Black sheep not about to go two by two on johans ark

[TrogL]

Huibers, 60, the successful owner of a big construction company, has spent the past few years building an ark, using the measurements for the one Noah is said in the book of Genesis to have built: 300 cubits in length, 30 cubits high and 50 cubits wide. The cubit of the Bible, Huibers says, was the distance between finger tips and elbow, or in his case roughly 46 centimetres - and so his ark is 138 metres long, about three storeys high and 23 metres wide.

He is building the ark out of Swedish pine, because some versions of the Bible describe the wood God ordered Noah to use as ''resin wood'', which Huibers says is pine. ''We should finish by the middle of July,'' he says, leading a visitor through the ark's cavernous decks, still rich with the smell of fresh pine. ''Maybe later.''

Unlike Noah, Huibers had to conform to Dutch fire safety standards. To do so, he installed a special anchor that qualifies the 2970-tonne ark as a building, rather than a vessel. Moreover, he will have to paint the ark, inside and out, with three coats of fire-retardant varnish. (Noah covered his ark with pitch, making it waterproof but hardly fire-retardant.) And then there are the neighbours.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/animals/black-sheep-not-about-to-go-two-by-two-on-johans-ark-20110531-1ferf.html#ixzz1O37ROUjc

[Historic NY]

1. All that trouble & fake animals...sheesh.

:wtf:

[sharp_stick]

2. I've never received a suitable explanation as to how

Noah managed to get two of every damned animal on the planet into a boat smaller than a Spruance Class Destroyer (161 meters waterline)? I've been on a Spruance Class Destroyer, no way in hell you could fit two of every animal found in your average city into that thing.

I guess like much of the bible it was magic?

[Nihil]

4. *Psst!*

> I've never received a suitable explanation as to how Noah managed to get
> two of every damned animal on the planet into a boat smaller than a
> Spruance Class Destroyer (161 meters waterline)?

http://www.willitblend.com/

Well, you don't read about any of them (other than the dove & raven)
getting off it again do you?

:evilgrin:

[struggle4progress]

3. I am delighted to see that "... His wife ... opposed the idea ..."