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Understanding the Antikythera Mechanism (hackaday.com)
szczys writes: We attribute great thinking to ancient Greece. This is exemplified by the Antikythera Mechanism. Fragments of the mechanism were found in a shipwreck first discovered in 1900 and visited by researchers several times over the next century. It is believed to be a method of tracking the calendar and is the first known example of what are now common-yet-complicated engineering mechanisms like the differential gear. A few working reproductions have been produced and make it clear that whomever designed this had an advanced understanding of complex gear ratios and their ability to track the passage of time and celestial bodies. Last year research by two scientists suggested that the device might be much older than previously thought.
It is said that a wealthy shipowner had the Mechanism built as a navigational aid but the captain of his flagship, incensed at the slow operation of Debian on it, hurled it into the Aegean.
My udder moistens with thoughts of you whipping me with your wit. My personal secret Stockholm syndrome fetish towards my herder. As I gaze up from the meadows, dazedly chewing my cud, I look at your leather cowboy hat with both a mix of horror and curiosity. In the fleeting moments of madness I wish I was a horse, if only you would mount me and ride me in the wind. With a huff, however, the melancholic reality of my own existence comes flooding back to this moment in time, dulled by my own senses. I dolefully wait for that moment you might grab my teats and forcefully place a suction cup upon them, if only to extract my milk in all its creamy goodness.
Mooo my friend. Mooo, Mooo MOOOO! May you one day find the courage to drink straight from my breast, my bosom swells with misplaced gratitude for my own existence. Love Daisy. Xxooxxoox.