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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

University of Leicester physics students says Noah's Ark would have floated with two each of 35,000 species of animal

2014-04-04

[NEWS.AU] NOAH'S Ark would have floated -- even with two of every animal on board, physicists have determined based on the weight of the beasts and the buoyancy of the boat.
How about Utu Napishtim's ark? Has anybody thought to ask him? They say he's still living in Dubai. I think he has an apartment in a senior building, since he's 5600 years old by now.
The students from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leicester who came to this conclusion used the dimensions for the boat that were given in the Bible.
Why not go to the source? Maybe Utu can't remember that far back, huh?
In the book of Genesis, Noah is commanded to build an ark which is 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high to house himself, his family and two of every species of animal.
And just who shoveled that sucker out?

That one breeding pair of dung beetles were fruitful and multiplied, solving the problem the old fashioned way.

For the study, the students settled on a cubit being 48.2cm long and found the ark could support the weight of 2.5 million sheep. The university said that previous research suggested there were approximately 35,000 species of animals in Noah's time.
We all know some of the species that wouldn't fit: unicorns, the old-fashioned kind of salamander, chimerae, that sort of thing. And triceratops; they didn't make it, did they?
The students said it was not clear if all the animals would actually be able to fit on board. But if they did, the boat would still float.

Posted by:Fred

#12 Do dung beetles poop?

Only that part of the dung that hasn't been turned into beetle or the energy for scurrying around, Snusort Spomose2148. So naturally there's considerably less physical output than there was physical input.

Posted by: trailing wife 2014-04-04 22:39

#11 Do dung beetles poop?

Posted by: Snusort Spomose2148 2014-04-04 16:17

#10 It's "consider a spherical elephant" for mathematicians.

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-04-04 16:14

#9 In my experience physicists have a very fuzzy view of Biology.

Who else would say "Consider a spherical camel..."?

Posted by: SteveS 2014-04-04 15:08

#8 Newfies, Proof of life on Mars.

Posted by: Shipman 2014-04-04 12:45

#7 Newfies and Chihuahuas in the same species is kind of a stretch, isn't it?

Posted by: Fred 2014-04-04 12:03

#6 The definition of a species (procreation of a viable offspring) was a bit different back then. Little variations in bone or coloring didn't make a new species definition till very recently.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-04-04 08:51

#5 There's also a lot of economic creationism (marxism) in universities.

Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2014-04-04 05:14

#4 In my experience physicists have a very fuzzy view of Biology. Vide the fact that every other year an important physicist publishes a book therein it "demolishes" the Theory of Evolution---the idea of variation followed by selection just doesn't seem to penetrate their rote-memorization shaped little minds.

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-04-04 04:53

#3 It's more an ark-b type of university.

Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2014-04-04 03:08

#2 Avondale is 1834 years behind schedule and 59,000,000 shekels over budget. However this is to be expected in a 1 off transformational class of ark.

Posted by: Shipman 2014-04-04 02:14

#1 Up to 70,000 critters in tote.

IIRC the Perts have verified that the story of Noah is intrinsically correct as per the scientific requirement for POSSSESSING THE MINIMUM ALLOWABLE GENETIC DIVERSITY IN ORDER TO REPOPULATE OR REBUILD THE POST-FLOOD/DELUGE EARTH.

Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-04-04 01:24

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