[ale] Pulling handle, checking flusher

[Lightner, Jeff]

Ha!

In a high school physics class the teacher was explaining Coriolis effect and told us of the opposite direction of spin of draining water in the northern and southern hemisphere.   Based on his test we were apparently in the Southern hemisphere.   Since we were in West Virginia I was used to hearing people say “you’ns” but apparently they should have been saying “g’day” instead.

Even funnier was when I later learned that Coriolis effect isn’t actually the explanation for the direction of draining in small systems like toilets and sinks.






From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Paul Cartwright
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 3:27 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] Pulling handle, checking flusher

was that clockwise, or anti-clockwise..

Whoosh!
On Mar 9, 2014 2:23 PM, "Ken Cochran" <kwc at theworld.com<mailto:kwc at theworld.com>> wrote:
....whoooooosh.... checking for anticyclonic circulation...
-kc
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