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[color="Blue"]Ancient Greek computer reveals its secrets
By Roger Highfield, Science Editor
A bronze calculating machine salvaged from a shipwreck a century ago is finally yielding up its secrets, revealing a Greek computer of remarkable sophistication for a device constructed long before the birth of Christ.
Reconstruction of the back dials of the Antikythera Mechanism
How the back dials of the supercomputer would have looked
Scholars have been baffled by the 80-plus fragments of the ancient mechanism found in 1901 by sponge divers in a Roman shipwreck near the island of Antikythera, midway between the Peloponnese and Crete.
Around the size of a discus, the device was so badly corroded that it had the consistency of flaky pastry and was encrusted with deposits. Yet it seemed to be the earliest-known machine involving an arrangement of gear-wheels, built centuries before such technology became commonplace.
Was it a rich man's toy? Or was it an orrery or an astronomical clock? Or something else that reflected an ancient interest in astrology?
In the wake of a study of its workings published today in the journal Nature, the "Antikythera Mechanism" will transform the way we think about the technological capabilities of the ancient world. ... [MORE]
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Posted : 30/11/2006 7:20 pm
F'n amazing. I read about it this morning. I can't wait to see what more comes of this discovery.
Posted : 30/11/2006 8:08 pm
Well, as we all know, niggers created mathematics, which of course is a prerequisite for a device like this. The niggers developed highly advanced math way back in deepest, darkest Africa to help them determine precisely how much donkey shit needed to be carefully packed on each grass hut.
So ultimately, white innovation like this simply wouldn't have been possible without the nigger. Please don't forget that.
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Posted : 30/11/2006 9:01 pm
And they issue press releases telling blacks not to be afraid of an eclipse to this very day… how interesting.
'My country is changing all around me. This is not the country that my forefathers built. It must be because those brown-skinned people are coming in and destroying it.' - Mark Potok the racist
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Posted : 30/11/2006 9:39 pm
Hail Ancient Greeks! :cheers:
Really impressive accomplishments from a people that continue to impress to this day.
"Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him...." ------ John 8:44
Posted : 01/12/2006 4:28 am
I heard it was the Jews who invented that machine....with explicit directions from god himself........Not the Niggers.
Posted : 01/12/2006 5:44 am
Well, as we all know, niggers created mathematics, which of course is a prerequisite for a device like this. The niggers developed highly advanced math way back in deepest, darkest Africa to help them determine precisely how much donkey shit needed to be carefully packed on each grass hut.
So ultimately, white innovation like this simply wouldn't have been possible without the nigger. Please don't forget that.
Yep,it's only a matter of time before racist nigger "academia" make their LSD/Crack/Heroin/Cocaina/JEALOUSY-fueled, claims of niggers being Greek,and that they invented that.
Posted : 01/12/2006 6:45 am
GOOD,no,GREAT OLD WHITEY KNOW-HOW.
Eat your shit of jealousy,racist niggorilla devils!!!!
Posted : 01/12/2006 6:48 am
This article is complete pie in the sky. Filler, really, with no scientific value. It's pretty samey to saying - we found a toy with wheels in a Mayan pyramid - IMAGINE WHAT THEY COULD HAVE DONE WITH THAT IDEA, had diversity not come for them.
I was unaware the Greeks ran their letters together like a pack of Jews.
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Posted : 01/12/2006 7:24 am