About that Boat - Noah's Ark

And then he probably paid them with a check before he locked their sorry sinful asses out of the boat to drown. What a jerk.

Nope. All gopher wood, dang it!

My favorite interpretation is that of Walt Brown. He has an online book claiming that there was a mile-thick chamber full of water ten miles below the surface. It broke through at the mid-ocean ridges, fountaining enough to launch the asteroid belt into solar orbit. No big waves, though, of course, and that 800-degree steam didn't bother the ark - gopher wood is probably part asbestos.

Bonobojones, a poster on this very thread, would disagree. And he has the calculations to back his opinion up.

Hi, Carico! Welcome!This is a science forum - do you have any non-scriptural support for those assertions?

Hmmm....flashback to the poultry industry, ca. 1965....
Chicken houses, even with the 20,000 chickens removed to meet their fate, are chokingly strong in the ammonia department. And the houses have huge fans at the ends to keep them ventilated, not a single window at the top like Arks do. According to various web sources, the human nose doesn't even detect ammonia until its concentration is 5 to 17 parts per million. The US Permissible Exposure Limit is 50 parts per million, but most other countries use 25 ppm. 300 ppm is "immediately dangerous to life and health."