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An article is reporting that the World's first computer sank off a small Aegean island in the 1st century BCE. The Antiktythera Mechanism appears to contain gears and holes and was used to calculate- but what? So Joseph Bayley and others set to find out. After examining in detail using data from LIGO it was decided that it was used to calculate the lunar calendar. The holes were precisely created at 0.028mm between each. https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a70963756/hidden-computer-roman-empire-secret-study/
An article is reporting that the World's first computer sank off a small Aegean island in the 1st century BCE. The Antiktythera Mechanism appears to contain gears and holes and was used to calculate- but what? So Joseph Bayley and others set to find out. After examining in detail using data from LIGO it was decided that it was used to calculate the lunar calendar. The holes were precisely created at 0.028mm between each. https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a70963756/hidden-computer-roman-empire-secret-study/
