Satellite Sleuth Closes in on Noah's Ark Mystery

[soulxtc]

High on Mt. Ararat in eastern Turkey, there is a baffling mountainside "anomaly," a feature that one researcher claims may be something of biblical proportions.

Images taken by aircraft, intelligence-gathering satellites and commercial remote-sensing spacecraft are fueling an intensive study of the intriguing oddity. But whether the anomaly is some geological quirk of nature, playful shadows, a human-made structure of some sort, or simply nothing at all—that remains to be seen.
http://images.livescience.com/images/060308_ark_quickbird_01.jpg
Whatever it is, the anomaly of interest rests at 15,300 feet (4,663 meters) on the northwest corner of Mt. Ararat, and is nearly submerged in glacial ice. It would be easy to call it merely a strange rock formation.

But at least one man wonders if it could be the remains of Noah's Ark—a vessel said to have been built to save people and selected animals from the Great Flood, the 40 days and 40 nights of deluge as detailed in the Book of Genesis.

The Genesis blueprint of the Ark detailed the structure as 6:1 length to width ratio (300 cubits by 50 cubits). The anomaly, as viewed by satellite, is close to that 6:1 proportion.

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[fleecy]

when you look at the enlarged picture in the article, it appears to be a ridge. but it's an intriguing notion to consider...

[shawners]

This is old news, everyone knows the ARk is in Turkey and had been viewed many times. No one can enter and dig it up, there is laws as well as where the ship resides in to.

[.:sp00ky:.]

Looks like a big rock to me...

noahs ark lol the things religious people say *sigh* omg Is that jesus's face in my cup of tea!!

[notbob]

many people have been on ararat after jumping through bureaucratic hoops, in the 30's, 50's, 70's, and 90's

all anyone ever found was either nothing, or wood that was later proven through carbon dating to not be old enough

some people really like to waste their time and money proving fairy tales (which, if you think about it, don't need to be proven to the sheep that believe them already anyway and will never have enough evidence to prove it to science)

it's like the "face on mars" pgotographed by mariner or voyager or whatever probe it was. people said it was a big conspiracy by the government to cover up alien civilizations. a more recent probe showed it was just a resolution/photograhic illusion, which just renewed the "it's a conspiracy" bullshit

faith is a dangerous thing, especially since it is most common in the least intelligent people, i'll cite urban legends and conspiracy theories as perfect examples, as both can be disproved usually with only a minimal amount of thought, yet they spread on and on for decades

[mfgbypooter]

IF there ever really was a dude named Moses, (who has long been credited with writing the first 4 books of the bible) and he wandered around in the desert for 40 years with a bunch of ex-slaves, then he'd have plenty of time to make all kinds of funky shit up.

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[uselesscrap]

faith is a dangerous thing, especially since it is most common in the least intelligent people

I'd like to know where you got this brialliant deduction. Do you have any facts to back up such a statement?

[cjules13]

I'd like to know where you got this brialliant deduction. Do you have any facts to back up such a statement?

I'm not trying to be a jerk or dis anyone, but it's pretty obvious. Take evolution for example... nearly all the worlds scientists accept this as fact due to enormous amounts of fossil, astronomical, geological and genetic evidence.

You'll hard pressed to find a PhD (theologians aside of course:) who actually "buys" creation and/or the parting of the Red Sea for example.

Let me know if you need more examples...

[lifehacker]

Religion is a dangerous and very good thing at the same time. Religion many times started wars and also made civilizations great. Some people who lose hope in life after a tradgedy find hope in God. Its a complicated question whether religion is good or bad.

[mountain_rage]

My view of religion, it should never be imposed and should never be used to defend atrocities. If you need religion and it helps you then thats fine im glad it helps you.

[Krell]

This is a S&T thread derailed by notbob, get back on track, if you can see this bitch with google earth, or your pretty sure you can find it with a devining rod and a bottle of thunderbird chime in, otherwise enough of the religious banter already.



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[mfgbypooter]

I don't know why they are so worried about finding Noah's Ark when they need to find that crate in that warehouse that has the Ark of the Covenant stored in it.

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[Krell]

I don't know why they are so worried about finding Noah's Ark when they need to find that crate in that warehouse that has the Ark of the Covenant stored in it.

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LMAO




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[Mels_Smileys45]

I ran this photo through a high rez filter and found more shocking images!


http://i2.tinypic.com/r785j8.gif

[notbob]

This is a S&T thread derailed by notbob, get back on track, if you can see this bitch with google earth, or your pretty sure you can find it with a devining rod and a bottle of thunderbird chime in, otherwise enough of the religious banter already.



