Posted on 09/19/2016 5:44:00 PM PDT by BenLurkin
I wonder if they’ll be able to extract some DNA to type the remains?
I’ll check it out.
Note: this topic is from 9/19/2016. Thanks BenLurkin for posting the topic, and thanks Tennessee Nana for the ping.
That device was a remarkable find. I still find it hard to believe how advanced it was. Also the quality of the metal work was beyond what anyone thought possible. -- yarddog
I say that mechanism was dropped onto the wreck site centuries later off a different ship. Sunken Civ disagreed. -- BenLurkinReally? I don't remember that exchange. :^) There is nothing but Greek writing on the device, and one reconstruction even nailed down the range of years during which the machine would display correctly.
Thanks SC
Glad to see you back
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The FBI a few years ago came out and searched my neighbors property in Milford, in fact right across the street from my in-laws home.
Be kind of cool if they found him there, I was hoping they would.
It was encased in enough sea-critter goo as to not be possible to be a new addition to the wreck, if I understand it correctly. It matched all the surrounding wreck material, or would have been identified as something newer.
Still, even if it was newer than the original wreck- it had to be hundreds of years old.
They found it in the early 1900’s and did not even know what was inside until the invention of X-Ray machines.
I love stories like this.
And though from last year, it seemed really appropriate since we're now at Halloween..
Thanks TnN!
I would like to know the follow-up. The DNA testing should have taken place a year ago, and what were the results of the test? Inquiring minds want to know.
I would love to be able to handle it and study it in detail including the X-Ray and whatever tests they have made of it.
I am not sure if you are agreeing with me or you think it was made much later.
I think the sort of things it was capable of predicting or measuring would have been very valuable around the time of Christ, but charts, books, telescopes, chronometers, etc. would have been used by the 19th century.
I didn’t mean to imply that it had been made in the 19th century when I said it looked like the product of a 19th century machine shop. I agree with you that the device had been made in antiquity.
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