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after all: is it true or not true?
"AlmostBob" schreef in bericht ... Idiot, I am Australian, you know Down Under, Southern Hemisphere, now resident in Canada, Northern Hemisphere. I have actual experience, I do not base my thought on something I have only read, written by someone else who has no idea what they are speaking about. Suggest you travel a bit, get some experience, some knowlege, and in general come back when you get a clue |
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-- Ever wonder why Evian water is $3 for a half litre Try spelling evian backwards Computer chips are very small, Computers don't eat much. _ _ "maxi" wrote in message news | after all: is it true or not true? | | | "AlmostBob" schreef in bericht | ... | Idiot, | I am Australian, you know Down Under, Southern Hemisphere, | now resident in Canada, Northern Hemisphere. | I have actual experience, I do not base my thought on something I have | only | read, written by someone else who has no idea what they are speaking | about. | Suggest you travel a bit, get some experience, some knowlege, and in | general | come back when you get a clue | | | | | |
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-- Ever wonder why Evian water is $3 for a half litre Try spelling evian backwards Computer chips are very small, Computers don't eat much. _ _ "maxi" wrote in message news | after all: is it true or not true? | | | "AlmostBob" schreef in bericht | ... | Idiot, | I am Australian, you know Down Under, Southern Hemisphere, | now resident in Canada, Northern Hemisphere. | I have actual experience, I do not base my thought on something I have | only | read, written by someone else who has no idea what they are speaking | about. | Suggest you travel a bit, get some experience, some knowlege, and in | general | come back when you get a clue | | | | | |
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-- Ever wonder why Evian water is $3 for a half litre Try spelling evian backwards Computer chips are very small, Computers don't eat much. _ _ "maxi" wrote in message news | after all: is it true or not true? | | | "AlmostBob" schreef in bericht | ... | Idiot, | I am Australian, you know Down Under, Southern Hemisphere, | now resident in Canada, Northern Hemisphere. | I have actual experience, I do not base my thought on something I have | only | read, written by someone else who has no idea what they are speaking | about. | Suggest you travel a bit, get some experience, some knowlege, and in | general | come back when you get a clue | | | | | |
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thx!
discussion closed "AlmostBob" schreef in bericht ... true -- Ever wonder why Evian water is $3 for a half litre Try spelling evian backwards Computer chips are very small, Computers don't eat much. _ _ "maxi" wrote in message news | after all: is it true or not true? | | | "AlmostBob" schreef in bericht | ... | Idiot, | I am Australian, you know Down Under, Southern Hemisphere, | now resident in Canada, Northern Hemisphere. | I have actual experience, I do not base my thought on something I have | only | read, written by someone else who has no idea what they are speaking | about. | Suggest you travel a bit, get some experience, some knowlege, and in | general | come back when you get a clue | | | | | |
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In article , AlmostBob anonymous
writes Idiot, I am Australian, you know Down Under, Southern Hemisphere, now resident in Canada, Northern Hemisphere. I have actual experience, I do not base my thought on something I have only read, written by someone else who has no idea what they are speaking about. Suggest you travel a bit, get some experience, some knowlege, and in general come back when you get a clue If you are talking to me, I _have_ been to Australia and New Zealand and six times to South America and once to South Africa south of the Equator; and I *did* experiment. Water flows the way the sink forces it to. As snopes says - the authority on urban myths - the Coriolis forces are too weak to influence the way water goes down a plughole. -- JohnM Author of Brazil: Life, Blood, Soul http://www.scroll.demon.co.uk/spaver.htm |
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"JohnM" wrote in message ... In article , AlmostBob anonymous writes From the Urban Legends website http://www.snopes.com/science/coriolis.htm Claim: Thanks to the Coriolis effect, toilets flush clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the southern. Status: False. over a few million flushes there should be slightly more one way On the other hand perhaps when faced with a decision the majority of designers elect to direct the swirl one way or the other. Or perhaps, believing Coriolis is significant, they design to work with the assumed rotation preference in each hemisphere. The twisting effect of the Coriolis force is real and does influence certain large things like the movement of air masses, but the effect is so small that it plays no role in determining the direction in which water rotates as it exits from a draining sink or toilet. The Coriolis Influences but does not determine, good. The belief that the Coriolis force influences the direction in which water drains from plumbing fixtures is widespread and has been repeated as fact in a number of venues, including popular television shows (such as world traveler Michael Palin's Pole to Pole) and even in textbooks. We can only speculate on why people are so enamored of this snippet of misinformation, guessing that it has something to do with the desire to find some of the mysteries of science in the realm of the everyday. People aren't very good at relativities and caveat weighting. We work best with simple sterotypes, models and rules of thumb. The spin doctors and meme artists exploit this. A little bias goes a long way. Heat a pot of water, some movement for Coriolis to work with, does it start spinning? |
