Lego Antikythera Mechanism

[HermanniSan]

YES! YES!

[MrFoodee]

Watch the series Ancient Aliens. A fascinating look at a theory that aliens gave humans advanced technologies and helped build ancient civilizations. The series is worthy if not only for the history you'll learn.

[Invinight]

is this legit? seems pretty cool

[wingchunjourney]

@dadgadable Which is fine, that's why I said "known planets at the time." The device only tracks those 5 planets that are visible to the naked eye.

[dadgadable]

@wingchunjourney It just doesn't wash. They clearly were extremely advanced, unlike conventional history has us believe. That is a very complicated machine. And clearly they understood the earth was round, already then! More then 2000 years ago! This completely shatters conventional understanding of history.

[wingchunjourney]

@dadgadable it is well known that the Greeks were advanced in areas of engineering, mathematics, and science. Who debates this? That still doesn't change the fact that this machine only calculates the motions of the five planets that are visible in the sky.

[dadgadable]

@wingchunjourney They knew the earth was round and so did the Vatican. All the Vatican did was hide and conceal the knowledge, keep it hidden as sacred and occult knowledge. That's why they punished people who even considered the earth may be round. Not because it threatened their religion, but because they knew it was round! They knew and kept it hidden. I am completely convinced this is the truth.

[wingchunjourney]

@dadgadable The Greeks knew the earth was round since Aristotle's days. That's historical fact and no one contests that. In fact, a majority of scholars from that time all the way into the middle ages knew that the earth was a sphere; there has NEVER been a wide belief that the earth was a disc. It's a myth that the ancient world believed in a flat earth, it's called "Flat Earth Myth". Look it up. You're talking about geocentricty vs heliocentricity.

[dadgadable]

how the hell could people 2000 years ago have know about planets that were officially discovered this century with the help of telescopes. I dont get it. How could they have known, it makes no sense

[wingchunjourney]

@dadgadable The calculations would have been based on the known planets at the time. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are all visible in the sky and their motions can be observed and calculated at that time. The device also tracks the movement of the Sun and Moon, both readily visible in the sky.

[dadgadable]

@wingchunjourney but pluto isnt

[dadgadable]

@wingchunjourney but pluto isnt

[caketakeshh]

@dadgadable Maybe because of all the wars and conflicts going on back then.

[RoscoesRiffs]

Aliens gave humans Lego.

[lamyunholic]

I'm not saying it was aliens, but it was aliens.

Is such thing even possible? Yes it is.

[234netklh27]

and they did all this without having the concept of zero too

[phsoftnet]

If you wanna learn more of what ancient Greeks did, check this guy "eratosthenes"

Among others, an algorithm for generating prime numbers, and a precise calculation of the earth's distance to the sun.

[Slacktoo2010]

Drop the pretentious BCE bullshit, guys

[Jemimacakes]

@Slacktoo2010 How is it pretentious?

[Slacktoo2010]

@Jemimacakes Because it tries to pretend that BC and AD are some nonsense "common era", when they're really a Christian calendar convention. Then they go on to talk about the planets, which are named for PAGAN GODS. Why censor one religious reference but not the others? Why isn't Saturn called Common Planet in an analogous fashion to "Common Era"?

[TheBustyGamer]

Aliens are the definite explanation for this one guys. Call the history channel! 

[RdMrcr]

Hold on right there, first of all you don't know the location of the solar eclipse.

Second, the Greeks didn't have the ability to make such accurate sizes of gears.

[nabmeg]

@RdMrcr of course they didnt, it was ancient aliens

[Westinghouse1]

Not really that impressive for plastic blocks, much more impressive when done 2000 years ago by Greek dudes without CAD.

[dalektaliban]

aliens

[levo75]

This is awesome. More people should see this.

[DanielJosephBattista]

Devil Magic

[lumpyrabbit]

The real amazing thing is that this was built in lego

[P0cketfull0fsunshine]

Very stylish movie, nice job

[yezhubenyue]

好牛逼的创造啊，制造业是那么的发达

[maggosh]

Imagine rebuilding this in Minecraft.

[shrogg2]

@maggosh I could do it, its honestly not hard.

[maggosh]

@shrogg2 Then proceed!

[AlexJTanner]

BUILDING INSTRUCTIONS PWEASE!

[thesloth1992]

0:52 -> pot belly :D

[greymattersblog]

Hipster: "I was anti-kythera before it was cool."

[skate4life4life4life]

Ancient Aliens!

