EXCLUSIVE: Satellite Sleuth Closes in on Noah’s Ark Mystery

Space.com ^ | 09 March 2006 | Leonard David

[steel_resolve]

Wow.

[hadaclueonce]

NASA Budget Time Ping.

[Dark Skies]

ping

[UnklGene]

Noah's ark.

[Albion Wilde]

DigitalGlobe's QuickBird commercial remote sensing satellite imaged the Mt. Ararat "anomaly" in 2003. This image has never seen by the public until now. The anomaly is surrounded below by very rugged-looking strato-volcanic rock; however, the texture of the feature in question is relatively smooth and appears to be made of a different substance. Credit: DigitalGlobe

[mikeus_maximus]

Not again....

Didn't we do this back in the 80's?

[6ppc]

Old news. There have been several shows on History or Discovery about this over the last few years.

[MineralMan]

Oh, wow! A red elipse on the side of a mountain! It MUST be the ark. Oh, wait...the red elipse is just a drawing around a natural formation. Oops. Never mind.

[Old Sarge]

History in the making!

[MarkeyD]

[Lady Heron]

Yes they did. Some have even brought back wood from the ark supposedly. Never have figured out why they do not let researchers in to see for sure.

[Always Learning]

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/

[RegulatorCountry]

I have my doubts as to whether a wooden craft, built more than 4,000 years ago and at least somewhat exposed in such a severe climate, would survive this long. It would be awe-inspiring if it did, but it just seems unlikely.

[caver]

Yes, they do this same story every couple of years. It was interesting the first time, after that, it was just a repeat.

[edcoil]

I still think Noah used the wood for fire to keep warm once getting back on land and to cook food.

I heard a guy interviewed after 15 trips to the middle-east and there is an upcoming special that he found Noah's ark and it is nont in Ararat mountains.

[Ichneumon]

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.

Wake me when they have more than wild speculation and a photo of a rock. Until then, the headline is ludicrously overwrought, and unlikely to bear any more fruit than these past "discoveries":

CH500: The Ark

• CH500. Noah's ark has been found.
  • CH501. We can expect to find Noah's ark on Mount Ararat.
  • CH502.1. Noah's ark may have been photographed on Ararat in 1949.
  • CH502.2. ERTS satellite photographed Noah's ark in 1973.
  • CH503. Noah's ark has been found near Dogubayazit, Turkey.
    • CH503.1. Anchor stones of Noah's ark have been found.
    • CH503.2. The Turkish government officially recognized the site of Noah's ark.
  • CH504.1. James Bryce found a 4-foot timber high on Ararat.
  • CH504.2. Navarra retrieved hand-hewn wood from high on Ararat.
  • CH504.3. Hardwicke Knight found soft wood timbers on Ararat.
  • CH505.1. Yearam guided three vile scientists to Noah's ark in 1916.
  • CH505.2. An 1883 Turkish expedition found Noah's ark.
  • CH505.3. Prince Nouri of Baghdad found the ark in 1887.
  • CH505.4. Hagopian visited the ark with his uncle around 1908.
  • CH505.5. Russian aviator Roskovitsky photographed the ark.
  • CH505.6. Resit, a Kurdish farmer, found the ark in 1948.
  • CH505.7. Local Kurds led Ed Davis to the ark in 1943.
  • CH505.8. Ed Behling was led to the ark in 1973.

And: Sun Pictures and the Noah's Ark Hoax

[shuckmaster]

The Noah's ark story is a plagiarism of the much earlier Gilgamesh epic which itself is descended from a verbal account of the salt water flooding of the Black Sea circa 5600BC.

[epluribus_2]

So maybe the satellite pics are from Gilgamesh's ark.

[NC28203]

>>>The face of the anomaly measured 1,015 feet (309 meters) across, Franz said. "I also found the shape of the anomaly appears to fit on a circle. I am not sure what this means, if anything, but I find it curious." Given that length, Taylor pointed out, the anomaly dwarfs the Titanic and Bismarck in size, and equals the size of the largest modern aircraft carrier

Would a modern aircraft carrier be large enough to hold two of every species of animal on the Earth?

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

I was in Armenia and Mount Ararat and Little Ararat stand out from other Mountains behind them. I can see how people in that area would claim it is the area the Ark landed.