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Giant Atmospheric Waves Filmed Over Iowa

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the surfing-the-skies dept.

NJChopperMan writes "For all those of you that thought waves only existed in the ocean, Photos and video of undular bore waves were caught in Iowa last week." The story also touches on the role of undular bores in severe weather, but it's definitely second fiddle to the video of the waves.

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  1. Re:Surface Tension? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is the first I've heard of that. And it seems to be false. The main issue with getting rockets away from Earth is Earths gravity.
    You are modded as insightful, but you give no reference link or any other source of your information.
    I don't blame you, I blame the moderators.