Posted on 03/09/2006 2:04:32 PM PST by loganphive
High on Mt. Ararat in eastern Turkey, there is a baffling mountainside "anomaly," a feature that one researcher claims may be something of biblical proportions.
Images taken by aircraft, intelligence-gathering satellites and commercial remote-sensing spacecraft are fueling an intensive study of the intriguing oddity. But whether the anomaly is some geological quirk of nature, playful shadows, a human-made structure of some sort, or simply nothing at all—that remains to be seen.
Whatever it is, the anomaly of interest rests at 15,300 feet (4,663 meters) on the northwest corner of Mt. Ararat, and is nearly submerged in glacial ice. It would be easy to call it merely a strange rock formation.
But at least one man wonders if it could be the remains of Noah's Ark—a vessel said to have been built to save people and selected
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
Who'd have thunk it? Global warming leads to Ark discovery.
I have been reading about this for 15 years. This is silly... just hike your *ss up there and find out. I know that the Turks say the area is off limits, but I am sure that there are plenty of adventurers who would go anyway if there was any reason to think that Noah's Ark is actually there.
I swear these we are about to find Noah's ark story come out everyyear.I thought the same think too its wood for goodness sake. It aint the other ark for goodness sakes. Of course that in that big warehouse
I personally am not offended by double posts, but just for those that want to see them, there's some of the photos here:
(Looks like a stretch to me.)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1593257/posts
There is another thread.
People have been discussin this for years. It's hardly new, and highly unlikely. But I'd be glad to be proven wrong on this one.
This has already been posted, but again:
For Believers:
http://www.noahsarksearch.com/
http://arksearch.com/
For Skeptics:
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-noahs-ark.html
http://skepdic.com/noahsark.html
Of course, looking at things with a religious agenda can cause a person to look at facts with an interesting perspective:
http://fixedearth.com/
http://geocentric-universe.com/
Does it show up on "Google Earth"?
Not sure if there's anything new here for Gods & Glyphs, but ping FWIW.
What's that in cubits?
I have been reading about this for 15 years. This is silly... just hike your *ss up there and find out. I know that the Turks say the area is off limits, but I am sure that there are plenty of adventurers who would go anyway if there was any reason to think that Noah's Ark is actually there.
I hear you. Send some people in to check it out. Then send someone in to dig under the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and while we're at it, send a manned ship to the Mars face. Why not? Things like this are the things that motivate people to explore. Otherwise we can just listen to news stories about the Kennedy's or the next hurricane season or what not. I'd gladly spend tax dollars on this like this over illegal alien medical care.
Petrified wood?
Approximately 10,200 cubits.
Nothing gets buried under a glacier and then comes out the same way it went in. All you have to do is read some stories about mountaineering to know this. Here's a good one:
From the article:
"It's kind of like a bread mixer," Jordan observed as we picked our way around thin crevasses and frigid pools of Windex-blue meltwater. "The worst of the violence is the avalanches, but there are also the years of tearing and crushing in the glaciers. The movement churns them up in summer, back down in winter. Appendages get torn off in the disgorging process. When they surface, they're almost all headless, because that's the weakest link in the body. Mostly you find legs—very few arms."
If Noah's ark was ever inside glacial ice, it is gone. Period.
"You can park a Volkswagen in your front yard, and within 2 years it will collapse into dust. I could never understand why people would think a wooden object would last thousands of years-- but... interesting nonetheless"
there's 2 factors that make it plausible. 1 being that there's less oxygen at that altitude, and 2 the cold, both would help keep the decaying bacteria at bay.
There's one factor that makes it impossible: the glacier. See my previous post.
This has been going on for decades.
You can be sure somebody is trying to "fundraise" over this nonsense.
Fascinating links. Thanks.
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