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xkcd #3135: Sea Level (imgs.xkcd.com)
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xkcd #3135: Sea Level

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They're up there with coral islands, lightning, and caterpillars turning into butterflies.

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[-] Deebster@infosec.pub 0 points 1 month ago

the Gulf Coast is strange, has diurnal tides (twice a day)

Diurnal tides are once a day (semidiurnal is twice a day). By the Gulf Coast, I guess you must mean the Gulf of Mexico. I'm living on the other side of the world in the other diurnal region, so I assume our tides are synchronised!

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

No idea how I got that backwards. I even looked it up before posting!

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