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Noah's Ark to be Built in KY, Bill Nye Chagrined

posted by LaminatorX on Saturday March 01 2014, @08:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the you-both-get-dirty-and-the-pig-likes-it dept.

McGruber writes:

"Following up on the Bil Nye and Ken Ham debate on Creationism, Creation Museum founder Ken Ham announced Thursday that a municipal bond offering has raised enough money to begin construction on the Ark Encounter project, estimated to cost about $73 million. Groundbreaking is planned for May and the ark is expected to be finished by the summer of 2016. Ham credits the high-profile evolution debate he had with "Science Guy" Bill Nye on Feb. 4 with boosting support for the project.

After learning that the project would move forward, Nye said he was 'heartbroken and sickened for the Commonwealth of Kentucky,' lamenting that the ark would eventually draw more attention to the beliefs of Ham's Young-earth Creationist ministry. 'Voters and taxpayers in Kentucky will eventually see that this is not in their best interest.' Nye hopes."

 
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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Pslytely Psycho on Saturday March 01 2014, @11:32AM

    by Pslytely Psycho (1218) on Saturday March 01 2014, @11:32AM (#9061)

    I wasn't too far off for numbers I just pulled out of my ass.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoologischer_Garten_B erlin [wikipedia.org]

    20,500 animals but only 1500 species.
    So since it is 84 acres, lets see, minimize the space down to cruel as fuck, make it four levels deep, maybe the 10K worth of animals could fit into an ark of maybe 30 or 40 acres...an aircraft carrier is about 3.5 acres.....and made of steel...so, uh, yeah, even make it more cruel and say 20 acres...oh shit, I forgot about food storage for 40 days at sea and a few years to desalinate the soil and grow food, even if the salinity was reduced by volume and you could use the soil, a full season to plant and harvest. Damn, I forgot to add seed storage as well.....

    Yeah, fuck all! This is totally doable! (pulls groin from laughing)

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Pslytely Psycho on Saturday March 01 2014, @11:42AM

    by Pslytely Psycho (1218) on Saturday March 01 2014, @11:42AM (#9064)

    Damn, I forgot WATER. Noah must of had a nuclear powered de-salination system.

    Excuse me, GOD powered de-salination system.

    Water brings in a whole new problem unless the dilution was enough to render it passebly potable. (Math whiz problem of the week!)

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    • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Ryuugami on Saturday March 01 2014, @04:13PM

      by Ryuugami (2925) on Saturday March 01 2014, @04:13PM (#9148)
      Well, since the flood was caused through 40 days & nights of rain, if the Ark started deep enough inland, probably the sea water wouldn't have enough time to spread the salt around before the waters receded. Especially considering the water currents of the newborn World Sea. I assume that the Bearded One would point Noah to a good enough location to minimize such inconveniences, so they would probably be fine even without desalinating water.

      Of course, the other problems still stand...

      (GNPS [Grammar Nazi PS]: "Must've". Not "must of".)
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      • (Score: 1) by monster on Wednesday March 05 2014, @11:30AM

        by monster (1260) on Wednesday March 05 2014, @11:30AM (#11274) Journal

        Well, if he was capable of sustaining a whole nation in the desert for years just by raining manna and no word of water, sure he would be able to support the animals in the ark for 40 days without any food or water. Even more, that way the ark also wouldn't need sanitaries (otherwise keeping the ark clean would be a hell of a job!).

        I mean, once you put an all-capable being in the story, why limit your options?