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'Tower of Babel' Translator Under Development
monopole writes "The BBC is reporting on a bilingual translator under development by Carnegie Mellon University which senses sub-vocalized speech, recognizes it, translates it and then synthesizes the translation. The overall effect would be to dub the speech of the speaker."
You'd have thought that having spent quite a long time building the tower already and given the likleyhood that the intention was to just keep building up in the same way the lower floors had been built the workers would have been at the job for long enough to pick up what they were doing and how the process worked so as not to need much in the way of any further communication.
Also since it's highly unlikely these bronze age tower builders were ever going to build anything even half the size of buildings like The Empire State Building or mountains such as Mount Everest just how high off the ground is heaven actually situated that God is worried the tower will reach it ?
Personally I am coming to the conclusion that the bible is just a load of old bollocks and "God" is just some kind of made up figure people can use to justify their stupid actions.