I sit at a computer all day and work with some pretty advanced software. The kind of things our software can do is pretty incredible and I think as moderns we can tend to think that we are pretty smart. Maybe we are, but the so called ancients had a few marbles rolling around in their heads too. I always find it amazing to see what they could come up with thousands of years ago in terms of understanding and modeling the world and universe around them. You may have heard of the Antikythera mechanism which was used thousands of years ago to predict the movements of the planets. It used a series of gears and dials to predict their motion. And now....there is a Lego replica.
I thought this was a pretty cool video but you really should read about the actual mechanism as well. It amazing to see just how smart and innovative humankind has always been!
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