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World's Oldest Boat Found in Desert
Discovery News ^
| June 17, 2002
| By Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News
Posted on 06/22/2002 4:13:15 PM PDT by vannrox
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Very Interesting...
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posted on
06/22/2002 4:13:16 PM PDT
by
vannrox
To: vannrox
So what's the theory as to why it's out in the desert?
To: vannrox
And Thor Heyerdahl just passed on Apr 18. He would've thought about rebuilding and piloting it.
To: vannrox
found covered on one side with barnaclesThem barnacles are some thorn in the side of us boat owners.
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posted on
06/22/2002 4:22:31 PM PDT
by
Lower55
To: Mike Fieschko
Must be Jacques Cousteau's first Calypso.
What a maroon that french fry turned out to be.
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posted on
06/22/2002 4:24:03 PM PDT
by
Lower55
To: vannrox
Littering the desert, the Dems need a new law.
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posted on
06/22/2002 4:28:46 PM PDT
by
bmwcyle
To: d4now
FYI
To: vannrox; knighthawk; Yehuda; PhiKapMom; OKSooner
...bitumen, which is still crushed with fish oil and coral and used
today by some Middle Eastern boat builders, likely formed a waterproof seal around
vessels constructed out of reed bundles tied together with ropes and string.
No doubt some of the Islamicists who want to rule the world and put us all
under Shar'ia law.
And haven't improved their methods in about 8,000 years.
(OK, it may still be effective waterproofing, but you get the point...)
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posted on
06/22/2002 4:45:49 PM PDT
by
VOA
To: Willie Green
So what's the theory as to why it's out in the desert?This was before the invention of water, so the best they could do was float it on sand.
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posted on
06/22/2002 4:50:00 PM PDT
by
JoeSchem
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub; blam
Thanks for the bump Tonk. :)
Bump to you blam.
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posted on
06/22/2002 5:01:55 PM PDT
by
d4now
To: JoeSchem
So what's the theory as to why it's out in the desert?
Uh, their trailer broke down?
To: vannrox
Thanks, I love this kind of stuff.
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posted on
06/22/2002 5:09:08 PM PDT
by
Ditter
To: hedgetrimmer
So what's the theory as to why it's out in the desert?
The ancient forebearers to the Zoroastrian Persians had the same concerns as the modern day tree huggers. First comes global warming, then beachfront property in the desert. It just took a bit longer than they thought.
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posted on
06/22/2002 5:16:30 PM PDT
by
AdA$tra
To: JoeSchem
C'mon... water was invented to put out fire!
The inventor was Ishkabible I in 7504 BC.
Fire was invented by Bug IV during the Charcoal Age, approximately 9500 BC... hence the term fire-bug.
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posted on
06/22/2002 5:28:21 PM PDT
by
johnny7
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub
May just be the Explosive Ordnance Disposal thinking still in me but I'd suggest that folks don't "dig" anywhere in the Kuwaiti Desert......... Trust me on this one :o)
Stay Safe
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posted on
06/22/2002 6:06:40 PM PDT
by
Squantos
To: vannrox; ofMagog
boat builders, likely formed a waterproof seal ...with ropes and string. Look how far we have advanced, now days, we use duct tape and chewing gum.
To: Willie Green
Here we go ....
"So what's the theory as to why it's out in the desert?"
I don't think Noah built the first boat ever. I think there were boats on bodies of water, whether ocean, lake or pond.
The fragment found in the Kuwaiti desert means the same thing as oceanic fossils showing up on mile-high mountains ... a universal flood.
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posted on
06/22/2002 6:29:45 PM PDT
by
knarf
To: knarf
Not exactly. A boat in the Kuwaiti desert means slightly higher sea levels, enough for the salt marshes seen up towards Iraq to be somewhat bigger in area, large enough to cover this now dry location. The area is hardly mountainous and sea levels fluctuate throughout history. The middle east was once a far wetter place than now, just as the American midwest was once tropical and had oceanfront property.
As for fossils on mountains, they are there because of geologic uplift, as can be seen by the sharp angle of the bands of fossilized sea bed. Clearly, when the bands were made, the area was flat seafloor, not mountainous, and the layers were made over a very long time period before the uplift began. The fossil sea critters now seen in mountain rock are of course far older than the boat in any case. Wrong time period to be concurrent with the boat, unless you're thinking multiple floods.
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posted on
06/22/2002 7:43:01 PM PDT
by
piasa
To: Willie Green
World's Oldest Boat...
Found in the Kuwaiti desert...
Implication: The world's oceans are abnormally low and have been for a couple thousand years...
To: piasa
Seriously, most of Kuwait is the result of millenia of silt building a delta at the base of the river.
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