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kengr ([personal profile] kengr) wrote2020-01-05 02:37 am

Thunderbirds are ... oops

Ok, Thundrebirds has never been strong on science but this time the writers really blew it.

They have a tsunami. Ok, those happen. but they have it endangering ships in mid-ocean!!!

sorry guys but tsunamis are only dangerous when they hit shallow water. In mid-ocean they are just a gentle *very long* swell.

If not, we'd lose hundreds of ships every time one happened.

Also, as anybody who's seen video of one knows, they aren't this huge *breaking* wave. More like a tidal bore.
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[personal profile] stickmaker 2020-01-05 02:50 pm (UTC)(link)

I wonder if the scriptwriter(s) was thinking about rogue waves, which do affect craft on the open ocean.

Anyway, where are you seeing new Thunderbirds episodes?