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Comment author: ChristianKl 21 November 2013 02:16:59PM 1 point [-]

in that ship, huge though it is,

It's [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah's_Ark]size[/url] is actually well defined:

it will be 300 cubits long (137.16 m, 450 ft), 50 wide (22.86 m, 75 ft), and 30 high (13.716 m, 45 ft);

Comment author: Ritalin 21 November 2013 08:46:32PM 0 points [-]

I didin't feel like it was worth mentioning because of the pointlessness of it, but still, those are some absurdly large measurements for a ship, to be built in the Bronze Age, by one family.

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