Quote Originally Posted by TomOfSweden View Post
Edit: never mind, ignore.

Back to the never ending argument. I'll shut up now before I'm in to my neck as I usually get.

edit: and since I'm an idiot and have to lick both poles of the battery just to make sure.

Who said their is a clockwork mechanism? If you throw an apple into a lake, the bacteria that start growing their will treat it like a constant. The world they've always lived on, but it will perish. Be eaten, or cleaned a way. What might appear as constant to us might in fact be as fleeting.
I actually do not know what it is, but i have read about this, seen numerous x-rays, and even working replicas based on those x-rays.

The people who believe in this particular type of thing want me to believe that a complex mechanical device with gears, cogs, and springs was somehow built 2000 years ago. the problem with that is that it needs supporting technology to build something like that, and that did not exist. Let us look at the possible explanations.
  1. This device discovered on an old shipwreck was somehow built despite the fact that the builder would have needed to discover and build centuries worth of tools to accomplish this.
  2. An advanced civilization built this and there exist no trace of this civilization anywhere else on earth.
  3. A race of ancient astronauts visited Earth and left this behind, even though something like this would be nothing more than a museum piece to them, just as it is to us now.
  4. It was dropped from a passing ship much later and somehow managed to land almost on top of this old wreck.

Personally I find all of these unlikely, but the one that works for me is number 4. Occam's Razor simply says that the simplest answer is the most likely one. Though there is even a simpler one that I did not mention, because I am willing to give the people who discovered this the benefit of the doubt.
  • This is a complete hoax.