Guest ackline Posted March 15, 2007 Posted March 15, 2007 share on a way to stop a 10m high wave coming at you. you can post all your ideas. thank you
JesuBungle Posted March 15, 2007 Posted March 15, 2007 Another 10m wave, perhaps started with explosives at the ocean floor.
YT2095 Posted March 16, 2007 Posted March 16, 2007 get a load of thirsty kids and give them a straw each. don`t stop the wave, but fence the area off and turn it into a Surfers Theme Park.
insane_alien Posted March 16, 2007 Posted March 16, 2007 you could try some of my mums mashed potatoes, so dry that 1 gram can easily absorb a bathtub of water.
YT2095 Posted March 19, 2007 Posted March 19, 2007 you could try some of my mums mashed potatoes, so dry that 1 gram can easily absorb a bathtub of water. ROFLOL
Klaynos Posted March 19, 2007 Posted March 19, 2007 lots of wave energy devices, suck the energy out of it!
padren Posted March 26, 2007 Posted March 26, 2007 share on a way to stop a 10m high wave coming at you. you can post all your ideas. thank you When a wave gone dun start coming at you, change wer your at, and it won't be coming at you no more. Short of that, get that x-men woman with the fancy powers to stop it, she's good at that. And if you can't do that, you can always grab the ground, and yank it in the direction the wave is coming to move the earth at a similar speed to the wave - that should at least cause it to break.
Genecks Posted March 26, 2007 Posted March 26, 2007 Freeze it. If I had to improvise? A combination of drying, freezing, and blockading.
bascule Posted March 28, 2007 Posted March 28, 2007 Create a 10m deep trough which a displaces an equal volume of water, resulting in complete destructive interference.
MolotovCocktail Posted March 28, 2007 Posted March 28, 2007 maybe create some kind of barrier or wall? Or you could build on high ground
Royston Posted March 28, 2007 Posted March 28, 2007 Contact your local council about improving sea defences...this would probably entail completing a number of forms, returning these forms, waiting six months as they go through some over convulted beuracratic process. Wait another six months until the 'ten foot wave' is at the top of the agenda, for discussion at one of the weekly council / resident meetings. Once a decision is agreed, wait another month or two for a building contract to be written up and contractors to start work. Wait another 6 months for the sea defences to be built (possibly 7 months...depends on tea breaks.) Then receive complaints through your door that the wave hit over 1 year and 8 months ago, and the sea defences are a complete eye sore. Rerun the entire process again for the sea defences to be pulled down. Alternatively, just don't go to the beach that day.
Rocket Man Posted March 29, 2007 Posted March 29, 2007 is this a wave or a seismic event? there's a difference. a 10m wave could be stopped by a block of flats while a 10m seismic event would hit the flats, flood the flats, fill the flats with 10m of water, then pause think about receeding while leaving most of the sea floor on top of the wreckage that was the block of flats. i don't know why you'd want to stop the wave, some people devote their lives to getting infront of such things.
Phi for All Posted March 29, 2007 Posted March 29, 2007 You asked for "a way to stop a 10m high wave coming at you". Do you have to stop it from coming at you or stop it from affecting you? As Cap'n and MolotovCocktail suggested you could build a barrier in front of you (I'd build a triangular wedge facing the wave with me behind it). It doesn't stop the wave from coming but it stops it from affecting you.
John Cuthber Posted March 29, 2007 Posted March 29, 2007 I think the only real answer is to run away, fast.
Sisyphus Posted March 29, 2007 Posted March 29, 2007 It just occured to me. The OP didn't specify that it was a wave of water. A wave of lava, for example, would require different measures. Or he could even be speaking figuratively, as in a wave of nausea. If it's that, I'd recommend ginger ale.
Glider Posted March 30, 2007 Posted March 30, 2007 If it was a wave of lava, we could use that now redundant wave of water.
Genecks Posted March 30, 2007 Posted March 30, 2007 YES! Lava is what I would use against a 10 meter high water wave. 10 meters isn't that much? Is it? Why would I stop it? google.com says, "10 meters = 32.808399 feet" Hmm. I'm about a fifth of that wave. I could just grab a bunch of people, and we could run into it. No problem there.
JohnF Posted April 5, 2007 Posted April 5, 2007 If some 32 foot tall man was waving at me in a dangerous manner I would kick his 5 inch high toe. I might try for the shin but at four or more feet up I'd probably do myself a serious injury. But a wave of water. I would try a lot of small explosions to disperse it a bit at a time. Wouldn't one big explosion create another wave just as big?
insane_alien Posted April 5, 2007 Posted April 5, 2007 you could always use a lot of pillars to make an interference pattern. just make sure your standing at one of the places that experiences destructive interferance (destructive to the wave that is)
Edtharan Posted April 5, 2007 Posted April 5, 2007 Surfboard (yes I am an Australian ). Once I am surfing it it is no longer coming at me. If you are in deep enough water, you could even just ride it out (if it is not breaking). Or he could even be speaking figuratively, as in a wave of nausea. If it's that, I'd recommend ginger ale. How much ginger ale would you need to stave off a 10m high wave of nausea?
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