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Towers of Babel

dhruva — Thu, 15 May 2008 00:31:26 -0800

More of a Babel facehugger than a Babel fish

imperium — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 02:01:54 -0800

You whisper "Je t'aime", the machine says "I love you". Carnegie Mellon offer the prospect of a real-time automatic face-mounted translation device.

Rastafari — Sat, 15 Sep 2001 23:27:58 -0800

Sorry, I don't have a link for this post, but in light of the tragedy, I was thinking of the Tower of Bable story from the Bible. As I understand the story, man was trying to build a tower to reach God, but God made sure man didn't succeed.

For those of you who do (or don't) believe in God, do you think there is a message in all this sadness?

sonofsamiam — Mon, 15 May 2000 08:34:13 -0800

The Library Of Babel, by Borges. Quite good, I think.