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.
Both water and gas are fluids and obey the same laws of motion, so yes, the Coriolis effect can affect water as well, but more on the scale of ocean currents.
And as such, we have the Gulf Stream, for example.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiRaP8qxqa4
Go ask a man if it is hogwash, now go make me a sammich.
;-)
When the video starts, the water has been sitting still, thus no swirl. When she moves to the later two positions, south and north, she never give the water a chance to lose it's energy from the pour in either direction. I heard in a lecture years ago, that it was nonsense, and that toilets have a swirl direction designed into them that is up to the designer which direction it goes, not polar gravity differences.
I can tell you my tub drain in NZ drained counter clockwise...
- wind
and bullets
Just in west hollwood
“How would a flat earther explain the Coriolis force?”
That’s easy:
When water runs down a drain in Flat Earth, and emerges from the underside of Flat Earth, it drips on the Great Turtle’s back. This disturbs the Great Turtle causing him to swing his head to the side as he tries to look over his shoulder to see what is leaking.
This motion exerts a torque on the balance coupling connecting the Flat Earth with The Great Turtle. This torque is translated to the water in the drain causing it to spin.
(Please note that I used scientific words like “torque” and “balance coupling” to prove that this is a scientific explanation.)
Amazing.
It’s an entertaining trick put on for tourists in Africa and South America. Coriolis effect is negligible close to the equator.
The magnitude of the Coriolis effect is a function of latitude. Absent very sensitive scientific equipment, it would be undetectable ten meters north or south of the equator.
Anyway, the direction of vortex when water drains is not the consequence of Coriolis effect. Notice the way the woman pours the water in each of the three cases.
Well done. I'm convinced. ;-)
Toilets don’t spin backwards in the southern hemisphere, you’re just looking at them from the other side.
If you're referring to the one in Michigan's UP, my parents took me there in either the late 50's or early 60's............That was when it was original and fascinating for a small kid like me..........
I'm sorry now to read how all the stuff was done........There goes my childhood!....LOL!
I done been hoaxed!
The location for that line was determined my a surveyor in 1936. GPS shows his surveying skills sucked and the real equator is 800 feet north of that line.
It’s a hoax a magician’s trick.
Wholeheartedly agree. While the coriolis effect is real, this drain-the-tub scam is pulled on every rube that comes down the pike. This also at least used to be common on US naval vessels, pulled on anyone who'd never crossed the Equator before.
She always spins counterclockwise for me, it never changes.
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