Stanford Accelerator Uncovers Archimedes' Text 392
AI Playground points to a Newsday.com report which reads in part "A particle accelerator is being used to reveal the long-lost writings of the Greek mathematician Archimedes, work hidden for centuries after a Christian monk wrote over it in the Middle Ages. Highly focused X-rays produced at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center were used last week to begin deciphering the parts of the 174-page text that have not yet been revealed."
Translating now... hold on.... (Score:4, Funny)
"What is Six Times... NINE?"
May I Be the First ... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Translating now... hold on.... (Score:0, Funny)
How are (Michael Jackson | the ancient Greeks) and McDonalds alike?
They both put 30 year old slabs of meat in 10 year old buns.
I for one (Score:5, Funny)
particle accelerator? (Score:2, Funny)
Screw (Score:1, Funny)
Re:I for one (Score:5, Funny)
Next thing you know someone will start trying to distribute the stuff on some website
I am the Keymaster (Score:2, Funny)
Re:particle accelerator? (Score:3, Funny)
After this project . . . (Score:5, Funny)
Re:So if I understand right... (Score:5, Funny)
Woudln't that be some crazy shit yo?
Re:X-Ray Fluroescence (Score:5, Funny)
M$Winblows is teh sux. The gummint is out to get us. Dumbya sux0rs. Gentoo is l337. Star Wars rules.
Yup, we appreciate it.
Re:Translating now... hold on.... (Score:5, Funny)
#define NINE 8 + 1
#define SIX 1 + 5
int
main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
printf("\nWhat do you get when you multiply six by nine? %d", SIX * NINE);
return 0;
}
Re:X-Ray Fluroescence (Score:5, Funny)
I'll probably get modded down for this spelling nitpick, but I think you mean "palimpsests". I misspelled that word before a national audience in 1992, don't want you to make the same mistake in this international forum.
As it turns out... (Score:5, Funny)
That got translated from the original Attic Greek into common Greek, then into High Latin, then Vulgar Latin, and then into Old French, then soon after that into Old English. When William the Conqueror took over England in 1066, the new language that got created got it a little mixed up at first:
Somehow it doesn't seem to mean quite the same thing, but I can't quite figure out where the difference is.
Re:X-Ray Fluroescence (Score:4, Funny)
This story deserves telling in the full, especially on a site like Slashdot where people have the background to appreciate the nuances involved.
You must be new here.
Re:Translating now... hold on.... (Score:4, Funny)
And buildings and stonework so smart.
They distinguished with poise
The men from the boys,
And used crowbars to keep them apart.
If Archimedes was alive today... (Score:5, Funny)
(Apologies to Pratchett fans)
Re:Preservation (Score:5, Funny)
hey frank, STOP THE BEAM!!!!
Sad that he died. Good thing he reincarnated (Score:5, Funny)
1. Plutonium Atom Totality theory. According to this theory, there was no Big Bang, but rather growth from a "Hydrogen Atom Totality" into the present "Plutonium Atom Totality", in which "the galaxies are dots of the electron dot cloud".
2. Fusion Barrier Principle. Quoting Plutonium, "Fission energy is the highest form of energy that is able to be controlled and surpass breakeven".
3. Unification of the Forces of Physics as a Coulomb Unification.
4. Stonethrowing theory. This theory states that the difference between apes and humans resulted some 8 to 10 million years ago from a solo quadruped ape that "started throwing rocks overarm and overhead". This activity gave the ape advantages in getting food and more females for mating purposes "by killing other rivals using throwing".
5. Possibility of global warming reversal. According to Plutonium's theory, there exists a CFC variant or methyl molecule that when produced and released will act as an "upper atmosphere earth air conditioner and reverse global warming".""
Despite that the brilliance of his ideas so obviously extended the work of Archimedes the Greek, it took the reincarnated Archimedes 44 years to realize that he was in fact Archimedes:
In autumn of 1994 he claims to have realized that he was the reincarnation of the great early Greek scientist Archimedes, and so once again changed his name to Archimedes Plutonium.
What I want to know is why we continue to dwell so much on Archimedes' old work when he has been producing so much insight as of late and it has yet to be properly appreciated.
Rambaldi (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:X-Ray Fluroescence (Score:2, Funny)
Sometimes I wonder if karma originally started as a model of capitalism. Most comments like that are an appeal to those with mod points.
DCMA (Score:4, Funny)
Perspective (Score:5, Funny)
I am waiting for the announcement... (Score:4, Funny)
From the hidden writings of archmides to the hidden messages found in the back of euro notes. Ancient tunnels under ancient cities open up to reveal secrets nobody has seen for millenia...
Until NOW...
Coming soon to a theater near you,
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Re:Translating now... hold on.... (Score:5, Funny)
"F1RSTUS P0STU5"
Obligatory "Half Baked" parody (Score:5, Funny)
"Well, yeah, uh I guess..."
"But have you ever read Slashdot -- on weed."
Re:NOT OFFTOPIC (Score:3, Funny)
If only... (Score:3, Funny)
Translation, page two... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Translating now... hold on.... (Score:5, Funny)
It's probably more like:
Google knows all! (Score:2, Funny)
pretty sweet.
Re:Damn those Christians (Score:4, Funny)
Of course if most people's mums hadn't thrown out their baseball cards they wouldn't have been worth much.
You laugh, but it's true... (Score:4, Funny)
The message (Score:3, Funny)
OK, then (Score:4, Funny)
Satisfied? Sheesh.
Update! Archimedes' Text fully revealed! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:The ironic part is... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I for one (Score:3, Funny)
Somewhere, a communications major in a dream job is writing:
Re:DCMA (Score:2, Funny)