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- Diggpick, on 01/10/2009, -0/+381895 picture:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap980506.html
Damn time, you scary! - CrazyCarl22, on 01/10/2009, -5/+30It amazes me how the Chinese can be so ingenious so early on.
- Pinkertinkle, on 01/10/2009, -9/+25nerdy asians at work in the 1400's
- castletech, on 01/10/2009, -0/+15Crazy how much the background has changed between the two pictures.
- RadiatedAnt, on 01/10/2009, -0/+8stop watching fox news maybe then you wouldn't realize it anymore.
- Manchildcartoon, on 01/10/2009, -1/+7In ancient times...
Hundreds of years before the dawn of history
Lived a strange race of people... the Druids
No one knows who they were or what they were doing
But their legacy remains
Hewn into the living rock... Of Stonehenge - wingk1314, on 01/10/2009, -0/+6I'm assuming you forgot to type "/sarcasm"
- baldr, on 01/10/2009, -1/+6I like the contrast with what was thought of in ancient times as high-tech in the foreground, and modern tech buildings in the background.
- arnarag, on 01/10/2009, -2/+7I lived right around the corner from there for 6 months and now regret not going up there. This was built by Jesuit priest back in the 1400s (as states in the short description with the pic). They tried to combine western mathematics and Chinese astronomy with this. It's right in the middle of the city, like 20 minute walk from Tiananmen square. It's possible to read more about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesuit_China_missions ...
What a weird thing it must've been for the Chinese to see foreigners back then... - TheCamino, on 01/11/2009, -0/+5
1400s is not that early.
Stonehenge.
Egypt.
The Aztecs.
The Sumerians. - zombiecarlin, on 01/10/2009, -1/+6Worlds oldest observatory - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newgrange
4500 years older than the one featured. - Kvasaari, on 01/10/2009, -1/+6They did.
- adkenc, on 01/10/2009, -0/+4literally.
- isfan, on 01/10/2009, -0/+4http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulugh_Beg - One of the first real observatories built by the Uzbek "ulug beg" c.1428
- Modiga, on 01/10/2009, -1/+5I'd say that early is relative.
- sougly, on 01/11/2009, -0/+3You are wrong. The Jesuit priest helped rebuild it in the 1600s, not build it.
- DillonHinson, on 01/11/2009, -0/+2Must of used Canon lenses back then.
- topgigmedia, on 01/10/2009, -2/+4Outsourcing U.S. jobs helped build foreign cities
- aizayke, on 01/10/2009, -1/+3More picture, http://antoine.frostburg.edu/phys/luzader/cac/beij ...
- 8ballblack, on 01/10/2009, -0/+2You are so mature. *sarcasm*
- AmyVernon, on 01/10/2009, -4/+6That's really amazing.
- 8ballblack, on 01/10/2009, -1/+3That is amazing that an observatory existed back then. That really surprised me!
- kvikramjeets, on 01/10/2009, -3/+4What about the Stonehenge?
- cosy27, on 01/12/2009, -0/+1Newgrange
- rtcgg, on 01/11/2009, -0/+1Some of the instruments were built based on old models....the ones in the pic were probably built in the 15-17 century....but original models were invented long time ago...probably in the BCs
- nitesoIja, on 01/10/2009, -2/+3i bet they were referred to as 'crazy asians' back then also
- SmellyGeekBoy, on 01/11/2009, -0/+1Dugg for Spinal Tap
- ilikedemoon, on 01/11/2009, -1/+2My opinion is it obviously takes after other designs and really isn't that old. It doesn't have that chinese-esque to it.
- joe8pack, on 01/11/2009, -0/+1Yeah, but the greeks built the first astronomical computer more than a thousand years earlier:
http://www.world-mysteries.com/sar_4.htm - ilikedemoon, on 01/11/2009, -0/+1Interesting. Also amazing the roof doesn't leak or at least significantly leak.
- RiceLee22, on 01/11/2009, -0/+1Other than paper, gunpowder, the wheelbarrow...etc. But obviously this is the only /significant/ thing.
- williamkusumo, on 01/11/2009, -0/+1I bet the smog's way less back then
- zombiecarlin, on 01/11/2009, -0/+1Te chamber is bone dry which is astonishing. Unfortunetly since the Earth has shifted on it's axis the sun no longer lines up directly as it did on the solstace 5,000 years ago. But not bad for people dressed in animal skins using stone tools.
- harrythe3rd, on 01/10/2009, -3/+3I wish they took the present picture from the same direction as the 1895 picture to compare them better.
- wooooot, on 01/10/2009, -1/+1You are so funny. *sarcasm*
- arnarag, on 01/11/2009, -0/+0Thanks for the correction. :)
- realtruehistory, on 01/11/2009, -1/+1The oldest observatory in the earth is Cheomseongdae built in AD 630s:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheomseongdae
It was built in Silla which is one of the anceint Korean kingdoms. - bmystry, on 01/10/2009, -3/+3If they weren't they would have their cheeks torn off.
- pdileepa, on 01/11/2009, -1/+1That picture was shot from the other side :)
- diggdong, on 01/10/2009, -7/+5In another 100 years those buildings behind it will be replaced. Interesting.
- SmellyGeekBoy, on 01/11/2009, -3/+1One of the earliest civilised societies. I guess the Americans were late to the party ;)
- Manchildcartoon, on 01/10/2009, -6/+1Like something out of a JRPG.
- zantos420, on 01/10/2009, -8/+2one of the very few things the chinese actually came up with by themselves
*golf clap* - shoppingkart, on 01/10/2009, -9/+2With this, I can finally see Uranus.
- twiztidsinz, on 01/10/2009, -14/+7Older than the internets.
- Cancerous, on 01/10/2009, -12/+31. "Did observatories exist before telescopes?"
2. "Starting in the 1400s astronomers erected these large instruments"
3. "Pre-telescopic observatories throughout the world date back to before recorded history,"
All in one paragraph. I feel like this was written by Fox News. - crushifier, on 01/10/2009, -13/+2If it weren't APOD I might have dugg
- inactive, on 01/10/2009, -14/+3***** RIAA!
Off topic but still true agreed? - wooooot, on 01/10/2009, -14/+1Only thing I find funny/interesting in there is the word 'erected'.
- bbqsalad, on 01/10/2009, -17/+2don't really have anything to say, sorry
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