Lego Antikythera Mechanism

The Antikythera Mechanism: http://bit.ly/fm4oFK is the oldest known scientific computer, built in Greece at around 100 BCE. Lost for 2000 years, it was recovered from a shipwreck in 1901. But not until a century later was its purpose understood: an astronomical clock that determines the positions of celestial bodies with extraordinary precision. 

In 2010, we built a fully-functional replica out of Lego. 

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• Antikythera
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• Lego
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• science
• astronomy

[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

[maggosh]

Imagine rebuilding this in Minecraft.

[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.

[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"?

[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.

[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]

@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.

[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.

[caketakeshh]

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

[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.