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#428830 - 09/27/05 08:47 PM
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OMG Jokerman! Did you ever see the simpsons australia episode where the us embassy had a flush the northern hemisphied the toilets so that people felt at home? I can't believe this question has left you questioning your self-worth so much.
I remember him calling someone in Australia to find out which way their toilets drained and getting in trouble for the charges. I don't remember the embassy toilets, though.
I'm not questioning my worth. AML-Barbarian may be questioning my worth, however.
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#428833 - 09/27/05 09:53 PM
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The quiz question was just about which way water swirls when it drains down a sink. Just that. It was not a question about the coriolis effect.
If water swirled uniformly one way or another when draining from a sink in a particular hemisphere, it would be due to the coriolis effect. There is no other reason why it would act uniformly.
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So, water draining clockwise in the northern hemisphere isn't the result of the coriolis effect. Peachy. What's the rest of your point for challenging the validity of the answer 'water drains clockwise in the northern hemisphere'? (Since you *did* write "on the question about water draining, I'm not convinced this answer is accurate.") Have at it, does water drain counterclockwise somewhere in the northern hemisphere?
I'm sure that it drains counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere quite often. I'm also sure that it drains clockwise in the northern hemisphere quite often.
Here's my progression on the issue: Being asked the question in the quiz, I thought about it, and guessed counter-clockwise, based on the direction of hurricanes. (I had heard of the coriolis effect, but couldn't have told you the name.) After I read the answers and was told I was wrong, I didn't think much about it, but later decided to do some research. I found a few good articles, and learned that my hunch about direction was correct, but that it didn't apply to small things like sinks and toilets.
That's my thinking. Why do you think that my conclusion is inaccurate?
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#428836 - 09/28/05 02:06 PM
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Ok, guys. You're denying basic science using anecdotal evidence. That's pretty smart.
Anyone who can provide me with reputable scientific evidence that there is uniform draining in the northern hemisphere in a clockwise direction may have control over my avatar for the next year.
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#428837 - 09/28/05 02:12 PM
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Do we have to ruin everything that's supposed to be fun on here?
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#428838 - 09/28/05 02:17 PM
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Ok, guys. You're denying basic science using anecdotal evidence. That's pretty smart.
Actually, we're challenging a theoretical analysis with independently reproduced direct observations. If you had access to a sink and water, you could do the same. 
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#428839 - 09/28/05 02:18 PM
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What did I do to ruin anything?
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#428840 - 09/28/05 03:18 PM
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Ok, guys. You're denying basic science using anecdotal evidence. That's pretty smart.
Anyone who can provide me with reputable scientific evidence that there is uniform draining in the northern hemisphere in a clockwise direction may have control over my avatar for the next year.
I don't see anything unscientific about random sampling across this nation as anecdotal as you may think it to be(bias).
As far as the poster that doesn't think discussion and thinking outside the box is fun: to each his own. 
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#428841 - 09/28/05 03:38 PM
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Actually, we're challenging a theoretical analysis with independently reproduced direct observations. If you had access to a sink and water, you could do the same.
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I don't see anything unscientific about random sampling across this nation as anecdotal as you may think it to be(bias).
Nothing unscientific? Please. Independently reproduced direct observations? Sure. But are they scientific? Doubtful.
What is your sample size? How did you measure the basin for any irregularities? How did you remove the drain? How long did you wait to allow momentum to cease? (Better have been at least 24 hours.)
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#428843 - 09/28/05 03:54 PM
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You are going nowhere here J. Face it, it spins clockwise despite your faith in an article which you misinterpreted. I hereby give you a score of 19 with a (-1) penalty for obstinance.
I'm not trying to go anywhere. My avatar challenge, however, continues to go unmet. Also, you are not an arbiter of my score.
But the fact remains, if drains rotate in any uniform direction in the northern hemisphere, it would be counterclockwise; they don't, except under very controlled conditions, because the effect is so small. No physicist can say otherwise.
Also, I have now read several articles on the subject, and am even more confident of this; you cannot discount this as an article which I supposedly misinterpreted. (What do you think I possibly misinterpreted from that article?)
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#428845 - 09/28/05 04:01 PM
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Hey Ron quit trying to take my spotlight away - that's MY hypersensitive thread - ha! I was just testing myself to see if I was still hypersensitive...guess so. j/k of course.
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#428846 - 09/28/05 04:16 PM
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Wow! I was kidding. I read the article and it makes perfect sense. I just like ruffling your feathers. I do with your score what I please too. Don't be pissed because I am better than you.
Are you better than me because you don't drive a pickup, or just because you didn't vote for "W"? Seems like there was another one...oh yes, or because you went to a better school than me (and I had to work way too hard at the one that accepted me)? Regardless of the reason, I'm not pissed, and nothing in my posts has indicated that I am. Perhaps because that was your intent, you read things into my posts that I didn't say.
Speaking of saying things, what does it say about you that this would be your intent? What are the psychological needs of someone with these tendencies?
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May I direct you to the hypersensitivity thread?
You may, but I may not go.
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#428848 - 09/28/05 05:25 PM
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Jiminy Willikers! Can you take a joke? (I was listing all the previous times you have said you're better, to poke fun at your habit.)
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#428850 - 09/28/05 07:10 PM
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The context is previous statements that you've made. Your team is likely better, unless it's Div. I-AA.
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(ps I don't know where you went to school. Wherever that may be you probably have a better football team than me) I don't really think I have a habit. That's not my nature so I would be curious as to the context.
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