So, if you're on the equator...

does the water flow straight down the drain?

 

Yes.

 

I'm pretty certain a whirlpool forms because it stabilizes itself naturally that way, not because of the earths rotation. But I could be full of shit.

 

Really?

 

Yep. I was there just yesterday, so I know what I am talking about.

 

mmmmmm I think you're pulling my leg, but I'll take your word for it until somebody proves otherwise.

 

Good enough for me.

 

Daisy is over simplifying it.

It sloshes due east during the day and due west at night. It only falls straight down the drain at the exact moments of sunrise and sunset.

 

Does anything special happen during a partial solar eclipse?

 

Everyone is too busy looking up at the sky to notice


H

 

I steal your wallet.

 

Sounds ok to me.

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According to an article I just read online in USA Today The Coriolis Effect is zero at the equator


Hotwater

 

I was about to say that.

The way water drains has nothing to do with the Coriolis effect. It has to do with factors such as the shape of the drain.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns...n-counterclockwise-in-the-northern-hemisphere

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_effect

 

Then there's the sniglet 'the Cherios effect'. That's the phenomenon whereby the last few Cheerios in the bowl all huddle together as if to save themselves from being eaten.

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best Simpsons episode ever

 

Yeah, it flushes Up.

 

On lunar is flushes inside-out. Picture that.

 

It has something to do with surface tension.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheerios_effect

But I still say it's those litter buggers trying to save themselves from being eaten.



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