INTERESTING FACT OF THE DAY

Originally Posted by DanDare

No neither have I

ooo you little bluffer! do you play poker?

Originally Posted by DanDare

No neither have I

Father in Law has, I thought it was to do with the earth spinning on its axis and aliens.

Having lived in Australia and the UK I can vouch it DOES go down the drain the opposite way to the other. No matter what basin/bath/shower you have in Australia, I have never seen it go the same way as in the UK.

Whats even more disconcerting are the stars are upside down too [again very disconcerting being used to Orion and other constellations being the other way round].

Just thought Id pop in and correct Keith :P I'll stop throwing my toys out the pram as long as someone doesnt make a political issue out of this one :P :P

what about this info then lyn?

http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/coriolis.html

Originally Posted by keithd

what about this info then lyn?

http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/coriolis.html

I wasntgoing to say anything... but I have to sort of agree with who ever wrote this page. I mean, maybe there is some tendancy for water to drain in a certain way, and maybe that gets stronger the further you are from the equator, but, from what I have seen, even down to the edge of Antarctica drain water sort of does whatever on the way out of the sink. I could get it to spin either way, much the same.

One thing that does look totally differant in the southern hemisphere though is the moon. It looks... I dunno, completely different.
And the light is differant down there too. You get this amazing twilight. Its nice when you are sleeping out in it.

Originally Posted by keithd

what about this info then lyn?

http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/coriolis.html

Where Ive lived have obviously all had drains/baths/basins/loos which conform to the effect of that hemisphere.

Unfair - I want a special one now that doesnt conform :P

PhillipMac I know what you mean. I put it down to the fact youre looking at it from a different perspective ie the same reason the constellations like Orion are "upside down".

Originally Posted by lynw

PhillipMac I know what you mean. I put it down to the fact youre looking at it from a different perspective ie the same reason the constellations like Orion are "upside down".

Yeah. It is upside down... I suppose realistically that's all it can be, but, somehow it looks even more than that. It is actually a bit disturbing looking up at the sky, and seeing no stars you know, and even the moon doesnt look like the moon you have been looking at for the past 20 odd years.

Also, did you ever see sometimes before the sun rises out there, these enormously long sort of concentric, or just single rings? They seemed to me to be very very high in the atmosphere. I would never see the whole hoop, just a part of one or more rings that appeared to be flat in the sky. I would see them usually when I was deep in the Andes, and it was very dark, and still.

No one seemed to have a clue what they are. I have never seen anything about them since.

From my time in N.Z. it did look to go the opposite way down the plug hole.

I wonder if it will change when the earths magnetic poles change?

Originally Posted by therealvw

From my time in N.Z. it did look to go the opposite way down the plug hole.

I wonder if it will change when the earths magnetic poles change?

Nope. The coriolis effect is caused by the earth spinning

Originally Posted by Flamin_Squirrel

Nope. The coriolis effect is caused by the earth spinning

the earth spins?

that expalins my constant giddy feeling....

HEHE, ahh. nice one Keithd. Thought it was the mascoline that you are prescribed!?

BUT did anyone else know that the earths magnetic poles are or will be changing. SO north becomes south, south becomse north....


Wonder if that will mean a shift in stuck up southerners, and dopey northerners?