Ancient Ipod?Follow

http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=838112006

The "Antikythera Mechanism" was discovered damaged and fragmented on the wreck of a cargo ship off the tiny Greek island of Antikythera in 1900...
The team believes the Antikythera Mechanism may be the world's oldest computer, used by the Greeks to predict the motion of the planets.....
The researchers say the device indicates a technical sophistication that would not be replicated for millennia and may also be based on principles of a heliocentric, or sun-centred, universe - a view of the cosmos that was not accepted by astronomers until the Renaissance....
The mechanism contains over 30 bronze wheels and dials and was probably operated by hand


Archaeology always seems to like to assume that something that they find is standdard. saying things like "They" had potentially more advance techs than other pre-Ren societies...

I personally think that there could have been a few "Doc Brown"-like figures back then who built **** simply because they could... If you concider the "water-clock" that was used in the BCs.. it seems that people really didn't "go with" stuff back then.... alot of dead-end inventions that inded had potential, but either through the geographical distance from any great city-centres.. or societal apathy.. or total choas of war may have been some leading factors that kept things like this from "evolving".

anyway.. I'm half-asleep, bored, and waiting for an OS to load...
GFY

could be. after all, the Hellenics invented ****.

It's a shame that this truth has been co-opted as a defense by people that are crazy as f[Aqua][/Aqua]uck and can't accept they have stupid ideas.

Oh please, it is dark in a cave at night and easy to miss you target, I am sure its been around since the pre-stone age.