I don’t see why we have to have these debates. It did not literally, historically happen. Conundrum solved. It’s a story that can still have religious, ethical, spiritual meaning. Aesop’s Fables didn’t literally happen either, they are still meaningful stories.
Even like Maus did not literally happen as written (the holocaust did happen, to be clear, but it happened to humans), the point is a level of abstraction to get at deeper truths.
Some people think everything literally happened but some people think they are literally married to Severus Snape. Nobody’s getting through to those people, least of all with a Lemmy comment or a cartoon. Don’t worry about them.
Math checks out. ( 28800 ) 👍
Not sure I ever heard this angle before, but among all the impossibilities of Noah’s ark, this is definitely a good one.PS: in metric that would be approximately 10000 mm rain per hour.
that would be approximately 10000 mm rain per hour.
Also known as 10m/h.
Or departing from the realm of the useful completely, that’s water pooling at roughly 1/30 of the speed with which an elite cyclist ascends a particularly steep gradient.
With a catchment area of “planet earth”, that’s roughly 5,100,000,000,000,000,000 liters of water an hour. That’s more than twice the amount of beer Lemmy Kilminster drank in an entire year!