The building of Babel was a right project; for indeed the true definition of a project, according to modern acceptation, is, as is said before, a vast undertaking, too big to be managed, and therefore likely enough to come to nothing. And yet, as great as they are, it is certainly true of them all, even as the projectors propose: that, according to the old tale, if so many eggs are hatched, there will be so many chickens, and those chickens may lay so many eggs more, and those eggs produce so many chickens more, and so on. Thus it was most certainly true that if the people of the Old World could have built a house up to heaven, they should never be drowned again on earth, and they only had forgot to measure the height; that is, as in other projects, it only miscarried, or else it would have succeeded.
And yet, when all is done, that very building, and the incredible height it was carried, is a demonstration of the vast knowledge of that infant age of the world, who had no advantage of the experiments or invention of any before themselves.
“Thus when our fathers, touched with guilt,
That huge stupendous staircase built;
We mock, indeed, the fruitless enterprise
(For fruitless actions seldom pass for wise),
But were the mighty ruins left, they’d show
To what degree that untaught age did know.”
(Daniel DeFoe, History of projects)
(terremoto en Chile http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/sociedad/3-141167-2010-02-28.html :puerto de Talcahuano: tsunami dejó barcos sobre tierra; 1500000 viviendas destruidas -pero 400 veces menos muertos qe en Haití) http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/suplementos/futuro/13-2307-2010-02-28.html
proyectiles naturales, proyecciones humanas (periodismo&demagogia)
proyectiles naturales, proyecciones humanas (periodismo&demagogia)