This Machine Produces the Largest Humanmade Waves In the World

sciencehabit writes: A new experimental facility at Deltares, a research institute in the Netherlands, has begun producing the largest humanmade waves in the world. Like kids building sandcastles below the tideline on the beach, scientists will let the walls of water crash on dikes of different designs and other structures—sometimes until they're destroyed. The Delta Flume, to be inaugurated on 5 October, is a 300-meter-long water-filled trough that is 9.5 meters high and 5 meters wide. At one end sits a gigantic metal plate called a wave board; four pistons move it back and forth to whip up the kind of waves that the sea can unleash.

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humanmade?

[DigiShaman]

Wouldn't that be man-made?

Re:humanmade?

[ColdWetDog]

Not in the politically correct portions of Northern Europe. Misogynist.

But more to the point:

The new Dutch flume replaces an older, smaller version that will be retired after 35 years of service

Oh man, they should not retire the thing. They should commercialize the thing. You could make it into the ultimate water park.

Incorrect

[Anonymous Coward]

Incorrect the largest waves were made by humans when the detonated an H-Bomb.

Your measly wave pool is tiny compared to real power.

hu-person-made surely?

[Roger W Moore]

Not in the politically correct portions of Northern Europe.

Which is ironic since the use of 'man' to mean 'person' in English comes from German where 'man' means 'one' and 'Mann' means man. So man-made actually means 'person-made' not made by a male. So instead of making the language clunky perhaps we should just educate people as to what it really means otherwise next we'll end up having to use 'huperson' instead of 'human'.