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Owen Godfrey wrote:
> 
> John Leister wrote:
> 
> > Wouldn't it be great if the real station that they're building now
> > carried the Babylon name?
> 
> For once, I agree with you, but for different reasons I think.
> 
> The Tower of Babyl represents a time when man thought himself great
> enough to challenge God. God struck down the tower, and scattered the
> people. To me, the Tower of Babyl was when civilization really took off
> in earnest. People were scattered across the world, and each person was
> a seed of a new culture. In the end, the Tower of Babyl and Babylon
> itself fell, but humanity flourished in ways that it could never have
> done otherwise.
>
<scating on thin biblical knowledge ice>

I thought the the Tower of Babel was about humans being too proud and
foolish of and with their new found power and knowledge.  In that sense
it would be the same as naming the space station Icarus (flying too
close to the sun etc.).

On that topic, maybe we should name it Daedalus, after Icarus's father,
the wise one who built the wings, escaped and flew successfully.

--
Adam Burke 
http://student.uq.edu.au/~s335783
"Nothing moves, where would it go?" 
	- Zen aphorism