Evidence for the stargate...?
I had written a very morose entry about sadness but maybe I will save it for another time, so at least in can be surrounded by non-morose things and help me not appear unbalanced...
...Not that this makes me appear unbalanced!
I'm sure there are very good (and fascinating explanations for the world's first analog computer (2100 years old!) and why the technological knowledge was lost/buried, and apparently a conference is coming up all about it, and I'm sure that it's just that I've been taking too many studying breaks reading stargate fanfic, but this definitely sounds like the beginning of an episode (or fic) to me:
The island of Antikythera lies 18 miles north of Crete, where the Aegean Sea meets the Mediterranean. Currents there can make shipping treacherous -- and one ship bound for ancient Rome never made it.
The ship that sank there was a giant cargo vessel measuring nearly 500 feet long. It came to rest about 200 feet below the surface, where it stayed for more than 2,000 years until divers looking for sponges discovered the wreck a little more than a century ago...
...Nine months later, an enterprising archaeologist cleared off a layer of organic material from one of the pieces of junk and found that it looked like a gearwheel. It had inscriptions in Greek characters and seemed to have something to do with astronomy.
That piece of "junk" went on to become the most celebrated find from the shipwreck; it is displayed at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens. Research has shown that the wheel was part of a device so sophisticated that its complexity would not be matched for a thousand years -- it was also the world's first known analog computer.
No more civil procedure, more stargate... need... more... stargate!!!
...Not that this makes me appear unbalanced!
I'm sure there are very good (and fascinating explanations for the world's first analog computer (2100 years old!) and why the technological knowledge was lost/buried, and apparently a conference is coming up all about it, and I'm sure that it's just that I've been taking too many studying breaks reading stargate fanfic, but this definitely sounds like the beginning of an episode (or fic) to me:
The island of Antikythera lies 18 miles north of Crete, where the Aegean Sea meets the Mediterranean. Currents there can make shipping treacherous -- and one ship bound for ancient Rome never made it.
The ship that sank there was a giant cargo vessel measuring nearly 500 feet long. It came to rest about 200 feet below the surface, where it stayed for more than 2,000 years until divers looking for sponges discovered the wreck a little more than a century ago...
...Nine months later, an enterprising archaeologist cleared off a layer of organic material from one of the pieces of junk and found that it looked like a gearwheel. It had inscriptions in Greek characters and seemed to have something to do with astronomy.
That piece of "junk" went on to become the most celebrated find from the shipwreck; it is displayed at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens. Research has shown that the wheel was part of a device so sophisticated that its complexity would not be matched for a thousand years -- it was also the world's first known analog computer.
No more civil procedure, more stargate... need... more... stargate!!!