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Published: Jan. 7, 2019, 6 a.m.

Imagine finding shipwreck from thousands of years ago and among the rest of the debris finding a laptop with instructions on how to use it. That\u2019s ALMOST exactly what happened when the Antikythera Mechanism was found. OK, so it wasn\u2019t exactly a laptop, but many refer to it as the world\u2019s first analog computer. And no matter how you classify it, it certainly doesn\u2019t fit the time frame it dates back to. How did the ancient Greeks create a machine so advanced that another example of its intricacies wouldn\u2019t be found in the world for another century and a half? We attempt to get to the bottom of it or at least blame the aliens this week. Plus, the fellas talk about THEIR first computer, we\u2019re able to compare the mechanism to both a magic 8-ball and Grays Sports Almanac, and Conspiracy Bot quotes bad 90\u2019s music. All of that and more on the podcast that\u2019s never built a fully functional computing machine that can output correct data (but we have Conspiracy Bot) - Hysteria 51.

Special thanks to this week\u2019s research sources:
Research Assistant - Raymond Walden IV

Books:
The Antikythera Mechanism: The History and Mystery of the Ancient World\u2019s Most Famous Astronomical Device Kindle Edition by Charles River Editors
A Portable Cosmos: Revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, Scientific Wonder of the Ancient World by Alexander Jones
Decoding the Heavens: A 2,000-Year-Old Computer--and the Century-long Search to Discover Its Secrets by Jo Marchant

Video:
Technological Marvels of the Ancient World Season 1 ep 3 - Computing
Michael Wright - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eUibFQKJqI
Nova: Ancient Computer

Websites:
Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanismNova: Ancient Computer
The Antikythera Mechanism Research Project - antikythera-mechanism.gr
Mental Floss - http://mentalfloss.com/article/81445/15-intriguing-facts-about-antikythera-mechanism
The Smithson - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/decoding-antikythera-mechanism-first-computer-180953979/
Vox - https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/5/17/15646450/antikythera-mechanism-greek-computer-astronomy-google-doodle
Science Daily - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080731143422.htm
Live Science - https://www.livescience.com/55168-antikythera-mechanism-had-user-manual.html

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