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2,100-Year-Old Antikythera Device Recreated In Working Form
coondoggie writes "A
new working model of the mysterious 2,100-year-old astronomical calculator, dubbed the Antikythera Device, has been unveiled, incorporating the most recent discoveries announced two years ago by an international team of researchers. The new model was demonstrated by its creator, former museum curator Michael Wright, who had created an earlier model based on decades of study."
I keep asking my boss for a new machine, but apparently the quad-core boxes are reserved for managers with important work to do like using Powerpoint and surfing for softcore pornography.
Every year during my review, I just pray the words "slashdot.org" aren't mentioned.
I'm prokythera, you insensitive clod.
and so starts the story of Sylar, the villain watchmaker.
Thank goodness we're prepared for when the sinister Kythera device is unearthed.
There's a good chance that it was a custom job made for Hipparchus, either for his lab or to impress the king.
"Hi, this is Hipparchus. I placed a custom order for an Antikythera about 8 months ago."
"Oh, we shipped that out. It looks like there was a problem with the delivery... Ah, here we go. The boat sank."
"What? I've got to present that next week!"
"I'm sorry, did you buy shipping insurance? It doesn't show here on the invoice that you paid for insurance."
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ECHELON is a government program to find words like bomb, jihad, plutonium, assassinate, and anarchy.
The new model was demonstrated by its creator
Wow, a 2,100 guy demonstrating it? I'd pay to see that!
Slashdot "libertarians": Small government for me, big government for those I disagree with. -1, I disagree with you
I keep asking my boss for a new machine
That's crazy talk. If you keep that up you'll soon be in charge of legacy systems. No, this is not a troll!
Don't worry, there'll be a quake or duke nukem port soon enough.
"The cup is in turn designed for holding hot or cold liquids, and has an open rim and closed base." --US Patent #5425497
Yes, especially as it was those religious beliefs that allowed this device to be created in the first place, or did you miss the part about the Babylonian priests? Good God, can't you people get off your Anti-Religion Flaming Horse for one thread a day?
Tell me more about the horse. That sounds awesome.
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
Lame.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
...but enough about COBOL...
...and usually memorizes anyone who happens to see it.
cool - my screensaver keeps forgetting all the people who see it.
Unfortunately for them, they were unable to come up with any answers, letting Europe catch up.
As for the Americas, they were largely stuck in the Stone Age.
First uttered by the Librarian of Alexandra 1000 years ago, "I'll back it up tomorrow."
Conservation of angular momentum makes the world go round.
Maybe some ancient lawmakers managed to extend copyrights and patents to 1000 years...
Beowulf imagined a cluster of one of these!
But apart from the steam engine, parabolic mirrors, architecture and building technology, road layout, sewerage, military tactics, field medicine and firefighting technology what have the Romans and Greeks ever done for us?
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it