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[FONT=q_serif]The ocean is slipping into space! It's just not slipping very far. The ocean does "pile up" on the sides of continents, thanks to the Earth's rotation. But it only piles up a few meters, which is a really good thing. Gravity holds the water down, and in this case gravitation is more than sufficiently strong to hold back the inertia of the moving water[/FONT]