} You are referring, mortal, to the notion that water drains from your
} bathtub clockwise if you live in Austrailia, but counterclockwise if
} you live in Europe. (and not at all if you live in Russia). This effect
} can be observed, but only if you let all eddies and currents in the
} water subside for an extended period. Thus, you must sit motionless in
} your bathtub for a period of 2-3 days, by which time you will, of
} course, need another bath. Careful...if you lean over to pull the plug,
} you'll send more currents around and thereby obscure the clockwise
} drainage. I suggest you try this remotely with your favorite SO in the
} bathtub (actually an XSO is better...but this is a good way to create
} one.)
}
} Anyway, this phenomenon known to mortals as the Coriolis effect applies
} to revolving doors as well...though you need to keep the shopping mall
} empty for about 4 weeks to isolate the effects. Emptying the mall is
} not difficult...an old Olivia Newton-John album piped through the PA
} system should do the trick, but Olivia did not record enough albums for
} 4 weeks of constant airplay, thank goodness. Recommendation: get one of
} those K-Tel 20-disc disco anthologies.
}
} I should mention that this effect also applies to tornadoes, though the
} effect occurs over a much longer timespan. For example, Austrailian
} cyclones rotated counterclockwise for millions of years until the late
} Cetezoic era where they barely rotated at all, before beginning to
} rotate clockwise (thereby bringing a slight uprising in life as noted
} in the fossil records---they also barely rotated either...this was
} slightly before 15rpm phonographs, and 33rpm records were millions of
} years in the future)
}
} Besides tornadoes, the Coriolis effect also affects wheels, clocks
} (analog, not digital), and, of course, CD players. Perhaps now you
} undestand why time seems to go slower as you get older, the wheel
} prevailed only in the Northern hemisphere, and why aboriginal music
} sounds so alien (having been recorded backwards and at the wrong
} speed).
}
} You owe the Oracle nothing, however Lisa would like an extra bar of
} soap.
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