[arjuna808]

Very very cool.

LEGO should release this as a kit - it's both a great educational tool and good PR for LEGO.

[ghadjimavros]

can you pls post the instructions??

[zZEDMUIRZz]

Got to wait twelve Yeats ffs

[LilMaul1]

Amazing video . Great work

[hagelt18]

Awesome! Only slight shortcoming would be the time dials remaining stationary on both wings around 2:05. Not sure if they are supposed to work or if they ever worked in the original device. I just noticed they didn't move.

[awkcc]

Ancient Greeks? More like ancient Geeks AMIRITE?

[withnoname100]

videos like this increased my IQ

[wrightsel44]

why legos?

[kpvideos1]

but will it blend?

[matheuslike9]

Just keep in mind, everybody, that they THINK it' porpuse is to point out Eclipses.

It can also be used to calculate the amount of time humanity have before a near-end catastroph.

!2024 it is!

Se you guys there !

[helloimtom100]

no body fuckin tell history channel about this or they will say aliens gave this to us instead of oh idk human engineering and a lot of spare time of time b4 TV

[tacp18]

@helloimtom100

Aliens!!!

[FOTARAStheGREEK]

anciet Greeks were far more advanced for their era...

[KSweeney36]

Can we have the plans make our own?

[ZigZag5056]

Thumbs up if the Q.i elves sent you here :)

[mjhartlebury]

Can't say I understand the maths behind it but it looks cool

[Sticker704]

Lego? Are you kidding me?

[sonydogman]

This is ONE SMALL PORTION OF THE TRUTH!

[pcress]

@3nfkau5 Nah, the thing would just break as soon as you get to 12/21/2012

[hitssquad]

102 people saw Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

[Cunelito]

Note how the guy uses minimal force to turn the whole system.

Also amazing if u ask me.

[Provn12]

Omg cool

[jiggle17]

Literally amazing! And why is this not being sold yet... oh yeah devices not powered by conventional means are kept in the dark by the powers that be...

[glorp896]

@jiggle17 no, mechanically amazing

[likarex]

this puts my lego building skills to shame

[sparky4444444444444]

holy shiut

[aldridgemattie]

man. who doesn't love frisking legos?! memories on memories

[MASTERmw100]

wow who ever came out with this in ancient greece must of had been one of the smart ones

[SuperNuclearDeath]

you should ask lego to build a ****ing kit so that everyone can build with it

[m34nb34n]

This is one of the coolest things I have ever seen! If this (or another lego model) doesn't end up in lego-land it will be , well, it just needs to be there. Lol

[m34nb34n]

This is absolutely one of the coolest things I have ever seen dudes! I wish you could release this as a real lego set or at least the blueprints of it's lego awesomeness.

[funnygerp03]

The guy on the right at the end looks nothing like a serial rapist.

[mrlegoguyproductions]

This is the most incredible lego device I have ever seen! Keep up the amazing work! ( I am not sure how you could get any better than you already did, but try none the less! ) TWO THUMBS UP!!👍👍

[22Absolute22]

OWWW...... my head hurts.

[tytyt5546894654]

Is it using x86? How much RAM?

[ficheironegro]

Cool. :o

[etplayer]

Ok the video says "When the needles line up correctly, it tells the time and date of an eclipse." Yet I'm looking at the dials when it stopped....er....how do you tell they are 'lined up correctly'? It looks like they are pointing in completely random places?

[MrGkomenios]

@etplayer Find out how the mechanism works. It combines culture with art. A unique masterpiece...

[JimKerast]

very....dramatic music and cut... i thought i was watching batman dark knight.... is it science or a Hollywood movie trailer?

[KoochyWoochy]

IMPRESSIVE viewing! Thankyou! :):):)

[ShipsAreBurned]

would have been more impressed if the little lego figurines had been used as well

[zamg0d1]

Finally something not powered by electronics but by hand and yet blows me away!!! Amazing device. I need one now!!

[wizenhiemr]

i...love this video!!!

[skydragon4ever]

That's how a bold man in his 50's playing lego may look like he is doing something serious... (plus, dramatic music)

[ExDevil97]

Does this predicting device have a much more accurate reading than a computer?

[HelmutVillam]

@ExDevil97

the original mechanism actually produced fairly large errors, because the cog teeth were made by hand and rather unnevenly spaced. but for a 2000 year old bronze device it's still remarkably accurate.

[94jonathang]

Wow, and not a single computer connected, it's all powered by LEGO, I am amazed.

