Antikythera device

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besilarius

January 24, 2020, 02:05:52 PM
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Gusington

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January 24, 2020, 02:52:17 PM
 :o holy crap
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Sir Slash

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January 24, 2020, 07:58:52 PM
Very cool.  O0
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January 28, 2020, 04:18:39 PM
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April 17, 2020, 05:23:33 PM
"He was in the minority—most agreed that something so sophisticated must have entered the wreck long after its other 2,000-year-old artifacts."

"... by 1974 he had worked out that it was, in fact, a device from 150 to 100 BC Greece."

Crazy how something so sophisticated could have been built so early.
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