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Is not the Antikythera wreck a monument to the now nameless sailors who perished when their vessel sank? Furthermore, the practical utility of the objects so b
by ehvatum 4y ago
Is not the Antikythera wreck a monument to the now nameless sailors who perished when their vessel sank?
Furthermore, the practical utility of the objects so blithely and destructively harvested from that Monument To The Dead is questionable in the extreme. timeanddate.com provides extensive information about the positions of the planets, the moon, eclipses, conjunctions, seasons. The Antikythera mechanism is antiquated, redundant, and broken. While the gold coins yanked from this watery and much disturbed grave may have utility as industrial feed-stock for iPhone manufacturing, or simply for profit-taking by cynical exhibitors and their coterie of unscrupulous artifact dealers, gold is already available by the ton on the open market!
All these causes for shame, and I haven’t even mentioned the sarcophagus lid that they hope to dredge up! What do we need that for? A soul twice afflicted by tragedy - dead and then shipwrecked - is to lose his lid, and for what? Do we have no decency at all? Is it all so that bored children can gawk at misfortune in some capitalistic museum of horrors, having duly paid for their admission tickets? Or, even worse, perhaps so Elon Musk can appropriate it via Bitcoin payment for his Martian Mausoleum?
Carefully lower it all back into the ocean! Our heritage and very humanity are at stake!
- ehvatum 4y agoI can’t believe I’m getting downvoted. Sorry if I offended any grave robbers! Or grave robbing Musk worshipping Bitcoin enthusiasts! Is it not enough to defile the planet, the cosmos, and ancient monuments? You must also strike out against me? Help, all good people! Upvote me at once!