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Re: Does a capital ship sinking actually SUCK a swimmer down to drown?

From dvus <dven1@adelphia.net>
Newsgroups alt.home.repair, sci.electronics.repair, sci.physics
Subject Re: Does a capital ship sinking actually SUCK a swimmer down to drown?
Date 2015-12-23 05:23 -0500
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On 12/23/2015 3:08 AM, Micky wrote:
> On 22 Dec 2015 "Bob F" <bobnospam@gmail.com> 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

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Does a capital ship sinking actually SUCK a swimmer down to drown? "M. Stradbury" <mstradbury@example.com> - 2015-12-22 00:04 +0000
  Re: Does a capital ship sinking actually SUCK a swimmer down to drown? gfretwell@aol.com - 2015-12-21 20:13 -0500
  Re: Does a capital ship sinking actually SUCK a swimmer down to drown? Tony Hwang <dragon40@shaw.ca> - 2015-12-21 18:51 -0700
    Re: Does a capital ship sinking actually SUCK a swimmer down to drown? Micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2015-12-21 20:58 -0500
    Re: Does a capital ship sinking actually SUCK a swimmer down to drown? Sam E <why.should.this@be.email.invalid> - 2015-12-21 22:10 -0600
    Re: Does a capital ship sinking actually SUCK a swimmer down to drown? "M. Stradbury" <mstradbury@example.com> - 2015-12-22 04:31 +0000
      Re: Does a capital ship sinking actually SUCK a swimmer down to drown? "Bob F" <bobnospam@gmail.com> - 2015-12-22 08:19 -0800
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        Re: Does a capital ship sinking actually SUCK a swimmer down to drown? Micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2015-12-23 03:08 -0500
          Re: Does a capital ship sinking actually SUCK a swimmer down to drown? dvus <dven1@adelphia.net> - 2015-12-23 05:23 -0500
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