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PhastPhred · Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 10:56 am Post subject:

I CONCEDE!!

About all that's left is findng a pic of stones in the dirt! LOL!!
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The Spirit · Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 1:18 pm Post subject:

And now for some more bragging, mr PhastPhred and mr John Mohr Wink

And the RAC... I almost can't beleive what the optimized S@H application has done to my RAC... It has DOUBLED my output! Shocked

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mohrorless · Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 5:47 pm Post subject:

Keep bragging & keep up the good work. Since I have become a credit whore, I have chased the high credit. Right now it is Milky Way. Join us there. I joined Aug 3rd and I am up to 76,000 shrubs now.
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PhastPhred · Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 9:33 pm Post subject:

A tip-o-the-hat to the frrst person to post the name of this machine. This is a reproduction. You can't go to the webpage
displaying the image and cheat, ok? See if you recognize the machine and post what name you think it's called, OK?

Anybody need a hint?
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mohrorless · Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 6:46 am Post subject:

Yes give me a hint. I believe I have seen something like it on the history channel.
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PhastPhred · Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 6:52 am Post subject:

Yes, I confirm it was recently on the History Channel

Brought up by divers a hundred years ago

Another example, maybe?

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PhastPhred · Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:08 am Post subject: The Antikythera Mechanism

http://www.antikythera-mechanism.gr/

More than a hundred years ago an extraordinary mechanism was found by sponge divers at the bottom of the sea near the island of Antikythera. It astonished the whole international community of experts on the ancient world. Was it an astrolabe? Was it an orrery or an astronomical clock? Or something else? For decades, scientific investigation failed to yield much light and relied more on imagination than the facts. However research over the last half century has begun to reveal its secrets. It dates from around the 1st century B.C. and is the most sophisticated mechanism known from the ancient world. Nothing as complex is known for the next thousand years. The Antikythera Mechanism is now understood to be dedicated to astronomical phenomena and operates as a complex mechanical "computer" which tracks the cycles of the Solar System.
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The Spirit · Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:22 am Post subject:

An early form of understanding the universe. That's definitely a predecessor to BOINC Smile

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mohrorless · Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 5:36 am Post subject:

Yes, now I remember. I wonder what it's RAC would be...
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Al Dente · Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 5:47 am Post subject:

It would be very interesting if it could be made to work again.

How accurate was their understanding of the heavens 2000 years ago?

Was it as good as the Maya (who were pretty good, if not quite as long ago?
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mohrorless · Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 8:46 am Post subject:

Son Goku · Duke Joined: 13 Mar 2006 Posts: 426

Ancients weren't as unaware of astronomy as their dark ages counterparts had come to become (earth as flat, and all that jazz)... That's certainly smaller then stonehenge however....

There are a few odd artifacts to have come from the past, considering what they would seem to do however...

Leonardo Da Vinci has also been known to have conceived of a number of things, which were well ahead of his time, before being turned into something in the practical sense. For instance

http://www.3wheelers.com/leonardo.html