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Were Greeks 1,400 years ahead of their time?
The Scotsman ^
| June 7, 2006
| EBEN HARRELL
Posted on 06/07/2006 3:58:41 PM PDT by aculeus
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To: george76
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posted on
06/07/2006 4:32:10 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(All Moslems everywhere advocate murder, including mass murder, and they do it all the time.)
To: aculeus
So, this "text," what does it
say? And what exactly suggests that the Greeks were aware of the heliocentric model?
If the "established theory" (whatever!) is that the Greeks weren't great at applied science, this isn't the only thing flying in the face of that theory. Greek mariners were "lacking in applied technical knowledge?" LOL.
To: billorites
To: Billthedrill
That or they had a nuclear reactor way ahead of their time... Were technologies like falling weights unknown?
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posted on
06/07/2006 4:37:26 PM PDT
by
supercat
(Sony delenda est.)
To: ShakeNJake
Hey, I even used the CPM/80 version for Apple IIe of Wordstar, Calcstar, and Datastar! Now that was back in the day!
I've got copies of all of the various Wordstar programs running on several machines from very early CP/M boxes up through the IBM PCs and ATs in my collection. . . (www.vintage-computer.com)
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posted on
06/07/2006 4:37:54 PM PDT
by
Filo
(Darwin was right!)
To: ShakeNJake
My first was a Digital Group (26 k ram) Z-80 system with cassette tape software loading/storage back in '76. I built it from a kit. 64 chips per 8 k board. Lot of soldering. Word processore was WOPROC.
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posted on
06/07/2006 4:40:34 PM PDT
by
Right Wing Assault
("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
To: aculeus
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posted on
06/07/2006 4:42:07 PM PDT
by
Sam Cree
(Delicacy, precision, force)
To: aculeus
All those words, and not even a clue as to what the "hidden inscriptions" say?
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posted on
06/07/2006 4:44:22 PM PDT
by
Publius6961
(Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
To: Filo
Sorry, I meant to attach this picture to my first reply but mucked it up somehow. . .
One of many cool machines on
my site and in my collection, if you're into that sort of thing! :)
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posted on
06/07/2006 4:44:35 PM PDT
by
Filo
(Darwin was right!)
To: aculeus; blam
Deja vu all over again.
To: Al Simmons
Nice Calculator. I've got one just like it.
Semper Fi
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posted on
06/07/2006 4:51:48 PM PDT
by
An Old Man
(USMC 1956 1960)
To: Graymatter
And what exactly suggests that the Greeks were aware of the heliocentric model? "That Aristarchus of Samos actually put forward the heliocentric hypothesis is made certain by the evidence of no less a person than Archimedes, who was a younger contemporary of Aristarchus" - Heath in _Greek Astronomy_ ( Dover )
The book includes Archimedes statement to this effect from The Sand Reckoner. Aristarchus lived circa 310-230 B.C.
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posted on
06/07/2006 4:53:19 PM PDT
by
dr_lew
To: aculeus
One of my professors way back used the example of the ancient Greek steam engine as an argument against slavery. Since people could be forced to work, there was no interest in labor-saving devices, thus setting back the advancement of mankind, what...2,000 years or so.
To: dr_lew
I was referring to this statement: "The researchers say the device indicates a technical sophistication that would not be replicated for millennia and may also be based on principles of a heliocentric, or sun-centred, universe."
What about the device indicates it may have been based on "principles of [heliocentrism]"?
To: Publius6961
All those words, and not even a clue as to what the "hidden inscriptions" say?
I found translation of the inscription.
"Drink More Ovalteen"
PS
"Ann Coulter Rocks"
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posted on
06/07/2006 5:02:17 PM PDT
by
ChadGore
(VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans. We Vote.)
To: MindBender26
Aah, TRSDOS, how many granules were on your floppies?
;)
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posted on
06/07/2006 5:06:09 PM PDT
by
bwteim
(bwteim = begin with the end in mind)
To: Filo
Nice site. I have it book marked.
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posted on
06/07/2006 5:12:34 PM PDT
by
bwteim
(bwteim = begin with the end in mind)
To: aculeus
Were Greeks 1400 years ahead of their time?
Platos dialectic is the basis of Western Civilization.
Heres a bit from "The Republic"
That was my meaning when I said that we must teach music before gymnastics.
Quite right, he said.
You know also that the beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken.
Quite true.
And shall we just carelessly allow children to hear any casual tales which may be devised by casual persons, and to receive into their minds ideas for the most part the very opposite of those which we should wish them to have when they are grown up?
We cannot.
Then the first thing will be to establish a censorship of the writers of fiction, and let the censors receive any tale of fiction which is good, and reject the bad; and we will desire mothers and nurses to tell their children the authorised ones only. Let them fashion the mind with such tales, even more fondly than they mould the body with their hands; but most of those which are now in use must be discarded.
so much for gangsta rap
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posted on
06/07/2006 5:39:05 PM PDT
by
spanalot
To: MarkeyD
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posted on
06/07/2006 5:54:56 PM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: bwteim
I was still using my Trash 80 Model 2 in 1989. Tandy had stopped giving tech support and somehow considered me the expert on the daisey wheel printer, and referred three support calls to me!
Oh well.
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posted on
06/07/2006 5:58:33 PM PDT
by
MindBender26
(Having my own CAR-15 in RVN meant never having to say I was sorry....)
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