Is This The Real Noah's Ark, Found At Last? The Mystery Of The "Ararat Anomaly"

TooGood Reports ^ | 4/15/02 | Isaiah Flair

[RikaStrom]

I agree with you, but if the means to answer the question is within our grasp, why can't we fly the handy dandy little satellite over the area and zoom in on the lens?

If you do get a chance, and the special comes back on Discovery Channel, give it a watch. It's rather interesting in a historical way. But I still want detailed pics. I am slightly curious. :-)

[colorado tanker]

Good point. The story told in Noah's Flood is pretty interesting. Recent research has found evidence of settlements on the ancient lake shore, now under the Black Sea.

[RikaStrom]

Yep. According to what I have heard, they've already requested the pics from Ikonos, but I don't know what they actually showed.

[camle]

in my younger and more vulnerable years, I read a book called "Noah's Ark - I touched it" by some dude, and got entranced by the subject. I'd dearly love to go, but alas I doubt I could do any serious climbing without mucho help.

I'd go tomorrow if I could, tho...

[tang-soo]

Dr. Stan Monteif had an interview about this a couple of days ago. His web site is www.radioliberty.com. The archive for his latest show is here. The interview is entitled "Richard Rives - Looking for Noahs Ark". You'll need realplayer.

[LA-Lawyer]

No doubt the muslims will now claim it as a 'holy site' because some fourth cousin of the neighbor of mohammed's goat was 'martyred' nearby when he tried to steal a camel, which is OK since the camel belonged to a non-believing infidel. [reference Basilica of the Anunciation, Church of the Nativity, Temple Mount, etc.....]

[camle]

careful with them camel jokes, son:-)

besides, you're spelling it wrong.

[TomT in NJ]

That's a good one. Actually, I think they will claim that Mohammed ascended to heaven (for the second time) from the site of the Ark.

[RikaStrom]

Whoops, I lied. It was the History Channel.

[camle]

history channel? that bastion of factual research and integrity?

that cools things down a bit.

I'm all atwitter. wonder if the "boss" would allow me a few weeks vaca to do some foreign travel...

[LostTribe]

bump to BLAM.

[RikaStrom]

history channel? that bastion of factual research and integrity?

ROFLOL

I know, but I did say it left more questions than answers. :-)

[camle]

I wanted to buy the vids on the Jeep and the Cadillac, but at $24.95 each, that's at least 40% more that they're worth.

[Phantom Lord]

If our spy satellites can read a license plate or the text on a newspaper they surely can focus in and get photos that will end the controversy once and for all.

I also find it hard to believe that a wood structure over 2,000 years old and exposed to the elements would still be intact. Yes it happens. But what are the chances of this 1 particular structure surviving?

[limitedgov]

I don't get it. What is new or newsworthy about this article? This anomaly has been known for a long time and no one has been able to get to it.

[RikaStrom]

That was my thought too.

Although one question that was raised about how the structure could survive, if it was there to begin with, is if it was frozen in an avalanche. The possibility in that region is supposed to be fairly high for that sort of activity, avalanche/earthquake stuff.

Again, that came from the special, so I'd take it with a grain or two of salt.

[tortoise]

There are a number of practical issues that make this quite improbable.

1.) Mt. Ararat isn't actually mentioned in the old pre-biblical texts. IIRC, the literally translation is that the ark came to rest in "the mountains of Urartu"(sp?), which basically covers the (very large) entirety of that mountainous region.

2.) It is a very geologically active area and the mountain has violently "restructured" itself on numerous occasions in the last several thousand years, making it improbable that any structure on it would survive that long. More recent historical structures on the mountain have been routinely anihilated by this same geological activity.

3.) And perhaps most importantly, the continuous flow of glaciers scrapes the mountain clean from top to near the bottom on timescales that are measured in centuries, not millenia. Even if the ark was originally up there, it would be in a pile of toothpicks at the bottom of the mountain by now. Any structure up above the snow level would have to be young, on the order of a few hundred years old.

So I'm not holding my breath. The ark may be in that region, but the top of Mount Ararat isn't where you'll find it. The local conditions are dynamic enough that it wouldn't have lasted up there for several thousand years.

[Junior]

If our spy satellites can read a license plate or the text on a newspaper they surely can focus in and get photos that will end the controversy once and for all.

Dude! It's all part of the Satanic-Atheistic-One-World-Government-New-World-Order that's out to hide all evidence of GOD! You see, their souls are already DAMNED, and they want company in the fiery furnaces of Perdition! If you deny this is the truth your ONE OF THEM!!!

A truly good conspiracy theory posting can be discerned from the number of exclamation points and capitalized words used therein.

[ASA Vet]

Some people will believe anything

The linked photo sells real well in N.E. Thailand and Laos.

[Helen]

This is the photo in your post #14, lightened, cropped, and enlarged. Looks like an outcropping of rock to me, but what do I know?!