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Recreating a Mysterious, 2,100-Year-Old Clock
fergus07 writes "Swiss watchmaker Hublot has created a scaled-down working replica of the ancient Antikythera mechanism. The question is — why on Earth would you want to strap one of these to your wrist? It barely tells the time, and it can't take pictures, tweet or connect to your Facebook. In fact, very few people would have the faintest idea what it is, or why you'd want one at all. But for those that do recognize its intricate gears and dials, this tiny, complex piece of machinery tells a vivid and incredible tale of gigantic scientific upheaval, of adventure and shipwreck on the high seas, of war and death."
It's funny because its true.
I read the internet for the articles.
They invented this watch, unfortunately they patented it and drove all competitors out of business before collapsing themselves ;-)
Thankfully, 2,100 years later their patents and copyrights have expired, so we can open-source it.
Assuming, of course, Hublot hasn't patented it themselves.
to your wrist?
It's obvious! So that you're ready for when the evil Kythera Mechanism shows up!
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
The Greeks would have known millenia ago that Hades is not a planet!
the growth in cynicism and rebellion has not been without cause
What are you? Part of the 99%?
My solution is just to loudly yell every action as I take it.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. - Terry Pratchett
The ad I see at the top of the page is for Fossil watches. ;-)
Mother******* Adsense spots, how do they work?
Actually, they use a complicated system of 84 gears ...
And since time flies, his sentence makes perfect sense.
You know, I always had trouble with the phrase "time flies when you're having fun". If I'm having fun, why would I want to time flies?
Free Martian Whores!
wait until they invented the telegraph?
i had to wait until horses evolved!