Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: dvus Newsgroups: alt.home.repair,sci.electronics.repair,sci.physics Subject: Re: Does a capital ship sinking actually SUCK a swimmer down to drown? Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 05:23:15 -0500 Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net E7n1E0gWhbCnBSJOvSrJsACAZpObs8Y3S27iAmmhPboRfh5O08 Cancel-Lock: sha1:1znoVVbe8L6x8Bz366F4g1Wvrig= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.4.0 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 151223-0, 12/23/2015), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Xref: csiph.com alt.home.repair:457230 sci.electronics.repair:69525 sci.physics:540992 On 12/23/2015 3:08 AM, Micky wrote: > On 22 Dec 2015 "Bob F" wrote: >> M. Stradbury wrote: >>> On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 18:51:29 -0700, Tony Hwang wrote: >>> >>>> Like toilet bowl water swirls. >>> >>> A toilet bowl is too small to show the Coriolis effect, but a pool >>> isn't according to Sandlin and Muller. >>> >>> http://mashable.com/2015/06/04/water-toilet-swirl/#vRjaqfm0bSqs >>> "Derek Muller and Destin Sandlin, the minds behind the Veritasium and >>> Smarter Every Day YouTube channels, respectively, do show that water >>> (and even hurricanes or cycloness) preferentially spins >>> counter-clockwise in the north and clockwise in the south, you just >>> might not be able to see it with your toilet water." >> >> I just flushed both my toilets. One went clockwise. The other went >> counterclockwise. QED. > > Not surprising. Normally, quality home builders will put in a CW > toilet and a CCW toilet because if they were both the same direction > and both got flushed at once, it can damage the connection where the > house sits on the foundation. If you buy a home already built, you > should make sure your toilets are opposite each other, or you should > be careful not to flush both at once. I have never heard anything like that in all my years (50 of them) of construction, nor have I heard it from the plumbers to whom I have talked. If flushing a toilet can damage "connections" we better start building things a lot better. -- dvus