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May 15, 2015 10:14 PM CST Noah's Ark
I've been doing a little math involving building a boat the size of the Ark and the the results are mind boggling. Using green Cedar which is probably as close to "Gopher wood" as most experts contend I was able to calculate the size and weight of log which would be needed to construct a boat capable of staying together at sea in even calm water without the bottom buckling or the sides caving in. The beams would need to be a foot thick. In order to get a square beam that size would require a log of 16" diameter and a 20 foot log would weigh 725 lbs. Using a stone Axe (Noah predates even the bronze age) it would take a man about a day to fell a 16" tree and cut it to length and haul it to the build site. One man can't haul a 725 lb log by himself, it would take at least 4 men. At the rate of 1 tree a day just felling the trees would take over 11 years. This doesn't account for the time to sharpen the stone axes or make new handles when they break either. The total weight of the logs (4049 of them) would amount to, wait for it,
Two million, nine hundred thirty five thousand, five hundred and twenty five lbs. 2,935,525 lbs.
11 years just to cut down the trees. How long to build a boat that big? What holds the logs together? Glue? Nails? No steel remember? Even if they had nails, what would they hammer them in with, a stone hammer?

I'm going to bed!
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May 15, 2015 10:19 PM CST Noah's Ark
Amazing how Atheists are so obsessed with religion these days.

Fundamentalist Atheists vs Fundamentalist Religionists.

Same Cloth, diff colour.
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May 15, 2015 10:25 PM CST Noah's Ark
Bogart_1960
Bogart_1960Bogart_1960Ask me !, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur France36 Threads 1 Polls 10,012 Posts
ooby_dooby: I've been doing a little math involving building a boat the size of the Ark and the the results are mind boggling. Using green Cedar which is probably as close to "Gopher wood" as most experts contend I was able to calculate the size and weight of log which would be needed to construct a boat capable of staying together at sea in even calm water without the bottom buckling or the sides caving in. The beams would need to be a foot thick. In order to get a square beam that size would require a log of 16" diameter and a 20 foot log would weigh 725 lbs. Using a stone Axe (Noah predates even the bronze age) it would take a man about a day to fell a 16" tree and cut it to length and haul it to the build site. One man can't haul a 725 lb log by himself, it would take at least 4 men. At the rate of 1 tree a day just felling the trees would take over 11 years. This doesn't account for the time to sharpen the stone axes or make new handles when they break either. The total weight of the logs (4049 of them) would amount to, wait for it,
Two million, nine hundred thirty five thousand, five hundred and twenty five lbs. 2,935,525 lbs.
11 years just to cut down the trees. How long to build a boat that big? What holds the logs together? Glue? Nails? No steel remember? Even if they had nails, what would they hammer them in with, a stone hammer?

I'm going to bed!



Sounds more like a Spielberg project....laugh
cheers
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May 15, 2015 10:29 PM CST Noah's Ark
michael63ca
michael63camichael63caVancouver, Alberta Canada50 Threads 2 Polls 784 Posts
ooby_dooby: I've been doing a little math involving building a boat the size of the Ark and the the results are mind boggling. Using green Cedar which is probably as close to "Gopher wood" as most experts contend I was able to calculate the size and weight of log which would be needed to construct a boat capable of staying together at sea in even calm water without the bottom buckling or the sides caving in. The beams would need to be a foot thick. In order to get a square beam that size would require a log of 16" diameter and a 20 foot log would weigh 725 lbs. Using a stone Axe (Noah predates even the bronze age) it would take a man about a day to fell a 16" tree and cut it to length and haul it to the build site. One man can't haul a 725 lb log by himself, it would take at least 4 men. At the rate of 1 tree a day just felling the trees would take over 11 years. This doesn't account for the time to sharpen the stone axes or make new handles when they break either. The total weight of the logs (4049 of them) would amount to, wait for it,
Two million, nine hundred thirty five thousand, five hundred and twenty five lbs. 2,935,525 lbs.
11 years just to cut down the trees. How long to build a boat that big? What holds the logs together? Glue? Nails? No steel remember? Even if they had nails, what would they hammer them in with, a stone hammer?

I'm going to bed!


All of this done by a descendant of a dust bunny and a rib! Truly mind boggling!
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May 15, 2015 10:55 PM CST Noah's Ark
rizlared
rizlaredrizlaredNot in Cebu City, Central Visayas Philippines89 Threads 2 Polls 5,588 Posts
ooby_dooby: I've been doing a little math involving building a boat the size of the Ark and the the results are mind boggling. Using green Cedar which is probably as close to "Gopher wood" as most experts contend I was able to calculate the size and weight of log which would be needed to construct a boat capable of staying together at sea in even calm water without the bottom buckling or the sides caving in. The beams would need to be a foot thick. In order to get a square beam that size would require a log of 16" diameter and a 20 foot log would weigh 725 lbs. Using a stone Axe (Noah predates even the bronze age) it would take a man about a day to fell a 16" tree and cut it to length and haul it to the build site. One man can't haul a 725 lb log by himself, it would take at least 4 men. At the rate of 1 tree a day just felling the trees would take over 11 years. This doesn't account for the time to sharpen the stone axes or make new handles when they break either. The total weight of the logs (4049 of them) would amount to, wait for it,
Two million, nine hundred thirty five thousand, five hundred and twenty five lbs. 2,935,525 lbs.
11 years just to cut down the trees. How long to build a boat that big? What holds the logs together? Glue? Nails? No steel remember? Even if they had nails, what would they hammer them in with, a stone hammer?

