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That seems like a bad model if it does not include the effects of the waves penetrating inland and instead acts as if the coasts are inviolable.
This particular event happened 66M years ago, it would be wild guess to include effects on land that may have or haven't existed then.
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You know that ships have crew in it?
Yeah, and? How much do you think the humankind is willing to pay to save a human live - a million dollars, a billion, a trillion?
That seems like a bad model if it does not include the effects of the waves penetrating inland and instead acts as if the coasts are inviolable.
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You know that ships have crew in it?
Yeah, and? How much do you think the humankind is willing to pay to save a human live - a million dollars, a billion, a trillion?
Just to put the numbers in slightly easier to imagine numbers: imagine ocean waves about 13000 feet or 4 kilometers high. No, I can't really imagine it either. In San Francisco, the tallest building is the Salesforce Tower at 1070ft. The biggest wave would be about 13 times taller than that. I totally have trouble visualizing it, other than just looking up and up and up.
I can visualize: the highest peak around me is 3200 km
Just to put the numbers in slightly easier to imagine numbers: imagine ocean waves about 13000 feet or 4 kilometers high. No, I can't really imagine it either. In San Francisco, the tallest building is the Salesforce Tower at 1070ft. The biggest wave would be about 13 times taller than that. I totally have trouble visualizing it, other than just looking up and up and up.
I can visualize: the highest peak around me is 3200 km
Just to put the numbers in slightly easier to imagine numbers: imagine ocean waves about 13000 feet or 4 kilometers high. No, I can't really imagine it either. In San Francisco, the tallest building is the Salesforce Tower at 1070ft. The biggest wave would be about 13 times taller than that. I totally have trouble visualizing it, other than just looking up and up and up.
Hm, I have much more difficulty imagining how far inside the shoreline that would go - so if I take a port city, is it wiped off completely? Does it matter if it goes uphill for 10km? 100km?
Just to put the numbers in slightly easier to imagine numbers: imagine ocean waves about 13000 feet or 4 kilometers high. No, I can't really imagine it either. In San Francisco, the tallest building is the Salesforce Tower at 1070ft. The biggest wave would be about 13 times taller than that. I totally have trouble visualizing it, other than just looking up and up and up.
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Because a few ships a year are expendable for the global economy. Not worth it to try to make every ship less sinkable - e.g. it may decrease the number of annual losses by 50% at the cost of making an average ship 10% more expensive - obviously a bad trade. Some ships will still sink, because of stuff like human errors.
You know that ships have crew in it?