Antikythera Mechanism Part 1: by Nature Video

[@2degucitas]

My father was a watch maker, a real old fashined kind who could make parts by hand. This is tricky technology, and impressive for the era it was made. Breathtaking.

[@ktommycary]

It makes me think about how complex technology can be invented by a culture and then lost again, and then reinvented independently. Of course I'm wondering if this could all happen to our present high tech world, and of course it can. -- I envy the clockmaker who's going to reproduce this.

[@BodaciousCamille]

I'm thinking exactly the same thing. We are in an area of ledges, rocks, boulders, digging would be huge venture for so many reasons. So I sit here patiently waiting for Mother Earth to push some treasures closer to the surface.... even one would be beyond incredible. ;)

[@Grensoorlog]

Utterly amazing.

[@Landoparada360]

Amazing model of our beautiful stationary flat Earth 😍

[@alanhoward7777]

Children are more intelligent than adults apparently, Price's article is a good read and did a lot of work in Athens early last century.

[@mnyfrsh]

Your ideas intrigue me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

[@Yapostadodat]

This is probably only a GLIMPSE of the technology that may have existed. Imagine what we haven't found!

[@passive_annihilation]

Millennia from now, people will say "Yes, ancient civilizations had some incredible technology for their time. Unfortunately, we've only been able to uncover a fraction of it. One theory that seeks to explain this is that the majority of said technology was never even actually created due to the withholding of information through things called patents."

[@zomgtheone]

This blows my mind.

[@kjlg74]

Fantastic! Thanks for posting it.

[@admiraljello]

Watch part 2 of the video. The device was most likely constructed in Syracuse, and the earliest date for it is 140BC; in other words, it was constructed in the Roman province of Sicilia. The Greeks were busily killing each other well before the Romans showed up, and even before the Macedonians did. Greek science was the best in the world, but it took the Romans to stop them from constantly fighting amongst themselves.

[@alanhoward7777]

Children are more intelligent than adults apparently, Price's article is a good read an a lot of work in Athens early last century.

[@xguti001]

there are some things made back then such as mechanism, carved stones, etc that modern day engineers/etc have confessed that it would be almost impossible if not really hard to recreate, which makes me think that our ancestors were helped in a way by their "gods" could it be that extraterrestrials helped them w/ their tools? what would their interest be in this planet and how the hell they got here?

[@dominictemple]

The device may have been magnificent, but the sad thing is that the knowledge wasn't passed around. The beautful thing about practicing science and advancing civilisation is that unless you can communicate your ideas, you're just doing alchemy, it's only when everyone knows not to drink the mercury that you start to develop chemistry. The same principle applies to all other fields of enquiry.

[@nixter888]

Yes the VIMANAS...Let's see..From the ancient text, the BRIHAT KAHTA, we read how the ancient inhabitants of INDIA were aware of the flying craft WHICH HAD BEEN DEVELOPED BY CERTAIN GREEKS who were very possessive of their scientific and mechanical knowledge. In the ancient account we read: ....

[@BlackSailPass_GuitarCovers]

6:00 Astonishing, to have been made so long ago.. What other ancient technology lies waiting to be found - perhaps some of it more sophisticated that our own?

[@PhilosophicalViking]

@lloplop An all encompassing statement. Mayhaps a bit too encompassing. Though I agree the majority are quite juvenile. As for myself, I think this was an amazing video.

[@kipptumor]

I want my own antikythera mechanism in my living room - with chimes ;)

[@dimstiv]

@VogonJ Man Archimedes was the greatest inventor of that period. It is a very logical explanation. Well, if Alexandria's library hadn't been burned much knowledge would had probably been saved. But in antiquity it was not strange that knowledge was buried by wars, destructions etc. Take Eratosthenes for example. He had calculated all those stuff about earth that Galileo had figured out 16 centuries later.

[@afbhlh]

Although this technology has been lost for so long now we have the opportunity to continue again assuming that human nature, war, and national governmental politics do not get in the way once again.

