those bodies are not us
Since Thursday morning the entire crew have slept little. Building the \ARK/ in Durban is an exercise in how to make tea for mutineers and a lot of practice walking planks. Not to mention the forms we are completing. There is a form even for walking the plank though we still have to request that those be completed. Ms Olive Branch says she will include one in a Captain's log soon.
We have brilliant new engineers working with our structural engineer Jacek, trying to extract his intelligence (!) from one computer programme into another ... into one that can actually play out the drawings that are needed by the fabricator. In case you missed it, the scale of the \ARK/ is something like 30 metres long, 12 metres wide (not counting side door ramps) and 16 metres high. The scale is also as intense in its minute detail:
It is way more complicated than the drawing above. Every connection has to be produced in three-dimensional detail down to the last mm. This kind of detail is what is referred to above as intelligence.
The files have been sent across the world and Ms Olive Branch has written by dove to say that there is something beautiful about engaging an international community to build the \ARK/ in Africa. She says it is better than just waiting for a tsunami.
Here is the dove. Those bodies are not us.
This image was sourced on the Wikimedia Commons. Engraved by Gustave Doré (1832–1883), and entitled "Le Lâcher de la colombe"
