Better Late Than Never
The Antikythera mechanism! No longer shall it languish on the seabed nor shall it be hidden in away in some museum. At long last it has been rebuilt!
OUT OF LEGOS.
(The math is so perfect I want to cry. Babbage would be proud. Or jealous, I'm not sure.)
New research seems to indicate that the original even came with an instruction manual. You know, like those ones you get from Ikea that have thirty different languages on them in addition to the pictograms. I don't know that the allen key has been recovered though.
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OUT OF LEGOS.
(The math is so perfect I want to cry. Babbage would be proud. Or jealous, I'm not sure.)
New research seems to indicate that the original even came with an instruction manual. You know, like those ones you get from Ikea that have thirty different languages on them in addition to the pictograms. I don't know that the allen key has been recovered though.
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