This is a spin-off of a topic in the geology forum and is intended to tackle one specific issue - that's of the minimum feed requirements for various types of animals.
In Noah's Ark: A Feasibility Study by John Woodmorappe. He puts the total number of "invited" organisms at 15,754 - this consists of 7,428 mammals, 4,602 birds and 3,724 reptiles (including dinosaurs).
While we are never going to come up with a full-list, I want to get a better idea of the amount of feeding that the 8 people in the ark would have to be involved in. Even if we only establish a sub-set of animals, it will give a better idea of the task they had and also a resource for people to call upon in future debate.
I know there are other connected arguments about where some of the "special requirements" food is going from - such as for the Koalas but at least at the start of this thread let's take it as a given that some unknown source of each food type exists.
I am also assuming that we will all use american measurement?
OK - the first two animals that have been mentioned on the geology thread are:
Horses proposed by schrafinator
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This means that Noah, just to feed two horses and no other herbivores on the Ark, would need nearly 11,000 pounds of hay for 365 days.
Of course, this doesn't even account for the fresh water that would have to be stowed on board, as nobody could drink sea water and they couldn't collect enough rain in 40 days and 40 nights to last them the other 325 days.
Horses drink about 6-10 gallons of water a day, so this makes the two horses' minimum fresh water requirements for the year at 4,380 gallons.
Elephant - proposed by Mangy Tiger
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Elephants need 300 pounds of food each per day (minimum).
It's harder to get a figure for water consumption - estimates seem to be in the 180 to 230 litres per day range (40 to 51 UK gallons or 48 to 61 US gallons). We'll go for the minimum of 48 US gallons.
So for two elephants we have:
2*300*365 = 219000 pounds of food.
2*48*365 = 35040 gallons of drinking water
So I make the current totals as follows:
Food: 11,000 (Horses) + 219,000 (Elephants) = 230,000 pounds of food.
water: 4,380 (horses) + 35,040 (Elephants) = 39,420 gallons of water.
REMEMBER THIS IS NOT A THREAD FOR SPECIAL PLEADING - THIS IS A FLOOD WHERE GOD LEFT THEM TO GET ON WITH IT - NO MAGIC REQUIRED OR WANTED HERE - TRY NEXT DOOR
Edited by CK, : No reason given.
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