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2026-07-27 01:15 UTC
@jcrabapple@dmv.community Reminds one of the Bay of Fundy, geographically tuned for maximum tidal sloshing.
But the standing wave maintained for two hundred hours ... that's some humbling kinda physics right there
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Fundy#Tides
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@ozeng@aus.social 2026-07-27 03:05
@jameshowell@fediscience.org @jcrabapple@dmv.community I’m taken by a few realisations: 1) the amount of energy; 2) the storage of it in such a long duration oscillation; and 3) it still has enough energy leaking out to be clearly detectable through the ground 10,000km away