"...mighty residual Tsunami from the Iranian nuclear test 18 miles below ground under the Strait of Hormuz devastated the heathen land of Main..."
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Posted on 11/04/2008 4:39:01 AM PST by GQuagmire
Dockworker Marcy Ingall saw a giant wave in the distance last Tuesday afternoon and stopped in her tracks. It was an hour before low tide in Maine's Boothbay Harbor, yet without warning, the muddy harbor floor suddenly filled with rushing, swirling water. Squall-line surges and rogue waves In 15 minutes, the water rose 12 feet, then receded. And then it happened again. It occurred three times, she said, each time ripping apart docks and splitting wooden pilings.
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Okie Dokie: end of the world is coming.....
Rogue waves! Atlantic, 2012!!!
Ted Kennedy and Barney Frank going for a dip
Schrodinger Waves - The cat knows they are real...
http://www.sciy.org/blog/SCIENCETECH/COMPLEXITYTHEORY/_archives/2007/2/14/2737024.html
“No current could have created such huge waves. There is none in that part of the Atlantic. Clearly, there was another effect investigators needed to find. Except someone already had: it existed (on paper at least) in the world of quantum physics. Al Osborne is a wave mathematician with 30 years experience devising equations to describe open ocean wave patterns. Quantum physics has at its heart a concept called the Schrodinger Equation, a way of expressing the probability of something happening that is far more complex than the simple linear model. Al’s theory is based on the notion that in certain unstable conditions, waves can steal energy from their neighbours. Adjacent waves shrink while the one at the focus can grow to an enormous size. His modified Schrodinger Equation had been rejected in the past as implausible, but with research attention centred on analysing these rogue waves - including global satellite radar surveillance by the new European Remote Sensing Satellite - data began to emerge backing his case. When Al came across the New Year’s Day 1985 wave profiles from the Draupner oil rig, he saw his mathematical model played out in the real world.
Al’s work - if correct - suggests that there are two kinds of waves out on the high seas; the classical undulating type described by the linear model and an unstable non-linear monster - a wave that at any time can start sucking up energy from waves around it to become a towering freak. The consequences for ship design could be stark.”
This is really interesting. Thanks for posting.
Interesting.
Sounds like it is a made for the Sci Fi channel movie. We need a team of scientists up there stat to save the good citizens of Maine from the impending disaster of sea weed clogging their beaches.
Probably because of nuke tests in Iran...at least I think API is going to report that!
Mystery wave and rains in the blue states on each coast. Perhaps Mother Nature isn't pleased with them.
"...mighty residual Tsunami from the Iranian nuclear test 18 miles below ground under the Strait of Hormuz devastated the heathen land of Main..."
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And I'm posting this because the replies are a hoot...
God is warning us!
It is “Storm Of The Century” starring role played by Barry Obama. “Live in sin, well come on in”
Give him what he wants and he will go away.
LOL
Mother Nature redecorates shoreline.
Is there a strong storm in the Atlantic? If that is the case, such a storm can cause rogue waves, as a recent discovery from satellite observations clearly demonstrates.
Clive Cussler has already reported this.
ping
asteroid impact? Giant Alien spacecraft?
You don't see a "giant wave in the distance". Even a tsunami is just an imperceptible swell when it is far enough out. The "journalist" has been smoking too much seaweed.
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There was a great progam on rogue waves on the History Channel (iirc). Those waves can be incredibly high and have knocked over oil rigs, sunk who knows how many ships and scared the beejezers those who have survived getting hit by one. It was a very interesting program.
Leni
Well Obama said the oceans will rise...
Then they need to set off a nuclear weapon because ALL the problems of the world are solved by setting off a nuclear weapon. At least in the movies they are.
Thanks for the link to: ‘Rantburg’..I looked around a bit, they even have a post on Murtha...maybe there are some people with sense in Maine after all. :)
Rogue Wave ping!
“Schrodinger Waves - The cat knows they are real”
Interesting, reminds me of a story in a Charleston, SC newspaper, from a local shrimper. He was several miles off shore when he noticed an unusual smell and it became noticiable warmer. Shortly after this happened he realized he was surrounded by an immense wall of water. After seveal minutes everything returned to normal. Don’t know if he was spinning a yarn (sea story), had a bad trip (illicit substances) or if something had happened to really spook this fellow.
Before this happened, also in the Charleston area, we had a series of “air booms” which origninated southeast of our location. There was speculation that they were “sonic booms”, as well as “natural phenoma” but no official cause was ever released. There is still much to learn and many things we have yet to understand.
“Al’s work - if correct - suggests that there are two kinds of waves out on the high seas; the classical undulating type described by the linear model and an unstable non-linear monster - a wave that at any time can start sucking up energy from waves around it to become a towering freak. The consequences for ship design could be stark.”
Gee - makes it a good time to take a ride on the new, freakishly huge Cruise Ships just being built. Wonder what a wave like that will do to a 14-story liner with 5,400 people in it?
Is the volcanoe in Canary Island’s active?
I'd guess asteroid impact.
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Maybe it was just a couple of “Ohio Class” subs having a friendly little “race”.
What I’ve read about rogue waves would make one not hazard a journey far out to sea in a boat smaller than an aircraft carrier! Some of the stuff I’ve heard would make a sane man go mad!
ALL CHRISTIANS!
Vote early before the rapture!
I saved that one for my mother-in-law who has never met a lobster she didn’t try to eat!!
I can’t eat lobster. I was traumatized as a kid. I heard them “screaming” after my parents would throw ‘em in the pot. Shudder. Not to mention I have a policy against eating anything with eyestalks :)
God doesn’t usually post small craft warnings.
BFLR
We need to Sue Nami!
It happens here in Fla. and I assume all along the coast from time to time. They usually explain it as the effect of an underwater avalance, or something of the like.
Where was FEMA?
Wow- fascinating.
“What I’ve read about rogue waves would make one not hazard a journey far out to sea in a boat smaller than an aircraft carrier! Some of the stuff I’ve heard would make a sane man go mad”
That is probably the reason for all the myths and superstitions of seafarers. There was also a shrimper who claimed he rode his boat over a house during Hurricane Hugo, but that’s another story.
was there any seismic evidence of an ocean earthquake??
Possibly a release of methane hydrate from the seafloor. There are millions of tons worldwide, and there is speculation that as a giant bubble reaches the surface, the density of the water is reduced and thus lifted into the air. Bermuda Triangle stuff happens.
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