2,100-year-old gadget tracked Olympics
July 30th, 2008 By DEREK GATOPOULOS , Associated Press Writer(AP) -- An astronomical calculator, considered a technological marvel of antiquity, was also used to track dates of the ancient Olympic games, researchers have found.
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Oh it's a bit extravagant all right, just a tad.
It might explain one thing very neatly: Why would such advanced technology not have been perpetuated? Brought into other disciplines? Answer: Whatever cult or superstition put value in it became discredited. The device seen as "hocus-pocus". I.e., from the broader perspective, the rational perspective, it would have been an irrational decision.