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by lpetrich
Fri Feb 16, 2024 5:20 am
Forum: Classical Texts and History
Topic: Article: Ancient Greeks Predicted Robots
Replies: 4
Views: 4647

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...
by lpetrich
Fri Feb 16, 2024 4:39 am
Forum: Classical Texts and History
Topic: Article: Ancient Greeks Predicted Robots
Replies: 4
Views: 4647

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...
by lpetrich
Fri Feb 16, 2024 3:26 am
Forum: Classical Texts and History
Topic: Article: Ancient Greeks Predicted Robots
Replies: 4
Views: 4647

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...
by lpetrich
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: 23906

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.
by lpetrich
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: 23906

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.
by lpetrich
Thu Jul 14, 2022 4:44 pm
Forum: General Religious Discussion
Topic: Religion For The Modern Era?
Replies: 3
Views: 6546

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 ...
by lpetrich
Thu Jul 14, 2022 4:27 pm
Forum: General Religious Discussion
Topic: Stop the Steal/QANON as an apocalyptic movement
Replies: 8
Views: 7710

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...
by lpetrich
Thu Jul 14, 2022 3:10 pm
Forum: General Religious Discussion
Topic: Stop the Steal/QANON as an apocalyptic movement
Replies: 8
Views: 7710

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...
by lpetrich
Thu Jul 14, 2022 3:00 pm
Forum: Other Texts and History
Topic: Influence of Judeo-Christian apocalyptism on Marxism?
Replies: 3
Views: 4685

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...
by lpetrich
Thu Jul 14, 2022 1:59 pm
Forum: Classical Texts and History
Topic: Ancient Roman Icosahedron Dice
Replies: 3
Views: 2052

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 ...