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And is still used today.
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A long stick, and you throw it into the ocean,
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And you think it's gonna surf the waves,
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It's not gonna do that.
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It's gonna turn sideways, and it'll founder.
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So what we did is we talked to a series of nautical engineers.
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And the thing that's interesting about the ark is it really
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Has kind of the same dimensions on a freighter --
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You know, like an oil freighter, tanker, that kind of thing.
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Manthorne: The vessel would have to be extremely,
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Heavily kneed-out to support the stresses and strains
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And support the decks.
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Knees are bent members --
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Usually growed roots from the root of tree,
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That is used to put in the corners as bracings in vessels,
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The truth is, if you take a stick --
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Narrator: So our ark will need to be shaped like an oil freighter
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And have strong knees.
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Our friends in kentucky also figured out
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How to keep our ship from getting soggy.
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One of the nature of wooden ships is that water sinks
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Into the wood, and it swells the wood.
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And then it sort of creates a seal
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Between all of the parts that are in there.
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And the ancient ships that -- that we studied
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Basically were made out of a lot of small pieces
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That were kind of chinked together in a way,
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Um, like a little puzzle.
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And then there are multiple layers,
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Is that they won't corrode.
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And a half-bent has a big pole called a lodge pole,
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And then you have half the slice of bread
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Built on that particular pole.
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And so then you put two half-bents together
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And you have slices of bread, if you like.
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Narrator: But how are we going to hold all those slices together
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To make a watertight vessel?
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This is a wooden tree-nail, or trunnel.
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It's made of black locust.
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Doesn't rot in 200 years or so, so that's why it's used.
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And this is what holds this vessel together,
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Is all these tree-nails.
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Narrator: The other advantage of using trunnels
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And so you've got the ability of the hull of the ship
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So, electrolysis is very damaging to vessels,
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And usually is the -- the ending of the vessel,
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Is when all the fasteners are eaten up off by electrolysis.
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It's a transfer of the metal.
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It deteriorates the metal and causes it to become
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Very small in the wood, and finally weaken
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Till the vessel is fatigued and breaks up.
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Narrator: We figure it's going to take at least
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10,000 of those trunnels to get the job done.
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But how about our design?
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[ thunder rumbles ]
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If our boat is going to set sail,
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It has to be able to handle the waves.
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Because of inbreeding
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So if you take dogs -- dingoes, wolves, coyotes,
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Jackals, foxes, domestic varieties --
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We would say, okay, you've got different species.
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But you only needed two dogs on the ark
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Because they were all in the one dog kind.
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Narrator: But many in the scientific community disagree
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With this reasoning.
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Well, one thing that wasn't well-known
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When the bible was written, I suppose,
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Was that there's a lot of genetic variability
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Within species, and that helps species survive.
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When species are put into very, very small populations,
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Those populations often are not very viable
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You can have different species within one kind.
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And of genetic effects that accumulate in the population,
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And that make them sick and eventually they die out.
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So the idea that you could just take two of each kind
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And make them breed and that would make up for the whole,
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And that would be a viable population, is untrue.
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That would not happen.
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That would only be possible for very, very, very few species.
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Narrator: We know one thing for sure --
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Whatever animals we do bring aboard
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Need to be housed and cared for.
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The ark in kentucky takes this into account,
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But the designers had to play it by ear.
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Now we need to figure out how we're going to get two of
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To be able to swell together and to close up.
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Narrator: We better get hammering,
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Because we have a lot of work to do.
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We know where we're going to build our ark.
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We figured out who will do the job,
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How many workers it'll take, and how long it will take them.
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But we still have to look at the passenger list
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And, of course, the final price tag.
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Narrator: We're imagining how we'd build a new noah's ark.
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We know we're going to build it in canada
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From cedar wood,
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Using ancient shipbuilding methods.
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And each bent consists of two half-bents.
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Every animal onboard like noah did in the bible.
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Scientists estimate that there are over 8 million species
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On the planet today,
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But our replica builders in kentucky believe that noah
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Only brought 7,000 animals aboard his ark.
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Ham: Well, the bible doesn't say that
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Noah took millions of species on the ark.
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It says that two of each kind
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Of land-dwelling, air-breathing animal.
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So it wasn't the sea creatures, for a start.
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It was only the land-dwelling, everything animals.
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And it wasn't two of each species.
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It was two of each kind.
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Is the way genesis presents it.
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It was a very laborious job.
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Narrator: Cutting down 65,000 trees and running them
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Through a sawmill sounds
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Like it's going to be pretty expensive.
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Thompson: Even looking at that, I'd say $6 a foot
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For relatively inexpensive wood
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Would be $27 million in material just --
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Just to make the hull.
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Narrator: Once all that wood gets delivered to our build site,
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We need a team of people to build our ark.
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So, what kind of construction crew did the original ark have?
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Noah's building the ark with his family,
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By hand with an axe.
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It's not really a problem because they all live so long
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That they can take 100 years to do it.
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They have all the time that they need to get it done.
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Narrator: Noah had a family of eight,
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Including three sons and their wives.
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But how many people would we need to construct
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A fully functioning ark today?
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Thompson: I don't think a crew of eight could build the boat.
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There's just too many heavy items to deal with,
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And too much material to deal with.
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I would definitely look up all of the --
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The experienced shipwrights, who are people
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Who are experienced in wooden-ship building.
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Narrator: We're imagining how we'd build
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And we've learned so much over the centuries
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From the time of noah's ark that it would be much easier
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And take much less time than it did originally.
