Ancient Greek Computer Gets Rebuilt Using Lego

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2000 years ago the Greeks built a device designed to calculate the motion of celestial bodies, a computer now called the Antikythera mechanism. Lost for centuries at the bottom of the ocean, it was pulled up in 1901 and has baffled scientists until recently. This year, designer Andrew Carol built the first working copy of the computer out of Lego bricks,

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[Geek-9pm]

Oh. That link is slow to load.
Using Lego parts would be a real feat. I want to see it.
But here is another model, but not the Lego model.
This shows how complicated the thing must have been.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrfMFhrgOFc

[JJ 3000]

Oh. That link is slow to load.

Try this one.

[Geek-9pm]

Try this one.

AWESOME!
We have to re-think our ideas about the ancient Greeks. They had skills beyond what we previously thought.