That's an interesting point. Tsunamis also look quite indistinguishable from the surrounding ocean's waves for however many hundreds of miles they may need to travel over the deep ocean. Not until all of a tsunami's massive potential energy, dispersed throughout the vast columns of water it travels through in the deep ocean, gets concentrated into much shorter columns of water as it approaches a continental plate does the tsunami become visible to the naked eye.
Then, once a tsunami's energies do begin getting compressed over a continental plate, at first they just look like that tide that keeps rising and rising and rising. By the time it is indisputably recognizable as a cresting tsunami, the time for taking any appropriate precautions is already long past. Being able to identify an approaching tsunami before it becomes visibly obvious is a life-saving talent.
Those of us who saw this deluge for what it was before allowing ourselves become test guinea pigs for Big Pharma are truly blessed. We will still have to deal with cleaning up and salvaging whatever destruction this wave may cause on impact, but at least we didn't mindlessly throng to the water's edge, firmly convinced that our destruction could only descend on us from the highlands. Hopefully we were over-cautious and there will not be too much decimation. I would much rather be laughed at for running needlessly uphill than be cried over for having been swept away in my unquestioning ignorance.
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Date: 2024-04-04 08:35 pm (UTC)Then, once a tsunami's energies do begin getting compressed over a continental plate, at first they just look like that tide that keeps rising and rising and rising. By the time it is indisputably recognizable as a cresting tsunami, the time for taking any appropriate precautions is already long past. Being able to identify an approaching tsunami before it becomes visibly obvious is a life-saving talent.
Those of us who saw this deluge for what it was before allowing ourselves become test guinea pigs for Big Pharma are truly blessed. We will still have to deal with cleaning up and salvaging whatever destruction this wave may cause on impact, but at least we didn't mindlessly throng to the water's edge, firmly convinced that our destruction could only descend on us from the highlands. Hopefully we were over-cautious and there will not be too much decimation. I would much rather be laughed at for running needlessly uphill than be cried over for having been swept away in my unquestioning ignorance.
— Christophe