2000 Year Old Computer Rebooted


	2000 Year Old Computer Rebooted

Silkweaver

12-19-2008 10:24 AM

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archeology, computers, astronomy, technology

Silkweaver says:

Amazing...

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12-19-2008 1:36 PM

chiggles

BT has a track titled that, on his This Binary Universe album. fyi.

12-19-2008 9:10 PM

Oortcloud

I wonder if this thing will still be touted as some amazing artifact left behind by alien visitors?

12-19-2008 9:50 PM

Silkweaver

With the kind of astronomical model this computer represents, I find it entirely implausible

But one can never know, the truth is out there...

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