Here's an upload of my recent talk, "Preventing the Collapse of Civilization", given at DevGamm in Moscow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk … This one is English audio only, fixing the unlistenability of the post-stream recordings. Hopefully there will be a Russian-only as well.
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Replying to @Jonathan_Blow
Are there any more ancient artifacts that you found intriguing yet didn't get to talk about due to time? I would like to look into more of these mechanisms for further study...
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Replying to @Jshamble131
You can find a bunch just by doing a bit of searching -- Damascus steel, Zhang Heng's seismograph, etc. Be careful though since there is tons of quackery out there. One thing I learned -- the blocks in the pyramids that everyone is mystified about are nowhere near the biggest
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blocks used in ancient constructions; there are some that are 10x bigger! (That were not moved nearly as far as the Khufu pyramid blocks, but, still ... )
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