I'm going to bed!


You need to watch the film, "Evan Almighty" Where God instructs a modern day ARK, to be built by Evan Baxter (Steve Carell). On realising he needs more labour, God gets the waiting animals to help, I found the film very funny and use it for English lessons as my students love it.
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May 15, 2015 10:56 PM CST Noah's Ark
michael63ca
michael63camichael63caVancouver, Alberta Canada50 Threads 2 Polls 784 Posts
rizlared: You need to watch the film, "Evan Almighty" Where God instructs a modern day ARK, to be built by Evan Baxter (Steve Carell). On realising he needs more labour, God gets the waiting animals to help, I found the film very funny and use it for English lessons as my students love it.


yes i watched it too! Very funny!
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May 15, 2015 11:00 PM CST Noah's Ark
2intrigued
2intrigued2intriguedMississauga, Ontario Canada11 Threads 18,576 Posts
MADDOG69: Amazing how Atheists are so obsessed with religion these days.

Fundamentalist Atheists vs Fundamentalist Religionists.

Same Cloth, diff colour.


True dat. laugh
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May 15, 2015 11:29 PM CST Noah's Ark
Nidifugous
NidifugousNidifugousYap, Federated States of Micronesia38 Threads 3 Polls 1,430 Posts
MADDOG69: Amazing how Atheists are so obsessed with religion these days.

Fundamentalist Atheists vs Fundamentalist Religionists.

Same Cloth, diff colour.


Hey, not all of us think about the arc. Some of us sit here and contemplate the monkey math that underlies the government's unemployment figures tongue
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May 16, 2015 12:49 AM CST Noah's Ark
cgedvr1
cgedvr1cgedvr1Socal., California USA10 Threads 551 Posts
MADDOG69: Amazing how Atheists are so obsessed with religion these days.

Fundamentalist Atheists vs Fundamentalist Religionists.

Same Cloth, diff colour.
amazing...

why would a believer be obsessed with an atheist??? love

why would an atheist be obsessed with believers??? hate

btw...the world is flat
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May 16, 2015 1:14 AM CST Noah's Ark
cgedvr1: amazing...

why would a believer be obsessed with an atheist??? love

why would an atheist be obsessed with believers??? hate

btw...the world is flat

Yep. And it's only 9000 yrs old too!
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May 16, 2015 1:35 AM CST Noah's Ark
Lolette
LoletteLoletteLe Mans, Pays de la Loire France15 Threads 1,691 Posts
ooby_dooby: I've been doing a little math involving building a boat the size of the Ark and the the results are mind boggling. Using green Cedar which is probably as close to "Gopher wood" as most experts contend I was able to calculate the size and weight of log which would be needed to construct a boat capable of staying together at sea in even calm water without the bottom buckling or the sides caving in. The beams would need to be a foot thick. In order to get a square beam that size would require a log of 16" diameter and a 20 foot log would weigh 725 lbs. Using a stone Axe (Noah predates even the bronze age) it would take a man about a day to fell a 16" tree and cut it to length and haul it to the build site. One man can't haul a 725 lb log by himself, it would take at least 4 men. At the rate of 1 tree a day just felling the trees would take over 11 years. This doesn't account for the time to sharpen the stone axes or make new handles when they break either. The total weight of the logs (4049 of them) would amount to, wait for it,
Two million, nine hundred thirty five thousand, five hundred and twenty five lbs. 2,935,525 lbs.
11 years just to cut down the trees. How long to build a boat that big? What holds the logs together? Glue? Nails? No steel remember? Even if they had nails, what would they hammer them in with, a stone hammer?

I'm going to bed!


*****

11 years just to cut down the trees. How long to build a boat that big? What holds the logs together? Glue? Nails? No steel remember? Even if they had nails, what would they hammer them in with, a stone hammer? ,,,,,,,, i forget, ha ha,,, just count me in when it's done, want to perpetuate my , , , ? i love the color of the ceddars, red or green ,, power to you,,

handshake
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May 16, 2015 8:34 AM CST Noah's Ark
MADDOG69: Amazing how Atheists are so obsessed with religion these days.

Fundamentalist Atheists vs Fundamentalist Religionists.

