The Flood - Animals and their minimum food requirement

No idea CK, but often times a solution can be staring you in the face (hint: look at the title of the thread). Drilling a hole in the side of the ark below the waterline strikes me as an elegant solution. Things a bit tight? Drill another one Quite...

Since when has it rained sea water?

Salt densities are less at the surface where eye-dropper-like rain falls than at lower layers?. Make it a lot of rain and you get a layer of fresh water/heavily diluted salt water at the surface? Add less than fussy consumers and bobs-your-hydration problem solved This thing was the size of a football field apparently (upthread). A bilge pump (animal operated) is not exactly going to tax the engineer concerned. I imagine he would make good use of the fact that it would be a post-processing semi-solid sludge he had to deal with - rather than water. It simplifies pump design.

We have an aquarium of unknown depth, a starting salt concentration of unknown concentration, a volume of fresh water of unknown quantity and a resulting salt concentration of unknown concentration.And less than fussy consumers. Possible.Besides, a Rain-Collection-Device^tm the size of a football pitch may well be sufficient in itself

Who said it was leaky? Collect the rain and allow to overflow that which you do not need. Read the post upthread about hibernation to reduce your need to pump to acceptable levels. Horsepower and associated complexity dependant on further hard data as to actual waste disposal requirements. Cannot compute yet.Also design the ark to sink lower in the water under the weight of the waste matter you don't need to dump overboard in order to act as bait for the fish you are catching (aided by your Animal Powered Net Retraction System^tm. The Tilapia (the so-called St Peters Fish - the fish who coughed up the coin) is known to eat sewage and sounds like the kind of thing that Noah would have been afterWe might also suppose that the fuller effects of the fall were not so apparent then as now. Noah was doing this with a fair few centuries behind his back. He sure was smarter than the average bear. We might suppose that the animals were a lot smarter and less contrary (fallen) as well "Yo Daisy - take 5" might have been all it took by way of team changingAnd the maxim that holds now would have held then. Well designed equipment doesn't need much in the way of repair. This stuff was made in Israel not in China. You are a product of the disposable age Ringo. It shows.Edited by iano, : No reason given.

Got a salt concentration in mind - all unknowns considered.And remember the freshwater collection device mentioned previously

In fact, have we anything to suppose this vessel was seagoing at all? Float her on a OT-style Sea of Galilee and wait for fresh flood waters running down the mountainsides to lift her. Your own, personal, water tank - until the, by now, diluted seas overflow the mountains.And plenty of fish to eat.Location, location, location.

The thread supposes an ark and I presume other items contained in the Genesis narrative. Those being a given, all kinds of lesser wonders spring (oops) to mind.Consequences of multi-century old men knocking up design and build projects of this magnitude allow for reasonable speculation as to what else might have been possible.When it comes to detailed facts we're all speculating here. And having some fun to boot..When it comes to belief - well that's your own choice

Non sequitur See location, location, location hypothesis (that'll get em going) above As will he, if he attempts to live to 950 years. They don't make em like they used to: men or boats Don't know much about buoyancy do you? The ark was made of wood - nigh on all of which is far less dense than water (which is why boats get built from wood very often) the contents of the ark was air and species which are largely water themselves.Any sized boat can float.

Having seen some of the mess technology has enabled I imagine one might ponder on the wisdom of propagating it. Technology is a double-edged sword (see: The Manhattan Project) There wasn't much evidence to leave. Especially if one considers the value of wood in a landscape possibly devoid of it. Noah sounds to me like a pragmatic man who would consider his burgeoning familes shelter more important that trying to convince a world of something they wouldn't believe even if it came down and turned water into wine

Useful tendency that for an informed boat builder with time on his hands - so long as every leak-prone joint utilises that feature of wood. Read: joints that lock tighter together as moisture content increases.The point is, a little basic engineering takes care of a multitude. Water isn't necessarily as issue at all if the ark took to freshwater. We have unlimited bait, a sewage eating fish and a consumer - sounds like the ark is in business

This thread assumes a massive ark in order for it to float. I'll keep all technological claims within a nautical mile of that assumption - I promise Because the Bible tells me so

At the age he was he was running at the equivilent of the peak of his intellectual powers if you compared him to usConsider this stone which forms part of the 1st century bc wall around Jerusalem. I saw this beast with my own eyes. I tried slipping a piece of paper between its perfectly square edge and the the perfectly square edge of the stone laid next to it. It didn't go in more that an inch before buckling

This is even better. Look! Can you imagine the strength of a finely made tongue-and-groove joint which is glued together? Friccin' impregnable that. "Noah, take a bow (oops)" I'm trying to save the topic. According to you the ark would have sunk before anyone got thirsty or hungry enough to require all the food and water we're trying to load on board. Scuttle the ship before she sails as it wereEdited by iano, : No reason given.

Sure. It bloody impressive I tell you.Page not found - aish.comUnder the subheading "Stones" a mouse roll or two down the pageEdited by iano, : No reason given.