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find one, just one sink, tub, coffee cup when you add milk, bucket, or any
other vessel of any shape, design construction or method of manufacture, that runs the other way when water is added or removed Since it is your contention that the design is the only cause there should be in your location a design that runs differently, Newsflash the conspiracy theorists are not right, there isnt a worldwide conspiracy to make idiots think that the water flushes differently, it does and idiots can think anything your tiny minds desire _ _ "Terry Russell" wrote in message u... | | "JohnM" wrote in message | ... | In article , AlmostBob anonymous | writes | From the Urban Legends website | | http://www.snopes.com/science/coriolis.htm | | | Claim: Thanks to the Coriolis effect, toilets flush clockwise in the | northern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the southern. | | Status: False. | | over a few million flushes there should be slightly more one way | | On the other hand perhaps when faced with a decision the | majority of designers elect to direct the swirl one way or the other. | Or perhaps, believing Coriolis is significant, they design | to work with the assumed rotation preference in each hemisphere. | | The twisting effect of the Coriolis force is real and does influence | certain large things like the movement of air masses, but the effect is | so small that it plays no role in determining the direction in which | water rotates as it exits from a draining sink or toilet. The Coriolis | | Influences but does not determine, good. | | | The belief that the Coriolis force influences the direction in which | water drains from plumbing fixtures is widespread and has been repeated | as fact in a number of venues, including popular television shows (such | as world traveler Michael Palin's Pole to Pole) and even in textbooks. | We can only speculate on why people are so enamored of this snippet of | misinformation, guessing that it has something to do with the desire to | find some of the mysteries of science in the realm of the everyday. | | People aren't very good at relativities and caveat weighting. | We work best with simple sterotypes, models and rules of thumb. | The spin doctors and meme artists exploit this. | A little bias goes a long way. | | | Heat a pot of water, some movement for Coriolis to work with, | does it start spinning? | | | |
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find one, just one sink, tub, coffee cup when you add milk, bucket, or any
other vessel of any shape, design construction or method of manufacture, that runs the other way when water is added or removed Since it is your contention that the design is the only cause there should be in your location a design that runs differently, Newsflash the conspiracy theorists are not right, there isnt a worldwide conspiracy to make idiots think that the water flushes differently, it does and idiots can think anything your tiny minds desire _ _ "Terry Russell" wrote in message u... | | "JohnM" wrote in message | ... | In article , AlmostBob anonymous | writes | From the Urban Legends website | | http://www.snopes.com/science/coriolis.htm | | | Claim: Thanks to the Coriolis effect, toilets flush clockwise in the | northern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the southern. | | Status: False. | | over a few million flushes there should be slightly more one way | | On the other hand perhaps when faced with a decision the | majority of designers elect to direct the swirl one way or the other. | Or perhaps, believing Coriolis is significant, they design | to work with the assumed rotation preference in each hemisphere. | | The twisting effect of the Coriolis force is real and does influence | certain large things like the movement of air masses, but the effect is | so small that it plays no role in determining the direction in which | water rotates as it exits from a draining sink or toilet. The Coriolis | | Influences but does not determine, good. | | | The belief that the Coriolis force influences the direction in which | water drains from plumbing fixtures is widespread and has been repeated | as fact in a number of venues, including popular television shows (such | as world traveler Michael Palin's Pole to Pole) and even in textbooks. | We can only speculate on why people are so enamored of this snippet of | misinformation, guessing that it has something to do with the desire to | find some of the mysteries of science in the realm of the everyday. | | People aren't very good at relativities and caveat weighting. | We work best with simple sterotypes, models and rules of thumb. | The spin doctors and meme artists exploit this. | A little bias goes a long way. | | | Heat a pot of water, some movement for Coriolis to work with, | does it start spinning? | | | |
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