2000 year old computer

You have both forgotten Archimedes, to whom due reference was made.

Are you saying there were precision tools 2000 years ago to make that, realy?

…..only hammers.

Hey, I really don’t know, my only thoughts when I watched it was how come , if they were that advanced back then, why they didn’t invent the clock? For a sea faring nation, I would think for navigation, the clock and the sextant would have been a bit more useful.

Anyway, you have a point.

Baz

You’re are saying that this discovered item may have actually been some sort of hammer?, my toolbox only has hammers in it.
That explains the problems they had when they nailed Jesus to the cross using an abacus, mine fell to bits in the lounge recently whilst banging a nail in the wall to hang a picture…….coloured beads everywhere…..

Are you saying there were precision tools 2000 years ago to make that, realy? it probably fell off a boat a in the 17 century and landed on a 2000 year old sunken ship.

You’re are saying that this discovered item may have actually been some sort of hammer?, my toolbox only has hammers in it.
That explains the problems they had when they nailed Jesus to the cross using an abacus, mine fell to bits in the lounge recently whilst banging a nail in the wall to hang a picture…….coloured beads everywhere…..

This is what wiki says,
More recently it has been the focus of pseudohistoric claims for the premodern exploration of the Antarctic coast.

There will be a logical explanation for these things, we just have not found it yet. But a 2000 year old precision instrument when the nails they used to
nail jesus to the cross were high tec, Please:very_drunk:

Side tracking possibly, but I often wonder just how much “lost” knowledge and science there has been, the Piri Reis maps are another of these conundrums, we know that these maps were drawn up from much earlier maps, but who drew the originals? which in the main are amazingly accurate showing land and coastline supposedly undiscovered and of course showing the coastline of Antartica which is now and has been for a long, long time completely covered with ice.

The computer is totally fascinating, more power to the BBC for producing programmes of this type.

Join the club!!;)

Just watched the computer one– fantastic 🙂

Got to watch this -Thanks.
I did watch a programme last night about the Thames and the bridges http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01jv5nr/The_Bridges_That_Built_London_with_Dan_Cruickshank/ like Charlie i don’t mind paying for programmes like this.

Totally agree. Absolutely fascinating. And there seem to be more and more of these BBC4 documentaries with unfussy presenters and workmanlike presentation with a minimum of production “extras”, just concentrating on the job in hand. I enjoyed the series on Greek theatre which ended last week and there have been two or three others. THIS IS WHAT I AM HAPPY TO PAY A LEVY FOR!!

Your last point was posed by the presenter, wasn’t it? The overthrow and decline of the Greek and Latin cultures really did result in a dark age in Europe until the Medieval Renaissance.