Get In The Ark Before It Is Too Late!!!
July 30, 2014 at 10:32 am
(This post was last modified: July 30, 2014 at 10:38 am by Bibliofagus.)
(July 30, 2014 at 9:02 am)Zen Badger Wrote:(July 30, 2014 at 8:58 am)Esquilax Wrote: Sorry Rev, it physically can't: wooden ships less large than the ark was purported to be- with the benefit of iron braces, I might add, and sailed in tranquil weather- proved to be not seaworthy. Wood simply isn't structurally capable of that; it flexes and separates and eventually floods.
For further information, check how many of the ships substantially over three hundred feet long have the word "sunk" in their eventual fate. The ark is purported to be substantially larger than all of them, made of inferior materials, operating for a longer period of uninterrupted sailing with no hope of repair, in conditions far worse than those that sank every ship smaller than it.
The ark would not float.
Also, a Dutch Christian recently built a full size replica of the ark and had to mount it on two steel barges because it didn't have the structural integrity to float by itself.
He apparently failed to see the irony implicit in this.
It's nowhere near full size.
Edit: oops. I looked it up to add the measurements, and apparently he's built a new one. But the small first one was mouted on a barge as well.