2- If it really turns out to be what they say it is, what are the implications ?
If this discovery and its dating do turn out to be of a giant 4800 year old ark lodged atop Mt. Ararat, it will validate once and for all and beyond any shadow of a doubt the Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh and that this vessel was built by Gilgamesh's uncle, Utnapishtim (for whom I named my fist born son). It will prove conclusively that the Sumerian pantheon of gods are the true gods who created and rule the universe. We will see Christian creationists the world over fall to their knees as they beg the Goddess Nenlil for forgiveness.
A great wailing will be heard throughout the land (except in Japan, where it will be a great whaling that is heard) as the kneeling creationists tear out their hair and rend their clothes (except for Buzsaw, who will tear out the hair and rend the clothes of the supplicant kneeling next to him) as they cast off their false religion, tear down their cursed churches and cathedrals and return to the beloved Gods antiquity.
(Or not.)