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Narrator: So our plan is progressing.
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We've decided where to build our new ark
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And what we'll build it out of.
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But before we call, "all aboard,"
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Who's going to do the job?
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How long will it take them?
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And, how much will the whole thing cost?
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[ cash register dings ]
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[ thunder rumbling and crashing ]
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And, uh, canvass them to come to my yard to help
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A new noah's ark.
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So far, we figured out we're going to build it in canada,
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And we're going to stay true to tradition
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And build it out of cedar wood.
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According to the bible,
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Noah had 100 years to do the job.
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But we don't have that kind of time.
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Surely, there are modern innovations
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To help us speed things up.
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Manthorne: So if I was building an ark,
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I would have turn large trees into lumber.
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And this is how I do this. We did this on a mill.
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And noah would have to [indistinct]
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"okay, how are we gonna build all this stuff?"
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And built to the exact scale of the model.
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On this model, on this side, you'll see all the lines.
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And these are called loth lines.
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We'd have to model the ark first,
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Lay down the lines on a big area full-size,
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And start squaring timber.
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Narrator: Once we've chosen our building location
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And mocked up our model,
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We've got to get a massive amount of wood on-site.
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In kentucky, the wood was measured and precut
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Before it was delivered.
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So once we sourced all of that material,
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Then we had to figure out,
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When the boat was scaled off the model
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So we wanted to actually have the thing shipped
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To a certain team
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That could kind of cut up the beams
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And put together the pieces
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The way that they're gonna connect,
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And then have them shipped to the site itself.
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Narrator: Once the pieces arrive to our building site,
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It's time to put them together and form our timber frame.
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Ham: To understand what is meant by timber frame structure --
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Because the ark we built is actually the largest timber
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Frame structure in the world -- think about it like this.
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A loaf of bread, and it has slices,
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And you call each slice a bent.
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While it was floating around the ocean,
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With the ark, taking advantage of their experience
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And their capabilities in doing this big project.
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It would probably take a crew of minimum,
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90 people working for a couple of years to --
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To build a vessel of that size.
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Narrator: All of that help is going to cost us.
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90 people working for two years straight, uh, 40 hours a week.
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And if we pay them $60 an hour,
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There's another $25 million in labor to assemble the hull.
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But it's not just the shipbuilding crew we need.
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We also need to think about the crew for the journey.
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I'm not sure that a crew of eight could even crew the boat
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What we tell the guests initially is right here,
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Because there would've been feeding, cleanup, a lot of --
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A lot of work to have been done.
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Narrator: We'll plan to bring our entire crew of 90 onboard
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Once construction is complete,
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And it shouldn't take much persuasion.
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Thompson: If everybody who's building the boat really believes
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There's a flood coming, they're gonna be pretty committed
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To wanting to be onboard the vessel.
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Narrator: So looks like it'll be all hands on deck
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Once we've built this thing.
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We're planning to build big, but we're going to start small.
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This is a tradition in wooden-boat building.
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Models were used instead of blueprints,
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We'll design top-notch cabins, plus a gym, library, cinema,
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Once we get the frame together,
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We'll furnish the interior with a bio lab
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And pack in as many animal embryos
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And dna samples as we can.
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But, what about our scientists and crew?
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They need to stay healthy and happy for a year on the water.
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Marsh: One of the things about the ark,
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Beyond just the creation of the ship itself,
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Was really the cargo that noah
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And his family were taking with them.
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Not just the animals --
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Those were the things that god told him to bring.
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But they were bringing their culture with them.
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Narrator: We'll outfit our ark a little like a cruise ship.
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The finest boat-building skills in the world.
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And chapel.
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We'll stock the kitchen with astronaut food
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And include fishing gear
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So our passengers stay nourished until they're back on dry land.
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So, bring it on.
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We're ready for the water to rise.
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We did it!
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We built in canada.
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We made it out of over 65,000 cedar trees
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Using a sawmill, traditional handheld tools,
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And a lot of biological know-how.
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It took over two years,
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Capable of saving the population,
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And cover the ark's deck with solar panels to power us
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When the sun finally breaks through.
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Fully equipped and capable of repopulating our world
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With as much biodiversity as you can cram into an ocean liner.
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But this ship is far from being ready to sail.
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We know where we're going to build.
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We know what we're going to build with,
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Who's going to do the job, and how long it'll take.
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But it remains to be seen --
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[ thunder rumbling ]
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And we used 90 traditional shipbuilders to do it.
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Should natural disaster strike.
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It's made of cedar, a strong and sensible shipbuilding material.
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And 90 people working around the clock to build.
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First, we need to prepare our jobsite.
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And that it was easy to assemble and easy to work around.
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Is the idea that if we lose species at a high rate --
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Narrator: The biblical story of noah's ark inspired us.
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It's one of many stories written about
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How humanity could survive catastrophe.
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It seems to me that actually, some science fiction movies
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Do a better job of re-imagining what the ark might be like, um,
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Because you have these space capsules flying off
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With all the plants that you need
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And all the animals -- little pods
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So that you can restart life on a different planet.
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But scientists are already preparing an insurance policy
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Against global catastrophe.
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Which we are, right now --
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Is there something we can do to bring them back after the fact,
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Once we've figured out to maintain the ecosystems --
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The tropical forests, the coral reefs,
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The wetlands, the ice mountains and glaciers
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That we are threatened to lose.
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At reversing the destruction of the natural world,
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Without having to go to sea in a giant wooden ship.
