you ever just think about how much technology must have been lost between the making of the antikythera mechanism and medieval times
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because *wow* the antikythera mechanism is complicated and it involves manufacturing technology that wouldn't be rediscovered for over a millennium
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i kind of wonder what technology was lost that we never rediscovered

not that i think they had some ancient supertechnology, more just, what tools did they have that accomplish tasks we do today in very different ways
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