The Antikythera Mechanism - rebuilt 100 BCE analog computer
On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:44:52 -0700, the infamous Lewis Hartswick
scrawled the following:
pyotr filipivich wrote:
I remember a sci-fi story where they find an astronaut, trapped by
cave-in on the moon. Only - nobody is missing. This that and the
other, he's been there for - oh, 50,000 years. So they get the high
tech scanners out and "read" his notebook - using the table of
constants (which any engineer/astronauts manual would have) as the
Rosetta stone.
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pyotr filipivich
Have any idea of the title? Sounds like one I'd like to read.
Make that 2 requests, Pete.
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