Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Noah's Ark

Lots of clicking going on now. If you know someone with tinnitus you might tactfully ask them questions about a soft knitting needle tick. The clicks are a a sign the eruption is in progress. Still a lot of background sizzling going on though.

So plenty of action to look out for. You might want to check for heat island effect if you live on an hill. The phenomenon forms around cities when the weather stops heat rising. Dome cloud forms with a pale horizon when the drift from hills fails to disburse.

When god asked Noah to create a tsohar in the roof of the Ark, Noah made some sort of structure, the design and reason for which is open to question. I prefer to imagine it was some sort of stabiliser, probably the continuation of its partitions designed to collect and store water.

The reason that international travel was so long in reaching between continents after the flood was that seawater can not be readily drunk, at best it needs diluting with fresh water and fresh water goes stale on journeys over a few weeks. The remedy for that is to take beer with you as it is already rotten.

But you can't keep plants green with that and sailors were susceptible to scurvy. They knew what scurvy was, if they didn't know how it worked. Not that anyone had seen the need to design and create ocean going vessels much before Tudor times.

There are all sorts of ramifications to the design of the Ark that begs further answers, not least of which was vermin control. But I think keeping the water fresh was among Noah's chief concerns. If storing ice was impractical, maybe they had oyster beds?

Somewhere to defrost ice would be a good idea; dealing with the hazard of water running around the deck was another. If he didn't already have a an encyclopaedic knowledge of botany by the time he was an old man, I am sure instructions for preserving cabbage must have been supplied by god in their instruction manual of Akania.

For a stupid man, Adam seems to have been well read; he knew what death was before he had it. Anyone know how he understood what a sword was before the invention of metallurgy?

That's the thing with religion, the inexplicable can be waived and while one is in good health, there is no reason to trouble yourself with vision. You don't need to see how apes and monkeys can still exist once mankind realised they needed to evolve. Like Captain Sir John Franklin, you see no path through the mountains and starve to death. I've heard of rumours about illness, maybe he was struck with some mosquito borne disease as yet unexplained?

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