Lara Croft should be all over this.
"Staggeringly sophisticated." That's how the Antikythera Mechanism is being described.
In what sounds like a plot right out of a "Tomb Raider" adventure, the complex machine was recovered a hundred years ago in an ancient Greek shipwreck. Built in the second century BC, the original device consisted of 37 metal gear wheels housed in a wooden box. The device was capable of various mathematical and astronomical calculations...just the sort of thing useful to a movie villain looking to calculate a convenient world domination plot. Astrophysicist Mike Edmunds said of the mechanism's creators, "If they can do that what else could they do?'"
I don't know Mike, build a battery, perhaps?
Thursday, November 09, 2006
Hmmm....Real Estate. They're not making any more of it. Or are they?
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