Tide question

Discussion in 'All Discussions' started by littlerhody, Jun 13, 2018.

  1. littlerhody

    littlerhody Well-Known Member

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    So always wondered about this and it makes no sense to me. For example high tide in Rhode island is about 8 am today being 6/13/18. Why is the high tide in cape cod at noon four hours later? Tides are all about the moon and the gravitational pull on the ocean so why cape cod only being not that far away is the high tide 4 hours later? There must be a scientific reason for this?
     

  2. Merx

    Merx Well-Known Member

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  3. Barry Cuda

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    Because liberals (Cape Cod-Massholia) do everything in a retarded fashion....why else??
     
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  4. La_Piedra

    La_Piedra Well-Known Member

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  5. nopantsLance

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  6. Sir_Ballyhoo

    Sir_Ballyhoo Well-Known Member

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    The moon is beyond bizarre. It is unable to rotate but yet strong enough to cause our entire ocean to rise and fall everyday. The excepted theory for its origin is even more bizarre. A giant asteroid hit Earth so hard that it caused enough of its mantel to be swept up into a massive wave so high that it left the planet's atmosphere and over time all of the boulders of mantel smashed into each other and formed our Moon at the perfect distance to not rotate so it could better redistribute the Oceans bounty to all shores. Once that theory was debunked (due to not enough material) it was later changed that another asteroid or the same one, came back around and hit the Earth once again to do the same so enough material could made to create such a giant object we see in the sky. Sounds legit.
     
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  7. Barry Cuda

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    The "excepted theory"?? So it is way different than other theories?? So everything you wrote is an exception??
    Oh, IIIIII seeeee, now....you mean "accepted'!!
    Well, why didn't you say so in the first place?
    Kids today......
     
  8. littlerhody

    littlerhody Well-Known Member

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    Jan 16, 2009
    that has nothing to do with my tidal question. I still don't see a Lehman answer to my simple question. Only answer I am trusting as of now is barry's explanation that massholes are fucked up. thats all I have to go on. Thank you swellinfo for providing me with no accurate info at all! the cutting and pasting of wikipedia links is saying basically I dont understand it either but I will send you this link that doesnt explain it but makes me look like I understand it.

    Maybe due to bathemitry the tide or water takes longer to wrap around into Rhode island then it does to more exposed or more easterly facing cape cod or NH waters for example. The tide may flow North to south?
     
  9. Sir_Ballyhoo

    Sir_Ballyhoo Well-Known Member

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  10. Sir_Ballyhoo

    Sir_Ballyhoo Well-Known Member

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    Mar 8, 2018
    Excuse me Ol Berry. One misspelling sets you off now? Ya old grump.
     
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  11. Merx

    Merx Well-Known Member

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    You requested a "scientific explanation". Now you request a Lehman. The link I tossed you is an introductory scientific explanation in Lehman terms. All you had to do was dive into the site a bit more, for explanations relevant to your question:

    https://www.co-ops.nos.noaa.gov/restles5.html

    You can't expect most who don't know your homebreak well, and those relatively close, to answer your question. That is up to you, as a regular, avid observer.
     
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  12. UnfurleD

    UnfurleD Well-Known Member

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  13. La_Piedra

    La_Piedra Well-Known Member

    Oct 9, 2017
    Cutting and pasting links = modern journalism
     
  14. littlerhody

    littlerhody Well-Known Member

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    Jan 16, 2009
    at least you came up with some explanation Barry so thank you for trying. others just cut and paste internet links to things that do not answer my questions.
    LICK MY BALLS YOU RETARDED KOOK. HAHHA
     
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  15. littlerhody

    littlerhody Well-Known Member

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    Jan 16, 2009
    SO YOU CAN EXPLAIN IT IN LEHMAN TERMS THE ANSWER TO MY QUESTION? THANK YOU. I THINK I FIGURED IT OUT. BUT WAS OBVIOUS TO ME NO ONE KNOWS ON THIS WEBSITE. I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THAN TO GO TO A SWELLINFO FOR AN INTELLIGENT ANSWER
     
  16. Merx

    Merx Well-Known Member

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    Apr 4, 2018
    I did not take you to raise. I also do not give a damn about your cold water break.
     
  17. CJsurf

    CJsurf Well-Known Member

    Apr 28, 2014
    In laymans terms the water sloshes from point A to point B as the tide rises and falls. The water has to navigate the geographic features of the coastline. The delay is due to the the time it takes the water getting from point A to point B. That is why Cape Cod and the Cape Cod Canal have some absolutely crazy currents as the tide goes in and out.
     
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