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- Fri Feb 16, 2024 5:20 am
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: Article: Ancient Greeks Predicted Robots
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4858
Re: Article: Ancient Greeks Predicted Robots
As to those self-moving tripods, the first successful engine-driven vehicles date back to the Industrial Revolution, first railroad vehicles, and later ships, then flat-road vehicles, then aerial vehicles, then outer-space vehicles. The most common automation of their operation is autopilots for shi...
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 4:39 am
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: Article: Ancient Greeks Predicted Robots
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4858
Re: Article: Ancient Greeks Predicted Robots
Let's see how well "Homer" and Aristotle did. The shuttle weaving? That's in a Loom and the shuttle carries the thread that's moved through the stretched-out thread. Power loom - developed early in the Industrial Revolution, power looms have parts that do all the weaving operations, includ...
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 3:26 am
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: Article: Ancient Greeks Predicted Robots
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4858
Re: Article: Ancient Greeks Predicted Robots
Predicted? More like speculated about them. Talos - a bronze man built by the legendary craftsman Daedalus. Hephaestus - the god of crafts and carpentry and metalworking and fire and volcanoes. He was described as lame The Iliad (Murray)/Book I - Wikisource, the free online library "And unquenc...
- Wed Dec 28, 2022 2:46 am
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: Hear What the Ancestor to Our Language Sounded Like
- Replies: 14
- Views: 24511
Re: Hear What the Ancestor to Our Language Sounded Like
Latin, with "the dead" replacing "the ancestors":
Lingua est per flûmen temporis via.
Ad sêdês mortuôrum nôs dûcit.
Sed nôn potest advenîre
Quî aquâs profundâs timet.
Lingua est per flûmen temporis via.
Ad sêdês mortuôrum nôs dûcit.
Sed nôn potest advenîre
Quî aquâs profundâs timet.
- Wed Dec 14, 2022 5:40 pm
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: Hear What the Ancestor to Our Language Sounded Like
- Replies: 14
- Views: 24511
Re: Hear What the Ancestor to Our Language Sounded Like
I've added vowel lengths to this Latin version and made "deep water" plural.
Lingua est per flûmen temporis via.
Ad sêdês avôrum nôs dûcit.
Sed nôn potest advenîre
Quî aquâs profundâs timet.
Lingua est per flûmen temporis via.
Ad sêdês avôrum nôs dûcit.
Sed nôn potest advenîre
Quî aquâs profundâs timet.
- Thu Jul 14, 2022 4:44 pm
- Forum: General Religious Discussion
- Topic: Religion For The Modern Era?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6975
Re: Religion For The Modern Era?
SF in pseudoscience SCIENCE FICTION AND RELIGION: It's not often appreciated how great an impact early science fiction has had on some well-known religions that developed in the past two centuries. Among them are Mormonism (circa 1830), Theosophy (1875) and Scientology (1950). It's well-known that ...
- Thu Jul 14, 2022 4:27 pm
- Forum: General Religious Discussion
- Topic: Stop the Steal/QANON as an apocalyptic movement
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8618
Re: Stop the Steal/QANON as an apocalyptic movement
Seems like this: When Prophecy Fails - Wikipedia When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World is a classic work of social psychology by Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter, published in 1956, detailing a study of...
- Thu Jul 14, 2022 3:10 pm
- Forum: General Religious Discussion
- Topic: Stop the Steal/QANON as an apocalyptic movement
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8618
Re: Stop the Steal/QANON as an apocalyptic movement
QAnon's 'Great Awakening' failed to materialize. What's next could be worse | QAnon | The Guardian Shortly before Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, Dave Hayes – a longtime QAnon influencer who goes by the name Praying Medic – posted a photo of dark storm clouds gath...
- Thu Jul 14, 2022 3:00 pm
- Forum: Other Texts and History
- Topic: Influence of Judeo-Christian apocalyptism on Marxism?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5081
Re: Influence of Judeo-Christian apocalyptism on Marxism?
Yes, the theories are different. Instead of some cosmic superbeing magically manipulating human actions, it's that human actions follow some regularities or laws of nature, including collective human actions. Marxist theory does contain some oddities, however, like using "contradiction" as...
- Thu Jul 14, 2022 1:59 pm
- Forum: Classical Texts and History
- Topic: Ancient Roman Icosahedron Dice
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2102
Re: Ancient Roman Icosahedron Dice
Let's look at the history of their discovery. The Platonic solids: "They are named for the ancient Greek philosopher Plato who hypothesized in one of his dialogues, the Timaeus, that the classical elements were made of these regular solids." Platonic solid - Wikipedia Cubical dice go back ...