I may have once built a lego crane that types 1 key at a time, but this-

-this is something different, very different.

[YoshiGuy1171]

I want one!

[ZaOscelot]

I... would very much like to buy a kit of this, or at least plans to make my own. Please for to pingback with options, if any?

[TheMOandCo]

Another Reason why NERDS ROCK

[TheMOandCo]

i want one Soo badly now =]

[wharammi]

this is mind-blowingly cool.

[9992103]

2000 years to recover the device.

105 years to discover what it is.

30 days of design, construction and testing.

yet the machine is not being sold as a kit by LEGO. what the shit is this?

[Khazeous]

@9992103 I would buy this *now* if it was sold as a kit.

[croatiaa4ever]

@9992103 105 years to discover? where you got that info?

[9992103]

@croatiaa4ever from the video...?

[BrotherOfFlamingMeal]

@9992103 they should stick it on lego CUUSO (?). I would vote for it.

[crazyhugs]

@9992103 yea... This would be the only Lego kit i would buy.

[AstonishingStudios]

@9992103 Because It would be over 3 thousand dollars. On second thought, it would still be worth it! ;)

[MrGkomenios]

@9992103 This is a combination of art and culture.

[Jreyes2265]

Think about this for 1 second:

The information here is ANCIENT, presented on MODERN Technology, Accurately Points out Eclipses in the FUTURE...made with legos This is brain-rape.

[MenwithHill]

@Jreyes2265 The ancient greek calculated, with a 350km accuracy, the circumference of the earth, using only a math formula and an obelisk.

[callumdoyle2]

@MenwithHill not only that, using a plumbob and simple harmonic motion you can, within reasonable error, calculate the mass of the earth.

[ultislasher1]

@callumdoyle2 wait WHAT seriosuly? lol

[callumdoyle2]

@ultislasher1 I shit you not, I remember doing it in A-Level physics.

[ultislasher1]

@callumdoyle2 I don't crap you either, cuz I'm only ten -Didn't have physics yet- =P

[ultislasher1]

@callumdoyle2 Still, its really impressive you can do that. I can't wait until I get to know how =)

[croatiaa4ever]

@Jreyes2265 lol, original idea is brain rape,why would anyone make that complex maschine for anticipation eclipses?? eclipses are not that important.

[TheQuestion1]

@croatiaa4ever No offense, but eclipses are literally the thing that proved Einstein's relativity to be true, which in turn ushered in the era of modern science - allowing you to post that comment. To say they are unimportant is a gross misunderstanding and just plain wrong.

[coldmaster12345]

@Jreyes2265 Accurately Points out Eclipses = APE . You slipped a little brain-rape of your own there, didn't you?

[Jreyes2265]

@coldmaster12345 Gotta represent modern humans son. ahaha

[EUaktieman]

would make good commercial for lego...

[maleger1963]

I would be interested in reconstructing this for our computer history museum imusee.org Do you have plans and / or schematics to reconstruct this LEGO model ?

[TheTraveler327]

@maleger1963 ask the guy that made this video: watch?v=MT2igTnBZfQ

[YouKnowItVideos]

:O

[MarkMartellini]

the best invention in the world of lego.

for 2 reasons.

1. it's made by lego (which is litterally crazy)

2. it's an ancient thing and it is very important for our future.

well, in the end i only can say: thats incredible.

thumbs up

[moviemakers97]

Sick!

[jeepgayguy]

it all sounds greek to me...:-D!!

[legoclockfreak710]

you sir are a genius!!!!

[mnvinn]

They really need to manufacture a set of this.

[InfindecimalSlice]

@mnvinn Who gets royalties ^^? What were the patent laws back then ^^?

[kaushiksays]

@InfindecimalSlice Greeks believed that embodiment of knowledge in inventions and in use was a gods gift.

[InfindecimalSlice]

@kaushiksays Its a double edged sword, not having mental property helps propagation and evolution of information, but at the same time incentive and drive can go down. I guess you have to find the sweet spot where you get as much as you can from both philosophies.

[STSchifano]

@18yroldspov Nope, even better: ancient Greeks.

[drpes180]

what is the energy source in the replication? in the original?

[ididnotsignin]

@drpes180  its clockwork, it just has to have the crank turned

[MaddProductionz]

I want to make one! make a tutorial now :P

[lupischuckle]

Very, very impressive. But I really could have done without the overly dramatic music. It's not like you're building a cancer-curing-shirt-ironing- ice-cream-maker here!

