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Re:Machine produces the largest human-made waves in the world by lmilcin on Sunday October 04, 2015 @08:36AM (#10327360)
Not largest human-made waves by any definition of largest or human-made.
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Re:Machine produces the largest human-made waves in the world by mrob on Sunday October 04, 2015 @09:11AM (#10327427)
Largest I can think of are waves produced by underwater nuclear tests. Wikipedia claims the Operation Crossroads test produced 29m high waves, and that was only 23kt yield.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Crossroads#Sequence_...

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Re:Machine produces the largest human-made waves in the world by Retric on Sunday October 04, 2015 @11:22AM (#10327757)
Those are not active right now. It's the difference between oldest living person, and longest a person has ever lived.
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Re:Machine produces the largest human-made waves in the world by deelowe on Sunday October 04, 2015 @10:11PM (#10329623)
yeah. I dont understand what they are basing this on. Largest for testing purposes maybe? There are certainly larger wave machines (thrill rides, wave pools, etc..).
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