Experiment you can do on the Equator

[Flyn]

Most of us have heard that water flows down a drain in different rotational directions depending on which side of the equator you are on. What happens if you are directly on the equator?

https://www.facebook.com/udayaramesh.udayaramesh/videos/574275309610074/

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[daturbosix]

what kind of voodoo is that?

 

[nytebyte]

It's amazing you just have to step a short distance in either direction to get a different result, especially considering how enormous the Earth is.

 

[Great White Drake]

what kind of voodoo is that?

Black magic.

 

[IDAFC21]

Take THAT flat earthers!

 

[guspech750]

That was pretty cool. I never thought of what happens when you are right on the equator.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

That's cool

 

[Stink Star]

Yea that distance from the equator wouldn’t cause that.... notice that they used 3 different funnels? That wasn’t a mistake

 

[10sec]

"There is an African country near the equator where entrepreneurs have set up two toilets, one just north of the equator, the other just south of it. For a fee, they will allegedly demonstrate that the toilets flush in opposite directions. It is only for show, however; there is no real effect. Yes, there is such a thing as the Coriolis effect, but it is not enough to dominate the flushing of a toilet--and the effect is weakest at the equator.

I do think it's cool that you weigh less on the equator due to the spin of earth trying to throw you off.

I'd be willing to bet those directional black lines in the funnels are what directs the water in the direction it is spinning.

 

[daturbosix]

Black magic.

i learned a long time ago not to trust those black strippers from milwaukee

 

[DEEZUZ]

The 0 one has a flat bottom. Hence no vortex

 

[DEEZUZ]

Yea that distance from the equator wouldn’t cause that.... notice that they used 3 different funnels? That wasn’t a mistake

I figured out the 0 latitude one, now you figure out the southern hemisphere one