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Gryphin · #1 December 16th, 2002, 01:48 PM

Ruatha, thanks. that tid bit, (or bit tid) will give me conversational material for all of the seaasonal parties now through new years.
Good one.

Ragnarok · #2 December 16th, 2002, 06:56 PM

Yeah, thanks Ruatha. (You are all knowing arn't you?

)

But that showed 62% landed butter side down. My test showed 63%. So I wasn't too far behind.

(Considering I didn't do no test.)

Desdinova · #3 December 17th, 2002, 03:07 AM

interesting article. i still cant believe someone actually did a test like this though. lol

DarkHorse · #4 December 17th, 2002, 05:50 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.)

Are you in the southern hemisphere by any chance? Perhaps the coriolis effect causes toast to spin in the opposite direction in the southern hemisphere, thus altering the fundamental physics of the buttered toast phenomenon.

Kamog · #5 December 17th, 2002, 08:49 AM

Hey, if you flush the toilet in the Southern Hemisphere, the water is supposed to swirl in the opposite direction as it goes down. I don't think this is true but I never had a chance to do an experiment to see if it's true.

I'll go flush my toilet right now and see which way it swirls...
OK, it swirls COUNTER-CLOCKWISE. I am in the Northern Hemisphere.

I don't think I'll have an opportunity to visit the Southern Hemiphere anytime soon, so if you live there, please try flushing your toilet. (And if you're in the Northern Hemisphere, does your toilet swirl counter-clockwise like mine does?)

I wonder what happens if you're at the North Pole, or South Pole, or on the Equator?

Ruatha · #6 December 17th, 2002, 09:53 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Kamog:
Hey, if you flush the toilet in the Southern Hemisphere, the water is supposed to swirl in the opposite direction as it goes down. I don't think this is true but I never had a chance to do an experiment to see if it's true.

I'll go flush my toilet right now and see which way it swirls...
OK, it swirls COUNTER-CLOCKWISE. I am in the Northern Hemisphere.

I don't think I'll have an opportunity to visit the Southern Hemiphere anytime soon, so if you live there, please try flushing your toilet. (And if you're in the Northern Hemisphere, does your toilet swirl counter-clockwise like mine does?)

I wonder what happens if you're at the North Pole, or South Pole, or on the Equator?

The toilet is too small a system for the coriolis effect to have any implication. Wich way the water turns in the toilet is based on where the water enters, imperfections in the toilet and where it exits. A toilet that spins the water clockwise on the nortern hemisphere will do so also on the south hemisphere.
The coriolis effect needs large weather systems to really make any impact.

Better explanation

[ December 17, 2002, 07:55: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

Kamog · #7 December 17th, 2002, 10:24 AM

Wow, thanks, Ruatha! I remember hearing about the water swirling the opposite way in the Southern Hemisphere a number of times from different people, and each time I heard it, I had this nagging feeling that it didn't seem right... but I couldn't come up with a good argument to say why it's not right, so I couldn't disagree, and it sort of bothered me for years!