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If Billo Gatesotopolis’ Windows had anything to do with it, it’d have the BSOD (Brass Screen of Death).
So how close to the opening date of the 2008 Olympics does this computer get?
“Sounds like” its more of a clock–ie, can’t input any variables==just run it forwards (maybe backwards?).
Reminds me to the first digitized Polish Computer though==fingers sticking thru a piece of carboard. Good Base 10 computer.
Can it run Crysis?
And will it blend?
Impressive considering that the tools they had to work with were barely better than stone knives and bear skins. If it weren’t for the dark ages I would be living on the moon today.
IF the big money scam artists continue to have their way with things…again…Dark Ages II: The Even More Unpleasant Era is just around the corner.
1) Take that, Turing!
2) Yeah, but the crank didn’t run a radio, so BLAH!
“Impressive considering that the tools they had to work with were barely better than stone knives and bear skins. If it weren’t for the dark ages I would be living on the moon today.”
Hello.. they are talking only 2000 years ago. Not cave man times. 2000 years ago was the height of the Roman Empire. Before that, many other empires, such as the Greek, Egyptian, Mesopotamian, etc. The mastery of metal had been old, old news by then.
Hell, the Egyptians built the pyramids over 4500 years ago.
That was the first iPod because it may have dials but it doesn’t have any buttons.
This is amazing – however at the same time it proves that we are capable of loosing tech advances, which came as a bit of a shock to me. I always considered it to be a snowball effect “shoulders of giants” type of thing.
Put it this way, imagine if no GPS units were made for the next 100 years.
Time to read “the Road” again.
My question is – what other geared devices did they have at this time? If they had gears and the mathematical understanding to build this what other devices have been lost? Why was this technology lost – were the Greeks overrun after the time this device was built? How come the Romans never built anything like this?
The amount of knowledge lost to us from the past is literally impossible to imagine. Hell, just the stuff we know we lost is heartbreaking.
Here are some musings about lost Roman knowledge by Gary Kasparov, the chess master. I find it interesting that it always seems that the biggest questions asked about the past are asked by outsiders, not historians.