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In the meantime, dangerously overcrowded inflatable boats continue to leave the coast on an almost daily basis, from a shallow tidal canal near the port of Dunkirk.

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"Our modeling showed that the tidal forces acting between these galaxies, alongside their proximity to the massive Virgo cluster of galaxies, played a crucial role in the gas dynamics we observed," Professor Staveley-Smith said.

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A tidal disruption event occurs when a star strays too close to a massive black hole and is pulled apart by its immense gravitational forces.

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Realistically, from a human-power perspective, all a queer minority can do in the face of a majority tidal shift is bravely let the show go on until someone burns down the theatre.

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The contest is staged in a former slate quarry that was flooded by a tidal wave in 1881.

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