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The Antikythera Mechanism has about 14,000 characters of text on its mangled, time-weary body. Since its discovery over 100 years ago, very little of that text was readable, only a few hundred characters.
Now, the team behind this effort confirms that the mechanism was an astronomical calendar. It showed the position of the planets, the position of the Sun and Moon in the zodiac, the phases of the Moon, and it also predicted eclipses.
WHoa! Can you imagine a device that sophisticated and capable of all those things from such a long time ago? That is certainly impressive and most people would have thought a civilization during that time would not be able to make something like that.
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thanks to universetoday.com for the great info
Old news…like 10yrs old, js
Oh, the Antekithera device? That’s old hat…
That’s cerebro
Not so shocking. Their theory was suggested a couple of years ago on a science show on t.v.
It’s a sex toy.
Old news
I refuse to flip to “next page” over advertisements again and again.
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I’m not falling for click bait. And no telling how much info was left out, or changed.
I guess i don’t understand why ppl are blown away that ancient civilizations could be advanced…technically they’re the same humans as us…so equally as intelligent
Nah it’s actually a device for locating hazel nuts buried by squirrels. They needed them to make baclava probably spelled that wrong.
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Looks like a steering wheel
it’s an astrolabe
Its an ancient weed scale..
Tyler Flinn
God’s wristwatch.
The mystery is not what it did, but how people has such sophisticated technology at such an early period. It breaks all our existing models for the development of human civilization and technology.
There is a guy on youtube who is building one.his channel is called clickspring
The ability and understanding to even make the calculations before the device was even thought of is mind boggling in itself.
Charles Xavier time traveled to start a group of xmen. This is proof.
This article told us absolutely nothing.