And I thought it was pretty cool to build a Lego rocket. Someone has replicated the Antikythera mechanism with Legos. Said mechanism is an ancient artifact found on a sunken Greek ship that appears to have been a machine to calculate planetary motion.
Here it is in action, though the soundtrack seems more suited to the discovery of a monolith on the moon than it does to a highly successful piece of engineering:
And in other news–Mona Lisa may have microscopic inscriptions in her eyes. Which, one hopes, say, “Ceci n’est pas un oeil.”
