Comments by "mpetersen6" (@mpetersen6) on "These Ancient Relics Are so Advanced They Really Shouldn't Exist" video.

  1. A Greek scientist may have commissioned the device. He may have designed the device. But almost certainly it was built by an unknown Craftsman, or a group of them. I've been watching a series of videos by an amateur clockmaker who is known on YouTube as "Clickspring". He is attempting to replicate the mechanism using as many of the tools and technology of the time period. Something's he has to use modern tools and techniques simply because how the Greek Craftsmen did certain things. One thing he has noticed is the spacing of the gear train makes it appear that this was not a one of device. There may have been predecessor designs and this is a refinement of those devices. It is amazing what one can accomplish with hand tools and hand powered tools
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  2.  @EvitoCruor  That's kind of what I think happened to a lot of ancient tools. Valuable scrap was recycled just like we do today. The Antikythera Device didn't appear out of nowhere. There had to be some sort prior use of the different major portions of the device. The thing that is really impressive from the design standpoint is the way the Moon's change of speed throughout it's orbit due it's orbital eccentricity. The thing that is super impressive from the manufacturing stand point is the gear train was evidently made completely by hand. The gears in the device are just under .5 Module. That means from peak to peak it's about 1.5 mm. A 60 tooth gear is under 31 mm in diameter. And these gears were laid out by hand. And filed by hand.
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  3. A computer as we think of one today. No it isn't. It's more of a predictive device than anything else. But for every body who thinks it's just a rich man's toy. But for everybody who thinks it's ",not rocket science". But for everybody who thinks it isn't impressive. I challenge you build one. I challenge you to make the tools needed to build this. I challenge you to figure out how to lay out just one of the gears and file it by hand. That is after you make your own files. Given what we know about the technology and technological processes of the day this was a tour de force of the makers skills
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