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099 - Finally Appreciating Something Amazing

No Dumb Questions

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The Antikythera Mechanism

The predecessors of the planes that I am watching circling above me were doing math on sheets of paper or with an analog, simple spinning paper computer to make calculations. They actually had a mechanical device that did it. It's they basically had an antikythera mechanism built into the understudy bomb. That's exactly what I was pushing you toward.

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