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This recent Ebola outbreak had me thinking...how did Noah get viruses onto his ark and what kind of precautions did he take so that he wouldn't get infected?
IDemo
(16,926 posts)Takket
(21,577 posts)?
JeffHead
(1,186 posts)Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)Boom Sound 416
(4,185 posts)wandy
(3,539 posts)What the heck do you think killed of the dinosaurs?
ck4829
(35,077 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,841 posts)IDemo
(16,926 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)I don't know if they require miracles to do that.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)with a nasty Norovirus while on board.
sagat
(241 posts)Part 2:
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)they can be airborne. Also they could have lived on the olive tree who's branch was brought back to the ark. Also fish, and other sea creatures, could carry them. Most could also live in the water and would not need any help surviving a flood.
There are plenty of good arguments against the fairy tale that is Noah's Ark. This is not one of them.
rateyes
(17,438 posts)squash those two mosquitoes and two cockroaches when he had the chance. Damn!
chrisa
(4,524 posts)Amazing!
Journeyman
(15,036 posts)and a host of others who made up the other night's meals.
It was no picnic on that ark. (Well, actually, it kind of was.)
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)And someone on the plane had Ebola. He later threw the patient overboard. Then Noah watched the remainder of travelers for 28 days.
safeinOhio
(32,688 posts)or so my cousin says.
ballabosh
(330 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)And, jeez, somehow the dude got platypuses, koalas and kangaroosfrom Australia and polar bears from the Arctic and many, many species of critters from the deepest Amazonian rainforest. Quite a guy, that Noah.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Next question.