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It's a glimpse of a sustainable future,
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And a hope for a happy ending,
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If we built it today.
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And every country was onboard,
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So, what does that add up to?
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Well, you're looking at a $50 million
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To $60 million construction project,
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Which is a big project.
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There's also the cost of fitting our ark
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With a state-of-the-art laboratory.
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Now we're ready to save humanity,
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And the animal world, at all costs.
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Right?
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If we had this global hand-holding and everybody
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In every province or every continent
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We'll pack enough batteries for 40 days and 40 nights of storm,
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The power of people can make things happen.
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Narrator: Especially when you consider that
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The u.S. Spent over $130 billion
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On disaster relief in 2017 alone.
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So the ark, for me, is an interesting metaphor for,
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We live on an ark.
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And this is all we've got,
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And there's no other planet we can repopulate --
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At least, we don't know one yet --
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Um, with the species we got.
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So this is what we have,
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And we need to be good zookeepers,
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If you will, and keep this place alive indefinitely.
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And released tens of thousands of animals.
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But you literally figure out a way
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To drop all of the waste products
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Out into the sea through this thing.
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So it literally goes through the center --
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You know, the top and the bottom of the ark itself.
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We'll treat and dump.
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Scripture and speculation can only take us so far.
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How can we be confident that we can save the animal world
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With our new ark?
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Hope swinimer has wrangled
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And the water's not gonna come up inside that,
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There is no way.
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You know, I look at life this way --
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Doing a little something
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Is better than doing nothing at all.
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So let's just get what we can get, save what we can save,
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And start with what we have to start with.
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That's the plan.
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Two of every single species onboard our ark.
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So how much biodiversity are we going to be able to save?
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Swinimer: Well, you gotta be selective.
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You're gonna be a world traveler before this is all done.
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Where the family would've gone through the bridge
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We tell them we took a lot of artistic license.
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'cause there's not a lot of detail about the ark
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And how it was built.
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There are some details about the animals
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And things like that, but not a lot of detail about,
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For instance, the wives' names --
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Noah's wife and the daughters-in-law that noah had.
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So we do take a lot of artistic license.
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So what we have here is some of the cages
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For the larger animals.
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And as you can imagine, noah and his family
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Probably didn't wanna be in the cages with the larger animals.
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So we have these bridges here that we show
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Even to get those 1.5 million
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And done like an automatic feeder to bring grain and water
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And what the animals needed to survive.
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So these animals probably were not brought out of the cages
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And walked around.
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To answer some of the technical questions
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That have been troubling skeptics for centuries,
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Including how noah would've dealt with animal waste.
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So, there's a thing called a moon pool
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Which basically is a box that goes from the top of the ark
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To the bottom of the ark.
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And it's open to the sea.
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It's open to the air above, and it's open to the sea below.
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Is the frozen ark in England,
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That've been known to carry diseases?
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A lot of species have parasites and pathogens
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That just attack them.
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That's part of biodiversity.
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So if you really want to take all species,
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We have to take them, too.
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Narrator: In other words,
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The more animals we can save, the better.
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[ roars ]
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But we also need a plan to preserve
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The countless scientific advancements
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That've taken place since noah's ark was supposedly built.
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So, a modern equivalent to an ark
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But what about ticks, mosquitoes, and other insects
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Where people are trying to preserve
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Genetic material of endangered species --
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Species we're threatened to be losing from this planet.
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And the idea to maintain them
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Is not to squish them into an ark or into a zoo.
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That's maybe done for some species,
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But for a lot of them, that's not practical.
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So you take genetic samples from them, or gametes --
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Sperms and eggs -- that can be fertilized,
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And then recreate the species.
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Narrator: Instead of food and water dishes,
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We'll have petri dishes.
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To keep the embryos frozen,
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Like solitary confinement.
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We have already described
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Would be an enormous challenge, because there's many of them
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That have only been seen once or twice.
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So collecting them would take a long, long time.
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They have specific needs
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That we'll have to take into consideration --
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Things like sufficient room to move around,
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And access to fresh air and natural sunlight.
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Swinimer: They need all of this enrichment for their very wellbeing.
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If they're in confinement without any enrichment,
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It would be like a human put into a small square box
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I don't see a problem at all, with the modern technology.
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They would lose their will.
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The other thing you'd really have to worry about
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Is if a virus broke out.
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I mean, it could wipe out every animal on the boat.
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It really could.
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You know, some animals might be immune to it,
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But there's so many things medically that could go wrong.
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Narrator: It's a noble undertaking to rescue
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As many flying and breathing animals as possible.
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We'll do the best we can in the space we have.
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We can sort the predators from the prey
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And the spiders from the flies,
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The bible is god's word.
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Narrator: The cost of a huge hand-crafted vessel just might sink us.
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The replica in kentucky cost millions to build.
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Somebody like ken ham is able to raise millions of dollars
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To produce a huge ark in kentucky,
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And people come and buy tickets,
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And I'm sure that they're making their money back.
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Narrator: We won't be selling tickets to recoup our money.
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So we just may need a miracle to float this boat.
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The replica in kentucky was the undertaking of an organization
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That built their ark to prove that it could be done.
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And people will come to it as a tourist attraction.
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Actually, we did it because we actually do believe
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That number of animals for any length of time.
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And we do believe the message of the bible.
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Narrator: Since we're not on a crusade,
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Is there an actual need for a working ark today?
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The condition for noah was that the world was in crisis.
