Episode #072

The images you hear us talking about in Episode 72 - It’s Never Aliens.

A shipwreck older than Fenrir. And a ridiculous number of images. Starting with a map that is indeed to scale.

A tiny island known as Antikythera, courtesy of Google maps.

Discovered by sponge divers in 1900.

A boat full of sponge divers.

A diver from the olden days.

Old diving gear.

Smile for the camera!

The crew from 1901.

Artist rendering.

What the ship may have looked like.

Red-slip tableware.

Dishes from the wreckage.

Glass bowls

Modern-looking colorful bowl.

Swirly colored bowl.

Other Jenn likes this green bowl most.

Peacock bowl?

A couch!

Cait, are you sure this is a couch?

This couch needs cushions.

Wine jugs?

Wine amphorae. But with pointy bottoms?

Jewelry!

Statues. Sorta.

Where is his body, Cait? WHERE IS HIS BODY?

A horse is a horse of course.

And the grand finale…

It’s an orrery! Other Jenn doesn’t know what an orrery is, but it sure looks cool.

Parts from the shipwreck.

Other side of the piece from the shipwreck

And we have computer-generated renderings of what it would look like.

The front face.

The back panel.

UCL Engineering experts went further.

The inside of the mechanism.

With the panels.

And then it’s Cait’s turn to go one step further. With a chart. Just for Other Jenn.

Other Jenn resists the strong pull to study the graph and learn its secrets.

Jenn thinks this can’t get any better. Silly girl.

It’s a freaking Lego model! Watch an amazing video here.

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