In article .com,
"bpnjensen" wrote:

The water will go down the toilet in the opposite direction. You'll
have to use your starter to turn off your car.

Not that this has anything to do with either magnetism or coriolis -
but NEITHER of these factors affects the way your water goes down the
drain. Watre is not magnetic, and coriolis acts on far too large a
scale to affect small-scale circulation. The shape of the basin and
any manual force one may exert on the fluid are virtually the only
things that determine whether the imparted rotation is clockwise or
counterclockwise. That's a fact.

This is a pull your leg thread. Get it?

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

This is a pull your leg thread. Get it?
--
Telamon
Ventura, California

Not until you told me! I know too many people who truly believe that
the earth's spin affects their homegrown whirlpools...the misconception
is common.

David seems utterly convinced, and has the s & n hemishere rotations
wrong to boot.

BJ

On 23 Mar 2006 13:46:27 -0800, "bpnjensen"
wrote:


Not until you told me! I know too many people who truly believe that
the earth's spin affects their homegrown whirlpools...the misconception
is common.

David seems utterly convinced, and has the s & n hemishere rotations
wrong to boot.

BJ

So the paper I posted was wrong. Big whoop.

http://www.npmoc.navy.mil/jtwc/satshots/sh1806sair.jpg

So the paper I posted was wrong. Big whoop.

It is a *big whoop* if you are trying to make a point.

http://www.npmoc.navy.mil/jtwc/satshots/sh1806sair.jpg

This looks like a tropical cyclone in the s. hemisphere off the
northeast coast of Australia - is that right? Nice picture.

In any case, it is seen spinning clockwise at the surface, just what
one would expect s. of the equator. At higher altitudes, cloud
moisture is often seen spinning off in the anticyclonic direction
(direction opposite the spin of the surface cyclone) for it's
respective hemisphere - but that's because the outflow up high
represents a high pressure area (which is naturally anticyclonic) as
opposed to the surface low of the storm.

Bruce Jensen

On 23 Mar 2006 14:11:31 -0800, "bpnjensen"
wrote:

So the paper I posted was wrong. Big whoop.

It is a *big whoop* if you are trying to make a point.

http://www.npmoc.navy.mil/jtwc/satshots/sh1806sair.jpg

This looks like a tropical cyclone in the s. hemisphere off the
northeast coast of Australia - is that right? Nice picture.

In any case, it is seen spinning clockwise at the surface, just what
one would expect s. of the equator. At higher altitudes, cloud
moisture is often seen spinning off in the anticyclonic direction
(direction opposite the spin of the surface cyclone) for it's
respective hemisphere - but that's because the outflow up high
represents a high pressure area (which is naturally anticyclonic) as
opposed to the surface low of the storm.

Bruce Jensen

Gawd I'm glad we got that cleared up. The article said ''cyclonic''.
Now I know what they mean.