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Puke · #1 December 18th, 2002, 05:37 AM

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Originally posted by Kamog:
That's an interesting sig!

...um, one time I dropped my toast and it landed with the butter side facing UP! It must have been at a moment of special planetary alignment or something.

It will probably never happen again... (It's one of those "maybe it will happen once in your lifetime if you're extremely lucky" type of events.)

no, the answer is simple: you buttered the wrong side.

Kamog · #2 December 18th, 2002, 07:37 AM

Next time, I'll butter half of one side and half of the other side, so at least I know that I'm half right about which side to put the butter on.

Ruatha · #3 December 18th, 2002, 09:47 AM

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Originally posted by desdinova:
you can alway fill up your sink or bathtub and let it drain. that will be affected by the effect.

-nope, it won't.
It's just to small a system to be effected by the coriolis effect.

Krsqk · #4 December 18th, 2002, 03:12 PM

Well, if you plugged up most of the drain so it drained very slowly, the Coriolis force could eventually reverse it, given enough time. It affects all systems; it just is a weak force compared to the force of the rotation of the system.

Ruatha · #5 December 18th, 2002, 05:08 PM

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Originally posted by Krsqk:
Well, if you plugged up most of the drain so it drained very slowly, the Coriolis force could eventually reverse it, given enough time. It affects all systems; it just is a weak force compared to the force of the rotation of the system.

If it drained very slowly it wouldn't build up any momentum for it to spin, right?
It would essentially be a system with water standing still. And you don't se still standing water starting to spin by itself just becourse you let it be for a couple of weeks, months, years...

[ December 18, 2002, 15:09: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

Krsqk · #6 December 18th, 2002, 05:32 PM

I'm assuming there's some momentum to begin with. It wouldn't reverse the flow, but it would slow it down/stop it.

Desdinova · #7 December 18th, 2002, 07:14 PM

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Originally posted by Ruatha:

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Originally posted by desdinova:
you can alway fill up your sink or bathtub and let it drain. that will be affected by the effect.

-nope, it won't.
It's just to small a system to be effected by the coriolis effect.

the bathtub should work. as a child i remeber playing in the tub. i would fill it up a couple of inches and drain the water and watch stuff get sucked down the whirlpool. i used to watch the stuff go round and round the vortex until it got sucked it. i was easily amused as a child.

[ December 18, 2002, 17:15: Message edited by: desdinova ]