @JavierVMaldonado

    The true truth will prevail upon the times and spaces.

    Sincerely yours,

    Javier V. Maldonado

    Alianza por una Humanidad Responsable en la Tierra & Los Universos

    Alliance for Responsible Humankind on Earth & Universes

    Telephone (00511) 9970-24-006,

    Lima-Perú.

    

  • @Reveal1912 The issue with Blacks is largely sociological. This test you speak of means nothing. Most tink a certain way about Blacks & Asians, this is likely to come through in their or other family members interactions. Because a white family adopted a black child doesn't mean they treated him as though he was as smart as a white child or that they enriched his environment. BUT its more likely they did enrich the environment of the Asian child due to expectations tht the child would be smart.

  • @Reveal1912 "Furthermore they are a amazingly accurate indicator for success." Hmmm, did you just assume that? as a student of both sociology and psychology I've learned that IQ is not at all an indicator for success. That actually many who score extremely high do not become successful. The success of any individual more often depends on that person's values and drive, NOT his IQ.

  • Can it run crysis?

  • @KrypticGuy666 After you patch the last 2,200 years of software updates, this machine is a beast.

    Run in Safe Mode, first, imo.

  • as a Hellene (greek) i can tell you that this was a mechanism used by our ancient navy for navigational purposes, something like GPS.

    They used the planets to pinpoint their exact location on the surface of the earth...

  • Imagine the technology available that is suppressed by the governments.

  • It remembers me Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis

  • Any chance the thing wasn't from this world? Maybe an ET dropped it. Maybe it was a gift from an ET. Maybe made from knowledge given by ETs, angels or gods.

  • Amazing Never even new about it. Look up ancient astronauts. Also the Egyptians believe they are the descendants of alantians. supposedly in the right paw of the cat like building that conatains what happened to the alantians. some people believe that they were destroyed by imploding themselves by trying to use lithum to contain energy like the batteries in your computers and phones today.

  • ELLAS(GREECE) gave the lights to world and she stayed in the darkness...

  • Lol Wut? Thumbs Up this if you agree!!one!!

  • The astronomy and knowledge behind this Mechanism can only have come from Minoan Crete---check out its roots at ANCIENTLIGHTS dot-org, where the new work "CALENDAR HOUSE" will soon be published!

  • The device may have been magnificent, but the sad thing is that the knowledge wasn't passed around.

    The beautful thing about practicing science and advancing civilisation is that unless you can communicate your ideas, you're just doing alchemy, it's only when everyone knows not to drink the mercury that you start to develop chemistry. The same principle applies to all other fields of enquiry.

  • This is why Western culture must be preserved.

  • there are some things made back then such as mechanism, carved stones, etc that modern day engineers/etc have confessed that it would be almost impossible if not really hard to recreate, which makes me think that our ancestors were helped in a way by their "gods" could it be that extraterrestrials helped them w/ their tools? what would their interest be in this planet and how the hell they got here?

  • Yes there were several sophistacated civilazations with machines even way before this items date...They all were destroyed either by natural means or by their own hand in one way or another..The device that is shown was not made by the Greeks or any other in our recorded history..It was from a prior advanced civilazation ...It was probably handed down by a remaining survivor of the wiped out world that was just as advanced (LOL) as we are now..

  • how the hell they made this machine!

  • @OldSnakeKonovesis Don't ask how they made it; ask how people could allow such knowledge of mathematics and engineering to be lost and then rediscovered centuries after the Dark Ages of Europe (causes of the Dark Ages: European barbarians and Christian/Catholic dogma). Ancient Greeks did not have religious dogma or inquisitions that limited their technological advancements.

  • @fdfederation It's hard to blame the Church or medieval European barbarians for an event in ~100BC. You seem to be unaware that very little Greek science was at all available to the Latin West even in Roman times. Most of it was restricted to the Greek East, primarily Alexandria and Constantinople. These losses were mainly caused by time, wars and Arab "translations". Knowledge was a very fragile thing back then and changes in rulers or language often had a negative impact on the preservation...

  • @unapologeticmind The limited resources of Greek knowledge that were available in the Latin West through Latin authors were in fact saved by the Church and new leaders like Charlemagne, for instance the work De Architectura by Vitruvius which is the only surviving architectural treatise from ancient times and which contains descriptions of many inventions which were consequently lost in the Greek East after the Muslim conquests...

  • @unapologeticmind ...Not to forget the role that the Orthodox Church in Constantinople played in saving works by Plato, Euclid, Archimedes, etc, which were also lost in the Muslim-conquered parts of the Roman Empire. Given the limited resources of not only the Latin West but also the Byzantine Empire post-600AD and given the fact that the Muslims conquered Alexandria and most of the large cities of the Roman Empire, it's amazing how little of these works actually survived in Muslim hands...

  • RichLOAguy-Well said, sir! Your comment meets with my wholehearted agreement.

  • what a bunch of children commenting below me.

    this is a great video.

  • @lloplop An all encompassing statement. Mayhaps a bit too encompassing. Though I agree the majority are quite juvenile. As for myself, I think this was an amazing video.

  • i think it was made in scotland

  • LOL

  • You know the romans who took the city offered a reward for archemedies the guy who killed him was like sh*T!!!!!

  • @Reveal1912 There are alot of africans who do. The africans had a problem like any people who were escentually hunter gatherers. Ancient peoples were burst workers they didnt have the same work ethic so many africans because of where they where when they where conquered still hold this.

