World's Oldest Boat Found in Desert

Discovery News ^ | June 17, 2002 | By Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News

[vannrox]

Very Interesting...

[Willie Green]

So what's the theory as to why it's out in the desert?

[Mike Fieschko]

And Thor Heyerdahl just passed on Apr 18. He would've thought about rebuilding and piloting it.

[Lower55]

found covered on one side with barnacles

Them barnacles are some thorn in the side of us boat owners.

[Lower55]

Must be Jacques Cousteau's first Calypso.

What a maroon that french fry turned out to be.

[bmwcyle]

Littering the desert, the Dems need a new law.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

FYI

[VOA]

...bitumen, which is still crushed with fish oil and coral and used
today by some Middle Eastern boat builders, likely formed a waterproof seal around
vessels constructed out of reed bundles tied together with ropes and string.

No doubt some of the Islamicists who want to rule the world and put us all
under Shar'ia law.
And haven't improved their methods in about 8,000 years.

(OK, it may still be effective waterproofing, but you get the point...)

[JoeSchem]

So what's the theory as to why it's out in the desert?

This was before the invention of water, so the best they could do was float it on sand.

[d4now]

Thanks for the bump Tonk. :)

Bump to you blam.

[hedgetrimmer]

So what's the theory as to why it's out in the desert?

Uh, their trailer broke down?

[Ditter]

Thanks, I love this kind of stuff.

[AdA$tra]

So what's the theory as to why it's out in the desert?

The ancient forebearers to the Zoroastrian Persians had the same concerns as the modern day tree huggers. First comes global warming, then beachfront property in the desert. It just took a bit longer than they thought.

[johnny7]

C'mon... water was invented to put out fire!

The inventor was Ishkabible I in 7504 BC.

Fire was invented by Bug IV during the Charcoal Age, approximately 9500 BC... hence the term “fire-bug”.

[Squantos]

May just be the Explosive Ordnance Disposal thinking still in me but I'd suggest that folks don't "dig" anywhere in the Kuwaiti Desert......... Trust me on this one :o)

Stay Safe

[razorback-bert]

boat builders, likely formed a waterproof seal ...with ropes and string.

Look how far we have advanced, now days, we use duct tape and chewing gum.

[knarf]

Here we go ....

"So what's the theory as to why it's out in the desert?"

I don't think Noah built the first boat ever. I think there were boats on bodies of water, whether ocean, lake or pond.

The fragment found in the Kuwaiti desert means the same thing as oceanic fossils showing up on mile-high mountains ... a universal flood.

[piasa]

Not exactly. A boat in the Kuwaiti desert means slightly higher sea levels, enough for the salt marshes seen up towards Iraq to be somewhat bigger in area, large enough to cover this now dry location. The area is hardly mountainous and sea levels fluctuate throughout history. The middle east was once a far wetter place than now, just as the American midwest was once tropical and had oceanfront property.

As for fossils on mountains, they are there because of geologic uplift, as can be seen by the sharp angle of the bands of fossilized sea bed. Clearly, when the bands were made, the area was flat seafloor, not mountainous, and the layers were made over a very long time period before the uplift began. The fossil sea critters now seen in mountain rock are of course far older than the boat in any case. Wrong time period to be concurrent with the boat, unless you're thinking multiple floods.

[Maelstrom]

World's Oldest Boat...
Found in the Kuwaiti desert...
Implication: The world's oceans are abnormally low and have been for a couple thousand years...

[Maelstrom]

Seriously, most of Kuwait is the result of millenia of silt building a delta at the base of the river.