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The Antikythera Mechanism
Epyx:
--- Quote ---Meh, I beg to differ.
Look around you - how much will still be here in 100 years?
See any horseless carriages around? Steam engines?
Technology and culture shifts - nobody keeps around the old stuff.
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Ya you misunderstood me pbj...im actually in agreement with you ;)
--- Quote ---I think Epyx was saying for someone to come up with stuff like this back 2000 years ago, without many of the modern conveniences we tend to take for granted, like even a pencil, that's impressive.
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Bingo...and np, distraction mucho appreciated
--- Quote ---Right, they put a man on the moon with less computer power than what's in a 10$ calculator at Walmart. The progression in the last hundred years hasn't just been exponential it seems...
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Yep, I love to argue this with Moon landing conspiracy folks...getting a man to the moon is not the most difficult part...getting him off the planet is...once youve done that you are in the hands of mathematics. So really if you believe we have satellites in space, a space station etc...then the moon landing is not a stretch at all.
And aside from all that...you think the Russians would have let the Americans live that lie down? ;)
drventure:
What, you believe all that moon landing stuff?
Next I guess you'll tell me NASA launched two robots, landed them on mars and has had 'em running around for 3 years when they were only scheduled to work for 3 months, or something ridiculous like that!
;)
Epyx:
There is NO way they landed robots on mars... :blah:
:lol
danny_galaga:
--- Quote from: Epyx on November 20, 2009, 04:00:10 pm ---
Yep, I love to argue this with Moon landing conspiracy folks...getting a man to the moon is not the most difficult part...getting him off the planet is...once youve done that you are in the hands of mathematics. So really if you believe we have satellites in space, a space station etc...then the moon landing is not a stretch at all.
And aside from all that...you think the Russians would have let the Americans live that lie down? ;)
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Hehe. Aint that the truth. Anyone read 'From the Earth to the Moon'? Did you feel bummed at the end when you realise that the guys on the moon aren't coming back and now have to rely on supplies sent to them?
Oh, and i remember this machine. Thanks for the updates (",) It was one of the things that nitwit Eric Von Daniken used to point to as being evidence that aliens visited the ancients and taught them stuff. Stuff like how to drag and pile rocks (pyramids, stone henge), how to make things from brass (this mechanism). Because of course if you were an alien, that would be the most high tech stuff you could show a man ;D
Epyx:
--- Quote ---Because of course if you were an alien, that would be the most high tech stuff you could show a man
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Lol exactly...I love Sagan's take on alien abduction which goes along the same lines. He basically stated that the type of "human biological" experiments being carried out on the "abductees" would be the technological equivalent of humans resorting back to medieval medicinal beliefs like "the theory of humours".
He stated he would be much more likely to believe the abduction tales had any of them actually brought something back with them of alien origin.
But, common sense tells you that if aliens made it this far through the vastness of space they would have the technology to not only elude us but would have knowledge well beyond what we can even imagine through Science Fiction...a bit beyond MASH hospital abduction experiments lol.
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