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[Izayoi]

I said money != food.

You need money to grow, distribute, and purchase food.

Sure, you can't eat the money itself, but it's pretty easy to turn it into sustenance.

 

[Sulik2]

The dimensions on the ark are for a giant box, its wasn't a boat. They spent $100 million and couldn't even read the dimensions correctly. Then again, they think the bible supports a six thousand year old earth so they lack reading comprehension clearly. Gah at the dinosaurs.

 

[Toa TAK]

That's not even how it's described in the Bible.

What a waste.

EDIT: Ass BEATEN above.

 

[Digital-Hero]

I want to go.

The dimensions on the ark are for a giant box, its wasn't a boat. They spent $100 million and couldn't even read the dimensions correctly. Then again, they think the bible supports a six thousand year old earth so they lack reading comprehension clearly. Gah at the dinosaurs.

Giant boxes aren't as enticing. They took some "creative liberties".

 

[SirClinksAlot]

Truly disgusting. Getting fucking tax breaks? Get fucked.

 

[thelatestmodel]

The whole thing is obscene. Complete waste of money, time, skills and materials. And it gets tax breaks? Holy fuck. Rage inducing.

 

[Beerman462]

Welcome to Jurassic Ark

10/10

 

[Sojgat]

 

[Viewt]

Aside from the ideas I don't believe in and think are factually wrong, I think it's pretty cool that somebody built something like this.

Hah, yeah, is it cool for me to check this out just because I think it's cool that someone built a ridiculously large wooden boat?

Really, though, this is just a missed opportunity to make an awesome, Noah's Ark-themed zoo.

 

[Krejlooc]

So Noah just did a shitty job on the whole "two of every animal" stuff and thats why the dinosaurs are extinct? He alone failed them?

 

[Hubbl3]

http://i.imgur.com/b0WCaPc.gif

That Matt Hardy GIF gets me every time.

 

[The Albatross]

Hah, yeah, is it cool for me to check this out just because I think it's cool that someone built a ridiculously large wooden boat?

Really, though, this is just a missed opportunity to make an awesome, Noah's Ark-themed zoo.

Huh? You can do whatever you want. If you want to visit the giant arc in the middle of god-knows-where Kentucky, I'll wish you well.

 

[BladeoftheImmortal]

The worst part is that it doesn't even have rides. What kind of theme park doesn't have rides. Fuck this place.

 

[Palette Swap]

This is like the premise for Archer and Armstrong.

 

[mcz117chief]

So Noah just did a shitty job on the whole "two of every animal" stuff and thats why the dinosaurs are extinct? He alone failed them?

He picked 7 pairs of all the clean ones and 1 pair of unclean ones

Genesis 7:2

 

[TimeEffect]

So do they have two of each kind of animal on the ark? Seems like a good way to put things to the test

 

[Grimm Fandango]

Welcome to Jurassic Ark

Dammit stole my joke.

Edit: they clearly spared no expense

 

[Izuna]

I can read thank you but in the words of Homer Simpson's brain "Money can be exchanged for goods and services."

I'm asking you to clarify your argument because on the surface it makes no sense. Even if we dive deeper into thinking that there is a limited amount of food (not really) it still makes little sense.

This particular construction isn't a good example, but yes, you are paying people for services etc.

You could pay people jobs to help with the transporting and distributing food, but it's not the only job that should exist. If we stopped production of art or attractions etc. you would lose the skilled labour required to do after you somehow "solve" world hunger (which won't happen in a single generation).

Anyway I see this "but the money could be used on xyz!" example being used on pretty much anything that philanthropic.

EDIT:

The Ark was meant to be a box? I didn't know that.

 

[Monocle]

We all have our hobbies.

 

[Odrion]

I said money != food.

do you not know how money works or

 

[Dai101]

I said money != food.

Except $$$ is the thing most charitable organizations actually NEED to operate.

 

[Dalek]

So Noah just did a shitty job on the whole "two of every animal" stuff and thats why the dinosaurs are extinct? He alone failed them?

And why did he bother with the mosquitos!?

 

[unknownhero]

It would be Ironic if there was a flood and this sinks.

 

[Krejlooc]

He picked 7 pairs of all the clean ones and 1 pair of unclean ones

Genesis 7:2

why even pick 1 pair? Their species would still be doomed.

 

[PSqueak]

It's a great idea if it was built just like a curiosity tourist attraction, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

 

[mcz117chief]

why even pick 1 pair? Their species would still be doomed.

Because it is an allegory, it is not supposed to be taken at face value.

 

[zbarron]

This particular construction isn't a good example, but yes, you are paying people for services etc.