[7heSama]

@lupischuckle Dude. The music was AWESOME. Where can I download an MP3?! 

[Lokisonofthor]

This is why Legos shouldn't be called kid's toys.

[UmbrellaWatch]

IF anything, thank you to the Lego company to have the bit and to provide us such a presentation, well done. NatureVideo :)

[UmbrellaWatch]

clearly this device shows machined bits that were not possible in that time. Ancient Aliens. that level of technology is beyond man at that time.

[STSchifano]

@UmbrellaWatch Michael Wright, while Curator of Mechanical Engineering at the London Science Museum, showed conclusively that the Antikythera mechanism could be replicated using only tools known to have been available to the ancient Greeks, and it is certain that they possessed the requisite knowledge of planetary movements to build such a device. Before relying on arguments from incredulity and invoking the necessity of alien visits, read a few scholarly articles from the real experts.

[UmbrellaWatch]

ancient aliens taught man with only what man had available at the time has been the common theory. As far as the second theory is future traveler creates the device i'n the past using modern gear technology. More proof of the existence of early ancient alien existence or the possibility of time travel in the future. A future person goes back and creates the device i'n the past. Look at the theory of the Egyptian light bulb? Many high priests were the only ones to have kept those secrets.

[ThcPatient]

So how fast do you turn the gears?

[terricarol]

@Hotcheese0 I am! :) 

[persevere67]

i want one

[Avets610]

I was just thinking. If medioevo didnt exist, if human reason could have go on instead of loose all that scientific knowledge, where would have we been now ?

[prasanna319]

wow amazing



[Minon157]

using lego i will domine world

[AlaricScandoveski]

what is this song o.o??????????????

[TVK1337]

@AlaricScandoveski The song I believe was made specifically for the video. I found where you can listen to the song unedited. I forgot where, though.

[antikythera2012]

A LEGO, and now a Swiss watch!

[teecee2468]

the ancient Greeks are smarter then today's people. we should be blaming McDonald's.

[blazinblue777]

@teecee2468 dude friggen almost every ancient civilization is smarter than what we are today lmao. I blame TV

[ourhouse55]

this is amazing.

[theonlyjedi555]

this blew my mind.

[domantux67]

not bad

[kiyotewolf]

And this should be the plot for a movie. Kid invents time and space machine using Legos. Scientists astonished. Mother taken into police protection. Father take the knowledge to the Vatican where his is silenced, forced to work in the libraries. :M

[addyaddy1234567890]

can you sand me an instraktion pleace.

[damnatium]

but will it blend?

[PancakeRecipes]

And we are supposed to believe that ancient people thought the world was flat??? ya sure...

[owenfranciscook]

@PancakeRecipes the Greeks actually believed the Earth was round, it was the Catholics that said it was flat

[vsimoul]

@owenfranciscook

you are partially right. The ancients didn't just believe that earth was round, they had proven it at least 100 years before the antikythera mechanism. Eratosthenes had accurately calculated the circumference of the earth too!

As for the catholics, I think their obsession was with the earth-centric model of the world and not with the earth being flat

[InfindecimalSlice]

@vsimoul They had also formulated a theory which stated that the earth was round and the stars seemed unmoving cause they were just so far away (see Aristarchus of samos)

[ultima9999xx]

holy shit that is awesome!

[Imhotep12type]

Super Metroid song... haha, very cool.

[Formidowow]

so... playin with lego, thats your fulltime job, then?

[blazinblue777]

@Formidowow As long as it pays the bills, why ask? lmao

[auroral]

Why was an eclipse so important that one would build an elaborate system to predict one?

[gabbergandalf667]

@auroral

I guess an eclipse was a most frightening sight in the times before modern science lifted the veil of ignorance from humanity's face. If one were able to predict it, he or she would surely have been worshipped as a seer or medium by the common folk. In my opinion, if abused by a king or religious leader, the antikythera mechanism would have been an extraordinarily powerful tool to control the dull masses.

[MQnoob]

@auroral

True, it does seem somewhat "useless".

However, one could theorize that if a person could build such an elaborate device for predicting lunar eclipses, imagine what else they could have built with said person's knowledge. The actual Antikythera Mechanism could calculate not only eclipses, but the position of the sun, moon stars and other celestial bodies.

[jpourkav]

lego technic!! oooold school dude! hell yea

[constadinos73]

ΕΛΛΑΣ Ή ΤΕΦΡΑ!

[robertlazar]

I will never be so excited about building my Lego helicopter! :))