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Examining the Antikythera Mechanism
Mr. Droopy Drawers writes "An ancient piece of clockwork shows the deep roots of modern technology. Found in 1900 off the coast of Antikythera, Greece, a clockwork mechanism was found to be a device for calculating the motion of the earth and planets. In an article in The Economist, Michael Wright, the curator of mechanical engineering at the Science Museum in London, says the device demonstrates mechanical principles that were thought not devised until the 17th century. The article quotes research done by Derek Price. Here's Mr. Price's article from Scientific American. Also found some quicktime movies of the mechanism at The University of Macedonia. Very interesting reading."
It's channel 356 on Dish Network's Pacific Time Zone network.
I think it's Starz Family Edition or something. STZFE is the channel code.
There's only 23 minutes left. The balloon scene is coming up, so you'd better get watching.
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What is all this talk about an Antikythera Mechanism? The Kythera Mechanism has never been a problem for anybody. I think we should leave things just as they are!
To think they went there probably to escape loud, obnoxious people in their own country... Ah, the irony if they saw it today!
It was that or "when are they going to port NetBSD to it?"
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