Eric Weinstein

One was named Derek de Sola Price, and the other was Richard Feynman.

And they were obsessed with it.

And it turned out that that thing completely rewrote our understanding of how much ancient wisdom and knowledge there was, because this was a mechanical calculator for understanding...

the positions of celestial objects far more advanced than we had any idea was possible.

So if you want an analogy, in part, I'm trying to steel man you, we have a situation in which the Antikythera mechanism gives you a possible example of what the flower of life might be.

It might be a cryptic instruction.

And a different version of this, the Kerala School of Astronomy, which was a religious school in the south of India, in the west coast of India,

More or less worked out.

Look at that beautiful thing.

Well, that's a reconstruction.

Yeah, yeah.

Fascinating.

Can we get the video for the reconstruction?

We were just talking about Werner Herzog.

Werner Herzog created an entire film, Fitzcarraldo, just to test his theory about how to move heavy objects over a mountain.

So he wrote an entertainment to test an engineering theory.

And this idea about entertainers not being scientists or engineers is just total bunk.

Like Werner Herzog is an engineer.

It gives that guy an opportunity to cut off his finger or something.

It was hilarious.