The Antikythera Mechanism

Huffduffed by HellboundAlleee on December 17th, 2009

From http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4184

Imagine the year 1900. The skies are leaden gray, the dark waters all around you shiver with the approach of a distant storm. You’re in the warm Ionian Sea in the Mediterranean, sheltering along the coast of the barren and barely populated island of Antikythera, waiting out a storm. It’s frustrating because you’re on your way home from Africa where you and your crew have been diving for sponges. Your captain, Dimitrios Kondos, thinks the lost time may as well be put to good use, so he orders you below to see what sponges you may be able to find here. You don your copper diving helmet and heavy suit, and they lower you into the depths. Streaks of dull gray light from above shimmer around you as the rocky bottom approaches.