Re:Money (Score 1)

I'm not an engineer, but isn't the whole tower of Babel thing a little ridiculous? I mean, they were trying to build a tower that reaches to "the heavens", with very little engineering knowledge. given strength of materials alone, they really didn't have the capability to reach a couple of stories, let alone the distance they'd need to reach any kind of "the heavens". What, rock and thatch? vines? even if they had iron reinforcements, they'd have to build out a pretty wide base, which would have to be really wide to support anything reaching space.

My guess is that someone tried to do it, and the reason it fell wasn't god's wrath at the hubris of man, but just faulty engineering. And they blamed it on god.

i wish i had a copy of THAT project plan...