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Are rogue waves just the various component waves on different frequencies lining up "perfectly" such that they sum to one large wave? Or are they a different ph
by genderwhy 4y ago
Are rogue waves just the various component waves on different frequencies lining up "perfectly" such that they sum to one large wave? Or are they a different phenomena?
- ianvisits 4y agoNo one really knows what causes them - plenty of theories but not facts - and that's why they are both exceptionally facinating as to how they form, and yet also utterly terrifying.
- peteradio 4y agoI have a theory that there is something down there, deep in the uncharted depths of the oceans lurking and causing rogue waves, but its just a theory one I dearly hope is wrong...
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- SpeedilyDamage 4y agoEven worse, it's standing in our night sky, in periodic plain sight, taunting us with it's waxing and waning, knowing there's nothing we can do to stop it.
- cjbgkagh 4y agoNow imagine how scary the rogue holes are, the inverse of rogue waves.
- eternalban 4y ago”[T]hree years past, there happened to me an event such as never happened to mortal man -- or at least such as no man ever survived to tell of -- and the six hours of deadly terror which I then endured have broken me up body and soul.” A Descent Into The Maelstrom, Edgar Allan Poe, 1845 https://poestories.com/read/descent https://poestories.com/read/descent
- Kon-Peki 4y agoI may have experienced a very small one, 10-15 years ago - and I still have flashbacks. Was a crew member in a sailing regatta and for one 5-10 minute period the waves were just coming from everywhere, breaking all over the place. It was exhilarating, like riding a roller coaster up and down! Then a (relatively) very big one, out of the blue. It seemed to go between us and the next boat, maybe 60 feet away. From the deck, we couldn't even see the top of the mast of the other boat. And then we fell out of the water. Our boat, all 30,000 pounds of it, dropped straight down and we crashed, hard, into the water below. The mast bent so much that the cable stays were loose. The impact threw everyone down. The sound: it sounded like the fiberglass crunched and broke. For a moment we all thought we were dead. But we weren't. The mast snapped back so hard the cable stays made a twanging sound. Sails limp - no wind at the bottom of the hole. Then the water all around us swallowed us up; our buoyancy sent us shooting straight up with a lot of force. The wind hit us hard; no time to reflect; have to deal with that now.
- glonq 4y agoOof. That would make a landlubber out of me.
- Kon-Peki 4y agoAll those years of racing, including being in multiple collisions, taught me that it is surprisingly difficult to sink a boat. As long as you can maintain hull and deck integrity, you need a LOT of water inflow in a very short amount of time to eliminate buoyancy. We were never a good team, but I came away from it with far more confidence being on the water than I started :)
- rcxdude 4y agoonly kind of, the suprising thing is they are way bigger than expected (or rather, rogue waves of a given height are orders of magnitude more likely than you would expect from just adding together the statistics of each frequency of wave). There's some other interaction or non-linear behaviour going on which causes them to occur with the frequency that they do, and I don't think there's a single model which actually explains them.
- saboot 4y agoWave dynamics, specifically ones which have interactions with the ground, are some of the few systems that need derivatives higher than two to describe them. Lots of interesting stuff going on
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- _whiteCaps_ 4y agoThey're quite rare, but my understanding is that they can come from an angle different from the prevailing winds / waves, so it's something else.