Playmobil or...
... erm, nothing to see, move along there...!
Pity the poor Lego pirate in the video below: there he is, placidly riding over tiny waves, when a rogue wave arrives and upends his vessel. The video looks trivial, but it has a serious implication: the ANU scientists that put it together did so as part of the world’s ongoing effort to understand rogue waves that menace …
Trying to remember whether it was Tomorrow's World or not where I first saw the film of the '100 year wave' where two model boats were close to each other in a wave tank and the researchers could sink one while leaving the other afloat. Certainly a good long time ago and I thought that the maths had been fully demonstrated.
Anyone know what this new 'discovery' has added?
Depends on the lego set.
I once had 2 lego boats.
One a tanker that had a plastic hull and floated in the water and the other a pure brick pilot boat that had round smooth 2x2 caps on the underside edges such that it could glide on carpet (but didn't float).
I reckon though that some silicon sealant on that pilot boat and it would've made a fine bathtime vessel.
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It is not surprising.
If, on a sphere, there are waves travelling in every direction, then at some point there will be constructive intererference that generates a much taller wave as they meet in opposite directions; another example that "you can't comb a hairy ball."
Any demo videos otherwise should be addressed to The Reg!