Just carve a cave along the side of the iceberg, or build an igloo on top Bingo! instant shelter from wind, and rain. Actually, all I'd need to do is stretch a seal skin ceiling across a few logs, or blocks of ice and I'd have a rain proof shelter.
There's plenty of fresh water for drinking (after it stopped raining for 40 days i could melt ice). Plenty of fish in the ocean to eat.
Survivability seems quite possible in this case. In addition, huge icebergs TAKE YEARS TO MELT, even in the hot sun. Icebergs are impervious to waves, as many are larger than Manhattan island.
2007-11-23 09:09:52 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
As to the question of whether the poles were tropical: Where did polar bears and penguins come from then?
2007-11-23 09:15:12 · update #1
I would go insane, sitting there, twiddling my thumbs while waiting for the water to recede.................
2007-11-23 09:14:27 · answer #1 · answered by bete noire Carpe Noctum 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How about the sequel, "Great Flood 2: Icebergs Melting!"
2007-11-23 09:14:28 · answer #2 · answered by ignoramus_the_great 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
But isn't that what Polar Bears do - apart from the seal skin over the door - they just eat them (skin and all).
A lesson to be learned.
(ps: 7/8th's of an iceberg is submerged - so watch out when swimming in the Arctic or Antarctic regions).
2007-11-23 09:19:19 · answer #3 · answered by Milking maid 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who told you there were icebergs at the time of the flood? Who could know that for sure? Were not the poles tropical in the past? Whats up with that?
2007-11-23 09:14:19 · answer #4 · answered by Higgy Baby 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is a good possibility that there weren't any icebergs back when the great flood occurred. The "dome" that was over the earth created a larger greenhouse effect than what we have now, causing the entire world to have the same temperature. This is just my belief/speculation.
2007-11-23 09:14:57 · answer #5 · answered by Kenan 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
The Great Flood was a purely local event. It was probably a simultaneous flood in the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. There has probably been more than one simultaneous flood in these rivers.
2007-11-23 09:15:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
As salaamu 'alaikym, my friend.
Insha'Allah, I don't know where you got the idea that icebergs take years to melt but...it isn't true.
Further, the closer you inadvertently got ot the equator the sooner you would learn this from first hand experieince.
think or thwim, baby! (sorry, couldn't resist the old pun...)
Ma'a salaam
2007-11-23 09:19:07 · answer #7 · answered by Big Bill 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
For a great flood, the ice flows would have to melt. world flood, no ice.
2007-11-23 09:13:40 · answer #8 · answered by punch 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The geological evidence indicates there was never a worldwide flood, much less one that occurred since the dawn of civilization.
2007-11-23 09:15:31 · answer #9 · answered by Hera Sent Me 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Sounds like a plan. Until you start to take frostbite/hypothermia into account. Plus, what would you eat?
2007-11-23 09:13:37 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a good thought, but "god" wanted everybody but Noah's family to drown....so I am sure that he had some magical way prevent anyone from using icebergs as you suggest. After all, "god" could do anything.
2007-11-23 09:14:35 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