The Dutch Built a Massive Wave Machine to Study Flooding

Their machine, the Delta Flume, works like this: Pistons rhythmically shove around more than two million gallons of water in a 900-foot-long concrete trough, like a giant toddler splashing back and forth in a bathtub. Eventually, the waves double back on themselves to form monsters up to 15 feet high.
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