Re: [OT] Race for the Ark & Other News

[Jed Rothwell]

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Surely someone has done the math to calculate just how much volumetric 
space would be necessary to house all the animals that marched into the 
Ark two-by-two.

As Darwin said to Captain Robert Fitzroy, all the ships in the Royal Navy 
would not suffice. Fitzroy, a fundamentalist, did not want to hear that. 
(Actually the term "fundamentalist" was not coined for another 60 years.) 
He was even more upset when Darwin published in 1859.

Fitzroy, by the way, was a good scientist in some way. He invented an 
improved barometer, and improved the dissemination of accurate weather 
forecasts. I think he got bad press and was unfairly dismissed as governor 
of New Zealand. He was trying to stand up for the rights of the natives.

- Jed