Comments on A Computer Older Than Christmas

"You happen to have a small nuclear device?"

"Um... no."

"Be a whole lot cooler if you did."

Looks like we found the solution to climate change.

Those scientists' goal is to now try to figure out how to rebuild the machine. Very cool.

i read in an article about this that they think it wasn't used for any mystical purpose, but rather as a trinket rich people used to impress their friends. kinda took the coolness out of it for me. but i think that's just conjecture.