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Re: Video of tsunami in Japan

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Opera displays a Blank Page, Chrome attempts to play the video with no controls and Firefox tries do download the mp4 file. What on earth is going on here? EDIT: it was just taking too damn long. Could be my connection, though.

My brand new unrooted NOOKcolor worked great

Re: Video of tsunami in Japan

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post #4

Opera displays a Blank Page, Chrome attempts to play the video with no controls and Firefox tries do download the mp4 file. What on earth is going on here? EDIT: it was just taking too damn long. Could be my connection, though.

Transcoded to Flash video. I'll keep it up unless my host has a problem about copyright... http://deathbycomputers.co.uk/crapandstuff/1605260179420_262...

Re: Video of tsunami in Japan

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What was wrong with the term "Tidal Wave"? It looks like a huge tide rolling in.

They are nothing to do with tides.

Tsunami means harbor wave which is a good description - at sea they are almost unnoticeable - it'sonly when the water is concentrated on a shore - or in a harbor that they have such an effect

Re: Video of tsunami in Japan

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other day friend quipped "Japanese are so smart designing quake proof bdgs". seems they forgot the tsunami thing after.

They didn't forget - a Tsunami is a block of water a meter high and several km deep moving at 800km/h.

That's a few BILLION tons of water moving at the speed of a jet aircraft - try designing against that.

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