How BIG Would NOAH'S ARK Actually Need To Be?! #MYTHS #DEBUNKED
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Would Noah’s Ark have been enough? Would it have even floated or functioned as a sea vessel?
Coming at it from a scientific and historical perspective we investigate the feasibility of such a ship and how it all translates to real world physics.
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All Comments (21)
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What's The LARGEST STRUCTURE In The World? 🤔 https://youtu.be/SihcUMXu-wA
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Noah: Loads 2 of each animal Poison dart frogs: It's time to start the massacre
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Duh, of course they were kept in pokéballs!
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You forgot the service paths between the animal cages. If you want to feed them you need access to every cage and that is considerable amount of empty space.
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According to the Bible, the ark only had one window. This means that methane from the animal waste would quickly build up inside the ark. Since torches and candles would have been the only possible light sources known in biblical times, the methane would quickly find an ignition source and cause a massive explosion.
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Noah: Loads two of every animal onto a wooden ship The termites: Now it's time to get funky
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Noah having an entire fleet of ships sounds cooler than having one ark.
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A few years ago, Ken Ham's phony ark actually filed an insurance claim for flood damage. 🤣
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This doesn't include the amount of fresh water needed to keep all the animals alive. Oh, and the collective heat and humidity from that many vertebrates in such close quarters within an insulated space (the wooden vessel) would probably cause a lot of heat stroke before long. Remember, humans are one of the only animals that sweat. Also, the sheer amount of accumulated urine and scat that would be deposited every day would be too much for Noah and his family to clean up. This would result in the waste piling up, increasing the change of disease and infection for much of the ark's denizens. The urine would saturate the place with so much ammonia by the end of the voyage, that much of the animals would have died from ammonia poisoning or asphyxiation. Even under the most generous conditions, the ark wouldn't work by far.
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And Noah said to the kangaroos, “Stop f—ing hopping around or I’ll drop you off in Australia with all the snakes, spiders, crocodiles, and dinosaur birds”.
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...and, as one unicorn said to the other - "Damn..we missed it... oh well, there will be another boat" - the dinosaurs agreed with the unicorn and they waited together.
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Here's another problem: Many animals require a specialized environment, such as the huge tropical trees, swamps, deep caves, extremely hot or cold places, and so on. They often require specialized diets. How did Noah procure all the foods that they needed? Moreover, after the Great Flood, all plant life on the former land surface of Earth would be obliterated forever. The soil would be totally saturated with salt from the sea water, so it would be impossible to grow anything there. Noah would have to gather up not just all the animals, but the plants that many of them require to live. Can you imagine him transplanting giant sequoia trees aboard the Ark?
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I wonder how the carnivores like lions waited for deers, antelopes etc to reproduce so as to get food.
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The shit and piss would alone sink the damn ship lmao.
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“Have a pint and wait for this to blow over” - love the Shaun of the Dead reference!
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I always wondered where all the wood came from, and who let him get away with it. You'd think if you had a neighbor and he'd clear cut one square mile of forest and showed no sign of stopping, you might confront him about it. Whoever was selling him the axes must have made a fortune.
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Apologists will respond, “Kinds!” But what’s a kind? “You know, kinds.”
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You also forgot that each animal would need fresh water for the 150 days.
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From the Big Bang Theory: Sheldon: "What did they feed the lions mom?" Sheldon's Mom: "The bodies of drowned sinners."
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I think you've forgotten to take Noah's sonic screwdriver into account