Same Cloth, diff colour.
Good Morning Sunshine, You can't be talking about me because I'm not an Atheist, I'm a Scientist, and as such everything I claim is subject to peer review and must be able to be duplicated anywhere, anytime. The fairy tales in the bible are exempt from peer review but must be accepted without question according to the Mafia called the Church.
If believers can't accept fact checking of the fables they were spoon fed from birth, they have my condolences to spend their entire lives in the dark.
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May 16, 2015 8:37 AM CST Noah's Ark
DertyHarry44
DertyHarry44DertyHarry44Lakeland, Florida USA91 Threads 1,102 Posts
ooby_dooby: I've been doing a little math involving building a boat the size of the Ark and the the results are mind boggling. Using green Cedar which is probably as close to "Gopher wood" as most experts contend I was able to calculate the size and weight of log which would be needed to construct a boat capable of staying together at sea in even calm water without the bottom buckling or the sides caving in. The beams would need to be a foot thick. In order to get a square beam that size would require a log of 16" diameter and a 20 foot log would weigh 725 lbs. Using a stone Axe (Noah predates even the bronze age) it would take a man about a day to fell a 16" tree and cut it to length and haul it to the build site. One man can't haul a 725 lb log by himself, it would take at least 4 men. At the rate of 1 tree a day just felling the trees would take over 11 years. This doesn't account for the time to sharpen the stone axes or make new handles when they break either. The total weight of the logs (4049 of them) would amount to, wait for it,
Two million, nine hundred thirty five thousand, five hundred and twenty five lbs. 2,935,525 lbs.
11 years just to cut down the trees. How long to build a boat that big? What holds the logs together? Glue? Nails? No steel remember? Even if they had nails, what would they hammer them in with, a stone hammer?

I'm going to bed!


Noah's ark same as Titanic??
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May 16, 2015 9:29 AM CST Noah's Ark
tarris
tarristarrisnew plymouth, Taranaki New Zealand4 Threads 395 Posts
ooby_dooby: I've been doing a little math involving building a boat the size of the Ark and the the results are mind boggling. Using green Cedar which is probably as close to "Gopher wood" as most experts contend I was able to calculate the size and weight of log which would be needed to construct a boat capable of staying together at sea in even calm water without the bottom buckling or the sides caving in. The beams would need to be a foot thick. In order to get a square beam that size would require a log of 16" diameter and a 20 foot log would weigh 725 lbs. Using a stone Axe (Noah predates even the bronze age) it would take a man about a day to fell a 16" tree and cut it to length and haul it to the build site. One man can't haul a 725 lb log by himself, it would take at least 4 men. At the rate of 1 tree a day just felling the trees would take over 11 years. This doesn't account for the time to sharpen the stone axes or make new handles when they break either. The total weight of the logs (4049 of them) would amount to, wait for it,
Two million, nine hundred thirty five thousand, five hundred and twenty five lbs. 2,935,525 lbs.
11 years just to cut down the trees. How long to build a boat that big? What holds the logs together? Glue? Nails? No steel remember? Even if they had nails, what would they hammer them in with, a stone hammer?

I'm going to bed!
. Shinto carpenters in Japan have been building for aeons without nails! Just joins under tension. Wake up n get educated before mouthing off!
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May 16, 2015 9:47 AM CST Noah's Ark
lifeisadream
lifeisadreamlifeisadreamMexi Go, Mexico State Mexico156 Threads 20 Polls 16,713 Posts
cgedvr1: amazing...

why would a believer be obsessed with an atheist??? love

why would an atheist be obsessed with believers??? hate

btw...the world is flat



The world is getting f l at!


laugh
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May 16, 2015 10:41 AM CST Noah's Ark
cgedvr1
cgedvr1cgedvr1Socal., California USA10 Threads 551 Posts
lifeisadream: The world is getting f l at!
good morning life...

maybe tom brady has gotten a hold of it...wink

rolling on the floor laughing
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May 16, 2015 12:33 PM CST Noah's Ark
ooby_dooby: Good Morning Sunshine, You can't be talking about me because I'm not an Atheist, I'm a Scientist, and as such everything I claim is subject to peer review and must be able to be duplicated anywhere, anytime. The fairy tales in the bible are exempt from peer review but must be accepted without question according to the Mafia called the Church.
If believers can't accept fact checking of the fables they were spoon fed from birth, they have my condolences to spend their entire lives in the dark.

You're the worst advertisement for the science Profession.

I don't think any reasonable person of faith thinks that the entire biosphere was sampled and put on a boat.

Now. Tell everyone the world is not flat. Just in case we didn't know. It'll make you feel clever, I'm sure of it.
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May 16, 2015 12:45 PM CST Noah's Ark
MADDOG69: You're the worst advertisement for the science Profession.

I don't think any reasonable person of faith thinks that the entire biosphere was sampled and put on a boat.

Now. Tell everyone the world is not flat. Just in case we didn't know. It'll make you feel clever, I'm sure of it.
I thought the world was slighty oval.....?????grin
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May 16, 2015 12:50 PM CST Noah's Ark
jac_the_gripper
jac_the_gripperjac_the_gripperTonyrefail, South Glamorgan, Wales UK24 Threads 5,363 Posts
More interestingly, it's a story of genocide.
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May 16, 2015 1:26 PM CST Noah's Ark
doh
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