Antikythera Mechanism: An ancient 'computer' that 'shouldn't exist' [video]

Re:Antikythera Mechanism: An ancient 'computer' that 'should... by colordrops on Friday December 10, 2021 @01:16PM (#29513408)

Same goes for the perfectly fitted stones in Inkan walls in Peru. They weren't built by aliens or telekinesis, but rather unoccupied workers that rubbed on the stones all day for decades. There is plenty of evidence that these walls and cities were never in a "finished" state, but always in progress, with partially complete stones and scattered pieces not yet near the wall in many sites.

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Re:Antikythera Mechanism: An ancient 'computer' that 'should... by Gravityloss on Friday December 10, 2021 @01:26PM (#29513541)

Then there are projects like Colosseum which took only 7-8 years to build. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colosseum or Parthenon that took 9 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenon

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Re:Antikythera Mechanism: An ancient 'computer' that 'should... by bsder on Friday December 10, 2021 @03:09PM (#29514883)

Most things in the ancient Greek world needed to be completed in less than a generation because a generation tended to be the recurring timeframe for wars (funny that).

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Re:Antikythera Mechanism: An ancient 'computer' that 'should... by zajio1am on Friday December 10, 2021 @08:15PM (#29517469)

I guess that in modern world, such buildings would not even get paperwork/permits in 7-9 years.

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Re:Antikythera Mechanism: An ancient 'computer' that 'should... by JJMcJ on Friday December 10, 2021 @02:37PM (#29514491)

Recently a group finished a stone block of the size in the Egyptian pyramids in just a few days.

Another group hauled a Stonehenge sized block of stone from area the stones came from to the site of Stonehenge in about two weeks.

Estimate is that, using existing tools of the time, 100 stonemasons could have done the Sphinx in about five years.

And we have medieval and classical buildings in Europe where the building methods are fully known and there were no flying saucers or other magical methods.

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Re:Antikythera Mechanism: An ancient 'computer' that 'should... by ds206 on Friday December 10, 2021 @02:44PM (#29514590)

Do you have a link or more information regarding the pyramid block formation?

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Re:Antikythera Mechanism: An ancient 'computer' that 'should... by JJMcJ on Friday December 10, 2021 @04:53PM (#29515903)

Sorry, I don't. I just so it in passing and didn't book mark it.

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Re:Antikythera Mechanism: An ancient 'computer' that 'should... by JJMcJ on Friday December 10, 2021 @08:20PM (#29517496)

. . . just saw it in passing . . .

Typo

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Re:Antikythera Mechanism: An ancient 'computer' that 'should... by beamatronic on Friday December 10, 2021 @01:39PM (#29513721)

What's remarkable to me is to think about the infrastructure that must have existed, even to support this basic labor. All these stones had to get quarried and moved around. All these workers had to be fed, housed, and clothed. Whatever tools and simple machines they used, would have required constant maintenance.

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