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And maybe with the ecological crisis,
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We're also experiencing some rising floodwaters.
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Narrator: Climate-change scientists say there's a real risk of everyone
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And everything ending up underwater.
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Ocean levels have been rising three millimeters annually
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Since the year 2000.
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That may not sound like much,
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But experts agree that over time, it could spell disaster.
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So we're going to need to craft a tight ship
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We're not sure we could get everybody --
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And it'll need to be someone with access
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To generations of boat-building secrets,
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And the right tools in their toolbox.
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These tools, of course, used in shipwright ship-building,
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Would've likely been used when the ark was built.
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And noah would've likely had a lot of tools
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When he built the ark that would be made by hand.
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Narrator: We need to consider where we'll build our ark.
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Builders in kentucky were at the mercy of mother nature.
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Time and weather were probably our --
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Our biggest hurdles with that whole thing.
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Narrator: Even if we could build a boat this big that's seaworthy,
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To brave this storm.
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Or at least, every creature -- on deck.
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Swinimer: It's not easy to capture animals,
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And they get stressed very easily.
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Worm: We can't take them out of their habitat
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And expect them to do well.
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Very few species do well in captivity.
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Narrator: And if we're able to round up the required number of animals,
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We still have to figure out how to house and feed them.
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Would've been cared for by eight people every day.
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I just can't foresee how that would work.
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It would be impossible for any group of people to sustain
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Builders of the replica in kentucky estimated
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And the dimensions given are not dissimilar
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To a large barge that are built today.
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Narrator: Since we're recreating noah's ark,
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We'll need to bring just as many animals onboard as he did.
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But how much weight could a vessel this size handle?
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Thompson: I would expect that probably a vessel of 50 feet high
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Would probably not want to be floating at much more
517
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Than 20 feet of draft,
518
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So that gives you about 16,000 tons of capacity to carry --
519
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To carry cargo.
520
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[ elephant trumpets ]
521
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16,000 tons is the equivalent
522
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Of 2,300 elephants.
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As close to a barge as you could envision.
524
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A total of 7,000 animals on the ark,
525
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Most of them weighing less than an elephant.
526
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We'll plan to build a boat that's strong enough
527
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To support the biggest animals on earth,
528
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And buoyant enough to lift us above rising sea levels.
529
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And that mission will guide every decision
530
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We make on our modern-day noah's ark.
531
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Where are we going to build it?
532
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What are we going to make it out of?
533
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How are we going to build this thing?
534
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How long is it going to take?
535
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How many people will we need?
536
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And, how much will this whole thing cost?
537
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The vessel would've been inherently strong,
538
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Narrator: The great ark of the old testament --
539
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Is there a need for it today, and could we even build it?
540
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Climate scientists warn that sea levels
541
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Are rising at an increasing rate.
542
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And in time, our planet could face catastrophic changes.
543
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We want to be prepared, so we're planning
544
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Our own modern-day version of noah's ark.
545
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But it will be no small task.
546
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Man: Welcome aboard.
547
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Manthorne: Hardest thing to build an ark
548
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Would be your structural integrity of the vessel,
549
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So that it would be capable of floating
550
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And withstanding the stresses and strains on it.
551
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So we'll need to find a builder who's up to the task.
552
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Because it had three decks on it and that would've added,
553
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Uh, a considerable longitudinal strength to the vessel.
554
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And a vessel of 450 feet in length would --
555
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Would be bending under the load.
556
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Narrator: Our ark will need to be very durable
557
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If it's going to stand up to the 40 days
558
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And 40 nights of extreme weather that noah's faced.
559
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It looks like we're going to need more of a barge
560
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Than a boat.
561
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It would be probably very important to just try
562
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And get a very efficient shape
563
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In terms of volume and weight-carriage.
564
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And that would be as pretty much
565
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Is so captivating that more than 4,000 years
566
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And, um, and I'm not convinced
567
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That people have either of these things today
568
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When they're rebuilding arks.
569
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There's nothing easy about building a vessel that size.
570
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Narrator: We're on the jobsite of one of the world's greatest wonders.
571
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And we're wondering, how long would it take?
572
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How much would it cost?
573
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How many workers would we need?
574
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Could we even do it if we built it today?
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-- Captions by vitac -- www.Vitac.Com
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Captions paid for by discovery communications
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♪
578
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Narrator: The story of noah's ark
579
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If that's involved in the commandment.
580
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After we're told it set sail, believers, explorers,
581
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And even astronauts are still searching for proof it exists.
582
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Ham: Whenever there's supposed sightings of the ark,
583
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It gets headline news.
584
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Narrator: According to the bible, the remains of the ark
585
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Are in a mountainous area on the border
586
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Between turkey and armenia.
587
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So far, no physical or photographic evidence
588
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Has been confirmed.
589
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But if you want to see what the ark might have looked like...
590
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♪
591
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...Just head to williamstown, kentucky,
592
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Where a theme park hosts a replica
593
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If it happened today? You never know.
594
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Narrator: The biblical story of the great flood is legendary.
595
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There's so much violence in the world,
596
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That god decides to start over.
597
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God says, "look, all of this trouble and evil
598
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Has come up before me.
599
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I'll start over with you. Build a boat."
600
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Ham: He didn't say, "what's an ark? How do you build a ship?"
601
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Noah just accepted it as if, "oh, yeah.
602
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Well, that's doable. I can do that."
603
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Narrator: According to the story,
604
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Noah finished the ark just before the rain
605
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Started falling for 40 days and 40 nights.
