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While doing this he says "Radical", "Gnarly", and "Hang loose" which are commonly used among surfers. | While doing this he says "Radical", "Gnarly", and "Hang loose" which are commonly used among surfers. | ||
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| + | The title text refers to riding the barrel, in which one surfs inside the hollow part of a breaking wave, while a wipe out means you get swept off your surf board. If you wipe out in a barrel, you most likely submerge under water. If this were possible in tectonic surfing, you would be stuck under a tectonic plate and you would have to wait until the material in which you're trapped erodes. In reality, there's no such thing are breaking waves or barrels in plate tectonics{{Citation needed}}. Things do get trapped when two tectonic plates collide in a process called {{w|subduction}}, in which one plate disappears below another. | ||
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Revision as of 07:42, 19 September 2024
| Tectonic Surfing |
 Title text: The worst is when you wipe out in the barrel and you're trapped for several million years until erosion frees you. |
Explanation
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In this comic, Beret Guy is doing tectonic surfing. This seems to be surfing on tectonic plates, which move very slowly.[citation needed] He seems to be moving horizontally at about 4-5 cm/year (~1 m/20 yrs) which would put him on one of the moderately fast plates,[1][2] at least relative to the more stable North American plate.
While doing this he says "Radical", "Gnarly", and "Hang loose" which are commonly used among surfers.
The title text refers to riding the barrel, in which one surfs inside the hollow part of a breaking wave, while a wipe out means you get swept off your surf board. If you wipe out in a barrel, you most likely submerge under water. If this were possible in tectonic surfing, you would be stuck under a tectonic plate and you would have to wait until the material in which you're trapped erodes. In reality, there's no such thing are breaking waves or barrels in plate tectonics[citation needed]. Things do get trapped when two tectonic plates collide in a process called subduction, in which one plate disappears below another.
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- [Cueball walks up to Beret Guy. Beret Guy is standing with one leg in front of another and his arms spread wide.]
- Cueball: What are you doing?
- Beret Guy: Tectonic surfing!
- [Cueball is standing behind Beret Guy, who is in the same pose.]
- Beret Guy: Radical!
- Beret Guy: Gnarly!
- Beret Guy: Hang loose!
- [Beret Guy is alone, still in the same position in the center of the panel.]
- [Caption:]
- 20 years later:
- [Beret Guy is in the same position, but at the right edge of the panel.]
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Where is the speed Beret Guy's moving at coming from? It looks to me like he moved about half his own height in 20 years so assuming he's 6 ft: 36in/20year gives 4.57 cm/year 7 cm/year for his speed seems high and 11 seems ridiculous. 172.71.159.45 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
Maybe 2061 could get a tony-hawk spin off... --Lupo (talk) 06:58, 19 September 2024 (UTC) Add comment
