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Author Topic:   The Ark - materials, construction and seaworthness
lfen
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Message 40 of 231 (327279)
06-28-2006 5:39 PM
Reply to: Message 37 by arachnophilia
06-28-2006 4:43 PM


Re: gopher wood
interesting. Are you saying that you think it likely that "gofer" is a misreading of bad handwriting and that the original said it was to be made of "pitch wood" meaning I suppose wood with a lot of pitch in it?
lfen

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lfen
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Message 52 of 231 (327326)
06-28-2006 8:25 PM
Reply to: Message 14 by Discreet Label
06-28-2006 1:22 PM


Waving hand. I know the answer!call on me!!
So to calrify I am asking how do you convert a non-existing up and down motion of the ark relative to the ocean into energy?
I know! I know! You give a really fast spiel and come up with imaginative possibilities and Voila! you've solved the problem. For some of us it's really that easy

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lfen
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Message 99 of 231 (328396)
07-03-2006 2:11 AM
Reply to: Message 98 by deerbreh
07-02-2006 9:33 PM


Re: Whatever floats your boat
If Ian has evidence of water wheels and reciprocating pumps in the 4th millenium B.C. let him produce it. Enough with could have, would have, might have been possible history.
Ian is just having mechanical engineering fun dreaming this stuff up. I think it's called blarney in Ireland, and shoveling bull here in the states. Those are his fields not archeology. Of course he's not gonna offer what he doesn't have because it doesn't exist!
lfen

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lfen
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Message 128 of 231 (328792)
07-04-2006 2:59 PM
Reply to: Message 123 by iano
07-03-2006 4:09 PM


pumping that old semi-solid sludge
I am talking semi-solid sludge from animal waste - this is far easier to pump than water - the tolerances required being within the scope of someone in those days
Oh, yeah, talk about semi-solid sludge from animal waste being easy to pump!
In the states we talk about someone "shoveling bullsh__" but you Ian have more than amply demonstrated a virtuosic ability to pump the ole semi-solid sludge like a maestro!
Somehow I never got the impression that Noah could shovel or pump animal waste with anything near your facility though. On the other hand whether by shovel, pump, or hand, bs'ing goes back to the dawn of language.
Okay, now that I'm weak from laughter I'll cooperate. I'm ready for my meds, and Admins can come and take me away and put me in the suspended straitjacket for a spell and hopefully I'll recover. It's just Ian, you are being too funny!!!!
lfen

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lfen
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Message 231 of 231 (331911)
07-15-2006 3:26 AM
Reply to: Message 221 by ringo
07-13-2006 12:21 PM


Try to rein in those galloping goalposts, will ya?
da dump da dump da dump da dump
da dump da dump da dump da dump
da dump da dump da dump da dump
daaaa dummmmm da dump
"Galloping goalposts! It's the Lone Ranger!"
"Hi-Yo Silver! Away!"
Who was that masked man, anyway?
EvC as Monty Python's Flying Circus as we chase around after this goalpost that goes galloping off with dubbed in sounds of pounding feet. Sometimes my imagination overcomes me.
"Try to rein in those galloping goalposts, will ya?" would make a great sig line.
thanks for the laugh, I'm still snorkeling as I type this,
lfen

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