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Mystery waves hit Maine
Boston.com ^ | November 4, 2008 | Megan Woolhouse

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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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; oceanography; roguewave; roguewaves; tsunami; tsunamis
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1 posted on 11/04/2008 4:39:01 AM PST by GQuagmire
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Okie Dokie: end of the world is coming.....


2 posted on 11/04/2008 4:41:59 AM PST by Nick Thimmesch
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To: GQuagmire

Rogue waves! Atlantic, 2012!!!


3 posted on 11/04/2008 4:43:48 AM PST by TADSLOS (Duncan Hunter Is Now One Vote Closer to POTUS!)
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To: GQuagmire

Ted Kennedy and Barney Frank going for a dip


4 posted on 11/04/2008 4:45:35 AM PST by ptsal
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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.”


5 posted on 11/04/2008 4:46:18 AM PST by Danae (Oregon - Obama = Trickle up Poverty. Don't like it, get ready to be"reeducated")
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To: GQuagmire

This is really interesting. Thanks for posting.


6 posted on 11/04/2008 4:46:20 AM PST by Beowulf9
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To: GQuagmire

Interesting.


7 posted on 11/04/2008 4:46:57 AM PST by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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To: TADSLOS

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.


8 posted on 11/04/2008 4:47:45 AM PST by aft_lizard (One animal actually eats its own brains to conserve energy, we call them liberals.)
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To: GQuagmire

Probably because of nuke tests in Iran...at least I think API is going to report that!


9 posted on 11/04/2008 4:48:07 AM PST by surfer
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"It was bizarre," said Ingall, a lifelong resident of the area. "Everybody was like, 'Oh my God, is this the end?'

Mystery wave and rains in the blue states on each coast. Perhaps Mother Nature isn't pleased with them.

10 posted on 11/04/2008 4:48:25 AM PST by itsthejourney (1 of every 10 people you pass in the mall is here illegally... including Aunt Zeituni)
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To: GQuagmire

"...mighty residual Tsunami from the Iranian nuclear test 18 miles below ground under the Strait of Hormuz devastated the heathen land of Main..."

'-}

11 posted on 11/04/2008 4:49:20 AM PST by TXnMA (To anger a conservative, lie about him. To anger a liberal -- tell the truth...)
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Interesting! :)

And I'm posting this because the replies are a hoot...

Coastal Maine tide change a mystery

12 posted on 11/04/2008 4:49:27 AM PST by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: GQuagmire
Algore and a polar bear fighting over a newly formed iceberg. Gore trying to melt it with a flame thrower and the bear trying to surf it to another berg
13 posted on 11/04/2008 4:49:45 AM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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God is warning us!


14 posted on 11/04/2008 4:50:46 AM PST by cajungirl (no)
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To: GQuagmire

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


15 posted on 11/04/2008 4:51:41 AM PST by dforest (Is there any good idea out there that Obama doesn't lay claim to anymore?)
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To: TADSLOS

Mother Nature redecorates shoreline.


16 posted on 11/04/2008 4:51:52 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: GQuagmire

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.


17 posted on 11/04/2008 4:53:31 AM PST by RayChuang88
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To: GQuagmire

Clive Cussler has already reported this.


18 posted on 11/04/2008 4:55:52 AM PST by Library Lady
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To: SunkenCiv

ping


19 posted on 11/04/2008 4:57:00 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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asteroid impact? Giant Alien spacecraft?


20 posted on 11/04/2008 4:57:41 AM PST by wolfcreek (I see miles and miles of Texas....let's keep it that way.)
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