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Stanford Accelerator Uncovers Archimedes' Text

Posted by timothy on from the 2-quarts-olive-oil-1-bunch-grapes-goat-milk dept.

AI Playground points to a Newsday.com report which reads in part "A particle accelerator is being used to reveal the long-lost writings of the Greek mathematician Archimedes, work hidden for centuries after a Christian monk wrote over it in the Middle Ages. Highly focused X-rays produced at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center were used last week to begin deciphering the parts of the 174-page text that have not yet been revealed."

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  1. Hmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    will this end up being used at the Michael Jackson trial?

  2. frosty by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    piszorz

  3. Deciphering Technology and the Chinese Military by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    SLAC should label its deciphering technology "top secret". This technology might be useful to the Chinese military, which is aggressively trying to upgrade its military know-how.

  4. Re:Translating now... hold on.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That deserves a golf clap, at the very least. Well done.

  5. Re:I just hope ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Damn, that's some really old crack you are smoking moderators! A guy saying he hopes that the "Archimedes Text" doesn't get censored is on topic you crackwhores, ok?

  6. Re:Translating now... hold on.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That deserves a funny mod.