606
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But would we be prepared for the great flood
607
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Built to the exact dimensions found in the bible.
608
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With global warming, we might need noah's ark.
609
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Narrator: We're imagining a new ark
610
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That will put today's bigger boats to shame.
611
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But do we have the resources available to build it,
612
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And will our ark be able to save
613
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All the creatures on earth like noah's did?
614
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We've estimated that in total, we have
615
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8.7 million species on the planet.
616
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Let's just get what we can get, save what we can save,
617
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And start with what we have to start with.
618
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Narrator: And, can we build it by the book?
619
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Driver: First, you need a command from god.
620
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And second, you need access to gopher wood,
621
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Welcome to the ark encounter of williamstown, kentucky.
622
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And noah is an exception to the general picture
623
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On the face of the earth, and god says,
624
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"look, all of this trouble and evil has come up before me.
625
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I'll start over with you. Build a boat.
626
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Put your family on it, and we'll start over."
627
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♪
628
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Narrator: Today, we build giant boats all the time.
629
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But, could we take on an ark?
630
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♪
631
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It would be a massive project to build a wooden vessel
632
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The size of the ark.
633
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Narrator: Fortunately, we have a prototype
634
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To get us started.
635
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That god decides to start over.
636
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We broke ground here in the summer of 2014,
637
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And opened in July of 2016.
638
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We've had over 2 million guests
639
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Come through the ark encounter from around the world.
640
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Narrator: This replica gives us an idea
641
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Of what the ark might've looked like.
642
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But this is one ship that will never sail.
643
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It sits on concrete towers 15 feet above ground.
644
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Ham: When someone asks me, "would it float?", I say, no.
645
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It has three big gaping holes in the back of it
646
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Because it actually is anchored to three seven-story towers.
647
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Narrator: We want to build a boat
648
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That can actually stay afloat in a great flood.
649
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♪
650
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The ark was built based upon, first of all, the bible,
651
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'cause it basically has the height,
652
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The width, and the length.
653
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And that's kind of all that the bible described.
654
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Narrator: It's the biggest timber-built structure in the world.
655
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♪
656
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It's stands 51 feet, or more than four stories, tall...
657
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And 510 feet long,
658
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The length of nearly one-and-a-half football fields.
659
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It has four decks, and the floor space
660
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Is equivalent to 20 basketball courts.
661
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When you build it to the size according to the bible,
662
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It actually says something.
663
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♪
664
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Narrator: The biblical measurements of the ark have inspired
665
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Many interpretations throughout history.
666
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Driver: Hugh of saint-victor says that the ark is basically a metaphor,
667
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Or a figure of a type of salvation in the world as such.
668
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And so for him, the length of the ark is really measuring
669
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The day the world's created until the day when it ends.
670
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And the width is how many people are on the boat,
671
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Which is the size of the church.
672
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And that width changes and goes in and out.
673
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Narrator: As the story goes,
674
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God took drastic measures to course-correct
675
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The misguided ways of his people.
676
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Driver: There's so much violence in the world,
677
00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:39,330
To the exact wood used in noah's time,
678
00:18:01,700 --> 00:18:06,030
But it -- it is an excellent material for building a vessel.
679
00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:08,470
Narrator: So we're going to take our cue from the ancients.
680
00:18:08,470 --> 00:18:10,640
We'll build our ark out of wood.
681
00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:14,270
According to the bible, noah used gopher wood.
682
00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:16,110
What is that?
683
00:18:16,110 --> 00:18:17,980
Nobody really knows what gopher wood is.
684
00:18:17,980 --> 00:18:20,150
As a building material, um,
685
00:18:20,150 --> 00:18:23,950
The ancients were already speculating on what it could be.
686
00:18:23,950 --> 00:18:26,490
Manthorne: Gopher wood is likely cedar wood.
687
00:18:26,490 --> 00:18:27,990
That's very good boat-building wood
688
00:18:27,990 --> 00:18:30,660
Because of the strength versus weight.
689
00:18:30,660 --> 00:18:32,930
It's an extremely strong wood,
690
00:18:32,930 --> 00:18:35,160
And it's still used today in vessels.
691
00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:37,200
Narrator: So cedar is as close as we're going to get
692
00:17:58,290 --> 00:18:01,700
As it would've been 4,500 years ago,
693
00:18:39,340 --> 00:18:42,200
But can we find it in this neck of the woods?
694
00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:47,240
♪
695
00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:49,640
Hemessen: We're in this forest that has a lot of spruce in it --
696
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White spruce and red spruce.
697
00:18:51,280 --> 00:18:54,280
We have that special tree here -- the eastern white cedar.
698
00:18:54,280 --> 00:18:56,520
Cedar is a really good wood for building boats.
699
00:18:56,520 --> 00:19:00,220
It's a soft wood that is easy to work with and shape,
700
00:19:00,220 --> 00:19:02,590
And it's very rot-resistant.
701
00:19:02,590 --> 00:19:04,730
Narrator: That's important, because like noah's ark,
702
00:19:04,730 --> 00:19:08,500
We want this boat to last a full year after it's finished.
703
00:19:11,370 --> 00:19:13,630
Hemessen: These cedars that grow in eastern north america,
704
00:19:13,640 --> 00:19:14,870
They can get fairly big.
705
00:19:14,870 --> 00:19:17,600
Some of the tallest ones can get to 100 feet.
