it was the thread of the poster named Bill that got to me. this is what sent me down the thought path already knowing about Skinner from College
Movie named Tidal Wave with Corbin Bernsen was a disaster movie about artificially created tsunamis. They fired missiles under water to create a killer wave. The solution to stopping them was to create and equal wave from opposing position, by the same means, that would crash into the tsunami thereby cancelling the effect before it hit shore. We need our Red wave to be equal to their blue wave in order to cancel them