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2500 Year Old Computer Rebuilt with LEGO!!!

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Edvard:
Why didn't they just make an exact duplicate?
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No too say it isn't a correct conclusion. But I'd still be careful about accepting the sweeping conclusions some people are making about the device.
-40hz (December 08, 2012, 12:00 PM)
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I very much agree, but let's be fair; they don't have all the parts, and there's still some debate as to what it's exact function was.  Obviously, it was some sort of heavenly-body-tracking thingummy, but exactly which, what, and why is still up for discussion without a complete device (well, the why can be put down to simple scientific endeavor, but still...).  All the replicas made so far, therefore, cannot be exact replicas, and never can be unless we find an identical device that is complete or the original blueprints.

I concur with thinking it's amazing enough these folks were able to replicate what is known about it's function with just off-the-shelf lego technic parts.  Nice find, Ren!

Renegade:
No too say it isn't a correct conclusion. But I'd still be careful about accepting the sweeping conclusions some people are making about the device.
-40hz (December 08, 2012, 12:00 PM)
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I very much agree, but let's be fair; they don't have all the parts, and there's still some debate as to what it's exact function was.  Obviously, it was some sort of heavenly-body-tracking thingummy, but exactly which, what, and why is still up for discussion without a complete device (well, the why can be put down to simple scientific endeavor, but still...).  All the replicas made so far, therefore, cannot be exact replicas, and never can be unless we find an identical device that is complete or the original blueprints.
-Edvard (December 08, 2012, 06:18 PM)
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Awwww... C'mon guys...

We all KNOW that evolution and knowledge and society and civilisation and technology and peace and love and grooviness ALWAYS go forward and never backwards, we MUST be the pinnacle of all that ever has been or ever was birthed on Earth! :P ;D

So... Obviously this device PROVES that mankind has received assistance from aliens in the past~! ;D :P

Grays? Reptilians? Daleks? From the Pleiades? Sirius? Seriously? :P


But seriously... They have done 3D x-rays on the device to reconstruct models of it. So, there's a pretty solid basis there for extrapolating what it does/did. Maybe replicas aren't exact, but, they're probably "good enough" to get a pretty good ballpark idea about the device at a very minimum.

If you want to run a software demo, there's one here:

http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/AntikytheraMechanism/

I've not tried it though.

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