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when did i ever mention religion?

faith is not religion, which is why i used the examples of conspiracy theories and urban legends.


never mind the fact that a thread about "noah's ark" is going to attract yahoos trying to use this information as evidence to validate all the time and money they wasted in their life on a myth. like i said before, grainy satellite pictures are much better than hard evidence, because they keep the myth going. going up on the mountain and finding nothing countless times (you'd think an enormous ship would be pretty easy to find, especially when the satellite shows exactly where to look, and has done so since 1974)


you can see a bomber plane on google earth too, that doesn't mean that it isn't a fabrication made by a bored person then found by a person with no life

[shawners]

Both science and the bible has proved of an era where it did rain and did flood..Fish fossils found in the high mountains, inside caves. People see what they want to see. Two people from different views or backgrounds will pull up to them what they want to see. I have faith, but cant tell what the photo is, i have seen better photos.
For some heres the link to it. http://www.noahsarkwaterpark.com/
for others who believe, heres a link to it. http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=mt_ararat_aug5_sp_02.jpg&cap=Mt.+Aratat+captured+by+Ikonos+on+August+11%2C+ 2000.+Click-to-Enlarge.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/ark_hunt_020830.html
Science found it.. Satelites, high res photos.
I think its wierd how the world is made up. Imagine a bird craping black poo on your car in your area or on you, wouldnt that be more disguisting then white poo that lands on your car? Its just crazy.
Now hears something weird!!! THINK ABOUT IT!! If it did flood and did rain for all that time.. Everything all life would been killed NO DOUBT? None of the animals could swim, not for that long, nor eat and swim, nor hunt, nor float, and would die and go back to being fish food. http://mystae.com/restricted/streams/science/flood.html

[boogiedan]

nice post soulxtc
people will finally have 2 start BELIVEING in the bible
get a grip peep's it's real

[notbob]

nice post soulxtc
people will finally have 2 start BELIVEING in the bible
get a grip peep's it's real

that puffed up nonsense wouldn't convince anyone with half a brain

her's the imaging expert in the article shawners posted

"There is absolutely nothing in all the pictures that we have seen up to now that is questionable in my mind. I can explain each and everything as a natural snow bank's shadow. There is nothing," El-Baz said

science requires evidence. faith requires ignoring that evidence and letting someone else think for you

[pimpinaman]

seems like some folks need to get their hats and bullwhips ready to go check that thing out :)

[cjules13]

People have checked this thing out, many times... here's a good article:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/09/0920_040920_noahs_ark.html

While no scientific evidence of the ark's existence has emerged, the Turkish government has reportedly documented cases of expeditions bringing wood up to Mount Ararat and "finding" it the next year.

People just "want" to believe so bad, they'll see only what they want to see and hear only when they want to hear, even though science is SCREAMING in their faces all the time. It's amazing how selective the brain can be when it's been washed it's whole life...

[multi]

the flood and the ark are all symbols for something else that happend in one of this races previous incarnations...the first christians believed in a type of reincarnation btw

it didn't happen on this planet it is about a race escaping a planets destruction
back when Israel was a spaceship and the ark was used to carry not only animal and plantlife but useful people like hairdressers, telephone sanitisers and management consultants... ;)
you get the picture
in the future a few straggling remnants of the human race will uncover the evidence for it a few years after the middle east nuked itself out of existance in 2026 ,sadly too late to discover humans had now done this to 665 other planets in its 47 past incarnations..

[Krell]

I think there is little chance that even if it WERE still intact to some extent, and was not utterly pillaged for firewood thru history, it would not be 3 dimensional, and would not still be in proportion due to frost lines, erosion, avalanche or glacial activity.

I do see scientific evidences of a flood, and I find it odd that someone so long ago, in what is allegedly an ubsubstantiated tribal tale from the bible, that what they quote as dimensions are quite plausible for their purpose and obtaining oceanic voyage.

If this craft which is the size of a galleria, were to bank on top of a mountain range, and if some of it were to remain long enough to petrify, then what you would have is a difference in the solidity of the soft non rock topology.

This pattern or outline could be measured thru radar and ultrasonic holography.

There are a number of IFs there . . but I am still open minded enough to realize that science if FULL of IFs and stretches of the imagination.

Photographic evidence is weak, as for the case of UFOs etc. I have seen some very compelling film footage that I think anyone would be hard pressed to explain, or even come close to, but on the sheer merit of a photograph, no credibilities in either case.

Finding some organization and structure in the randmoness and choas of the surroundings would help, but science would need to bear the appropriate technology on to this task.

Btw, if you look really closely at the photo . . you can see a yetti behind the rock taking a crap.



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[mcovey]

Does the bible mention that Noah left the ark there?

It makes sense to me that much like the mayflower, it would have been deconstructed and used.

[Krell]

Does the bible mention that Noah left the ark there?

It makes sense to me that much like the mayflower, it would have been deconstructed and used.

Exactly! I think it's quite naivve and short sighted to think that the settlers didnt turn right back around and use this wood for other types of construction, lodging, transportation etc.



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[fleecy]

recycling isn't a new concept, so that's possible...

[PiRaNeTuS]

1st, Bible doesn't even say that the ark came to rest on Mt. Ararat. This is such a mis-believed notion by millions of people.



2nd, Why would they leave the Ark, something with so much usuable wood, lying there on a mountainside to rot? They would have most assuradely dissassembled it for other purposes.



I believe in the Bible, but jeeze, sometimes people just need to believe in common sense.