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Education Ancient Greek Mechanism + Lego = Pure WIN

Discussion in 'General' started by GreatOldOne, 12 Dec 2010.

  1. GreatOldOne

    GreatOldOne Wannabe Martian

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    Krikkit All glory to the hypnotoad! Super Moderator

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    The "Antikythera mechanism" sounds like something from Mass Effect.

    Totally awesome though, mindboggling to think that it was made 2200 years ago.
     
  3. Psycho

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    I wasted about 5 hours yesterday making a manual gearbox out of lego because of this video. :duh:
     
  5. GreatOldOne

    GreatOldOne Wannabe Martian

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    Isn't it just. I've been watching a programme on BBC2 called Ancient Worlds. They've done an episode on the Greeks, and mention the device and Hero's steam engine. They then speculated what would have happened if Hero had realised what he had, and not just thought it a toy... We could have had the industrial revolution 2000 years before it happened for real. :eeek:

    Just think where we'd be know. Probably still waiting for our flying cars, but it's interesting to wonder how far forward technology would be.
     
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    I think we would be alot further foward technology wise in life if the silly christians hadn't come along and started repressing everything.
     
  7. GreatOldOne

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    Help, Help! I'm being Repressed! ;)

    BTW - If you want to know more about the device, I can highly recommend Jo Marchent's book, Decoding the Heavens.
     
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    Thats just fantastic. 2000+ years ago and they had this kind of power?!
     
  10. BenK

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    Pretty cool. Just visited a mate whose dad is one of the leading researchers on the Antikythera Device
     
  11. Elton

    Elton Officially a Whisky Nerd

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    Wow, the amount of technology we could've had...

    Insane.
     
  12. mars-bar-man

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    Stupid dark ages....


    (joke, drunk :) )
     
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    BRAWL Dead and buried.

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    But entirely right...
     

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