Noah's ark found ?!?

So...they found a wooden structure, with fasteners that predate metal nails, on a mountain. It's high up, man-made, and made of wood.And they rule out anything other than Noah's fucking Ark because "none have ever been found above 11,000 feet in the vicinity?!"What. The. Fuck.And it has "compartments." Why do you think it was holding animals? Even if it were, why do you jump to "Noah's fucking Ark" rather than "it's an old barn from a high-altitude community?"This whole thing screams confirmation bias.

Did they carbon date the wood? Wouldn't the wood be too old to carbon date to begin with and would return inaccurate results?

Naturally I am skeptical of this "finding" because it has happened before. Here is a wiki article on searches for the Ark: Searches for Noah's Ark - Wikipedia.

And the first news source that you cite has this to say: "There have been several reported discoveries of the remains of Noah's Ark over the years, most notably a find by archaeologist Ron Wyatt in 1987."

The survival of the Ark is not even implied by scripture. If you believe the Bible, it was a structure built out of wood, made four thousand years ago, and designed to last for about a year, and then lodged on a mountain, rather than, for example, in a peat-bog. Even if every word of the Book of Genesis was true, I wouldn't expect a 4000-year old wooden artifact to survive in those conditions. Yet curiously enough, people keep on discovering it. Well ... kinda discovering it. But not really discovering it.

ADDENDUM 2: Posted 6 May 20101. A number of CMI staff have been involved in ongoing discussions over the phone with reliable folk in Hong Kong we have known for years. These are people who have close contact with the team announcing the discovery and vouch for their integrity.2. Indications at present are that the theory that ‘the Chinese team were victims of a hoax’ is getting harder to sustain. In particular, we have had direct assurance that the following pictures posted here below are ones taken directly by the team at various times at the site (click images to enlarge). Also, the discoverers have specifically responded on their website to the email by Dr Randall Price.3. While unable to comment with certainty yet about items such as the straw and the cobwebs in some photos, in light of some of the comments circulating, it should be noted that spiders (and their insect prey) exist at even higher altitudes. There are many anecdotal accounts of people going up to something like this over the centuries, in which case straw may be useful for overnight bunking, etc.4. Further investigations will likely require, initially, face-to-face inquiries with eyewitnesses, and hands-on inspection of artefacts/samples in Hong Kong. With the gracious consent of the discovery team, CMI has expressed that we are more than willing to cooperate with all relevant players, which will also assist us in being able to offer reliable commentary to our constituency via this page as it is updated.5. If such investigations continue to progressively rule out the ‘planted hoax’ theory, then it would appear that a substantial wooden construction exists under the ice at this very high altitude on Greater Mt. Ararat, a construction whose nature is yet to be determined.6. Greater Mt. Ararat is a volcano, with much evidence of ancient (hence postFlood) eruptions. So this could well be a memorial erected to the landing (which could have been elsewhere in the region, given that the Bible says the mountains of Ararat/Urartu centuries later). If so, it would still be a major archeological discovery of great interest to creationists in particular.