The Mysterious Antikythera Mechanism Is More Ancient Than We Thought

[ClaytonBigsby]

http://io9.com/the-mysterious-antikythera-mechanism-is-more-ancient-th-1664080893

"The clock-like assembly of bronze gears and displays was likely used to accurately predict lunar and solar eclipses, as well as solar, lunar, and planetary positions. It also tracked the dates of the Olympic Games. It wasn't programmable in the modern sense, but some refer to it as the first analog computer. Whatever its purpose, nothing like it would appear for another 1,000 years; it's truly an object out of time......."


There are many finds of things we cannot explain, like ancient spark plugs, this, and many others. There is much evidence to support the idea that there was civilization on earth long before our own. This is a good read, among many on the subject

http://www.amazon.com/Worlds-Before-Our-Brad-Steiger/dp/193366519X


His website is a good read

http://www.bradandsherry.com/ancientrabtexts.htm


Go ahead, talk amongst yourselves

 

[bradburry]

can i talk amongst me?

 

[curious2garden]

http://io9.com/the-mysterious-antikythera-mechanism-is-more-ancient-th-1664080893

"The clock-like assembly of bronze gears and displays was likely used to accurately predict lunar and solar eclipses, as well as solar, lunar, and planetary positions. It also tracked the dates of the Olympic Games. It wasn't programmable in the modern sense, but some refer to it as the first analog computer. Whatever its purpose, nothing like it would appear for another 1,000 years; it's truly an object out of time......."


There are many finds of things we cannot explain, like ancient spark plugs, this, and many others. There is much evidence to support the idea that there was civilization on earth long before our own. This is a good read, among many on the subject

http://www.amazon.com/Worlds-Before-Our-Brad-Steiger/dp/193366519X


His website is a good read

http://www.bradandsherry.com/ancientrabtexts.htm


Go ahead, talk amongst yourselves

Galen did cataract extractions, successfully, the Mayans trephined, successfully.

 

[bradburry]

i do enjoy my own compony

 

[ClaytonBigsby]

What stymies me is how we had things like indoor plumbing about 1000 years before the renaissance, but those folks did not. We have lost so much knowledge repeatedly throughout our own short existence.

 

[bradburry]

why do you deliberately spell things incorrectly failwhiner?

and this where you are now.

 

[ClaytonBigsby]

Is that asshat posting here? I wouldn;t know because I have him on ignore. Do the same, spread the word wherever you see people telling him to go fuck himself.

 

[bradburry]

Is that asshat posting here? I wouldn;t know because I have him on ignore. Do the same, spread the word wherever you see people telling him to go fuck himself.

are you a rastafarian by any chance montgummery?

 

[KLITE]

LOL theres a fly in this thread....

 

[bu$hleaguer]

Lol funny seeing peoples reactions to things I can't see!! Ignore is beautiful.

 

[curious2garden]

What stymies me is how we had things like indoor plumbing about 1000 years before the renaissance, but those folks did not. We have lost so much knowledge repeatedly throughout our own short existence.

Yes regression to the mean is an ugly thing and right now we aren't merely regressing to the mean we are bobsledding! I just keep greasing the tracks sigh..... I'm thinking I need to get my hands on the new Plasma Bovie (makes greasing the tracks efficient AND fun).

 

[bradburry]

what the fuck does that supposed to mean. Im not going to contribute to destroying this guys thread so answer in your own fucking thread please.

you delted your own post where i think u tryed to destroy the guys thread .....its still in my post 6 up^^^...fool.

 

[bradburry]

ha I know that I cant delete your shit but im deleting mine because I think trolling respected members threads is not good k. so go back to your little thread

the trolling which you so proudly started......never even heard of it till i come to usa....haha.

 

[insidagain]

We are actually reverting back because we forget or fail to learn from the past. Look, this is a selfie I took this morning.

 

[Unclebaldrick]

I wish somebody dropped shinfaggy in tha Adriatic a couple thousand years ago. In my current fantasy, he time travels back to the great library of Alexandria in full possession of his modern knowledge and skills - even a white board. After a couple of days the ancients become tired of him as they now realize that he possesses nothing that they want - except his Texas jersey. They strip it off of him and place it in a place of great honor. His lifeless corpse is dumped at sea to prevent his body from despoiling the water sources.

 

[Dyna Ryda]

This kinda stuff trips me out to Clayton. I think we already hit the reset button a long long time ago. Hopefully we don't do it again.

Think about this, one big solar flare and our electronics are wiped out, so they say. People don't write things down anymore, at least not on paper, rock, cave walls, etc. Everything is on our computers, ipads, internets, clouds, electronic bullshit, what happens when all that gets wiped out?

 

[SnapsProvolone]

@ClaytonBigsby great post. I like your style.

@bradburry why? Just why? Your style is weak sauce mixed with a mild case of downs syndrome. No rhyme or reason, no thought seems to be expended on your part when conversing.

 

[oldtimer54]

It's obvious to this ole boy that there have been people on the third rock from the sun far longer than we think some less sophisticated and some just as highly developed as our society only not as murderous or environmentally challenged !

 

[Unclebaldrick]

It's obvious to this ole boy that there have been people on the third rock from the sun far longer than we think some less sophisticated and some just as highly developed as our society only not as murderous or environmentally challenged !

Not to pick a fight, but how is it obvious?

I guess what I am thinking is that humans are pretty clever animals on a certain level. I have always kind of felt (and history has proven) that we are capable of great things if given the right set of circumstances. In ancient times, our intellectual arc tended to be disrupted by things like oh... Huns or some other hostile and brutish culture. This was generally the rule, however, there were certain times and places that became temporarily stable allowing things like long term (multi-generational) observations, deep thought and technological advancement. But even these places could only stem the tide of a barbarian world for so long. So eventually, one of those brutish cultures would arrive, kill them all, and grind their knowledge into the dust. This is the ebb and flow of human development.

The device in question may have merely been a very clever instrument designed and built by a temporarily advanced culture who had sheltered one or more prodigies. I see the device as a normal human development albeit a very special one. I wish we knew things about the mechanism that we will never know. Things like where it was going and what it meant to the culture that made it and sent it overseas. Who was waiting for it? What did its loss mean to that person?

Don't get me wrong. I like a little mystery. But I have seen enough 'ancient alien' type shows to know that most of these mysteries are based on some of the worst logic I have ever seen.

 

[bradburry]

@ClaytonBigsby great post. I like your style.

@bradburry why? Just why? Your style is weak sauce mixed with a mild case of downs syndrome. No rhyme or reason, no thought seems to be expended on your part when conversing.

it interests my how you all think ...have nice Xmas .............. How do you think snapsy?