Wind wave

So maybe all those ships of yore that disappeared into thin air were actually sunk by monster waves because rogue waves aren't so rare after all.

Why were scientists so wrong? Well, it turns out ocean waves are really complicated.

More complicated than just superposition.

Imagine trying to explain a human to an alien.

But then try explaining the circulatory system.

Yeah.

In the same way, superposition can describe some aspects of ocean waves, but it's just too simple to explain most phenomena like rogue waves.

So what's missing? Well, waves form due to many, many factors.

But Tesla is an idealist of the highest order, and to such men money itself means but little.

THE ACTUAL HEIGHT OF SEA WAVES average in different oceans fifty two feet the height of the tallest billow yet measured not more than thirty feet in north atlantic waves are the agents of tremendous force as the batterings received by the big ocean liners in the winter storms tend to prove but in spite of the stories told by timid or imaginative passengers on the europe america ferry the surges of the north atlantic are not the highest waves nor the most forcible the most tremendous of seas are those that form south of the cape of good hope and cape horn where the oceanic belt is unbroken by land How high those southern waves rise has not been accurately measured, so far as can be discovered, but probably they are not very much higher than the waves farther north.

Says the New York Sun, Sailors in modern times have never seen such waves as those which the early navigators declared attained heights of 100 to 130 feet.

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Nikola Tesla the Man by Hugo Gernsback the door opens and out steps a tall figure over six feet high gaunt but erect it approaches slowly stately you become conscious at once that you are face to face with a personality of a high order nikola tesla advances and shakes your hand with a powerful grip surprising for a man over sixty a winning smile from piercing light blue-gray eyes set in extraordinarily deep sockets fascinates you and makes you feel at once at home you are guided into an office immaculate in its orderliness not a speck of dust is to be seen no papers litter the desk everything is just so it reflects the man himself immaculate in attire orderly and precise in his every movement dressed in a dark frock coat he is entirely devoid of all jewellery no ring stick-pin or even watch-chain can be seen tesla speaks a very high and almost falsetto voice he speaks quickly and very convincingly it is the man's voice chiefly which fascinates you as he speaks you find it difficult to take your eyes off his own only when he speaks to others do you have the chance to study his head predominant of which is a very high forehead with a bulge between the eyes the never-failing sign of an exceptional intelligence then the long well-shaped nose proclaiming the scientist how does this man who has accomplished such a tremendous work keep young and manage to surprise the world with more and more inventions as he grows older how does this youth of sixty who is a professor of mathematics a great mechanical and electrical engineer and the greatest inventor of all times keep his physical as well as remarkable mental freshness to begin with tesla who is by birth a serbian comes from a long-lived hardy race his family tree abounds with centenarians accordingly tesla barring accidents fully expects to be still inventing in a d nineteen sixty but the chief reason for his perpetual youth is found in his gastronomical frugality tesla has learned the great fundamental truth that most people not only eat all of their bodily ills but actually eat themselves to death by either eating too much or else by food that does not agree with them when tesla found out that tobacco and black coffee interfered with his physical well-being he quit both this is the simple daily menu of the great inventor breakfast one or two pints of warm milk and a few eggs prepared by himself yes he is a bachelor lunch none whatsoever as a rule dinner celery or the like soup a single piece of meat or fowl potatoes and one other vegetable a glass of light wine for dessert perhaps a slice of cheese and invariably a big raw apple and that's all tesla is very fussy and particular about his food he eats very little but what he does eat must be of the very best and he knows for outside of being a great inventor in science he is an accomplished cook who has invented all sorts of savoury dishes his only voice is his generosity the man who by the ignorant onlooker has often been called an idle dreamer has made over a million dollars out of his inventions and spend them as quickly on new ones but tesla is an idealist of the highest order and to such men money itself means but little nikola tesla the man by hugo

THE ACTUAL HEIGHT OF SEA WAVES average in different oceans fifty two feet the height of the tallest billow yet measured not more than thirty feet in north atlantic waves are the agents of tremendous force as the batterings received by the big ocean liners in the winter storms tend to prove but in spite of the stories told by timid or imaginative passengers on the europe america ferry the surges of the north atlantic are not the highest waves nor the most forcible the most tremendous of seas are those that form south of the cape of good hope and cape horn where the oceanic belt is unbroken by land how high those southern waves rise has not been accurately measured so far as can be discovered but probably they are not very much higher than the waves farther north says the new york sun sailors in modern times have never seen such waves as those which the early navigators declared attained heights of one hundred to one hundred and thirty feet la perouse asserted that he saw waves towering in the pacific to a height of nearly two hundred feet in these more scientific days we may say that the highest wave yet measured had an altitude of about fifty-two feet this was in the southern ocean a little north of the antarctic regions and it is quite certain that the highest waves ever seen in that region did not surpass fifty eight feet in altitude a wave of that height would certainly be a formidable looking object and its crest would wash the windows of the fifth story of many new york buildings The average height of the waves in different oceans has been ascertained with some approach to accuracy as the result of a great many measurements.

The highest waves observed in the Indian Ocean, for example, are about 40 feet.

The highest waves in the North Atlantic are from 25 to 29 feet, and in the Mediterranean from 16 to 19 feet.

Some of them travel along at a speed of 25 miles an hour.

A wave about 30 feet high contains thousands of tons of water, and when this immense force is dashed against any structure, the ruin wrought is likely to be impressive.

End of The Actual Height of Sea Waves

On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship by Nicolas de Condorcet 1743-1794 This is a LibriVox recording.

We're gonna be, uh, expecting, we're gonna be, we're gonna be, we're gonna be hoping.

I think today we're gonna be hoping for some Pokémon news, maybe the ports, maybe, uh, maybe some Je- some, some Winds and Waves news.

We'll have to wait and see.

I'm glad to be here.

So it's like it's gonna-

Mm-hmm

... possibly roll into next year as well, which will be, uh, that'll be interesting, because, I mean, we don't, other than Winds and Waves, we don't really know anything about next year.

Yeah.

Okay

... we fairly recently learned that, uh, Tropius was gonna get not one but two pre-evolutions at one point, and I honestly think that could very much be in play for it in Winds and Waves because-

Interesting

... we know it's not gonna get a regional form.

Let's go.

Let's go.

There is a, there is a non-zero chance legitimately that the Delibird evolution comes back in Winds and Waves.

Wow.

This LibriVox recording is in the public domain, read by Bruce Pirie.

Wind and Waves When I awoke on the morning after the last described arrival at home, I thought of the angry glow in the east at sunrise of the day before.

It had been cold again overnight, so cold that in the small cottage whatever was capable of freezing froze to its very core.

The frost had even penetrated the hole which in this teacher's residence made shift for a cellar, and, in spite of their being covered with layer upon layer of empty bags, had sweetened the winter's supply of potatoes.