Re: [Nolug] google storage (funny)

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From: Alex McKenzie <alex@boxchain.com>
To: nolug@nolug.org <nolug@nolug.org>
Date: Monday, April 04, 2005 7:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Nolug] google storage (funny)

>An increase in rotational speed of the Earth would cause all of us to
>weigh *less* (in terms of force, not mass), due to centripetal forces
>acting away from the center of the Earth. And toilets would flush
>faster due to increased Coriolis effects, which are so complicated
that
>they weren't discovered until the sciences of dynamics and fluid
>mechanics were well established.
>Gravity is only dependent on mass, which won't change in this
scenario.
>Alex McKenzie alex()boxchain.com http://www.boxchain.com

Arggh! The Coryolis force! Okay, guys, my fight for truth and justice
continues. I once was at a party with some friends whose toilet
swirled in the opposite direction (in Covington, not Australia) and I
made everybody come into the bathroom and watch the toilet. (Goes to
show what kind of life I have.) Coryolis is significant on scales of
hundreds of miles, but it is so miniscule at the scale of a toilet
that it has no effect. The only reason toilets swirl the direction
they do is because they were designed that way.
Dave Prentice
prentice@instruction.com
http://www.originsresource.org

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