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Desrtopa comments on Open Thread, November 15-22, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Desrtopa 19 November 2013 04:28:32PM 5 points [-]

Also, amusingly enough, it features a spherical Earth. And I have to wonder how they'll fit "one couple of every species of the Earth" in that ship, huge though it is, without involving Gallifreyan technology.

Biblically speaking, it's seven breeding couples of every "clean" species, one of every unclean.

What's much more nonsensical than fitting all those animals onto the ark in the first place though, is the idea that it would actually save them. You've got predators reduced to equal numbers with their prey species; memory check, what do they live on?

Comment author: Ritalin 20 November 2013 03:51:39PM 1 point [-]

Didn't Think This Through, huh?

Given how God is Amighty, one wonders why he didn't have all the bad people just drop dead where they stood, Kira-style. He did something similar with Egypt's firsborn, yes?

Comment author: Bayeslisk 22 November 2013 07:54:07AM 1 point [-]

Bizarre... it seems just like if a nomadic Bronze Age tribe had picked up scraps of tales from, say, Babylon and Egypt, embellished other collective memories, and created some out of whole cloth for political purposes!