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by intrasight 2747 days ago
A few years back I had started outlining an alternative history scifi story with the premise being that both the technology and the civilization behind the Antikythera Mechanism was not lost but continued to progress up until today. Sort of like William Gibson's "The Difference engine" but with a 2000 year head start towards the singularity.
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Carl Sagan imagined something like this in "Cosmos" - we'd be launching dodecagonal starships about now.