706
00:17:15,220 --> 00:17:18,190
And in fact, if we try to put that technology in a ship --
707
00:16:30,970 --> 00:16:33,210
With all this modern advancement,
708
00:16:33,210 --> 00:16:37,950
Is a handmade wooden boat really our best option?
709
00:16:46,660 --> 00:16:49,090
Narrator: We want to build a massive modern-day ark
710
00:16:49,090 --> 00:16:51,630
That would be able to stay afloat, like noah's did,
711
00:16:51,630 --> 00:16:53,630
Just in case rising sea levels
712
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Cause a natural disaster of biblical proportions.
713
00:16:58,330 --> 00:17:02,370
According to the old testament, noah used wood to build his ark.
714
00:17:02,370 --> 00:17:04,170
But with today's technology,
715
00:17:04,170 --> 00:17:06,710
Is there a better option for ours?
716
00:17:06,710 --> 00:17:08,380
There might've been some ingenious things
717
00:17:08,380 --> 00:17:10,840
That they did that we would look and say, "oh, wow.
718
00:17:10,850 --> 00:17:12,680
We just rely on cranes today,"
719
00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:15,220
That, you know, have big diesel motors and so on.
720
00:19:17,610 --> 00:19:19,440
Narrator: So how many of these big trees
721
00:17:18,190 --> 00:17:20,920
And we do. We have great big steel ships
722
00:17:20,920 --> 00:17:22,290
That have that sort of technology.
723
00:17:22,290 --> 00:17:24,860
And the engine room takes up a lot of room,
724
00:17:24,860 --> 00:17:26,230
And then you have to have a lot of people
725
00:17:26,230 --> 00:17:28,660
Looking after that and maintaining it.
726
00:17:28,660 --> 00:17:32,870
Actually, from a perspective of building the ark today,
727
00:17:32,870 --> 00:17:35,540
I think it would make it far too complicated.
728
00:17:35,540 --> 00:17:39,010
Narrator: Maybe noah did know a lot more than we suspect,
729
00:17:39,010 --> 00:17:42,740
Especially about the wisdom of simplicity.
730
00:17:42,750 --> 00:17:46,510
Wood is still used on a lot of traditional boat-building
731
00:17:46,520 --> 00:17:50,880
And, uh, a lot of yachts and some larger vessels.
732
00:17:50,890 --> 00:17:53,250
The material is strong and resilient.
733
00:17:53,260 --> 00:17:58,290
It's maybe not as commonly available today in larger sizes
734
00:21:10,150 --> 00:21:13,520
Turns out, there's a mill near our east coast build site
735
00:20:31,110 --> 00:20:34,750
And then there are these large beams that go up the center
736
00:20:34,750 --> 00:20:39,990
Of the ship that kind of hold the whole center together.
737
00:20:39,990 --> 00:20:42,460
Narrator: So we'll source our cedar from multiple locations
738
00:20:42,460 --> 00:20:43,960
Throughout north america.
739
00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:47,230
Then, we'll have to get it shipped to our building site.
740
00:20:47,230 --> 00:20:48,730
We're looking at one of the biggest
741
00:20:48,730 --> 00:20:51,100
Lumber orders in history.
742
00:20:51,100 --> 00:20:53,800
Thompson: If we looked at the overall size of that vessel,
743
00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:59,040
That would represent something like 65,000 trees
744
00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:02,240
Being consumed.
745
00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:04,440
Narrator: Where are we going to find a sawmill to deal
746
00:21:04,450 --> 00:21:06,410
With this mega lumber order?
747
00:21:06,420 --> 00:21:10,150
♪
748
00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:31,110
That sort of thing.
749
00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:16,660
That's been running for four generations.
750
00:21:16,660 --> 00:21:20,360
So if we had 65,000 logs delivered to the mill,
751
00:21:20,360 --> 00:21:24,130
We would de-bark them and dry them in the dry kiln,
752
00:21:24,130 --> 00:21:28,540
And plane it through our planing system and ship it to you.
753
00:21:28,540 --> 00:21:31,000
Narrator: But could a modern-day mill handle a boat
754
00:21:31,010 --> 00:21:34,140
That required biblical-sized planks?
755
00:21:34,140 --> 00:21:35,910
Wilber: If they're not standard sizes,
756
00:21:35,910 --> 00:21:39,310
We would have to make some changes in the mill.
757
00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:41,550
Uh, but those changes are --
758
00:21:41,550 --> 00:21:43,650
Nowadays, with technology -- quite easily made.
759
00:21:43,650 --> 00:21:46,550
And it could be done quite easily,
760
00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:48,290
Just take a little time to set up.
761
00:21:48,290 --> 00:21:52,860
Narrator: This sawmill master says we could get the job done fast.
762
00:19:50,340 --> 00:19:53,640
But does canada have enough of our wood of choice?
763
00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:21,140
Are we going to have to bring down?
764
00:19:21,140 --> 00:19:23,780
Hemessen: To make an ark, you need about 20 hectares of cedar.
765
00:19:23,780 --> 00:19:25,880
And that's a lot of wood.
766
00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:28,650
Narrator: Although we're building a boat to save us from flooding,
767
00:19:28,650 --> 00:19:30,720
There's a chance that harvesting all this cedar
768
00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:33,290
Could make the water rise even faster.
769
00:19:33,290 --> 00:19:35,260
Hemessen: When you lose vegetation -- when you lose trees,
770
00:19:35,260 --> 00:19:37,520
Especially -- you would get erosion problems,
771
00:19:37,530 --> 00:19:38,990
And you get flooding problems.
