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YoshidaYui

(41,832 posts) Sun May 29, 2022, 09:05 PM May 2022

BBC The 2,000-Year-Old Computer

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BBC The 2,000-Year-Old Computer (Original Post) YoshidaYui May 2022 OP

K n R ! Thanks for posting! JoeOtterbein May 2022 #1

Wow! Only a bit more than half through it and I'm amazed how... JoeOtterbein May 2022 #2

Thanks. Much appreciated and enjoyed. Enoki33 May 2022 #3

Very cool - thanks for posting!! hatrack May 2022 #4

Priceless knowledge. love_katz May 2022 #5

JoeOtterbein

(7,702 posts)

1. K n R ! Thanks for posting!

Reply to YoshidaYui (Original post)

Sun May 29, 2022, 09:16 PM

May 2022

I've always been fascinated by this, I'm going to watch the rest of it now! Thanks again for posting!

JoeOtterbein

(7,702 posts)

2. Wow! Only a bit more than half through it and I'm amazed how...

Reply to YoshidaYui (Original post)

Sun May 29, 2022, 09:56 PM

May 2022

...someone, so long ago at least 2000 years, made the gears by hand with thin metal and files!

Enoki33

(1,587 posts)

3. Thanks. Much appreciated and enjoyed.

Reply to YoshidaYui (Original post)

Sun May 29, 2022, 10:57 PM

May 2022

hatrack

(59,587 posts)

4. Very cool - thanks for posting!!

Reply to YoshidaYui (Original post)

Sun May 29, 2022, 11:36 PM

May 2022

love_katz

(2,580 posts)

5. Priceless knowledge.

Reply to YoshidaYui (Original post)

Mon May 30, 2022, 07:10 AM

May 2022

Their entire knowledge of astronomy and the cosmos, placed in to a device that could predict the future movements of the planets and their cycles, a device that was small and portable and of a level of sophisticated construction that was light years beyond what we thought the ancients were capable of.
Thank you so very much for sharing this!

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