Engineering, Technology, Math, Lego = Happy Techno-pagan

Sometimes I think my Engineering/Computer work is totally opposite to my Druidry path. Something I've been thinking about recently. However, it's when I find a news item that sees these worlds together at the same time..

The Antikythera Mechanism. In Lego...!

Article from Hack A Day: http://hackaday.com/2010/12/09/lego-machine-predicts-future-eclipses/

To watch the Lego Device running, and quick explanation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLPVCJjTNgk

Thinking about it from a Druid perspective:

"..Once Greek astronomers realized how well epicyclic gearing in devices such as the Antikythera mechanism replicated the cyclic variations of celestial bodies, they could have incorporated the concept into their own geometrical models of the cosmos."

[From Nature.com Article: Ancient Astronomy]

Hmm.. A mechanical representation of the Cosmos.. Makes me wonder how such an item constructed was received by the clergy of the society. All that work, the heavens patterns; observed, detailed, pondered, estimated. All those proofs, and most likely failures, all summed up in "A Magic Wooden Box". I Wonder if it was called heresy, or if they felt they solved this riddle, and could move onto something else?

Even with the calculations "reduced" to gears, and wheels, [I say reduced, I don't think it's the right word, there's still an air of magic and wonder to this analogue engine] someone still needed to make it work in the first place. Someone had to have the calculations, and saw the patterns, felt there was a mystery in the apparent chaos, and saw order in the nature of the heavens. Perhaps, just perhaps, that gave them hope....

ps. Also makes me wonder why I ever got rid of all that Logo all those moons ago..