Is it true ........
Dec 23rd 2004, 6:50 am
#16
Joined: Aug 2003
Posts: 11,149
Re: Is it true ........
I'll just go crack one in the bowl and find out.
Dec 23rd 2004, 8:33 pm
#17
High in the Dandenongs
Joined: Apr 2003
Location: Listening to Puffing Billy
Posts: 9,183
Re: Is it true ........
Originally Posted by renth
Snopes comes up trumps again:
http://www.snopes.com/science/coriolis.htm
Put another way, a pencil at the equator travels 1,030 miles an hour, whereas another at Sarasota, Florida, moves at 930 miles per hour, and one at the North pole doesn't move at all.
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http://www.snopes.com/science/coriolis.htm
Put another way, a pencil at the equator travels 1,030 miles an hour, whereas another at Sarasota, Florida, moves at 930 miles per hour, and one at the North pole doesn't move at all.
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PS. ALL of my sinks water escapes in an anti clockwise direction, even those whose plugs are in the middle and even the three that are in the brand new bathroom that i know to be PERFECTLY level
