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Babel (2006)
IMDB rating: 7.70
Plot: Richard and Susan are a couple from San Diego, California who are vacationing in Morocco while their two children are at home with their Mexican housekeeper, Amelia. A rifle finds its way into the hands of a local herdsman’s young sons, who recklessly take a shot at a tour bus and hit Susan in the shoulder, causing her severe injury. The distraught Richard calls home to tell Amelia of the situation, who shortly departs for Mexico to attend her son’s wedding, with Richard and Susan’s children in tow. Disaster thus multiplies, with the situation in Morocco ascribed to terrorists in the media, while Amelia meets with trouble at the Mexican border when she attempts to return to San Diego with Richard and Susan’s children. Meanwhile, in Tokyo, a widower tied to the rifle in question, a complex shift of ownership to which the audience is privy, attempts to deal with the memories of his recently deceased wife and his strained relationship with his deaf teenage daughter.
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Directors: Gonzalez Inarritu Alejandro
Actors: Pitt Brad,Akhzam Mohamed,Wight Peter,Martin Trevor,Bousquet Georges,Oumansky Andre,Maloney Michael,Crowley Dermot,Maratray Henry,Drama,Thriller,
People of common sense – Is this the pinnacle of wilful ignorance?
I don’t normally name those I use quotes from, but "God’s Servant" put an answer so jaw dropping that I thought I ought to share. I was asking if Christians believed in the story of the Tower of Babel. (although most answers were about the tower itself)
"modern man today can not even begin to build the pyramids like the people did in the past moving the huge stones and erecting them
even are modern equipment is not able to duplicate that feat
modern man thinks he is so smart, when he is not"
I think the ultimate tragedy is that he actually believes this.
Could anyone offer some helpful examples of astonishing modern engineering that might disprove God’s Servant?
(Such as say, the Petronas Towers or the Delta Works)
gutbuckle> I don’t rule that out, but he’s been at the game so long it must be a very dedicated trolling career. (and his post count is very high)
I appreciate everyone who points out the lost skills and crafts of the past, but it’s a tad unfair really. People rarely realise that buildings like the great cathedrals of Europe have been continually sympathetically repaired – right up to the present day. The great masons and carpenters still practice their high art, but there are very few left now. The skills are not really lost, just as Tiddles points out, our concentration is now elsewhere. A cathedral took 40 years. You’d be lucky if it took 40 days now.
What we have lost is the sheer beauty and aesthetic of the ancient and medieval worlds. These days most things are functional in their appearance. A sad loss indeed.
Modest Proposal – awesome list!
God’s Servant> Thanks for your clarification – but you should see this image:
http://www.eikongraphia.com/wordpress/wp -content/Luxor.jpg
And that’s just a hotel in LV! That we are no longer sure how it was built does not mean for a second we couldn’t replicate the building if we needed to. Same goes for Inca stonework or Angkor Wat. Modern tools CAN do this – the obvious question now would be, why bother?
Half-Mile Tower in Dubai:
http://www.burjdubaiskyscraper.com/2008/ 04April/dubai-tower2502.jpg
Gakuen Spiral Tower in Nagoya City:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3184/2767 115455_003566d270.jpg
World’s Fastest Train – Shanghai Maglev Train:
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/20 06-05/08/xin_490503081027683270553.jpg
Space Shuttle:
http://www.ocw.nur.ac.rw/NR/rdonlyres/Ae ronautics-and-Astronautics/16-885JFall-2 005/E568D184-9883-450C-BD5C-BBCBD6BA71AE /0/chp_shuttle.jpg
Hoover Dam Bridge:
http://bridgepros.com/projects/Hoover_Da m_Bypass_Bridge/Seagull_View_Rendering_1 0_02300dpi%5B1%5D.jpg
Large Hadron Collider
http://www.sciencehon.com/wp-content/upl oads/2008/12/cern_lhc_t2030shighjpeg.jpg
International Space Station:
http://blog.oneplusinfinity.com/wp-conte nt/uploads/2009/07/international-space-s tation.jpg
Lamborghini Reventon Roadster:
http://www.carzi.com/wp-content/uploads/ 2009/09/Lamborghini-Reventon-Roadster-4. jpg
Blue Angels – F-18 Stunt Team:
http://youcanrunal.files.wordpress.com/2 009/10/blue-angels.jpg
Roadrunner Supercomputer:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co mmons/c/c7/Roadrunner_supercomputer_HiRe s.jpg
Shell Off-shore Oil Rig:
http://hotfile.files.wordpress.com/2008/ 08/oil-rig2.jpg
Positrons (Anti-Electrons):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positron
Carbon Nanotube:
http://legalplanet.files.wordpress.com/2 009/06/nanotube_article1.jpg
AIDS Enzyme and Possible Curing Drug (purple):
http://www.sflorg.com/sciencenews/images /imscn031006_02_02.jpg
A Modest Proposal | Jan 31, 2010
Yes, but it IS possible he’s just a troll.
