Imaging the Antikythera Mechanism

[katheryncruz24]

Great.

[adelle0001]

great video! very informative

[whotaughtyou]

IMAGINATION

[gedankenwelten]

Cool stuff and great that the software I available to play with it :) .

[iRocPink20]

Umm okay

[HowardFair]

@215bgdogg, it's hard to imagine because knowledge does not always advance. It we hadn't had the excesses of the Romans and the anti-science of Christianity we'd and the way the Greeks thought we might have warp drive by now. We have been learning about how the universe works since the Renaissance, but there was a period of over 1000 years where nobody cared in the West.

[axlent123]

@HowardFair I have not watched this video yet, but to my point, Christianity is not anti science. problem is that some sides of science bow to the religion of the "Big Bang" and the evoultion of chemicals to life to cells and bugs, and monkeys, and man, It takes a lot of faith to believe that life started from absolutely nothing and become self aware living beings over time without the help of a higher power who was involved in this process.

[Domytar]

i think they just set it every time they looked up at the stars.

like an astrolabe daddy

[Domytar]

So was it being constantly being constantly wound up or what?

[STEVEDIGIBOYtv]

From the time of Giza more like, LOL! way to advanced for greek mechanical knowledge imo it has gears that were not conceptualized in scale until 1690's maybe. Cool talk,

[unapologeticmind]

@STEVEDIGIBOYtv Well, you just need to provide an alternative theory on how a few sponge divers driven off course in 1905 happened to find it in a Roman shipwreck together with a whole number of other Greek artefacts from that time period. Also, you would have to explain the ancient Greek dialect used on the device and the presence of a dial for the Olymic Games which were abolished in 393AD, among other things. Cicero mentioned the existence of such mechanical devices taken from the Greeks...

[ree214]

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[acquimat]

I used subtitles with this video. Do they generate them automatically? There were some really large blunders in it (folk's instead of focus, 30 million gears instead of 30 known gears), that I can't explain otherwise than that a computer did it. But, on the other hand, that would be impressive still!

[Gransar1]

March 2010 and HP still use XP!!!!!

[CurtHowland]

There's an old saying, "Using computer technology to solve a problem is like using the correct wrench to pound in the right screw."

However, this is REAL WORLD answers to REAL WORLD problems using computing. No wrench, no screw, an honest to goodness computer HAMMER on a real world NAIL.

It also means much greater possibilities of research by remote individuals without needing access to the actual "thing".

Hooray!

[mainaeric]

This is a great video. Thanks Google

[shobhitjain26]

truly fascinating .... Just one of the mechanism which we have discovered... more to be found yet

[tmystervideo]

Fascinating!

[someman7]

if anyone just had an idea, let me spare you the trouble and disappointment: don't bother with 50:27 - it's done before, and built into some camera afaik. There is a procedure (software?) that can use the images to display the front and the back objects as sharp on the same image.

[pinkilehniously]

On 36:07

Sometimes recycling is not that cool.

[gamedevMike]

Interesting how this is used on images of real world objects.

[gandreou]

Great video. I want to try this technique!