772
00:19:38,990 --> 00:19:42,200
♪
773
00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:45,530
Narrator: Of the 250 million hectares of forest found in canada,
774
00:19:45,530 --> 00:19:48,740
We only need 20 hectares -- or 49 acres worth --
775
00:19:48,740 --> 00:19:50,340
To build our ark.
776
00:16:28,900 --> 00:16:30,970
In transit right now.
777
00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:56,540
Hemessen: You could be hard-pressed here now to find 20 hectares worth,
778
00:19:56,550 --> 00:19:57,950
At least all in one location.
779
00:19:57,950 --> 00:19:59,880
It would be, "do I have to go to several locations
780
00:19:59,880 --> 00:20:02,080
And gather up your wood?"
781
00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:04,280
Narrator: Maybe our friends in kentucky can help us.
782
00:20:04,290 --> 00:20:07,220
♪
783
00:20:07,220 --> 00:20:10,120
Their replica of the ark was built with enough timber
784
00:20:10,130 --> 00:20:12,330
To go all the way from the museum's site
785
00:20:12,330 --> 00:20:16,530
In williamstown to philadelphia, pennsylvania.
786
00:20:16,530 --> 00:20:19,170
Well, the first thing was, it's huge.
787
00:20:19,170 --> 00:20:23,140
So actually, what we needed was huge wood, right?
788
00:20:23,140 --> 00:20:25,240
So what we did is we had to source the lumber,
789
00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:29,680
And we basically got it from washington, oregon, canada --
790
00:12:51,390 --> 00:12:53,290
The bible is full of instructions
791
00:12:10,180 --> 00:12:13,280
Narrator: But before we settle on wood as our main material,
792
00:12:13,280 --> 00:12:15,180
Maybe we should make sure we're not overlooking
793
00:12:15,180 --> 00:12:18,990
A better option -- like steel, for example.
794
00:12:18,990 --> 00:12:21,160
I think we can all agree that it'd be very easy
795
00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:24,060
To build a boat of that size out of steel.
796
00:12:24,060 --> 00:12:28,430
Uh, wood is 16 times lighter than steel,
797
00:12:28,430 --> 00:12:30,330
Which is a good thing for a floating object.
798
00:12:30,330 --> 00:12:34,100
But it's 16 times as weak as steel.
799
00:12:34,100 --> 00:12:37,870
Narrator: There are some fine steel ships built in canada, too.
800
00:12:37,870 --> 00:12:41,810
So let's not rule out a metal ark just yet.
801
00:12:41,810 --> 00:12:44,250
♪
802
00:12:44,250 --> 00:12:47,080
So, how are we going to build this thing?
803
00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:51,390
It turns out, the bible is a good resource for our project.
804
00:12:08,210 --> 00:12:10,180
Over many, many centuries.
805
00:12:53,290 --> 00:12:54,420
About how to build things.
806
00:12:54,420 --> 00:12:57,290
And in the case of noah's ark,
807
00:12:57,290 --> 00:13:00,060
Exact dimensions are given in cubits.
808
00:13:00,060 --> 00:13:03,460
Narrator: A cubit is roughly the length of a man's forearm.
809
00:13:03,470 --> 00:13:06,630
That's a pretty antiquated way of measuring.
810
00:13:06,640 --> 00:13:08,870
We don't want to jeopardize our project
811
00:13:08,870 --> 00:13:12,070
By focusing too much on the biblical specs.
812
00:13:12,070 --> 00:13:14,840
So the function of the story doesn't seem, to me,
813
00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:17,180
To drive building projects.
814
00:13:17,180 --> 00:13:18,950
It does other sorts of things.
815
00:13:18,950 --> 00:13:20,710
It maybe talks about what salvation is,
816
00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:22,780
How god relates to god's people.
817
00:13:22,790 --> 00:13:25,650
But, um, but whether it's providing blueprints
818
00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:38,250
There are still quite a few wooden shipwrights,
819
00:11:01,410 --> 00:11:05,110
Our first job -- choosing a construction site.
820
00:11:05,110 --> 00:11:06,610
We've got our eye on this stretch
821
00:11:06,620 --> 00:11:09,580
Of north american coastline, birthplace of some
822
00:11:09,590 --> 00:11:12,520
Of the biggest and fastest ships in the world.
823
00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:14,520
We were well-known for ship-building in the past.
824
00:11:14,520 --> 00:11:18,430
We had the clipper ships, we had the beautiful bluenose.
825
00:11:18,430 --> 00:11:20,760
Narrator: There's a forest full of raw materials
826
00:11:20,760 --> 00:11:23,260
To choose from in nova scotia.
827
00:11:23,270 --> 00:11:25,970
Manthorne: There is wood likely, today, growing in canada
828
00:11:25,970 --> 00:11:28,500
That would be capable
829
00:11:28,500 --> 00:11:30,710
Of supporting that kind of a project.
830
00:11:30,710 --> 00:11:32,810
Narrator: And it seems like we'll be able to find the crew
831
00:11:32,810 --> 00:11:35,080
We need here, too.
832
00:13:25,660 --> 00:13:28,560
Seems, to me, quite unlikely.
833
00:11:38,250 --> 00:11:42,280
Uh, have their own shops and are still building wooden ships.
834
00:11:42,290 --> 00:11:43,650
Narrator: We're sold.
835
00:11:43,650 --> 00:11:45,890
We'll build it along these shores.
836
00:11:45,890 --> 00:11:48,460
Now let's consider our materials.
