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Ancient supercomputer retrieved

Deep Blue, meet your ancestor. Historians of science have come to an agreement that the strange machinery which comes with bronze gears and a bunch of dials from an ancient shipwreck off the coast of Greece is a complex instrument that is capable of calculated and illustrating astronomical information, specializing in the phases of the moon as well as planetary motions nearly 20 centuries ago. It is amazing to note that our forefathers in the past could possibly be much smarter and sophisticated than some of us are today, since the Antikythera Mechanism could possibly compute certain planetary trajectories that would stump even Isaac Newton himself.

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