    Of course some people are just lazy aholes. :)

  • OMG. An astonishing piece of history here, and the only comments I see are childish and antiquated racism. I can find someone from any race that is more intelligent and/or self disciplined than the racists on here. Grow up people. Maybe read a book or something.

  • Either you are a racist, or you don't believe that race exists. Unfortunatly, I am still a bit of a racist. But I am tring to unlearn all the lies that i have been taught.

  • @RichLOAguy A book on swearing

  • aren't IQ tests biased? And isn't , on average, the education black people receive much worse than that of whites.

  • i don't see how a test could be biased it a piece of paper it can't be racist dumb-ass and no they don't it's just that SOME of them don't give a fuck about their education

  • Thats why they are good at sports.

  • But isn't this difference in IQ caused from the fact that blacks in the past did not get the same quality education that whites did? An older man who did not get a good education isn't likely to influence his kids to be brilliant scientists/engineers. I am not saying that this has never happened, though. Also, today African-American culture seems to me like it discourages learning; that it isn't "cool" to learn and be smart.

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  • @Reveal1912

    What does Dr. Watson have to back up his claims that blacks are not as intelligent as whites?

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  • Again, I won't explain why the conclusion which you've extrapolated from the understanding that black people are overrepresented in jail/criminal records holds no weight. If you consider yourself intelligent then you should be able to spot a few flaws yourself, if not then so be it. Also, you need to learn Africa's history if you think she lacked high civilisation.

    I would call Watson's beliefs unscientific; his previous accolades don't legitimise his claims.

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  • @MrApHowell lol.... some ppl just arent worth the time

  • You talk about black people being over represented in crime statistics around the world as if that (if it's legitimate) scientifically equates to one race being more intelligent than another. I won't bother going through why that's flawed, but here's a stupid statement (not the sole basis of my would-be counter-argument, mind): males are inferior to females because we commit more crimes.

    Your conclusions aren't scientific. You don't deserve a 2nd message detailing why. This is all you get.

  • I don't care if it appears that the reason I'm not going to argue this over with you is because I don't have evidence that a. there have been notable inventions created by black Africans and b. Africa has been host to sophisticated, self-sufficient, and prosperous civilisations regardless of the current state of some of her nations.

    I have books in my house that contain such evidence, but there's no reason why I should bother educating you. Others, maybe, but I have *nothing* to prove to you.

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  • That's pretty cool

    It was probably a time machine from the future

  • Considering the standard IQ test was formulated to favor whites over any other race, the difference between 6 points and 15 might not be as much as you think it is.

    Which means that yes we are every bit as superior as you think you are to blacks.

    But see, from where I'm standing, I know that our averages might be around 106, but if I'm sitting here at 142, there's another Korean guy out there with a 70 IQ to balance me out. I had friends like this in high school. They were the racist ones. :D

  • @funerfuner

    I'll respond to you because, much as these racists would like to believe otherwise, I just don't think they deserve much of my time or that it's on me to change their minds (which won't be changed).

    The simple and plain truth is that, as you said, some people are intelligent and others less so. I could fill a room with black geniuses and white idiots, or vice versa. Also, considering there's a change this guy has a decent IQ score, I don't read too much into IQ numbers.

  • I'll concede that the african races are inferior to you if you'll concede that the 'white' races are vastly inferior compared to the asian races going by the metrics you use for your own comparisons.

    As in, you're all retarded monkeys compared to us. Would that suit you?

  • Why should I try to convince you that looking at today's Africa is a laughable way of reaching conclusions on her history?

    Why should I educate you if you can't be bothered to educate yourself?

    There are books out there. Many essays have been written. If you choose not to read them, and instead lie to yourself about humanity's history, then I'm not going to try to change you - I don't care what you think you know.

    You can't stand blacks, yet you think about us all the time - move on.

  • Oh how you wish any of that was true.

    To any lurkers out there, read up on African history if you're interested because, get this, it exists.

  • People who clearly have no understanding of the history of modern man on Earth should really refrain from trying to make racial slams when it just highlights your own knuckle-dragging ignorance. The oldest African human is from about 195,000 years old. This is about 2,000 years old. Dumbass racist hillbilly.

  • Utterly amazing.

  • Legitimate was a perfectly fine word to use in that sentence. Those things are illegitimate, meaning they hold no weight in reality. :D

  • Legitimate? Is that the word you wanted to use there?

    You might want to try again. Because that makes little sense.

    All i did was point out an interesting factoid.. So, go be a prick somewhere else. *punches you out.*

  • I want my own antikythera mechanism in my living room - with chimes ;)

  • According to a hidden message in Assassin's Creed 2, this thing is MUCH older than 150 B.C.

  • Well, that's why it's a video game and not a science journal.

  • Did I say it was a Science Journal?

  • Yep. There's lots of them too. Dealing with free energy, secret societies, political assassinations, etc. Cool stuff.

    Thanks for being a dick without reason, however. You're a tough guy at your keyboard, aren't ya..

  • not really no.

  • @tisdue Yeah cause everyone knows free energy, secret societies and political assassinations are all completely legitimate.  right

  • Lots of video game creators will include subtle information like that. WoW is an example. It is creativity just like movies and books.

  • It's best not to quote a game (whose primary purpose is not to educate) as the source of your information though. That's not saying that any historical information found in a game is guaranteed to be false, but you have to expect people to question its credibility.

    If I was going to do that, I'd first acknowledge the inevitable, justifiable skepticism, and then find some evidence which supports the accuracy of the game's content. Otherwise, expect ridicule.

  • @wrathallll no ... although Sonic the hedgehog 2 does have an entire hidden level which teaches dicks like you how to take a joke...