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SE Asia 2004 (part IV)
Alex Mumzhiu2006-03-22 19:12:23
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get rid of feeling that it is purposely made for sale to ME, a tourist.
In this sense I like more the places which are not made for tourists, the places where the local people live their natural life and do not care about tourists. For me, the more interesting activity is to get submerged in the life of local people and get at least some feeling of it.
In this sense I like Rangoon much more than Bagan and Mandalay.
People on vacation, having little time, want to squeeze as many recommended objects as possible in their tight schedule. As a result they are coming back home having no idea about life of country they just visited. As a conclusion I would like to recommend Burma to everybody who wants to see something quite different than most of the world enthusiastically engaged in the globalization.
Alex Mumzhiu
Washington USA Jan 12 2005
My reader from St. Petersburg Olga P. asked what will happens with the diver during tsunami. Her complete letter is in the attachment.
To answer this question we have to consider the physics of tsunami. See the picture.
The tsunami travels with the speed of commercial airplane. Tsunami waves usually have period (time between two sucessional waves) in the range of 10-30 minutes. Wavelength -L (distance between two sucessional waves) is in the range of hundreds kilometers. Height -h, several meters to 30 meters. Because of long wavelength of tsunami, the ship in the middle of ocean may even do not notice tsunami.
When tsunami finally reaches the shore, it may appear as a faster then normal rising or falling tide. So during the time interval equal period/4, the sea level will rise to h/2 meters above the normal level or fell to h/2 meters below it.
Tsunami is harmless near the shore with deep vertical walls. Water level raises and falls, but because water has nowhere to go, then vertical movement of water is not get transferred into
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See photographs from:
Burma (Myanmar) Gallery
