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To: docbnj

The ark was not designed to be a “boat” in the ordinary sense. It was designed to be an efficient, complicated life raft, and its most important characteristic was that it was impossible to capsize.


23 posted on 05/17/2009 5:32:39 PM PDT by Phantom4
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. It was designed to be an efficient, complicated life raft, and its most important characteristic was that it was impossible to capsize.

And yet noone has built a liferaft of those proportions 6:1? WTF? that says a design speed of in the region of 20kts.

37 posted on 05/17/2009 10:32:22 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Obama in Office for 100 days: Wall Street panics.)
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