[@stabyouwithapen]

that is incredible!!

[@sammysunny]

gears. Like any transmission of a car, it is powered by a motor/engine. What is the antikythera mechanism powered by?

[@dimstiv]

@VogonJ In Rhodes actually by students of Archimedes.

[@ActiveStorage]

this x-ray was so amazing

[@WingedZ3ro]

Yea i agree. Back in School our professor once mentioned how a temple of some sort filled with thousands of books of science and literature was burnt down in Greece since Rome had converted into Christianity. O well :/ haha

[@Kaveo415in]

Where are the movies about this?

[@Del350K4]

RichLOAguy-Well said, sir! Your comment meets with my wholehearted agreement.

[@BloodyBobJr]

I doesn't feel like looking at something from the ancient past... it feels like looking at a future we completely lost. Just imagine what kind of technology we would have now, if we just kept advancing from the Antikythera Mechanism. It's the stuff of pure science fiction, but it could have been a Reality.. it's truly a shame we lost all of this for nearly 2000 years. All crushed by Politics, Religion, Dogma and lets face it.. human nature.

[@KrypticGuy666]

Can it run crysis?

[@Endlesssunder]

Someone please explain to me how someone could possibly dislike this? People baffle me some times.

[@cipherhive]

"For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse." ROMANS 1:20

[@skydragon4ever]

Aliens leaving back after visiting earth -Wait, where is my grandma's antique clock? -Oops, I forgot it...too late. -Damn, it's gonna make someone soo nervous in some 1800 years...

[@soaponaroapDG]

Holy shit, the Greeks made a time machine. There can be no other explanation!

[@rainsfire1]

Could it have been a ancient Chronometer...? thus giving them the ability to create those ancient source maps everybody keeps talking about ?

[@bally28]

example?

[@ChineseVPNGod]

So wat does it do ?

[@bitp1mp]

360P Max? C'MOOOON!!

[@lloplop]

what a bunch of children commenting below me. this is a great video.

[@allisinthepass]

man if the ancient Greeks where still here, they would be SO MUCH more advanced then we are

[@butterflygroundhog]

THIS IS SPARTA!! 1:26

[@olsonarts]

The amount of view probably sky-rocket'ed after moon came out

[@CommieExiles]

@allisinthepass I think some still are ;P At least I hope they are.

[@austinfehrer6574]

I wonder what the carbon footprint of an object like this is...

[@jrzy49]

I think this was an Atlantian concept that was acquired by ancient Greece.

[@furyberserk]

@mpoukoma I doubt that. It wasn't until the Persian War that Athens, Sparta and other Greek civilizations worked together. Sure they would be more advanced, but they would just be another Atlantis. Eventually do die off with nothing ever being known. At least that is what I think.

[@TibiSitibira]

it's calculate only saros eclipses ☾13nov2012not included☽so i start to believe that is a copy from a ancient mechanism much more older maybe after this date we found out which one is more accurate a day before 2012 ⒛⒓ a day after ✈air ❾⓫01 and ♒water ❸⓫11 is ♨fire⓬㉒12

[@tisdue]

According to a hidden message in Assassin's Creed 2, this thing is MUCH older than 150 B.C.

[@06livefast]

They had technology, they had to. It's somewhere, in the ground, or the depths of the ocean.. it's out there.

[@JimmyTheGreek2000]

It was used for astronomical calculations!

[@BurrzaTV]

2:30 like a boss

[@londondubplates]

@SoulSacrifice58 are you tlaking about THE ALGORITHMN djent????

[@troymantis]

why does the old bloke at 4:44 look like hes about to burst into tears?

[@WhatIAm99]

Must have been running vista, I'd have tossed it overboard too.

[@phoenix1925]

IMAGINE HOW MANY THINGS,MECHANISMS BOOKS ETC ARE HIDDEN BENEATH THE GROUND AND THE SEAS!!!! maybe under our houses there are real treasures that will never come to surface...!!!!

