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How the F do they make something that big?
gaffer tape and/or WD40!
How the F do they make something that big?
Standard size for a North Norfolk Cromer bong Mytho.How the F do they make something that big?
gaffer tape and/or WD40!
Surely that's a auger for shifting grain or something like that.?
Completely left-field, but just wanted to say that my parenting skills have been ratified: during a conversation today that began with the Teenager's GCSE Biology homework, Son No 2 referenced the Baghdad batteries, and then when I made a remark about the Antikithera mechanism, he knew what it was! Totally unprompted. I'm so proud...
I can pretty much guess what happened with this item. I'll bet it is a very specialized piece of industrial machinery that has been custom made to solve a particular problem. Then after they had shelled out the money and had the damn thing welded up, a 100 times better solution appeared at a fraction of the cost. Annoyed, they considered selling the thing for scrap, but realised that it would cost too much to transportEdit to Add: Here's the photo ...
I can pretty much guess what happened with this item. I'll bet it is a very specialized piece of industrial machinery that has been custom made to solve a particular problem. Then after they had shelled out the money and had the damn thing welded up, a 100 times better solution appeared at a fraction of the cost. Annoyed, they considered selling the thing for scrap, but realised that it would cost too much to transport
so they dumped it on a nearby beach and hoped the tide would carry it out.
A further account of the Agastya Samhita texts here, including the battery and an alleged journey in a hot-air balloon - circa 1,800 BC!
https://www.sanskritimagazine.com/v...emist-discovers-secrets-agastya-samhita-1927/
Thank you BMCS.
I went through a stage in my teens, where aspects of subcontinent culture were either copied, or further investigated, and one aspect was the Vimana.
Having an interest in mechanics of all kinds I was stunned to read varying descriptions of these flying crafts and their engines.
I'm not sure if it was the Mahabharata that I was reading, but the idea and the actual application of various metals and alloys needed to create an engine really blew me away - but then discovering that the book was 5,000 years old held me aloft for days...
My further thoughts at that time involved the combination of our spoken language, the north west travel of town planning(Rome, Egypt, Catal Huyuk, Mohenjo Daro, Harrapa), and the complex evolution of the spiritual aspect of their society fixed the idea in my head that was it possible that civilisation...as we know it, had a subcontinental origin, however so tenuous - and that the India evident today, has been repeated before.
Opinions, obviously, will vary.
There is such a discipline as aero-archaeology.
Maybe its not real but the writers of these epics certainly knew sf.
A lot of ancient stories, such as the Greek myths are grasping after sf, but they don't have the technical knowledge to do their imagination justice.
That size of Archimedean screw is common in water treatment and sewage treatment plants. See:I can pretty much guess what happened with this item. I'll bet it is a very specialized piece of industrial machinery that has been custom made to solve a particular problem. Then after they had shelled out the money and had the damn thing welded up, a 100 times better solution appeared at a fraction of the cost. Annoyed, they considered selling the thing for scrap, but realised that it would cost too much to transport
so they dumped it on a nearby beach and hoped the tide would carry it out.
Cool! Nothing beats a good novel about nazis lolHe followed it up with Gods of Atlantis, which also has nazis.