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Sizik

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What do mechanisms look like?
« on: July 02, 2009, 09:51:37 pm »
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Re: What do mechanisms look like?
« Reply #1 on: July 02, 2009, 10:23:35 pm »
...That...is no ordinary mechanism. That is an artifact.
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Re: What do mechanisms look like?
« Reply #2 on: July 02, 2009, 10:26:23 pm »
Cool it's that youtube video again.
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Re: What do mechanisms look like?
« Reply #3 on: July 02, 2009, 10:54:07 pm »
Mechanics should make something like that out of mechanisms when they enter a strange mood, call it a "Contraption" and if its provided with power it will entertain your dwarves like a zoo or sculpture garden.
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Re: What do mechanisms look like?
« Reply #4 on: July 02, 2009, 11:01:08 pm »
Quote from: Zaithemaster on July 02, 2009, 10:23:35 pm
...That...is no ordinary mechanism. That is an artifact.
Nah, it doesn't threaten with any spikes.
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Re: What do mechanisms look like?
« Reply #5 on: July 02, 2009, 11:01:57 pm »
Quote from: HatfieldCW on July 02, 2009, 11:01:08 pm
Quote from: Zaithemaster on July 02, 2009, 10:23:35 pm
...That...is no ordinary mechanism. That is an artifact.
Nah, it doesn't threaten with any spikes.
Nor is it encircled with bands. Or adorned with hanging rings.
More importantly, it has no image of itself engraved into it.
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Re: What do mechanisms look like?
« Reply #6 on: July 02, 2009, 11:03:21 pm »


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Re: What do mechanisms look like?
« Reply #7 on: July 03, 2009, 04:06:31 am »
Bah, they can do all sorts of things with computer graphics these days  :P 
What is the history of that? Shipwreck of a crazy dwarf legendary mechanic?

Here is my contribution: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpAE8P608So

Love that wooden thing (needs cat leather spikes though), old people are awesome, you should see this meccano excavator too. It kicks the ass out of all the others you see in vids of competitions. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC5jSrM3MUA
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Re: What do mechanisms look like?
« Reply #8 on: July 03, 2009, 01:37:08 pm »
Quote from: BradB on July 03, 2009, 04:06:31 am
Bah, they can do all sorts of things with computer graphics these days  :P 
What is the history of that? Shipwreck of a crazy dwarf legendary mechanic?

Here is my contribution: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpAE8P608So

Love that wooden thing (needs cat leather spikes though), old people are awesome, you should see this meccano excavator too. It kicks the ass out of all the others you see in vids of competitions. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC5jSrM3MUA

That'd be the Antikythera mechanism.
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Re: What do mechanisms look like?
« Reply #9 on: July 08, 2009, 03:33:00 pm »
Quote from: Sizik on July 03, 2009, 01:37:08 pm
That'd be the Antikythera mechanism.
this one single discovery proved my theory that they had technology back then that was ahead of our own... tis but a cycle that has yet to be broken, but I sense it will :-X.
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Re: What do mechanisms look like?
« Reply #10 on: July 08, 2009, 03:42:45 pm »
Quote from: jaked122 on July 08, 2009, 03:33:00 pm
Quote from: Sizik on July 03, 2009, 01:37:08 pm
That'd be the Antikythera mechanism.
this one single discovery proved my theory that they had technology back then that was ahead of our own... tis but a cycle that has yet to be broken, but I sense it will :-X.

You do know about the Dark Ages and the fall of Roman civilization and the loss of knowledge and technology that occurred after the empire fell right? Western civilization did not catch back up to the Romans until the Renaissance and even then some technologies were still a mystery. Some of the more advanced scientist/philosopher types in the Renaissance would go wander Roman ruins for inspiration. Indeed some things as simple as concrete were complete mysteries through the first dozen centuries AD.

If you're interested in all that I recommend reading "Brunelleschi's Dome".
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Re: What do mechanisms look like?
« Reply #11 on: July 08, 2009, 03:50:52 pm »
It's a bit silly to claim they were ahead of us now, though. Even the antikythera mechanism - yes, we're not quite sure what it was for, but we could sure enough replicate it at need. Or something much more complicated, for that matter. :)
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Re: What do mechanisms look like?
« Reply #12 on: July 08, 2009, 04:32:38 pm »
Its a ripped in half dwarf. How else do you think that two of them can link a lever to a support half-way across the map.
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Re: What do mechanisms look like?
« Reply #13 on: July 08, 2009, 05:58:45 pm »
None of the ones depicted are made entirely out of sandstone though, which the dwarf ones are.
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Re: What do mechanisms look like?
« Reply #14 on: July 08, 2009, 07:31:31 pm »
The mechanism's an orrey. One of those big things that they use to predict the motions of the planets.
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