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I love Borges, but you mean Tower of Babel, right?
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Cool, now someone needs to do the same for Bruegel’s other Tower of Babel
And then find the missing third one and do it for that one too.
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Thanks. That’s another twenty hours of Minecraft right down the drain.
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I’m going to plug Tower of Babylon here, the charming story by Ted Chiang (found in the same anthology as the story on which Arrival was based) that does a pretty cool job of exploring how the logistics of such a tower might work, including some allowance for fantastic physics.
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If you like this, check out my planetarium based kinect game where you, as a construction worker building the tower, must ascend for your workday, but avoid the wrathful rays streaming in. This is video filmed from the game running inside a planetarium.
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So, it really existed?
Well, there certainly were some big ziggurats in Babylon and the other Mesopotamian cities.
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On side of packaging: Planetarium not included.
Very cool by the way.
Another Trump Tower? Like the Wall, this thing was supposedly never finished. Instead, the whole country disintegrated in confusion.
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That is hilarious. And if history is any guide, there will be a max of two games for it.
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The spelling of Bruegel for a name pronunciated Broygal irked me, so I looked it up.
Brueghel, Breugel, Breughel, Brügel, Brügl, Brögel and Briegel are spelling variants Pieter Bruegel himself used, I found out.
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I always figured the myth was based on Babylonian buildings the Judahite captives built.
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In Dutch/Flemish “huis” is pronounced like “house” in English; same vowel letters but used very differently…
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