A Lego replicate of the Antikythera Mechanism
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The original mechanism was a stagering achevment adn revolutionized what we thought the anchient greeks could do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiQSHiAYt98&feature=endscreen&NR=1
Seeing it reproduced makes it even more impressive knowing what they had to work with.
.. and knowing if was made out of toy construction parts now, makes you more impressed at what we have to work with.
;)