Dutch Carpenter Builds Lifesize Ark

[SgtRock]

Greetings EEVBees:

--Well do I know that the subject of the article cited below, is off topic so to speak. But it is so funny, that I thought most of you would get a kick out of it. And I thought, qubits were small things.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2170080/Dutch-carpenter-builds-scale-replica-Noahs-Ark-plans-sail-Thames-Olympics.html#ixzz1zxORtja6

--For some appropriate commentary, please read Letter V from Letters From The Earth by Mark Twain:

http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/twainlfe.htm

"However, the thing that really and finally and definitely determined Noah to stop with enough species for purely business purposes and let the rest become extinct, was an incident of the last days: an excited stranger arrived with some most alarming news. He said he had been camping among some mountains and valleys about six hundred miles away, and he had seen a wonderful thing there: he stood upon a precipice overlooking a wide valley, and up the valley a billowy black sea of strange animal life coming. Presently the creatures passed by, struggling, fighting, scrambling, screeching, snorting -- horrible vast masses of tumultuous flesh! Sloths as big as an elephant; frogs as big as a cow; a megatherium and his harem huge beyond belief; saurians and saurians and saurians, group after group, family after family, species after species -- a hundred feet long, thirty feet high, and twice as quarrelsome; one of them hit a perfectly blameless Durham bull a thump with its tail and sent it whizzing three hundred feet into the air and it fell at the man's feet with a sigh and was no more. The man said that these prodigious animals had heard about the Ark and were coming. Coming to get saved from the flood. And not coming in pairs, they were all coming: they did not know the passengers were restricted to pairs, the man said, and wouldn't care a rap for the regulations, anyway -- they would sail in that Ark or know the reason why."

"Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work."
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens ) 1835 1910

Best Regards
Clear Ether

[G7PSK]

There is no blueprint or cad drawing or sketch only a very vague description of the ark in the bible so how does he know he has built an exact replica.

[thb]

Does he claim that it's an exact replica? Could not find that statement in the article.
Phantastic work!

[EEVblog]

There is no blueprint or cad drawing or sketch only a very vague description of the ark in the bible so how does he know he has built an exact replica.

Well, given that it's a fictional story, he's actually built the first one.

Dave.

[djsb]

He should start selling it here in the UK. Feels like it will NEVER stop raining here.

[Simon]

He should start selling it here in the UK. Feels like it will NEVER stop raining here.

yea, I'm sick of this rain

[SgtRock]

Greetings EEVBees:

--The story of Noah is probably not quite exactly fictional. It is almost certainly derived from the Sumerian Epic Gilgamesh, which may be derived from an Old Babylonian story about hauling beer up the Euphrates. The Gilgamesh Epic mixes in aspects of another story which may have its origins in the possible flooding of the Black Sea, which was formerly a low lying fresh water lake. So there may be some truth in the story. Homer's The Iliad was thought to be be entirely fictional, until Heinrich Schliemann unearthed Troy. Indeed Troy existed, but Zeus, and the other Gods of Olympus have gone missing.

"Some say that Noah was the first carpenter because he made the Ark, but they forget Eve, who made Adam's Banana Stand."
Gator Dundee 1948 -

[T4P]

There's a church here who claims to be building a $1billion SGD ark...
I want them to be revealed to be using donation money just like the other church's pastor which is being charged for stealing $50mil for his wife's shitty career 

[SeanB]

Has it rained for 40 days already Simon?

[Spikee]

he must be smoking alot of weed if he beliefs in gesus from mechico

[Short Circuit]

Does he claim that it's an exact replica? Could not find that statement in the article.
Phantastic work!

No he doesn't. It is build on top of 25 pontoons (old "LASH" units).

The Ark is opening for public this monday, and it has been raining for most of the day... 

Actually only 18km from here, maybe I'll take a biketrip there some sunny sundayafternoon.

[Simon]

Has it rained for 40 days already Simon?

I'm sure it has, but then we are told we are getting 30 days of rain in 1 so does that count as 30, if so it's been raining all year

[hans]

Ah this explains the bad weather around here lately!

Damn lot of woodwork done.

Wonder how long it takes before someone in Amsterdam really smokes a lot of weed and 'accidently' lights it. I believe some VOC ships have gone done that way in the past years.

[firewalker]

Damn! He also forgot to save some dinosaur replicas! 

Alexander.

[PA0PBZ]

Although I live in the Netherlands I never heard of this guy before. He has a website too, here is the English version: http://www.arcofnoah.org/
Looks like he just did it for the fun 

[EEVblog]

Damn! He also forgot to save some dinosaur replicas! 

The creation museum will eventually run out of cash, and when it does he can pick up the animatronic dinosaurs for pennis on the dollar 

Dave.

[tom66]

So, for fun or for a religious reason? I think the second one, but it is a ridiculous story anyway.

[Uncle Vernon]

Damn! He also forgot to save some dinosaur replicas! 

The creation museum will eventually run out of cash, and when it does he can pick up the animatronic dinosaurs for pennis on the dollar 

Dave.

Word is left leaning politicians have picked upon the animal protection and clean fuel aspects of the project and are due to inject billion under the guise DAF-Aqua-Volt-Eco, the DAVE is said to be the dawning of a new era in ecological shipping.