10 Nov 2011 21:29:43
Seen a couple of things recently about the Antikythera mechanism which got me thinking a bit.
A device that predates the first known European equivalent (not of the device itself, but a machine of such complexity) by 1500 years.
Upscale and strengthen some of the simpler parts of the Antikythera device and with a reliable, constant power source, you have machine tools or even plant.
I'm not suggesting for a moment the ancients had the latest JCB's or CNC's etc, but they did have the knowledge, tooling and skill.
Imagine if there are more examples of such techologies that remain undiscovered that may predate the Antikythera mechanism....It would go a long way into explaining how the ancients achieved the things they did, that we today can only replicate with modern machines.
If you accept that the ancients were far more advanced than history has told, it makes it hard to understand why or who forced such knowledge to go underground and not resurface to millennia later.
Paragon
{Ed033's Note - There are some ancient indian texts that allegedly appear to be a type of manual on how to operate the Vimana flying craft. Apparently, the Chinese studied these texts when they were first developing their space program.
The Baghdad Battery appears to be more advanced than it should be according to the main stream scientists. Also the Great Pyramid appears to be an ancient highly technological device.}