Re: [asa] Noah's local flood?

I love the idea of 8 people poling the ark upstream.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/towboat.html tells me
that the barges used on the Mississippi and its tributaries are 35 feet
wide, 195 feet long. This is a little less than 1/7 of the base of the
ark. In the vicinity of Pittsburgh, 6 barges are moved by a tug with
800-1500 HP engines. On the Mississippi, a tow is usually 5 long and 3
wide, with a 3000-5000 HP tug. Even making allowance for the slower speed
of the ark, they'd have to put out hundreds of horses. They'd have done
better kedging, but I doubt if that would have been adequate with their
crew.
Dave (ASA)

On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:52:09 -0400 "Dick Fischer"
<dickfischer@verizon.net> writes:
I think also Alan’s model had in mind Jebel Judi north of Nineveh as the
landing site. The Gordean mountains, or hills of the Kurds, are
mentioned in ancient accounts and the base of Pir Omar Gudrun is a
suggested landing site just east of Kirkuk. I think Noah and crew might
have been able to pole their way that far even without wind assistance.
Getting north of Nineveh would have been a feat of engineering as the
terrain begins to slope upwards towards the mountains more sharply.
 
Dick Fischer, author, lecturer
Historical Genesis from Adam to Abraham
www.historicalgenesis.com
 
____________________________________________________________
Enter for Your Chance to WIN*
The TotalBeauty.com Summer Spa Sweepstakes!
http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/JKFkuJi7UfhujOPWJ9ATfue3Nz6vhFNtWt6ZZfcUVpwjwWzVWi7lbf/

To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@calvin.edu with
"unsubscribe asa" (no quotes) as the body of the message.
Received on Sun Jun 29 19:18:44 2008