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Author Topic: What do mechanisms look like?  (Read 2104 times)

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Re: What do mechanisms look like?
« Reply #15 on: July 08, 2009, 08:08:05 pm »
Quote from: TheNewerMartianEmperor 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.
"Wait, what?"
 "You see, it's very simple. when Mars aligns with Jupiter the floodgates open and the entrance is flooded in magma."
 "Ohhhh."
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Re: What do mechanisms look like?
« Reply #16 on: July 08, 2009, 09:04:43 pm »
More accurately, it's a purely mechanical computer. More than likely, it was not powered, but rather something you could crank to a specific time or date.
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Re: What do mechanisms look like?
« Reply #17 on: July 08, 2009, 09:10:26 pm »
We certainly have the combined knowledge to recreate the seven wonders of the ancient world now- but we don't, because it's 'not economically viable' and we're lazy. Not to mention energy being poured into international assistance and warfare and blah blah blah...
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Re: What do mechanisms look like?
« Reply #18 on: July 08, 2009, 09:24:39 pm »
Quote from: Zaithemaster on July 02, 2009, 10:23:35 pm
...That...is no ordinary mechanism.

no, but its maker is clearly a dwarf!
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Re: What do mechanisms look like?
« Reply #19 on: July 09, 2009, 04:24:31 am »
Quote from: Sensei on July 08, 2009, 09:10:26 pm
We certainly have the combined knowledge to recreate the seven wonders of the ancient world now- but we don't, because it's 'not economically viable' and we're lazy. Not to mention energy being poured into international assistance and warfare and blah blah blah...
And, well, what would we do with them?

The original wonders were basically ego-trips on the part of absolute rulers. The common people didn't want them then, and we don't want them now - so why bother?
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