Comments on: $4 Million Raised for Kentucky Ark Park https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/30/4-million-raised-for-kentucky-ark-park/ Mon, 02 Jan 2012 06:12:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Ian https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/30/4-million-raised-for-kentucky-ark-park/#comment-19014 Mon, 02 Jan 2012 06:12:46 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=1790#comment-19014 These suckers are so brainwashed it makes me think they are hopeless. Well, I guess it is a good sign they are having trouble getting funding. Can you imagine pitching this idea to a person that wasn’t a true believer?
“You’re raising money for a museum, right?”
“Yes! A glorious one with people riding dinosaurs, and the ark all the animals used to escape the flood and how the Earth formed over 6,000 years!”
O.o
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Building a fake museum. Boils my blood. Is the tourism board in on this? What can be done?

]]> By: robster https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/30/4-million-raised-for-kentucky-ark-park/#comment-19013 Sun, 01 Jan 2012 03:42:24 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=1790#comment-19013 Ha! Even with their (reportedly) magic, invisible friend on ol’ Kens side, who created the whole show in a week is unable to assist with a pokey arc park with plastic displays. Why don;t they pray? That’s sure to help..as if.

]]> By: gwen https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/30/4-million-raised-for-kentucky-ark-park/#comment-19012 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 21:30:39 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=1790#comment-19012 @Paul Hunter, my bet is that there is going to be no real effort to make something that is in anyway seaworthy. If anything, it will just be a glorified house they can pretend could float (when) the ‘apocalypse’ comes. The laws say they have to build it to safety codes….if they had to build it to be seaworthy, it would have to be shuttled immediately, because gawd isn’t around to work ‘his’ magic nowadays!

]]> By: Art https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/30/4-million-raised-for-kentucky-ark-park/#comment-19011 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 20:00:52 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=1790#comment-19011 I say we establish a religion, declare those bats sacred, and demand they be protected. We can have a Batbeacon, a searchlight with a batman symbol in front, at the protests and encourage everyone to wear their best bat outfits.

Religion freedom, cute sacred animals threatened by greedy developers, and the whole Batman meme thrown in sideways makes this a sure-thing crowd pleaser.

]]> By: Irreverend Bastard https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/30/4-million-raised-for-kentucky-ark-park/#comment-19010 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 11:19:12 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=1790#comment-19010 “numerouis times”

Is this french?

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]]> By: Johnnykaje https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/30/4-million-raised-for-kentucky-ark-park/#comment-19009 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 00:03:45 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=1790#comment-19009 My inner (just under the surface, really) hippie is pissed off that those bats will be displaced for this thing (assuming they even build it).

Maybe they should move it to Pitcher Oklahoma. No humans and animals to be displaced, nearby gullible populace, and no pesky environmental regulations!

]]> By: evilDoug https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/30/4-million-raised-for-kentucky-ark-park/#comment-19008 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 23:38:58 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=1790#comment-19008 Well, for four million bucks they could make a pretty big Tesla coil and have an Arc Park.

]]> By: Stacy https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/30/4-million-raised-for-kentucky-ark-park/#comment-19007 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 23:09:21 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=1790#comment-19007 Made my day! I mean, gee, that’s too bad.

http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/26/how-to-make-a-schadenfreude-pie/

]]> By: Jim T https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/30/4-million-raised-for-kentucky-ark-park/#comment-19006 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:40:23 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=1790#comment-19006 Cry me a river

]]> By: Paul Hunter https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/12/30/4-million-raised-for-kentucky-ark-park/#comment-19005 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 21:29:57 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=1790#comment-19005 Good afternoon
I posted this to Pandas Thumb a few days ago
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Iā€™m a structural engineer and my hobby is naval history.
Even the biggest of the 5,000-6,000-ton wooden battleships of the mid- to late 19th century and the 5,000-ton wooden motorships constructed in the United States during World War I did not exceed 340 feet in length or 60 feet in width. The longest of these ships, the Mersey-class frigates (335 feet by 60 feet) , were unsuccessful, and one, HMS Orlando, showed signs of structural failure after an 1863 voyage to the United States. The Orlando was scrapped in 1871 and the Mersey soon after. Both the Mersey-class frigates and the largest of the wooden battleships, the 121-gun Victoria class, required internal iron strapping to support the hull, as did many other ships of this kind. In short, the construction and use histories of these ships indicated that they were already pushing or had exceeded the practical limits for the size of wooden ships.ā€ (Asiaā€™s Undersea Archeology, Richard Gould, NOVA, PBS Television article)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_worldā€™s_largest_wooden_ships
Ken Hamā€™s Noahā€™s Ark (450Ɨ75 ft) will be a large wooden building on solid ground and will have to meet structural design codes for public safety. They have hired The Troyer Group has expertise in architectural, engineering, interior design, landscape http://www.troyergroup.com/pages/co%5Bā€¦%5DteInfo/news/
So for eight Goat Herders (and 70 years) to build a boat from Gopher Wood it seems god would indeed need to work another miracle.

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