You could pay people jobs to help with the transporting and distributing food, but it's the only job that should exist. If we stopped production of art or attractions etc. you would lose the skilled labour required to do after you somehow "solve" world hunger (which won't happen in a single generation).

Anyway I see this "but the money could be used on xyz!" example being used on pretty much anything that philanthropic.

EDIT:

The Ark was meant to be a box? I didn't know that.

I assume you meant to say "You could pay people jobs to help with the transporting and distributing food, but it's [not] the only job that should exist" in which case I agree, but these construction workers could make something more useful like farming equipment, irrigation systems, the chronically underfunded desalination of sea water, or homes for the homeless. We're not going to solve the problem but that doesn't mean we can't improve it. At least the 100 million would make a difference for something good as opposed to this which brings nothing positive.

 

[KingV]

I said money != food.

People aren't starving because not enough food is grown. It's because they can't afford it, or no one is willing to pay ship it to them, or distribute it to them.

 

[Dash_Riprock]

He picked 7 pairs of all the clean ones and 1 pair of unclean ones

Genesis 7:2

Still wouldn't be nearly enough for genetic diversity, buts its the thought that counts.

 

[fallengorn]

Now show me where they kept the velociraptors.

 

[snacknuts]

This shit gets me heated. Tax breaks push me over the edge.

 

[mcz117chief]

Still wouldn't be nearly enough for genetic diversity, buts its the thought that counts.

It is just an allegory, the number 7 is a number of fullness.

 

[jem0208]

The structure is meant to commemorate the work of Noah, and to stand as a proof that the stories in the Bible are true.

Attaching a horn to a horse doesn't prove unicorns are real, why would someone think this is proof that the ark was real...?

 

[Fuchsdh]

I want to go.



Giant boxes aren't as enticing. They took some "creative liberties".

Now I'm really interested in the level of shipbuilding technologies available at the time. Wikipedia doesn't have anything on stuff from that far back. Doesn't seem like they would have knowledge of keels at the time, although the only ancient boats I know of are from Egypt and they're shallow-bottomed riverboats.

It is just an allegory, the number 7 is a number of fullness.

Yeah the exact numbers don't matter, there's whole bits in the Bible where the numbers are about symbolism and not chronology. Which is one more reason why the people who take it as literal truth and date their world from a haphazard counting of "begats" are crazy.

 

[Aureon]

I'm pretty sure that 1000 years ago, writing that there were dinosaurs on the Ark could've got you burned at stake.
Oh, well.

 

[Adam_Roman]

Noah's ARK: Survival Evolved

 

[partyphone]

if people want to waste their money on a momument to ignorance that's their prerogative but they shouldn't be getting any kind of tax break or subsidy or anything.

 

[capitalCORN]

But does it float?

 

[Man Called Aerodynamics]

Lol at the dinosaurs. I would go to see it though, it looks pretty impressive.

 

[creationtheory]

if people want to waste their money on a momument to ignorance that's their prerogative but they shouldn't be getting any kind of tax break or subsidy or anything.

You must be talking about churches in general.

 

[DiipuSurotu]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/dalebus...-builder-ken-ham-tempts-a-storm/#56a305c7152b

And like any ambitious entrepreneur, Ham continues to think ahead. Elsewhere on the site he plans a replica of the kind of walled city where Noah and his family might have lived. Among other plans: a depiction of the Tower of Babel, whence God, after the flood, dispersed earth’s inhabitants, according to Genesis.

But without a specified measurement in the Bible, Ham hasn’t yet said how tall the tower might be.

 

[Mahonay]

if people want to waste their money on a momument to ignorance that's their prerogative but they shouldn't be getting any kind of tax break or subsidy or anything.

Pretty much this.

If you can get a tax break for building a giant ark with dinosaurs on it, I should get a tax break if I want to build a 80ft monument to The Macho Man Randy Savage.

 

[MCN]

"Stories in the bible are true"

"Took 6 years to build"

Wait, I'm sure that's not how the story went in the bible.

 

[TyrantII]

I can't wait for an engineer to build a scale model and show it sinks.

 

[Knuckle Sandwich]

Child abuse.

 

[mcz117chief]

Noah's ARK: Survival Evolved

You used the forbidden word! Off with your head!

 

[Blader]

If they wanted to prove the story is true, shouldn't they put out on the water?

 

[Protein]

Now show me where they kept the velociraptors.

It looks exactly like the Velociraptor containtment in the movie, cow suspension feed and all, except made of wood.

 

[Brakke]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/dalebus...-builder-ken-ham-tempts-a-storm/#56a305c7152b

Yo what if they actually build a Tower of Babel and then get smote.

 

[partyphone]

You must be talking about churches in general.

it should apply to them as well, yes absolutely.