But what about the specifications [of the ark]? you wonder. Why that specific ratio [300:50:30, length:width:height (in cubits)]? Why not, for example, 300 by 200 by 20, or some other ratio?
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Its length-to-breadth ratio of six to one (300 cubits to 50) has great advantage over the cubic contraption of the Babylonian epic [Gilgamesh epic]. From the standpoint of stability and rolling, the ratio of 6:1 is about as nearly perfect as can be desired. Some of the mammoth tankers of today have a ration of 7:1. The shipbuilder I. K. Brunel designed the ocean liner known as the Great Britain in 1844. The vessel's dimensions were 322 by 51 by 32 1/2 feet--proportions nearly identical to the dimensions of Noah's ark. Whereas Noah's ship ranks as the first of its kind, Brunel had several thousand years of shipbuilding expertise to rely on, but all the accumulated knowledge he could draw from did not give him a better ratio than that of the ark.
Noorbergen, Rene, Secrets of the Lost Races, New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1977, pp. 65-66.
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