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If devices such as the Antikythera Mechanism were being built over 2,000 years ago, could it be that ancient people were not as primative as was once thought?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism

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They mentioned this in FlashForward :) oh how I miss that show.

Anyway, we already have reason to believe that ancient people were not at all really primitive. The people who created the Antikythera Mechanism were not cave people, nor even early man, they were civilized and quite advanced really.

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That's amazing! I just LOVE things that make us reconsider our alleged exalted modern position. Some say that more technologies have been invented and forgotten than we currently have.
I love the massive Aztec blocks that are laid together so tightly, and without mortar, that one cannot slip a credit card between them at any point. And all without computers or cranes or internal combustion. Just the mind and the muscle and perhaps some rudimentary copper or bronze tools.

I also love how we tend to scramble around to explain how such primitive technologies were perhaps not so fascinating . . . perhaps to preserve our vulnerable ego!

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I'm sure it was an anomaly probably born one brilliant mind. If the ancients were more sophisticated, we would know.

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Well, the device is very impressively engineered for it's time, but it does reflect the known mathematical and astronomical science of the day. It's more a feat of craftsmanship than of science.

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