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The drained world

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  1. With apologies to Stephen Baxter's splendidly disconcerting Flood. Ian Watson is the author of The Embedding, The Martian Inca, Chekhov's Journey and other light classics.,

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  1. Prakash Arige

    The ocean's surface rises and falls predictably due to changes in gravitational forces originating from the Moon and the Sun. These changes in ocean surface level are known as tides and are evidence of the influence celestial bodies have on our planet. Without these external forces, the ocean's surface would simply exist as a geo-potential surface or geoid, where the water is pulled by gravity without currents or tides.
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