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Noah's Ark Found...

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... to be nothing more than a rocky outcrop, if you ask me. But this new QuickBird (satellite) photo of one of the rocky outcrops held by simple folk to be the Ark has got one or two excited, for some reason.

Can't say it looks like much to me, but there we are.

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The ark's found every few years or so, always in a different place.

Shifty, that ark. Very shifty. Always hiding.
 
Pareidolia, Noah's Ark edition. It deserves its own page in DSM-IV.
 
Well, pictures don't lie. Guess that's the ark alright...
 
Did you read the article about the guy who's making this claim?

Taylor has been a national security analyst for more than 30 years, also serving as a senior associate for five years at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C.

"I've got new found optimism ... as far as my continuing push to have the intelligence community declassify some of the more definitive-type imagery," Taylor told SPACE.com/LiveScience.
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These are the people tapping our phones. I feel safer already.
 
Hey look fossilized goats droppings on Mount Arrarat proff that Noah was there
 
JamesDillon said:
Did you read the article about the guy who's making this claim?



These are the people tapping our phones. I feel safer already.
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I'm sure there's a cheap shot about WMDs one could mine from that as well.
 
This reminds me of that episode of The Simpsons when the townfolk find what they think is an angel but it turns out to be.....

well, you saw the episode.
 
That can't possibly be Noah's Ark. A much more Ark-looking bump was already found.

On Mars.

It's a tribute to the glory of God, and the amazingly poor navigation skills of Noah.
 
So a wooden Ark would fossilize into stone??

Man, these people are insane.
 
Zbu said:
So a wooden Ark would fossilize into stone??

Man, these people are insane.
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Well, wood can do that (that's what petrified means), sometimes quite rapidly under the right conditions, but I suspect that a scientific expedition to the site would readily reveal that it's just an unremarkable geological feature.
 
ceo_esq said:
Well, wood can do that (that's what petrified means), sometimes quite rapidly under the right conditions, but I suspect that a scientific expedition to the site would readily reveal that it's just an unremarkable geological feature.
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Oh, I know, but I keep thinking that a gigantic wooden ship that carried every single animal on it would collapse before it would turn to stone. Plus it may collapse onto itself if the deck became too heavy for the rest of the ship to hold it up. Plus it seems beached....

You know, it's just easier to call this stupid. :)
 
Zbu said:
Oh, I know, but I keep thinking that a gigantic wooden ship that carried every single animal on it would collapse before it would turn to stone. Plus it may collapse onto itself if the deck became too heavy for the rest of the ship to hold it up. Plus it seems beached....
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Actually, the "beached" part is the most important. The most crucial thing for fossilization to occur is burial. According to the Bible, Noah's ark landed on a mountain, and a very tall one at that (since it was the first one he saw as the waters subsided). Mountains are sites of erosion, not deposition. If anything, the ark would be washed into the valleys and eventually into the sea, probably after rotting into tiny little pieces.

Yep. These are idiots we are dealing with here.
 
Tricky said:
Actually, the "beached" part is the most important. The most crucial thing for fossilization to occur is burial. According to the Bible, Noah's ark landed on a mountain, and a very tall one at that (since it was the first one he saw as the waters subsided). Mountains are sites of erosion, not deposition. If anything, the ark would be washed into the valleys and eventually into the sea, probably after rotting into tiny little pieces.

Yep. These are idiots we are dealing with here.
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DUH!
 
All this makes me want to go out, chisel a surfboard out of rock, call it 'Noah's Board of Oceanic Deliverance,' and see how many suckers I can get money from until JREF calls me out.

Because you know, that would pay my mortgage easily.
 
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Another version of the same image? From here.

I'm pretty sure I've seen an old picture (taken from an aeroplane? In WW2??) of this same site, when it was first earmarked as one of the umpteen Ark sites, but I can't find it now. But I think the idea of this new picture is that it's higher resolution, better lighting, and still looks like an Ark (if you squint, turn your head sideways, hold your breath and take 250mcg of LSD).
 
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