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Vreejack wrote in
oups.com: On May 9, 7:14 pm, "Mike Painter" wrote: Vreejack wrote: There is a size limit on wooden ships due to leaking between the planks. If you made a wooden ship the size of Noah's ark it would sink pretty quickly even in a calm sea. Hogging and breaching are the main problems with large ships. There have also been found ships built with cord that used the swelling of the wood in a flexible design to minimize leaks. Most amusing (assuming flat seas ) is that the "solution" to hogging and breaching can be found in the middle of the USA, right where the fundie mindset is greatest. I've yet to see a fundie use it. Just ask Sam Clemmons. I read Life on the Mississippi, but I don't remember anything therein that would help an impossibly large boat float. Incidentally, I had to look up "hogging" and "breaching" but I already understood their consequences. The massive flexing of the ark would make it unfloatable in anything other than a permanently calm sea. This is why wooden ships topped out at a much smaller size, or became somewhat sphere-like in shape. An ark of the dimensions cited in the Bible would only float through divine grace, which then makes you wonder why God went through that whole flood nonsense instead of just pronouncing everyone but Noah and his family dead. It's a good thing Hitler didn't have a magic ark and a magic rainstorm or he might have tried it, too. He almost got the Ark. Good thing Dr. Jones got ahold of it! -- Doc Smartass, BAAWA Knight of Heckling aa # 1939 Help Prevent Projectile Stupidity Duct-Tape a Fundie's Mouth Shut Today! |
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