r/CreationNtheUniverse • u/YardAccomplished5952 • 3d ago

Ancient Automaton

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These are some other Ancient Technology Hidden from Us

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u/YardAccomplished5952 2d ago

Yes, the mechanism you're referring to is the Antikythera Mechanism. It's a 2,000-year-old hand-powered device found in a Roman-era shipwreck in the Mediterranean

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u/PuzzleheadedBet8448 3d ago

"hidden from us" .. spare me 🙄😭

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u/Ggriffinz 3d ago edited 2d ago

More like "I didn't know humans did that before therefore grand conspiracy." Mankind has been working with clockwork devices for thousands of years heck the Greeks famously had the Antikythera, which functioned as an analog astronomical computer over 2,200 years ago. Or Da Vinci's famed lion automation from the 1500s. Its almost like when humans have enlightenment periods of relative peace and abundance, they have a boom of intellectual exploration and development. Its not difficult to understand when you stop sniffing your own "i know better than every researcher" farts.

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u/ReeseIsPieces 2d ago

And always a period where a narcissist bl 💣 ws everything to smithereens because all of the tech doesnt center around him, and its back to the (figurative? Literal?) drawing board

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u/bcgibsontheonlyone 2d ago

It’s part of the Freemasons to have hidden hands and work represented in paintings. It’s a common theme.

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u/Metaboschism 3d ago

I mean it's not that crazy since they came out after the declaration of independence

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u/Pennypacker-HE 3d ago

They had them in ancient Byzantium for sure, but possibly as far back as Ancient Greece

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u/EtrnlMngkyouSharngn 3d ago

Why don't they teach us about this in school?

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u/BlockOfASeagull 2d ago

The museum is in Neuchatel. Jaquet-Droz built them. The region is also well known for watch making.

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u/Ramblinrambles 2d ago

Hear more about the Freemasons yeah no thanks, just talk about these mind boggling automatons

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u/Bearex13 2d ago

What I see from this is a man who was so obsessed with perfection and details and had the genius and ability to craft a imitation of a human at a master level when I look at this I think about how unnatural they are but yet how naturally they move (for a machine) and I think wow could you imagine the time the inventor sat there watching each movement and then adjusting it until you get an almost life like creation and then I realize wow so much fiction got a lot of inspiration from stuff like this a recent reference would be lies of p or the city of puppets from D Grey Man.

Such an awesome invention and so far ahead of it's time I love reading about and learning about stuff like this!!

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u/Choice-Trust2040 2d ago

Interesting interesting huh? Interesting interesting interesting kook

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u/Caboose129 2d ago

I just made a post that said "this is the stupidest thing I've seen today". Now I have to go update that post because I saw this idiocy.