http://www.jlake.com/2008/08/01/links-link-salad-wyoming-friday-edition/ Jay Lake's Official Web Site Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:35:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://www.jlake.com/2008/08/01/links-link-salad-wyoming-friday-edition/#comment-359 tetar Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:08:44 +0000 http://www.jlake.com/?p=193#comment-359 The lake on Titan looks like a human footprint, had you noticed? The lake on Titan looks like a human footprint, had you noticed?

]]> http://www.jlake.com/2008/08/01/links-link-salad-wyoming-friday-edition/#comment-358 Hildo Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:18:24 +0000 http://www.jlake.com/?p=193#comment-358 The way I read the Antikythera Mechanism is that it referred a 4-year cycle that referred to the Olympics, as those were dates that people knew. In other words, it was used to anchor/calibrate the date ("which four-year period are we talking about") in the absence of a universally accepted measure like 1 AD. It wasn't used to predict the Olympics - everybody could do that :-) The way I read the Antikythera Mechanism is that it referred a 4-year cycle that referred to the Olympics, as those were dates that people knew. In other words, it was used to anchor/calibrate the date (”which four-year period are we talking about”) in the absence of a universally accepted measure like 1 AD. It wasn’t used to predict the Olympics - everybody could do that

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