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Rogue Giants at Sea
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Posted on 07/11/2006 7:58:14 AM PDT by Grendel9
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To: Grendel9
For all you non-oceanographers out there - If the current is flowing north and there are strong winds blowing south, you will get steep crested waves of enormous size.
To: Ken522
My Vietnam era friend stationed on the USS Vesuvius stated it camed close to rolling over after being hit by a rogue wave.
To: Grendel9
Secret Fourth Reich weather control machines beneath the ice at the South Pole. Pass it on!
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posted on
07/11/2006 8:47:03 AM PDT
by
50sDad
(ST3d: Real Star Trek 3d Chess: http://my.ohio.voyager.net/~abartmes/tactical.htm)
To: The Electrician
So, it seems that the writer doesn't know that "easterly" means "from the east" rather than "towards the east." I'm sure a lot of people aren't clear on that. One would expect more from someone who makes their living with words. Or maybe not, these days.
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posted on
07/11/2006 8:52:38 AM PDT
by
Clara Lou
(A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality. --I. Kristol)
To: 50sDad
That wasn't a rogue wave, it was a Rove wave. And he had better stop fiddling with that damn weather machine.
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posted on
07/11/2006 8:53:01 AM PDT
by
kaboom
To: Ken522
Good morning.
Always keep one hand for the ship, one for yourself and trust in your luck.
Michael Frazier
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posted on
07/11/2006 9:03:25 AM PDT
by
brazzaville
(no surrender no retreat, well, maybe retreat's ok)
To: Grendel9
Back in the fifties, I once dated a WAVE in Pensacola FL. She was kind of a rogue but not very big. About a 34 "c".
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posted on
07/11/2006 9:04:16 AM PDT
by
Old Seadog
(Inside every old person is a young person saying "WTF happened?".)
To: Grendel9
Don't go near the water!! Something else for us poor uneducated yokels to worry about. We need a new Cabinet position to handle Global Warming, sunamis and acts of God.
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posted on
07/11/2006 9:07:46 AM PDT
by
wizr
(Paranoia can be rational, if someone really is after you.)
To: Fudd
we need better wave control programs. maybe a wave buyback program.
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posted on
07/11/2006 9:09:51 AM PDT
by
Rakkasan1
((Illegal immigrants are just undocumented friends you haven't met yet!))
To: Grendel9
"the usual palliative--free drinks."
`Sea-sick' and drunk, yeah--that's the ticket.
To: johnny7
One thing about scientists, so many seem to be so closed minded. They never seem to look at things with an open mind. I've read about Rouge Waves for as long as I've lived, and never collectively thought of them all as embellishments.
This is as example:
'Over the decades, skeptical oceanographers have doubted their existence and tended to lump them together with sightings of mermaids and sea monsters'
It seems to take an unbelievable amount of data to get them to think "out of the box".
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posted on
07/11/2006 9:30:45 AM PDT
by
united1000
("The price of greatness is responsibility. " Sir Winston Churchill)
To: finnman69
Given those pictures, the ship was well-named...
To: finnman69
There was a scene in the 2006 version of Deadliest Catch, where a fishing ship was hit by a 65 foot wave. It put the vessel on its side. The camera man must have soiled himself.
To: Mr. K
anyone who knows anything at all about wave mechanics knows that this is not only possible but highly probable Ah, that would not be the "scientists" like Algore who are hysterical about global warming.
To: Grendel9
While not as often as Killer Asteroid threads and Killer Volcano threads, Giant Wave threads appear on FR with some regularity.
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posted on
07/11/2006 9:42:25 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Off touch and out of base)
To: Grendel9
Can't read the article, but there was a satelite put up a few years ago that showed that these rogue waves happen a lot more than anyone thought likely, and some are freaking ridiculously huge. It is only because they are so big for such a short duration and that most of the time there is no human prescence in most parts of the deep ocean that we haven't come across them regularly. I think I recall something like 11 waves over a hundred feet in a month...worldwide.
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posted on
07/11/2006 9:44:02 AM PDT
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: ClearCase_guy
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posted on
07/11/2006 9:44:29 AM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(Man was made in the image of God, not pond scum)
To: finnman69
more crap your pants pics
Rogue wave estimated at 60 feet moving away from ship after crashing into it a short time earlier. In the Gulf Stream off of Charleston, South Carolina, with light winds of 15 knots.
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posted on
07/11/2006 9:44:36 AM PDT
by
finnman69
(cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestu s globus, inflammare animos)
To: Ken522
Seen a few horrors in the North Atlantic during some very bad storms, but nothing like this.
I learned a long time ago however, not to pooh pooh something someone saw just because I have never experienced it. As my tag line says.....
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posted on
07/11/2006 9:44:54 AM PDT
by
Leatherneck_MT
(In a world where Carpenters come back from the dead, ALL things are possible.)
To: Lx
Better not commit adultery... ;)
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posted on
07/11/2006 9:47:17 AM PDT
by
johnny7
(“And what's Fonzie like? Come on Yolanda... what's Fonzie like?!”)
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