[@greken145]

@Microglia1 A way to unite europe is a common enemy. Does european countries have one? Yea, the taliban movement growing up inside of europe. So we might see some new stuff soon..

[@Dionysos37]

The astronomy and knowledge behind this Mechanism can only have come from Minoan Crete---check out its roots at ANCIENTLIGHTS dot-org, where the new work "CALENDAR HOUSE" will soon be published!

[@BloodyBobJr]

The Romans and Greek were truly innovative and forward thinking (technology wise). But in the case of Rome they were really a corrupt and decadent society. I'm sure they had alot of morons (all societies do), but at their core they didn't care about anything/anyone except themselves. They didn't help other nations, they dominated and enslaved them (ie. the Gauls, Britons, Egypt). Their technology and organization brought them to the pinnacle.. but their hubris is what brought them down.

[@christsagkas8752]

Mankind has taken a wrong turn after started believing in talking snakes instead of talking geniuses like Pythagoras and Thales.

[@RiC_David]

Oh, it's a great phrase, but if you've ever heard a British Member of Parliament speaking about the "dumbing down of our education system", you'll know how ironically out of place it sounds!

[@nixter888]

. He called upon Rumanavit to supply him with necessary material, and he built a flying chariot in (the) form of Garuda (the eagle with a human body, the steed of Vishnu). It was ornamented with flowers. The queen and her husband flew around the world and then returned to their city..This ancient account, as we can see, indicates that the ancient East Indians got help from ancient Greeks who were the only ones in the development of aerial craft. ENJOY!.

[@tisdue]

Did I say it was a Science Journal?

[@CommieExiles]

Who knows, this coulda been one of their least impressive technological devices. For all we know this was just a simple clock and the more advanced things they had would be even further from our comprehension.

[@doh1959]

i think it was made in scotland

[@stabilini]

It remembers me Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis

[@not2getto]

its amazing the things we find today, especially models of airplanes dted to be pre christ... amazing

[@valcan321]

You know the romans who took the city offered a reward for archemedies the guy who killed him was like sh*T!!!!!

[@AceofDlamonds]

yes!!!

[@admiraljello]

Oh, sure, Syracuse was a Greek city. And I'm sure that the guy who invented it was either ethnically Greek (descended from the Ionian colonists) or culturally Greek. But the point is that the Romans--who valued Greek sciences (and were pretty good at science themselves: see Roman engineering)--are the ones who protected the Greeks and allowed discovery to flourish. And Alexander wasn't Greek/Hellene, he was Macedonian--ask Demosthenes how Greek the Macedonians were! (answer: not very).

[@TheDougass]

@mpoukoma True and If religious Fascists hadn't suppressed scientific experimentation imagine where would we be?

[@brainstormingsharing1309]

👍👏👍👏👍

[@GrimJerr]

Just think what is more advanced dependence on battery power Or and analog computer that uses kinetic energy ! never needs batteries and gives you a combination of critical calculations ! How will your PC work when the power goes out ! we take a lot for granted !

[@greken145]

@allisinthepass the ancient greeks still exist in form of the today-greeks, but the ancients would be ashamed of what has happened to their people..

[@tj8870]

Forget that, mars is only 10-20 year away without the dark ages both the amount of time and the burning of all man kind knowledge and numbers amount death we would be way pass that. 500 yeasr more advance. Were talking about knowing everything and controlling everything.

[@Altair565]

This trinket is just an ancient ipod, they used to play things like Big booty bitches on it.

[@docnot1986]

@greken145 wtf? u compare the barbarian civilazation with the greek ? WTF?!

[@RiC_David]

I still think it's funny that there's no more formal way of saying "dumbing down". "Oversimplicising"? That's actually not as descriptively accurate as "dumbing down". Something of a dumbed down term, isn't it?

