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Originally posted by Teratoma
What the hell? I was taking my time posting a reply to Ivan Zana's post and in the mean time it was removed? I do not recall it being any more offensive that Undo's description of Crowley's 'Lam' drawing. Did he add something to make it worse before the mods cut it?
Originally posted by Skyfloating
I´ll share something strange that happened to me in regards to the (admittedly fictitious) Television Series "Stargate" recently.
Hammond switches the tape off.
DANIEL
Well that looked familiar.
O'NEILL
I don't see it.
CARTER
Martin's involved in this?
HAMMOND
He sold the idea to the studio. He's currently working on production as a creative consultant.
TEAL'C
Then Martin Lloyd has seriously breached your security.
HAMMOND
Not necessarily.
DANIEL
What? He obviously got the whole thing from his knowledge of the Stargate program.
O'NEILL
If the Air Force didn't want it to happen they wouldn't have let it go this far.
HAMMOND
Plausible deniability. In the event of a future breach of security, we'll be able to point to this television programme. That is, if it stays on the air.
Originally posted by weedwhacker
Star Trek tried to at least come up with the 'Universal Translator' to explain it away, but....it's TV, and they only have about 44 minutes out of the hour-long 'show'....means writing is tight, to tell the story.
Originally posted by weedwhacker
and...how far is Upsilon Andromadae??
Originally posted by weedwhacker
50 LY....so they're just getting old Lucy episodes now???
kidding....
Originally posted by Jalana Dax
I believe it is Genesis 1:7 you might have to check a few different versions...can't wait to see what you come up with!
6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
How many animals did Noah's Ark carry?
Many writers on the subject of Noah's ark have different estimates for the amount of animals that the ark would have to carry. Doctors Morris and Whitcomb in their book, The Genesis Flood, estimate that approximately 35,000 animals were placed on board the ark. In another book written on the subject, Noah's Ark: A Feasibility Study, John Woodmorappe states that only about 2,000 animals would have to be on the ark. Being rather conservative he continues his study with the assumption that 16,000 animals could easily be cared for on the ark.
Let's be conservative and use the figure of 40,000 animals. This allows for extra animals to represent those that have gone extinct and those animals that have not been properly cataloged. This figure of 40,000 animals is 5,000 more than largest previously mentioned numbers. Based on our present understanding of the number of animals this figure should satisfy even the most skeptical.
Animal Space Calculations
Most animals are not very large. The average size of all animals, is the size of a sheep, some say a small rodent. One railroad stock car can carry about 240 sheep. This would mean that all 40,000 animals could fit in 167 railroad cars. The arks total capacity was 569 stock cars. The 40,000 animals would require less than 30% of the ark's space. In other words all the animals could fit on one of the ark's three decks. This would leave the other 70% of the ark's space for Noah's family, food, supplies, and baggage.
Many biologists state that the average size of most vertebrates is the size of a sheep. Other sources state that the average size is about the size of a small rabbit. Since there is some doubt as to what is the average size of the animals that were brought into the ark, and this paper is a conservative analysis of the carrying capacity of the ark, we will use the larger sheep average.We will also base our calculation on four different occupancy estimates. The first is my own conservative estimate of 40,000. The second is the estimate of Whitcomb at 35,000. The final two figures of 16,000 and 2,000 are based on the work of Woodmorappe. The 16,000 figure is based on the biblical kind being equivalent to the taxonomic rank of genus. The second figure of 2,000 is based on the biblical kind being equivalent to the taxonomic rank of family.
Based on railroad industry figures a railroad stockcar can hold 240 sheep and each stock car has a capacity of 2670 ft3. Therefore each sheep requires 11.125 ft3. Most authorities on rabbit husbandry give the dimensions for a rabbit hutch as 3.0 ft3per animal. If the average animal size is indeed the size of a small rabbit the calculations shown below could be reduced by a factor of three.
The following calculations show the amount of the ark space that would be required to carry the stated number of animals, based on the average size of a sheep.
40,000 animals x 11.125 ft3 = 445,000 ft3 OR 445,000 ft 3
1,518,750 ft3 × 100 = 29% of the Ark's capacity
35,000 animals x 11.125 ft3 = 389,375 ft3 OR 389,375 ft3
1,518,750 ft3 × 100 = 25% of the Ark's capacity
16,000 animals x 11.125 ft3 = 178,000 ft3 OR
(kind = genus taxon) 178,000 ft3
1,518,750 ft3 × 100 = 11.7% of the Ark's capacity
2,000 animals x 11.125 ft3 = 22,250 ft3 OR
(kind = family taxon) 22,250 ft3
1,518,750 ft3 × 100 = 1.4% of the Ark's capacity