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Ecuador At The Equator - Water Demonstration - Coriolis Effect
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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.

Video Here


TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: corioliseffect; ecuador; hoax; oldscam; oldtrick; theequator; threecardmonte
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Heard about it but had never seen it before.
1 posted on 11/05/2018 7:37:19 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Rebelbase

Nonsense.


2 posted on 11/05/2018 7:39:52 AM PST by Blue House Sue
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To: Rebelbase

Do ballerinas spin the opposite way, too?


3 posted on 11/05/2018 7:41:30 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: Blue House Sue

We need a grant for, oh, say, a quarter of a million dollars to study this...at a beach house, er, “Research Facility”...


4 posted on 11/05/2018 7:41:54 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Rebelbase

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.


5 posted on 11/05/2018 7:43:46 AM PST by null and void (Leftards don't know what 12000 illegal aliens marching thru Mexico know - America's a Great country!)
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To: Larry Lucido

The coming blue flush will.


6 posted on 11/05/2018 7:44:15 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: null and void

Yeah, it’s a hoax.

I have seen those scammers in Quito.


7 posted on 11/05/2018 7:46:21 AM PST by Blue House Sue
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To: Rebelbase

And we all know the toilets spin backward Downunder!


8 posted on 11/05/2018 7:48:43 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT (So what!)
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To: null and void

Reminds me of the card games on the streets of New York.


9 posted on 11/05/2018 7:48:59 AM PST by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: Blue House Sue

It’s entertainment like a magic show.


10 posted on 11/05/2018 7:49:59 AM PST by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: Rebelbase

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?


11 posted on 11/05/2018 7:51:42 AM PST by z3n
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To: Rebelbase

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.


12 posted on 11/05/2018 7:53:21 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine ("It's always a party when you're eating the seed corn.")
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To: z3n

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).


13 posted on 11/05/2018 7:55:08 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine ("It's always a party when you're eating the seed corn.")
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To: Pearls Before Swine

We used to send newbie crew members back to flush. Always got a laugh.


14 posted on 11/05/2018 7:55:32 AM PST by Don Corleone (Nothing makes the delusional more furious than truth.)
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To: null and void

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.


15 posted on 11/05/2018 7:58:29 AM PST by Haiku Guy (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

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.


16 posted on 11/05/2018 7:58:34 AM PST by z3n
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To: Rebelbase

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.


17 posted on 11/05/2018 7:59:07 AM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: Rebelbase

Not as good as going to the “Mystery Spot” and watching water defy gravity!


18 posted on 11/05/2018 7:59:12 AM PST by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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To: Rebelbase

Nonsense. A commonly repeated fraud. The Coriolis effect is for WIND, and is real.


19 posted on 11/05/2018 8:08:26 AM PST by I want the USA back (It's Ok To Be White. White Lives Matter. White Guilt is Socially Constructed)
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To: Rebelbase

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.


20 posted on 11/05/2018 8:10:00 AM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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