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Nearly Sane

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Re: Antikythera News
« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2021, 12:57:10 PM »
The Antikythera gets even more amazing


https://www.newscientist.com/article/2271165-ancient-computer-may-have-used-bejewelled-rings-to-model-the-cosmos/
Very interesting. Mention of this machine used to be quite frequent on the Mysteries section of the GH forum, but the more that has been discovered about it, the less that 'it must have been made/assisted/etc  by unknown agencies'
appears, as far as I can see anyway!
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Re: Antikythera News
« Reply #2 on: March 14, 2021, 12:46:39 PM »
An excellent video explaining how the details were worked out and the mechanism constructed (about 30 minutes long):

https://vimeo.com/518734183
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Walt Zingmatilder

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Re: Antikythera News
« Reply #3 on: March 14, 2021, 01:15:04 PM »
Apparently it runs on Windows 98BC.

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Re: Antikythera News
« Reply #4 on: March 14, 2021, 03:24:09 PM »
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