Rodent Regatta

For those who might not have understood the title of the entry just before this one, there’s a passage from the Old Testament that explains the story. The people had figured out how to make bricks. With that technology, they envisioned being able to build anything! ”We have the technology…”

Then they said, ”Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.” The Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which mortals had built.

And the Lord said, ”Look, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do; nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down, and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”

So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. Therefore it was called Babel, because there the Lord confused F33 the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth. Genesis 11:4-9 New Revised Standard Version