[@irishprice]

@MrApHowell lol.... some ppl just arent worth the time

[@RiC_David]

It's best not to quote a game (whose primary purpose is not to educate) as the source of your information though. That's not saying that any historical information found in a game is guaranteed to be false, but you have to expect people to question its credibility. If I was going to do that, I'd first acknowledge the inevitable, justifiable skepticism, and then find some evidence which supports the accuracy of the game's content. Otherwise, expect ridicule.

[@donbasuradenuevo]

7 people thought the Antikythera was a mechanized pagan Ouija.

[@RiC_David]

Oh how you wish any of that was true. To any lurkers out there, read up on African history if you're interested because, get this, it exists.

[@1971SuperLead]

Any chance the thing wasn't from this world? Maybe an ET dropped it. Maybe it was a gift from an ET. Maybe made from knowledge given by ETs, angels or gods.

[@TroopperFoFo]

Technology also comes from war.

[@szwedzkiPL]

Ancient Aliens...

[@funerfuner]

Considering the standard IQ test was formulated to favor whites over any other race, the difference between 6 points and 15 might not be as much as you think it is. Which means that yes we are every bit as superior as you think you are to blacks. But see, from where I'm standing, I know that our averages might be around 106, but if I'm sitting here at 142, there's another Korean guy out there with a 70 IQ to balance me out. I had friends like this in high school. They were the racist ones. :D

[@wu1ming9shi]

it isn't christian religion that is to blame. but the romans themselves and by the romans i mean emperor constantine, he made christianity the state relgion and chose witch "branch" of christianity to take as state religion. If he had chosen for nestorianism. the world would have looked a lot different. because they don't believe in jezus as a deity but in the nature of christ's humanity.

[@Fuelguy354]

isnt it funny that ppl 2000 years ago where many times more smart than us???

[@gustavusadolphus7212]

Sure you would

[@RiC_David]

I don't care if it appears that the reason I'm not going to argue this over with you is because I don't have evidence that a. there have been notable inventions created by black Africans and b. Africa has been host to sophisticated, self-sufficient, and prosperous civilisations regardless of the current state of some of her nations. I have books in my house that contain such evidence, but there's no reason why I should bother educating you. Others, maybe, but I have *nothing* to prove to you.

[@lucasbracher]

I feel so dumb! I'll rip my engineer computing diploma.

[@naazrael]

man if the ancient Greeks were still here, how big and fat would their wedding be

[@mistermajestyck]

@ViolentRiC Nor should there be, really. Any time you are trying to make a term that is essentially Pejorative in nature, I just think people should be blunt and to the point. If that means morons get offended that I imply they are dumb for needing 'splosions and such in documentaties just to keep their attention, so be it! lol

[@HumiIiation]

@mpoukoma If the Cristian dark age would not have come we would most likely walk on mars right now.

[@TibiSitibira]

aer1109'01cu apă 1103'11este foc 2212'12 cine înţelege că înainte de această dată că există mai multe semne ale viitorului decât un ceas vechi Acum pus în trecut şi viitorul care vine acum o sa fie pus din nou în trecut pentru mai mult de 4000 de ani

[@avillarreal188]

I came here because of rictofen,

[@guopa1]

so all this because of a "CLOCK". you'll make a video about an old" watch, then say the world is gonna end, right??? ...

[@mistermajestyck]

I'm todays youth! and I'm watching this. so there :P but our culture does need to stop dumbing down stuff. That Deadliest Warrior show is the epitome of idiocy.

[@vurkuta]

MrDalekJD brought me here

[@RiC_David]

Again, I won't explain why the conclusion which you've extrapolated from the understanding that black people are overrepresented in jail/criminal records holds no weight. If you consider yourself intelligent then you should be able to spot a few flaws yourself, if not then so be it. Also, you need to learn Africa's history if you think she lacked high civilisation. I would call Watson's beliefs unscientific; his previous accolades don't legitimise his claims.

[@nothanks8128]

am i the only one here from 2020?