Wild excitement, and local at that: A tidal surge in the North Sea has sparked severe flood warnings and evacuations on England's east coast. We shall see.
[Update: it was a bust -W]
More like this
ideally, globular clusters are tidally truncated
since real tidal fields are not spherically symmetric and static
we expect time varying aspherical stripping and shocking, and
with relaxation additional diffusion outside the tidal boundary
Over at NexGen, this week's
"Even with all the collected data we cannot say with 100% certainty that the ASASSN-15lh event was a tidal disruption event. But it is by far the most likely explanation." -Giorgos Leloudas
"Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other.
EA has a few severe flood warnings out. You can watch the tides here:
http://www.pol.ac.uk/ntslf/networks.html
OT: you should see if you can get to see the stoat footage from this evening's Autumnwatch. Quite entertaining.