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Not a new idea for some of us—but sounds like they now have good observations to back it. Good news!
Secret to Towering Rogue Waves Revealed...Manmade Global Warming! /sarc/
The reason that rogue waves form has been settled science for at least the last 50 years.
This is not controversial; neither have rogue waves been considered “myths”, at least not be knowledgeable people during my lifetime. They are a perfectly natural occurrence at sea.
Consider that there are thousands of waves forming and dissapating in the oceans, of all different wavelengths, amplitude, and directionality. From time to time and place to place these waves will overtake, cross and interact with one another, as all sorts of propagating waves will do.
From time to time two or several waves strongly reinforce one another and form a towering “rogue” wave. It is and always has been a statistical certainty in the world ocean that this will occur.
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There has been an excellent Discovery Channel program on this subject in the last couple or three years. The Oil rig measurements in fact provided validation for a theory by a Prof. at (IIRC) U. Arizona. Since then rogue waves have been spotted on satellite imagery and are in fact not all that uncommon.
Is this what might be in the Bermuda Triangle? If these exist, why go on a cruise?
Yeah, but now that you've mentioned it Pelosi won't allow a vote on the energy bill unless there's a couple hundred million in there for it.
There’s nothing new about the idea of “rogue” waves. The oceans are a palette of wave patterns. Every now and then the patterns, especially with regard to storm systems, will let a wave stack up that’s massively out of scale.
It happens. It’s always happened.
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Wow! They’ve rediscovered the principle of superposition!
What a relief. Kids with jump ropes in playgrounds must have lost it somehow.
My son just died from a rogue wave in Australia June 2008...read the newspaper articles on jeremyearnshaw.com
There are a lot of little ‘rogue’ waves on the Mediterranean. They seem to appear with greater frequency there for some reason.
I remember my first trip to the French Riviera. I went to the beach at Nice, France. I spent a lot of time on the beach that summer and it seemed that at least once each day, a wave much larger than all the rest would come ashore with a roar and soak all the people that were closest to the water.
I was laying in the sun for half a day the first time. Suddenly I heard a rushing sound from the sea and the next thing I knew, a huge wave had crashed right over me! It came out of nowhere, but you heard it first.
After that, I tried to stay further from the water’s edge, but still, an even bigger one got me the next time... but only up to my waist.
The people who frequent the beaches know to leap up and run when they hear the rumble of the sea! The newcomers all get soaked! :)
and they’re banned in China...
The Wave: Banned in China?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2056789/posts