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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 6689172, member: 110504&quot;]This is seriously fun stuff.</p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56377567" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56377567" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56377567</a></p><p>What&#039;s left of the original mechanism was found off an island in Greece, and has been dated c. late 3rd -1st c. BCE.&nbsp; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism</a></p><p>I remember hearing about this as a kid; it&#039;s fantastic that archaeologists and paleoengineers have gotten this far in figuring out how it actually worked.&nbsp; A resonant confirmation of the technological genius of which pre-industrial civilizations were capable.</p><p>...You could post ...what, anything, I guess, of any relevence, whether chronological or thematic.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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