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Hurricane Ivan, Largest Wave Ever Measured
Science News Magazine ^
| 6-11-2005
| Sid Perkins
Posted on 06/17/2005 8:41:18 AM PDT by blam
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To: thackney
For folks who may not be comfortable with a furlong, .138 furlongs is about 4 and a half rods.
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posted on
06/17/2005 9:06:32 AM PDT
by
frgoff
To: The_Repugnant_Conservative
holy cow that's about 1,417.3228346 fingerbreadths..... that's gigantic...roflmao
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posted on
06/17/2005 9:08:10 AM PDT
by
Dick Vomer
(liberals suck......... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.)
To: frgoff
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posted on
06/17/2005 9:08:36 AM PDT
by
Tennessee_Bob
("Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! We willna be fooled again!")
To: Tennessee_Bob
That's why they use the metric system. Think how much bigger the wave is if you use feet!
To: frgoff
1 rod [international] = 264 fingerbreadths
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posted on
06/17/2005 9:09:18 AM PDT
by
Dick Vomer
(liberals suck......... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.)
To: Tennessee_Bob
1 cubit [Roman] = 23.3070866 fingerbreadths
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posted on
06/17/2005 9:10:10 AM PDT
by
Dick Vomer
(liberals suck......... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.)
To: Billthedrill
this is getting to be a lengthy discussion.
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posted on
06/17/2005 9:10:50 AM PDT
by
Dick Vomer
(liberals suck......... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.)
To: Dick Vomer; frgoff
Yes, but how many Smoot's high is it?
To: StormEye
27 meters is about 81 feet. That's a big wave. There is an IMAX movie filmed in (IIRC) 1998 off the North Shore of Oahu where some guys were surfing waves nearly that size.
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posted on
06/17/2005 9:12:30 AM PDT
by
Freebird Forever
(Imagine if islam controlled the internet.)
To: blam
I've only seen one wave like that before...
Oh, the humanity....
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posted on
06/17/2005 9:13:26 AM PDT
by
Hatteras
To: thackney
My car gets 456 leagues to the hogshead, and I like it that way.
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posted on
06/17/2005 9:15:26 AM PDT
by
frgoff
To: blam
To: Hank Rearden
I wish they'd use real numbers when reporting this stuff. Real numbers? What do you mean?
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posted on
06/17/2005 9:18:36 AM PDT
by
Junior
(“Even if you are one-in-a-million, there are still 6,000 others just like you.”)
To: Tennessee_Bob
It's about two-tenths of an ark.
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posted on
06/17/2005 9:18:57 AM PDT
by
frgoff
To: Graybeard58
27 meters = 90 feet. I can't understand the inability of some folks to do the conversions in their heads. It's just another measuring system.
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posted on
06/17/2005 9:20:27 AM PDT
by
Junior
(“Even if you are one-in-a-million, there are still 6,000 others just like you.”)
To: thackney
Maybe he (she?) has big feet...
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posted on
06/17/2005 9:22:31 AM PDT
by
The Electrician
("Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.")
To: StormEye
27 meters --- approximately 71 feet. Beep. Circle takes the square. There are approximately 3.3 feet per meter (a meters being roughly ~40 inches long). 27 meters, therefore equals approximately 90 feet.
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posted on
06/17/2005 9:23:03 AM PDT
by
Junior
(“Even if you are one-in-a-million, there are still 6,000 others just like you.”)
To: blam
27.7 meters is equal to 90.88 feet.
A wave of such proportions would crest as high as the clock on San Francisco's Ferry Building.
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posted on
06/17/2005 9:28:10 AM PDT
by
finnman69
(cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
To: blam
This could have been just a rogue wave - one that sucks energy from its neighbors in a statistical sense - and reaches unimagined heights in the process.
These have been described by ships encountering them as 'coming out of nowhere' in an otherwise calm sea.
So they are not just associated with hurricanes.
Satellites have measured 10 of these occurring globally at any one time.
BUMP
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posted on
06/17/2005 9:28:28 AM PDT
by
tm22721
To: blam
FreeRepublic word problem metric conversion ping!
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posted on
06/17/2005 9:33:06 AM PDT
by
zencat
(The universe is not what it appears, nor is it something else.)
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