837
00:11:48,460 --> 00:11:51,260
In the bible, noah built his ark out of wood.
838
00:11:51,260 --> 00:11:53,560
Should we do the same?
839
00:11:53,560 --> 00:11:55,860
Wood is an excellent material for building boats,
840
00:11:55,870 --> 00:11:58,070
And there's no structural reason
841
00:11:58,070 --> 00:12:00,000
Why it couldn't be built that size.
842
00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:02,370
There's been a lot of engineering developments
843
00:12:02,370 --> 00:12:04,170
In boat building over the years.
844
00:12:04,170 --> 00:12:06,070
And even in wooden-boat builders,
845
00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:08,210
Their system evolved for building
846
00:15:45,230 --> 00:15:47,460
Check out this monster cruise liner,
847
00:15:00,020 --> 00:15:05,550
Just how advanced will our ark need to be?
848
00:15:05,550 --> 00:15:09,820
Thompson: So, the ark was essentially a large volume-
849
00:15:09,830 --> 00:15:12,460
And weight-carrying vehicle.
850
00:15:12,460 --> 00:15:15,960
And it didn't need to have any propulsion.
851
00:15:15,970 --> 00:15:18,530
There were no engines. There were no sails.
852
00:15:18,530 --> 00:15:22,170
And looking at that, there's a --
853
00:15:22,170 --> 00:15:24,340
It offers a few simplicities in the design
854
00:15:24,340 --> 00:15:27,940
Of a vessel of that type.
855
00:15:27,940 --> 00:15:29,910
Narrator: Up until the 19th century,
856
00:15:29,910 --> 00:15:32,380
Noah's epic ark would've been the same size
857
00:15:32,380 --> 00:15:35,420
As the largest seagoing vessel ever built.
858
00:15:35,420 --> 00:15:37,890
Then, ocean liners were invented.
859
00:15:40,360 --> 00:15:45,230
And ever since, they've just been getting bigger and bigger.
860
00:14:55,980 --> 00:15:00,010
Today, cruise ships and freighters rule the seas.
861
00:15:47,460 --> 00:15:49,630
Harmony of the seas.
862
00:15:49,630 --> 00:15:52,500
The second-largest passenger ship in the world,
863
00:15:52,500 --> 00:15:54,700
It can fit almost 8,000 passengers
864
00:15:54,700 --> 00:15:59,040
And crew into 18 different decks.
865
00:15:59,040 --> 00:16:02,210
It cost $1.35 billion,
866
00:16:02,210 --> 00:16:03,810
Took four years to build,
867
00:16:03,810 --> 00:16:06,650
And is more than twice the length of our ark.
868
00:16:09,090 --> 00:16:12,150
This aircraft carrier, the uss carl vinson,
869
00:16:12,150 --> 00:16:14,820
Is also more than twice as long as our ark
870
00:16:14,820 --> 00:16:17,620
And can fit 90 aircraft onboard.
871
00:16:20,260 --> 00:16:23,360
And today's global economy depends on transporting
872
00:16:23,370 --> 00:16:26,970
A massive volume of goods by water,
873
00:16:26,970 --> 00:16:28,900
With more than 2 million shipping containers
874
00:14:10,530 --> 00:14:13,530
Johan's ark isn't really ready to set sail.
875
00:13:28,560 --> 00:13:31,690
Narrator: Engineers discovered something about this ancient blueprint
876
00:13:31,690 --> 00:13:34,060
When they converted cubits into feet.
877
00:13:34,060 --> 00:13:36,030
Kanewske: 510 feet long,
878
00:13:36,030 --> 00:13:39,900
51 feet high, 84 feet wide -- they're perfect dimensions.
879
00:13:39,900 --> 00:13:44,070
We've talked to a lot of engineers on this subject.
880
00:13:44,070 --> 00:13:45,570
They say it's the perfect dimensions
881
00:13:45,580 --> 00:13:48,440
For weight distribution, seaworthiness,
882
00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:52,010
And just an overall ride for the ship.
883
00:13:52,010 --> 00:13:55,020
♪
884
00:13:55,020 --> 00:13:59,090
Narrator: The replica at the ark encounter theme park in kentucky
885
00:13:59,090 --> 00:14:01,620
Is built to these exact specs.
886
00:14:03,790 --> 00:14:08,300
So is this one in the netherlands called johan's ark.
887
00:14:08,300 --> 00:14:10,530
Although it's technically in the water,
888
00:00:01,820 --> 00:00:05,390
[ thunder rumbling and crashing ]
889
00:14:13,540 --> 00:14:17,240
It's perched on top of a string of floating shipping containers.
890
00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:22,310
So far, we have hypothetical dimensions guiding us
891
00:14:22,310 --> 00:14:24,680
In the creation of our modern-day ark.
892
00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:26,950
Ours needs to be functional, though.
893
00:14:26,950 --> 00:14:30,050
Luckily, we do have centuries of boat-building know-how
894
00:14:30,050 --> 00:14:31,690
To draw on.
895
00:14:34,460 --> 00:14:36,460
People have been building boats out of logs
896
00:14:36,460 --> 00:14:39,690
And crafting canoes since prehistoric times.
897
00:14:39,700 --> 00:14:41,360
♪
898
00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:42,800
By 200 b.C.,
899
00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:46,670
The romans were using enslaved sailors to power their galleons.
900
00:14:49,310 --> 00:14:52,770
By the 1500s, sails powered ships mighty enough
901
00:14:52,780 --> 00:14:55,980
To fight wars.
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