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Old May 17th 04, 05:00 PM
David Brooks
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"Morgans" wrote in message
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"Judah" wrote in message
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Actually, according to the discovery channel, the earth's poles are
weakening, and will ultimately reverse polarity...

Pilots everywhere are going to become very confused very quickly.

Most, though, will be most horrified when their toilet bowl flushes the

wrong
way.


Nope. Flush direction is a rotational thing, not magnetic. Unless you

have
magnetic water?


Although many killjoys like myself know this is an UL, you actually *can*
demonstrate the Coriolis effect in a large bowl of water. But...
http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/BadCoriolis.html

Sure, flush direction is a rotational thing. But it's not an
earth-rotational thing.

-- David Brooks