Core sample

So if it's not a solid block of rock, what is this ship shape doing there in the mountains of Ararat that's 300 cubits long? And so we were, you know, Very excited with the coring.

I think that's the biggest thing out of this year without even touching the core samples, without even analyzing them yet.

Now, when we were drilling down in a couple of the sites, we came across... thick deposits of highly enriched organic material.

You can say layers of rich soil.

with actually our friend, Lauren Witzke, and they've funded through, I believe, GoFundMe or something like that, sort of an excavation.

Now, they're not gonna be unearthing it, but they are drilling for core samples, as far as I'm concerned, into this rock, I mean, I'm sorry, this, what previously has been called- As far as you're concerned, Lauren? Andrew, yeah, he thinks I have a recently deceased dead loved one.

That was an accident.

Things got a little bit screwy, okay? But let's not get into the weeds.

But what is crazy is Andrew has funded through GoFundMe and such the money that's needed to take the core sample.

So we're going to be figuring out soon.

I believe they already shipped the core samples off to.

the lab to determine a number of things uh one of which is do we have wood in those core samples the other to uh matt's point earlier before we got on the show he was talking about it and lauren witsky actually said this publicly on twitter they were saying well how would you know if it is and she says look if there is dna in the form of like fecal matter from two of every type of animal You know, that is a known species or something like that.

So that is what we're also testing for as well.

So we took core samples from inside the voids and, you know, the floors where the animals would have been.

We're sending it off for third party lab testing.

And the goal is to identify ancient animal DNA.

no no no big mistake no no no well because uh you know they were babies on the ark so when after the year that they were on the ark they come off their breeding age so they go out and they're fruitful and multiply some of them end up in the cold they develop thicker fur you know it's just years and years of adapting to their environment and that's where we get the different species and And the runts breed with each other and they keep getting smaller and smaller and it's just how it worked.

But yeah, so it would be the animal droppings, hair, teeth, anything in there that would, you know, a lot of those things have decomposed and turn into dirt, but you can take the dirt and you can tell a whole story from the dirt.

So that's what we took with the core samples was, we like the deep inside the arc we took those samples and that's what's going to the lab to be tested thoroughly tested for everything you know what it what it's made of um you know and it's interesting because it's harder than anything so dr bakhtar the u.s defense scientist we were asking him so like what do you what do you think it's made of i mean it's not it's not natural is it petrified wouldn't he was like i i don't know he's like i've never seen anything like this before You know, he's been in the industry.

He's like, I've been doing this for 40 years.