Posted on 11/05/2018 7:37:19 AM PST by Rebelbase
Quick, cool vid showing how water directly over the equator drains straight down. Move it 10' away and it drains with swirl.
Nonsense.
Do ballerinas spin the opposite way, too?
We need a grant for, oh, say, a quarter of a million dollars to study this...at a beach house, er, “Research Facility”...
Note that the water is poured from the side on one end of the basin, and it drains in the direction of the pour., clockwise on the south and counter clockwise on the north.
The coming blue flush will.
Yeah, it’s a hoax.
I have seen those scammers in Quito.
And we all know the toilets spin backward Downunder!
Reminds me of the card games on the streets of New York.
It’s entertainment like a magic show.
10 ft is absolutely negligible distance in terms of the earths surface and being off of perpendicularity to rotation.
Did you notice that in the beginning of the video, they waited for over a minute before pulling the plug, to make sure the water was absolutely still, but after moving supposedly off equator they pulled the plug almost immediately after filling the basin?
That is VERY cool.
Usually, when coriolis force is demonstrated, it’s in two dimensions, as on a merry go-round, and the rotation is in the plane (angular momentum vector perpendicular to the rotating plane).
On the earth, at the equator, the rotation is around the equator, and the tangent plane to the earth’s surface is perpendicular to the angular momentum vector. But, as you move away from the exact equatorial point, you are no longer exactly perpendicular, and there is some rotating frame effect in the tangent plane (which is the orientation of the sink).
I never would have guessed that the null was so sensitive to position that you’d go from clockwise drain swirlies to zero rotation to counter clockwise swirlies over a distance of a few yards.
I did notice that they waited on the first one, but not on the other two.
I may rewatch to see if the direction of pour set up an incipient rotation (i.e., did she pour on opposite sides of the plug to help initiate a swirly).
We used to send newbie crew members back to flush. Always got a laugh.
The first test, on the Equator, the water was still, having been poured some time before and allowed to stabilize.
For the second test, South of the Equator, the water is poured into the upper right corner of the sink, which caused a clockwise flow, that was not allowed to stabilize before the plug was pulled, so the water swirled in a clockwise direction.
For the second test, North of the Equator, the water is poured into the lower right corner of the sink, causing a counter-clockwise flow, that was not allowed to stabilize before the plug was pulled, so the water swirled in a counter-clockwise direction.
It has everything to do with where the water is poured, not the location in relation to the border. Any location near the Equator is going to flow straight down if the water is permitted to stabilize before the plug is pulled.
I don’t think it even matters if they pour it in to preload it with rotation. Any motion at all in the water, even rocking back and forth, will give it momentum that develop rotation once it starts draining.
It’s a hoax.
There is a Coriolis effect but the force is to gentle to effect a toilet (or a sink draining) based on the daily rotation of the Earth.
I think it’s just a reason to stare into toilets. Here in the US we have democrats to satisfy that urge.
Not as good as going to the “Mystery Spot” and watching water defy gravity!
Nonsense. A commonly repeated fraud. The Coriolis effect is for WIND, and is real.
The water in the first bowl was very still.
In the later one, she poured it from the side and it was still moving when she pulled the plug.
The Coriolis Effect is not strong enough on that scale to affect the direction of the water flow down a drain.
You can change the direction of the flow in the tub by swirling the water with your hand so the swirl in the basin can be artificially induced as well.
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