And you thought a railroad roundhouse was bad...

[cid]

Bow = stern = port = starboard =

[FZR1KG]

Love the bit about building a ship by instructions written on a stone tablet the size of a kindle. rofl
The biblay also describes the size of the ark and it can't fit two of each animal in it.
Besides, surely you'd need more herbivores to feed to the carnivores?
And someone forgot to take into account that as the size of a vessel increases in length the weight and the resulting support structure becomes so great that you can't build it out of some materials as it will simply collapse.
But hey, what's a few scientific facts going to do to a good story written for the masses?

I also keep telling people that the bible wan't a religious text.
It was an instruction manual for the worlds first franchise. Like the McDonalds franchise manual when it is discovered in 4000 years and we know it will survive since no product from there ever decomposes naturally. lol

[Sigma_Orionis]

You just don't get it do you?

[Swift]

Bow = stern = port = starboard =

From the link

Elizabeth Stone, an expert on the antiquities of ancient Mesopotamia at New York's Stony Brook University, said it made sense that ancient Mesopotamians would depict their mythological ark as round.

"People are going to envision the boat however people envision boats where they are," she said. "Coracles are not unusual things to have had in Mesopotamia."

Elizabeth Stone at Stony Brook. I assume her sister-in-law, Dr. Papyrus is studying some scrolls.

Anyway... I do believe Dr. Stone is correct; this is how I envision the ark.

[Swift]

You just don't get it do you?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bputeFGXEjA

[Sigma_Orionis]

You just don't get it do you?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bputeFGXEjA

That skit is a classic

Anyway... I do believe Dr. Stone is correct; this is how I envision the ark.

WRONG!, the Ark looks like THIS

[FZR1KG]

Anyway... I do believe Dr. Stone is correct; this is how I envision the ark.

Sadly, that is no where big enough to store two of every animal and that's not even taking into account the food they will eat or cleaning the poop they will generate.