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  • "How did ancient civilizations accomplish these feats of knowledge with

    From gggg gggg@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 7 18:09:55 2022
    https://phys.org/news/2022-03-ancient-civilizations-cosmos.html

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  • From Oh so rich & successful JTEM@21:1/5 to gggg gggg on Mon Mar 7 18:37:21 2022
    gggg gggg wrote:
    https://phys.org/news/2022-03-ancient-civilizations-cosmos.html

    #1. The Antikythera Mechanism is bullshit.

    It's not any kind of computer at all. It's an astronomical clock
    minus the clock. Wait. It's not even THAT sophisticated as
    there's no power source and I've never seen a so called
    "Reconstruction" that suggest one...

    Kind of sets the tone right there, beginning with a steaming
    load of horse shit like that..



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  • From SolomonW@21:1/5 to gggg gggg on Sun Mar 13 13:48:05 2022
    On Mon, 7 Mar 2022 18:09:55 -0800 (PST), gggg gggg wrote:

    https://phys.org/news/2022-03-ancient-civilizations-cosmos.html

    heliocentric theory is still used in navigation

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