From: jtem01@gmail.com   
      
    prisone...@gmail.com wrote:   
      
   > Regarding leaving gears out when rebuilding the item;   
   >   
   > If you had spent so much time building a machine and were transporting it   
   via sea during the archaic age, would you not take spare parts?   
      
   My post was really about strictly adhering to the evidence   
   as well as principles such as Occam's Razor. We can   
   speculate all day, as you are doing here, but in the end   
   we are violating Occam's Razor. There is a simpler   
   explanation, one that fully accounts for the evidence that   
   we have instead of the evidence which we don't have, and   
   that is to say it's a hoax.   
      
   All other explanations rely on evidence we don't have.   
      
      
   Back when this group was more active there was a lot of   
   arguing about evidence, about what is and is not evidence.   
   You'd need knowledge of those exchanges to fully comprehend   
   my motives here but suffice it to say that the Antikythera   
   Mechanism illustrates "Perceptual" issues in that people   
   confuse popular interpretations for the physical evidence   
   itself.   
      
   > The idea that somebody smart enough to achieve such mathematical and   
   mechanical feats at that time would fail to consider the potential for repairs   
   and maintenance strikes me as a little, well, out of character.   
      
   You're employing logic here, not evidence. Worse, it's not   
   even logic! It merely  /Seems/  logical to you. To someone   
   else it likely seems illogical, noting that you do not drive   
   around with a spare fuel injector. That, you'd only acquire   
   one if the need arose. And as the Antikythera Mechanism would   
   have been hand crafted & hideously expensive, spare parts   
   would have been a great deal more cost prohibitive than would   
   your spare fuel injector.   
      
   Logic isn't evidence, even before considering the fact that   
   it rarely turns out to be logic at all.   
      
      
      
      
      
      
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