"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Calif Bill wrote:
"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
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On Apr 28, 8:11?pm, "tak" wrote:
From another NG, for long cruises and rainy weather?

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe....ap/index.html
There are villagers in Eastern Turkey who not only believe that the
story of Gilgamesh (or Noah) is literally true, they believe that what
remains of his boat is buried in mud along a river that runs nearby.
Aerial photography seems to confirm that there is something that
*could be* a large, double-ended boat.

One of the believers has constructed a site:

http://www.noahsark-naxuan.com/arkmodel.htm


Interesting factoid about "gopher" wood:

Translations of Genesis into English normally have Yaweh instructing
Moses to build his ark of "gopher wood". Unfortunately, there is no no
such thing as "gopher wood"........however, the symbols for the sounds
of G and K are very similar in the Hebrew alphabet and the word
"Kopher" means "protected", so Kopher wood wold be protected wood, and
could be any wood covered in pitch, tar, resin, etc.

I wonder if the guy who built the modern version of the ark is really
going to try to launch it? Looks to me like it has a ridiculously high
COG. Over she goes in the first decent blow. As it is, it reminds me
of those roadside attractions we used to see traveling around in the
50's and 60's. Big plywood sign in a farmer's field: "See Noah's Ark!
Only 75 miles ahead!" Then while everybody is eating snow cones and
marveling at the models of giraffes and elephants in the ark the
parking lot crew is wiring paper signs to the chromed rear
bumpers..... "Noah's Ark! See it Near Centerville!"



The Dutch model is probably closer to the design. It would have been a
large retangular barge shape. There was no need for a double ended,
steerable design. It just needed to float. With a large load aboard.


You actually believe those biblical fairy tales? Figures.

Believe it or not, the boat design would have been barge like. As to world
floods, yes there have been. At least once, Indian legends in South
America talk of a great flood. If you look at the coal seams in Kentucky,
Appalachia they are all at about the same elevation and there had to be huge
amounts of lumber piled up to make the size seams they find. Think of a
tidal wave washing over the earth. Maybe Noah saw the big asteroid coming
to clean up the earth?