Flying High
Apparently the Antikythera Device has been deciphered and found to be an analog astronomical simulator.[Link] [Link] [Link] researchers at Cardiff U have also redated the device from circa 65 BCE to 100-150 BCE based on recently discerned inscriptions.
The amazing thing about this device is not so much that it was developed in the first place but the ease with which its information base was lost. Conservative estimates indicate the capacity was not redeveloped until the Middle Ages.
Interestingly, Stephen Hawking has been awarded the Copley Medal.[Link] He has also announced that humanity needs to get its act together and spread outside the solar system before we get overwhelmed with some disaster.[Link]
Considering that if the development of knowledge/ information/ science/ technology had not been repeatedly negated throughout history, we should have been there already.
Now you can go back to mindless consumerism. After all, its Christmas season.
