I love this stuff! Usually the most interesting thing about conspiracy theories is the mental shit people come up with based on such little evidence.
As for the antikythera mechanism, it depends what you mean by advanced. It doesn't display any mathematical knowledge that we didn't already know was common at the time and complex clockwork mechanisms like it were around 1400 years later so I suppose in that sense it was advanced for the time. So to answer the question in the thread title: maybe by their own standards but Is it evidence of aliens, time travel or anything like that? No, not a bit of it. I think the most interesting question is what was it for? No-one really knows. Maybe a teaching aid, maybe a military or religious thing to predict eclipses and that, which would explain why it wasn't more common. Fascinating though.
Anyway, great thread, well done!
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