Antikythera mechanism possibly older than previously thought?

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Antikythera mechanism possibly older than previously thought?

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RE: Antikythera mechanism possibly older than previously thought?

November 30, 2014 at 1:58 pm

(November 30, 2014 at 1:32 pm)abaris Wrote:
(November 30, 2014 at 1:30 pm)Heywood Wrote: A disaster can crash the sum of human knowledge. Suppose a comet strikes our planet and over the next 10 years half the human population on earth dies. A lot of knowledge is going to disappear along with those people.

Yeah, but that's about the size of it. Nothing less would do. And in recorded human history it was moron's work not natural disaster.

The black plague destroyed a lot of knowledge. So have earthquakes and floods.

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Antikythera mechanism possibly older than previously thought? - by Jackalope - November 29, 2014 at 6:55 pm

RE: Antikythera mechanism possibly older than previously thought? - by Alex K - November 29, 2014 at 6:58 pm

RE: Antikythera mechanism possibly older than previously thought? - by Minimalist - November 29, 2014 at 7:22 pm

RE: Antikythera mechanism possibly older than previously thought? - by Heywood - November 30, 2014 at 11:32 am

RE: Antikythera mechanism possibly older than previously thought? - by IATIA - November 30, 2014 at 12:13 pm

RE: Antikythera mechanism possibly older than previously thought? - by Alex K - November 30, 2014 at 12:14 pm

RE: Antikythera mechanism possibly older than previously thought? - by Heywood - November 30, 2014 at 12:37 pm

RE: Antikythera mechanism possibly older than previously thought? - by abaris - November 30, 2014 at 12:39 pm

RE: Antikythera mechanism possibly older than previously thought? - by Anomalocaris - November 30, 2014 at 1:00 pm

RE: Antikythera mechanism possibly older than previously thought? - by Heywood - November 30, 2014 at 1:30 pm

RE: Antikythera mechanism possibly older than previously thought? - by abaris - November 30, 2014 at 1:32 pm

RE: Antikythera mechanism possibly older than previously thought? - by Heywood - November 30, 2014 at 1:58 pm

RE: Antikythera mechanism possibly older than previously thought? - by abaris - November 30, 2014 at 2:02 pm

RE: Antikythera mechanism possibly older than previously thought? - by IATIA - November 30, 2014 at 12:58 pm

RE: Antikythera mechanism possibly older than previously thought? - by Minimalist - November 30, 2014 at 12:22 pm

RE: Antikythera mechanism possibly older than previously thought? - by Anomalocaris - November 30, 2014 at 12:51 pm

RE: Antikythera mechanism possibly older than previously thought? - by Alex K - November 30, 2014 at 2:23 pm

RE: Antikythera mechanism possibly older than previously thought? - by Heywood - November 30, 2014 at 3:07 pm

RE: Antikythera mechanism possibly older than previously thought? - by Anomalocaris - November 30, 2014 at 8:36 pm

RE: Antikythera mechanism possibly older than previously thought? - by Minimalist - November 30, 2014 at 3:09 pm

RE: Antikythera mechanism possibly older than previously thought? - by Jackalope - November 30, 2014 at 3:28 pm

RE: Antikythera mechanism possibly older than previously thought? - by The Grand Nudger - November 30, 2014 at 1:32 pm

RE: Antikythera mechanism possibly older than previously thought? - by The Grand Nudger - November 30, 2014 at 1:44 pm

RE: Antikythera mechanism possibly older than previously thought? - by abaris - November 30, 2014 at 1:49 pm

RE: Antikythera mechanism possibly older than previously thought? - by The Grand Nudger - November 30, 2014 at 2:09 pm

RE: Antikythera mechanism possibly older than previously thought? - by IATIA - November 30, 2014 at 2:12 pm

RE: Antikythera mechanism possibly older than previously thought? - by abaris - November 30, 2014 at 2:13 pm

RE: Antikythera mechanism possibly older than previously thought? - by The Grand Nudger - November 30, 2014 at 2:14 pm

RE: Antikythera mechanism possibly older than previously thought? - by abaris - November 30, 2014 at 2:17 pm

RE: Antikythera mechanism possibly older than previously thought? - by IATIA - November 30, 2014 at 2:20 pm

RE: Antikythera mechanism possibly older than previously thought? - by abaris - November 30, 2014 at 2:22 pm

RE: Antikythera mechanism possibly older than previously thought? - by IATIA - November 30, 2014 at 2:24 pm

RE: Antikythera mechanism possibly older than previously thought? - by LastPoet - November 30, 2014 at 3:32 pm

RE: Antikythera mechanism possibly older than previously thought? - by Anomalocaris - November 30, 2014 at 5:17 pm

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