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The World's Oldest Computer May Have Predicted the Future (gizmodo.com)
Gizmodo reports: Discovered in an ancient shipwreck near Crete in 1901, the freakishly advanced Antikythera Mechanism has been called the world's first computer. A decades-long investigation into the 2,000 year-old-device is shedding new light onto this mysterious device... It wasn't programmable in the modern sense, but it's considered the world's first analog computer.
schwit1 shares a report from the Associated Press:: For over a century since its discovery in an ancient shipwreck, the exact function of the Antikythera Mechanism -- named after the southern Greek island off which it was found -- was a tantalizing puzzle.... After more than a decade's efforts using cutting-edge scanning equipment, an international team of scientists has now read about 3,500 characters of explanatory text -- a quarter of the original -- in the innards of the 2,100-year-old remains. They say it was a kind of philosopher's guide to the galaxy, and perhaps the world's oldest mechanical computer.
schwit1 shares a report from the Associated Press:: For over a century since its discovery in an ancient shipwreck, the exact function of the Antikythera Mechanism -- named after the southern Greek island off which it was found -- was a tantalizing puzzle.... After more than a decade's efforts using cutting-edge scanning equipment, an international team of scientists has now read about 3,500 characters of explanatory text -- a quarter of the original -- in the innards of the 2,100-year-old remains. They say it was a kind of philosopher's guide to the galaxy, and perhaps the world's oldest mechanical computer.
It's kind of pointless to write an article about an ancient Greek text that was found if you don't report what the text actually said.
Bonus points if you present a translation of the text, which neither article linked to actually does. (Most likely because the researchers aren't sure what the text actually says).
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
This is clearly impossible. Egyptologists tell us that machines did not exist when the Pyramids and sculptures were created. Point being: Egyptology is wrong, and archeology is politicized to keep findings from undermining a country's sovereignty. (Eg: China did not emerge in isolation, hence the pyramids and mummies with European DNA).
The Chinese, Egyptian, Sumerian, Machu Picchu, legends all tell of a more technologically advanced race of Sun Gods who built their temples and gave them the gift of agriculture and city building. These sun gods are described as having European features, such as fair skin, red or blond hair, green or blue eyes and thin aquiline noses. This hints that a more advanced civilization capable of sea faring that existed prior to the end of the last ice age.
It's stupid as hell to assume the Antikythera Mechanism is the world's first analog computer. The creator certainly built prior models and there were probably many many other similar devices and other sorts of machines with the same or higher complexity. There are Egyptian artifacts which appear to be huge gears and drilling heads. You're a damned fool believing in "the ancients had no machines" propaganda. If you seriously think a single device was created with such a tech level and no prior devices existed using similar tech of equal or lesser mechanical complexity, you're a fucking idiot. Even basic Anthropology would suggest the device is a product of a culmination of existing technologies for this one purpose, and that other machines with other purposes led up to its creation, and most likely other machines existed beyond its capabilities. The chances that you just happened to find the single device that is the pinnacle of the ancient civilization's technological level is nigh on impossible, and anyone suggesting thus should be laughed at and mocked as morons, not fit to give archaeological interpretations. It would be like an alien civilization discovering one of our iPhones and proclaiming it was this planet's first communication device.
What hypocrisy? Has PopeRatzo previously taken a stance vehemently against personal attacks and sexual objectification (for comedic and satirical purposes)?
Or, actually, did it occur to you that PopeRatzo might, in fact, be parodying Trump himself?
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
There was. Research the "temple wonders" that were used in ancient Greek (and later, Roman) temples.
You will be surprised at the degree of engineering skill involved in their creation. Unlike in our modern world, ancient greek mathematics required detailed physical proofs of the predictions of the math, before it was considered true. You can see this in the reconstructed text of the archimedes palimpsest.
It is very possible that this object was such a proof, made to present findings to nearby scholars.