>>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17989915
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>>Not sure what's the most interesting bit : the new technology or the old ......
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>I watched it.
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>One nice undercurrent was the slight sniping between some of the scientists.
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>Also interesting how no engineers got a credit. I would have thought trying to reconstruct something like that the first point of call would be an engineer.

I started to watch it but fell asleep. (SOP for me these days :-} )

I don't remember being particularly impressed, but then again I don't remember not being. I do remember noticing, at least in the part I watched, that there was very little mention of earlier work using other methods - HP took a stab at it back in 2007 using 3D-imaging:
http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/ptm/antikythera_mechanism/index.html