The Antikythera mechanism.

[BimboBob]

Nah it was Plato who they say could stick it away.
Half a crate of whisky every day.

Your fellah can't have philosiphied much as the Pythons never sang about him.

Kant wasn't a pissant so your theory is shit.

 

[Bigg Bigg Blue]

think you need a service on your washing machine bud

That's up to the wife, it's her side of the household jobs.

 

[jimharri]

Nah it was Plato who they say could stick it away.
Half a crate of whisky every day.

Your fellah can't have philosiphied much as the Pythons never sang about him.

Not to mention Rene Descartes, who was a drunken fart, apparently.

 

[Koniec]

Nah it was Plato who they say could stick it away.
Half a crate of whisky every day.

Your fellah can't have philosiphied much as the Pythons never sang about him.

He’d did play v Germany though , beating them in the cup.

 

[Resurrection Joe...]

It's a bit like indoor toilets and underfloor heating. The posh Roman villas had them and then...nothing for hundreds of years.

Bastards didnt even leave us the recipe for concrete when they left...might have come in handy...

 

[Blue Mist]

He’d did play v Germany though , beating them in the cup.

I thought they lost as they spent to much time philosophying.


Anyway, thats what I love about the Cellar, old Billy Walker tries to bring some culture into our lives and we go all pyfon.

 

[Koniec]

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This artefact was among wreckage retrieved from a shipwreck off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera in 1901.
The ship was from circa 200 BC.
It must have been built before the shipwreck.
This thing that tracks the planets had 37 cogs. It is the oldest known example of an analogue computer used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses decades in advance.

The first cogs were thought to have been invented hundreds of years later.
So who the hell made this extremely complicated piece of equipment in 200 BC ?

Machines with similar complexity did not appear again until the 14th century in western Europe.

The ship was from 200bc. When was the machine from? Maybe Gilgamesh dropped it, or the folk who made Gobekli Tepi made it.

 

[jimharri]

I thought they lost as they spent to much time philosophying.


Anyway, thats what I love about the Cellar, old Billy Walker tries to bring some culture into our lives and we go all pyfon.

 

[jimharri]

The answer is obvious; it's the same aliens made that thingy who built the pyramids.

 

[BlueMoonAcrossThePond]

View attachment 133061
This artefact was among wreckage retrieved from a shipwreck off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera in 1901.
The ship was from circa 200 BC.
It must have been built before the shipwreck.
This thing that tracks the planets had 37 cogs. It is the oldest known example of an analogue computer used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses decades in advance.

The first cogs were thought to have been invented hundreds of years later.
So who the hell made this extremely complicated piece of equipment in 200 BC ?

Machines with similar complexity did not appear again until the 14th century in western Europe.

This sort of sensationalist claim occurs time-and-time again. Very occasionally the claim is true... in which case the claim eventually receives widespread acceptance and publication in major scientific journals.

Most of the time though - such claims are either innocently misstated or overblown - or - are attempts to grift - knowingly overstating facts or outright lying to achieve fame and fortune.

TL/DR - trust science! Science cares nothing for politics, decorum or popular sentiment. Science is dedicated solely to the pursuit of truth.

Should whatever remarkable random claim you happen to run across in an Internet search actually turn out to be provably true... science will acknowledge the claim... and the claimants will garner much deserved praise and likely wealth.