Antikythera mechanism working model.mov

Curator Michael Wright shows off his model of the Antikythera mechanism. The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient Greek clockwork machine found in a shipwreck, that has taken more than a century to decipher. Wright's handmade reconstruction is the first to include all the known features of this complex device. For more information see www.decodingtheheavens.com.

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Science & Technology

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• Antikythera
• mechanism
• Michael
• Wright
• ancient
• Greek
• technology
• clockwork
• computer
• astronomy

[vv55sst]

Ancient does NOT mean stupid.

[GaladedridDamodred]

Man, the Greeks knew what was going on. They had it figured out. Some of the shit they made was only rediscovered by the Arabs and Chinese centuries later when the Europeans were too busy killing each other over religion.

[apppples]

so the start of the founding of the modern world came about with the second discovery (invention) of the steam engine (the one watt improved not the roman one from nigh on 1500 years earlier)... so imagine a world where the west didn't collapse... what kind of technology would we have now if these ancient cultures had never slid back into darkness...

god(irony) damn religion... and mongols...

[alex29443]

@shwmusic hey man - god doesn't exist

why should he? why would he allow so many different religions to exist? why would he burn good people and cherish bad christians? why would he need our faith when he can create the universe? why would he 'make it look like' evolution happened? why would he place us in such an ordinary galaxy, in such an ordinary spiral arm? why do the 'absolute morals' of the bible change with the times? - if you can honestly answer all of those questions, I'd like to hear

[alex29443]

damn - Imagine if the greeks had been allowed to keep thinking and testing and building for the last 2000 years - we would definitely be interstellar by now, no question.

[tehstuffJJ24]

This must be alien technology!

[Maglevspiritualgeek]

Fascination OVERLOAD!!!

[SuperHippy7]

@The1stPoster amazing how those "madmen" predicted your attitudes EXACTLY as you scoff them out, over 2000+ years ago, without a mechanism... you should read a book sometime instead of believin everything you hear on tv.

[wing2912]

This video has nothing to do with religion. So STFU

[bigjobbruce]

What does it show for 2012? Will it blend? And no, I didnt take and arrow to the knee nor did I find it hard to fap too.

[teramasz]

@The1stPoster "which would later lead to the worlds most famous joke book, 2000+ years of fuck ups, and a whole load of violence and bloodshed" I love that bit :) all the best :)

[20CHANCE07]

@20CHANCE07 Judaism started around 2000BC. So that would make Christianity around 4000 years old.