A 2,150-year-old computer comes back to life!



At last! What a sigh of relief to realize that the stories I heard and read were all true.
I was pleased to read that a "British museum curator has built a fully functional replica of a 2,150-year-old machine known as the Antikythera mechanism".
The Scientific community states that this "dictionary-size assemblage consists of 37 interlocking dials that had been crafted with the similar precision and complexity to that of a 19th-century Swiss clock. The face features the Greek zodiac as well as pointers showing the location of the moon. Also, the five planets known at the time and an exact indication of the months in which lunar and solar eclipses can be expected."
Wired.com also reports the upper dial on the backside of the machine shows a 19-year calendar and the timing of upcoming Olympic games.
Can you believe the original 81 pieces of the first ever computer had been recovered from under the Aegean Sea off the coast of the Greek island of Antikythera in 1902?
Yes, what you read is the truth. The questions are, who had been hiding it these last 106 years and why? Perhaps they were copying the original machine to manufacture modern day watches, calculators and computers. What do you think?
The scientific world claims this machine dates back to as far as 150 B.C. Some scientists state that it dates back even longer. "Many scientists conclude that such craftsmanship wouldn't be seen for at least another 1,000 years."
Fact is that they have been secretly working on this device since the 1940’s. Does this ring a bell? Wasn’t this about the same period when the first electrical binary programmable computer had been created?
But it was just recently when Mr. Michael Wright, a "former curator at the Science Museum in London, managed to build a replica of the Antikythera, which seems to be working perfectly".
Congratulations Mr. Wright for proving that the Antikythera mechanism is not only the world's oldest computer, it's also the world's first environment friendly computer. In my book you deserve a Nobel prize!
Now that time has come for the eyes of the world to see this device, other big questions are --
Where are the highly advanced aircraft, transportation vehicles and geological weapons that date back to as far as 10,000 years ago?
Where is the technology that was applied for time and dimensional-travel?
The Trojan horse?
Where are the highly advanced secret geological weapons that were applied to sink Atlantis right to the bottom of the Atlantic ocean?

Have they not found them yet or have they been hiding them from the eyes of the world. Will they be studied for another 100 years and then claim them as their own creation in order to manufacture and sell modern day weapons and equipment?
My final question is – will this computer replica be returned to its original place of origin (Greece) or will mankind continue to write the endless book of stolen and secret history?

Source - wired.com
Please click on the link to read the original article and view photo and video of the Antikythera computer:
Antikythera computer

 

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