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Integral called my attention to a Sci Channel show about Rogue Waves called "Killer Waves". Rogue waves are now known to exist, but for about a century experts have argued that these thirty meter monsters can't exist because the linear model used by the shipping industry says that monster waves should only occur once every ten-thousand years. So it was assumed that centuries of mariners stories [eyewitness testimony] are all wrong.
I would bet that in the beginning we simply assumed that the linear model used applies to all ocean waves, maybe because it was the only model that was practical to use, and this was then used to argue what could and could not be possible.
I would bet that in the beginning we simply assumed that the linear model used applies to all ocean waves, maybe because it was the only model that was practical to use, and this was then used to argue what could and could not be possible.