gutbucket | Jan 31, 2010
What is your question?
Black Thought | Jan 31, 2010
Oh yeah, I go to a university filled with civil, nuclear, aerospace, and many other engineers. We build rockets that are taller than some of the smaller pyramids, skyscrapers that can endure hurricane force winds and earthquakes, information systems that spread across the globe… Need I go on?
Cipher | Jan 31, 2010
He’s right, every one knows aliens built them.
deorcnys | Jan 31, 2010
do your homework, something helped build the pyramids and such….
free spirit | Jan 31, 2010
God’s Servant has clearly never seen a modern motorway.
He probably lives in a shed in Afghanistan or Nepal.
morporc | Jan 31, 2010
Has he never seen a crane? Here’s an amazing feat of engineering
http://vector1media.com/spatialsustain/w p-content/uploads/2008/10/international- space-station.jpg
http://4029weather.files.wordpress.com/2 009/03/international_space_station_1.jpg
The International Space Station
Random Panther | Jan 31, 2010
Hmm I wouldn’t say that about the pyramids, but we still cannot create a dome out of concrete bigger than the Pantheon. The Romans were admittedly very very good at architecture, their bricks were about a quarter of size to ours and fit together perfectly, the arches they’ve created. Including their skill in stone artwork is quite fantastic rivaling ours.
And there are certain types of ornamental glass that have colors of green that we cannot, try as we may replicate.
While modern engineering is astonishing and made easy with machines and metal, there are many crafts, and abilities that the ancient peoples had that rival ours especially due to their lack of material.
Also even our senses are dumbed down due to our lives in cities, many tribesmen on the different continents have internal compasses in that they can always tell which directions which..it’s quite fascinating.
JJ | Jan 31, 2010
It’s undeniable that the craftsmanship of the old days was far superior to what it is today…I think that has a lot to do with our differing values on things such as time, purpose and money though. In those days a life was a just sacrifice for the making of a building – these days it isn’t, which is an advancement in itself.
I don’t think Gods servant is ignorant – he’s just pointing out the easily forgotton value of the past.
Tiddles X | Jan 31, 2010
actually althogh irrelevant, he is right.
the great pyramid is the most accurate building on the planet.
Hgj | Jan 31, 2010
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-na ture/pyramid.html
The Great Pyramid rose 4,500 years ago on the Giza plateau, just outside Cairo, to house the tomb of the pharaoh Khufu (called Cheops by the Greeks). Covering 13 acres and originally 481 feet high, it survives as the last of the "seven wonders" of the ancient world. Its technical precision amazes modern architects and engineers, especially in light of the available resources. The pyramid’s 2.3 million limestone blocks, most weighing more than two tons, were cut and hauled into place without the benefit of wheels, pulleys and iron tools.
Various studies have analyzed logistical movements, labor organization and the use of wooden sledges, ramps, levers and other devices to help explain pyramid construction. Some studies suggest that the work force may have been a fifth or a tenth of Herodotus’ estimate. Yet the overall process by which the workers assembled the Great Pyramid remains a mystery.
as i said they do not know how it was done
God's servant | Jan 31, 2010
The point being made was that we do not know how it was done without modern equipment.
Where is the woeful ignorance?
alan h | Jan 31, 2010
