Noahs Ark and Rain question

Zip · 4 Sep 2008 at 12:43

I might set one up tomorrow.

Tis bedtime now

Ascendancy · 4 Sep 2008 at 12:43

BigglesPiP said:
There isn't enough water in the atmosphere to flood the world.

There is however, enough bull**** in the Christian world...

BigglesPiP · 4 Sep 2008 at 12:46

Ascendancy said:
There is however, enough bull**** in the Christian world...

Yes!

The world is only 6,000 years old, not like those pesky scientists would have you believe with their "evidence".

And don't even get me started on creation scientists: "This old cloth carbon dated to about 1300AD is the shroud Jesus was wrapped in after being nailed to a cross because I can hang a guy from a cross by nailing through a special leather glove proving that the hands are strong enough to hold a nail, and that the blood stains are in the right place."

Stretch · 4 Sep 2008 at 12:57

Ahh, the bible. More holes than a Swiss cheese.

Manlove is my forte · 4 Sep 2008 at 14:45

Zip said:
And my CN account got deleted

Start a new one, Join the ICENI alliance.

Also there is a new CN game called CN Tournament. Basically its a faster version of CN that lasts 90 days. The current round only started a few days ago. So sign up and don't delay.

Nix said:
DP is making ~10m a day now

Is that all?

Ben M · 4 Sep 2008 at 14:56

Zip said:
I know there are people out there that do and dont believe Noahs ark, But this thread isnt about that.
Its just a question i thought up while sitting on the hill at work

How many Mililitres of rain a day would there have had to had to flood the world in 40 days?

(I chose Mililitres because thats how rain is normally messured, Unless you use points. Either way you can convert them)

Get thinking people

Rain is measured in millimetres, not millilitres.

So enough water to fill the souil so that the water table was at ground level, plus however high you want the water to go.

Zip · 5 Sep 2008 at 16:37

Ascendancy said:
Speaking of Noah's ark, if the story is to be believed, then where did all the black people come from?

Noahs sons were all a different colour.

pitchfork · 5 Sep 2008 at 16:49

scorza said:
Rain is measured in inches in the UK. Long live Imperial measurements!

No they make your job a pain in the hole when you've been taught to use the metric system. And sourcing production equipment in imperial mesurements is an absolute nightmare.

Also, you can't spell bible without lie.

Skull · 5 Sep 2008 at 16:55

And you can't spell pitchfork without chip... coincidence?

doofer · 5 Sep 2008 at 17:04

Back then the World was flat, so surely all the excess water would simply have fallen off the sides, also it only took six days to create, so it wouldn't really be too much trouble to knock up a new one.

Greenlizard0 · 5 Sep 2008 at 17:05

Judging by the constant torrential downpour in Liverpool at the moment I'd imagine we're fairly close.

pitchfork · 5 Sep 2008 at 18:01

Skull said:
And you can't spell pitchfork without chip... coincidence?

That makes no sense, I am not a bag of chips.
Wheras the bible is a lie.
Thats not to say I don't believe in a higher power just not the bible and not "god".

yak.h'cir · 5 Sep 2008 at 18:46

Mount Everest is 8846m above sea level, so in order to completely flood the Earth the sea levels would need to rise this much.

You can calculate the volume of a sphere using the formula 4/3 pi r^3. So the total extra volume you'd need to fill is 4/3 pi 8846^3, which is 2.90x10^12m^3 (2.90x10^18 mililitres). And that only works if you forget the fact that the rain will be coming from the sea in the first place.

According to the US Geological survey there is 326 000 000 cubic miles (1.36x10^18m^3)of water currently on Earth. Which is quite a bit more then I was expecting! I was hoping to show that even if you forget that the sea levels would drop when the massive rain clouds initially formed and would just cycle at the same level once the rain started there still wouldn't be enough water but it seems there is. Damn watery Earth!

yak.h'cir · 5 Sep 2008 at 18:59

Ukadder said:
World Surface area: 510,072,000 km²
High of highest land: 8,848 m

Then you'd need to take out the space that is currently occupied by land above sea level so you could work out how much rain would be needed to fill the earth until no land was above the water to get a vague idea.

You don't need to worry about the volume of the Earth itself, it drops out the formula in the calculation so you can just take the volume required to fill the layer above the Earth to be the same as a sphere of radius 8848m.

taz488 · 5 Sep 2008 at 20:08

the bible is a work of fiction, and not a particularly interesting one at that, so who cares?

Angilion · 5 Sep 2008 at 20:25

Kronologic said:
How big would this ark have had to been to contain 2 of every animal in the world? London Zoo is a fairly large place and it doesn't have 2 of every animal in the world.

It was more than two, anyway. "Two" is yet another mistranslation.

This, of course, assumes that god moved some of every animal in the world to Noah's back yard and somehow made it possible for them to live outside their environment, on a boat.

And they all ate nothing, drank nothing and excreted nothing the whole time. Somehow.

The story is monumentally ludicrous and anyone who believes it as it is written is mad.

Maybe there was a local (though very large) flood and someone put some of their own farm animals on a boat. Those animals would be their wealth, even their survival.

Maybe humanity originated on another planet and Noah's ark was a spaceship with samples of a number of examples of every animal on that planet, to be somehow reconstituted on Earth from the genes up.