Posted on 11/04/2008 4:39:01 AM PST by GQuagmire
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
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