Looks strange doesn’t it? It’s probably some artifact from some sunken modern ship right? Am I totally misleading you now, but you want to be right? Anyhoo, enough with the arbitrary questions. This, mechanism picture is in fact an ancient Greek astrology thing-a-majig, but here’s the twist in the tale! It was made 150-100 BC!
The Antikythara Mechanism was able to predict astrology patterns way way way before Star Wars. Prof. Edmunds from Cardiff Uni says this:
This device is just extraordinary, the only thing of its kind. The design is beautiful, the astronomy is exactly right. The way the mechanics are designed just makes your jaw drop. Whoever has done this has done it extremely carefully…in terms of historic and scarcity value, I have to regard this mechanism as being more valuable than the Mona Lisa.
The Antikythera Mechanism falls into the category of Out-of-Place (OOP) artifacts. Artifacts that don’t fit chronologically, geographically or are just darned weird. These artifacts fascinate me, because my over-active imagination starts sounding like a red flashing, walls caving, spaceship 2 minutes before destruction. What if these objects were left by aliens, time travellers or made by some long lost civilization?
There are some more interesting OOP artifacts. Read this epic Wikipedia page and then when you’re done, Google your favourite one, one of mine is the Baigong Pipes, and then revel in the conspiracy sites and their absurdity. Much fun!
P.S. – More on Antikythera Mechanism here.
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