Uganda Equator Water spin direction and Gravity

[realisticHomeboy]

Of course it's fake. You have to be hundreds of kilometers away from the equator to experience this effect. Not just a couple of meters.

[prshntoza]

Do it in the poles. it will be the same as that in equator.

[ESponge2000]

The experiment is a demonstration of what water would do in the hemisphere on a bigger scale.

However, the behavior of the water in this experiment has nothing to do with the coriolis effect and it's a tourist trick. 

[kylbino]

I call BS

The coriolis effect is not significant enough to cause this. Any imperfections in the bowl, direction of pouring, or external influences cause more of an influence than coriolis. So the wobbly bowl, non-level surface and the direction he pours the water (offset from the side, like when you flush your toilet) likely cause this effect from "gravity" (actually from the earth's spin. It has nothing to do with gravity).

If you have any doubts, google Coriolis.

[Vashtye]

don't things spin on the southern hemishpere in clockwise and things on the northern spin counterclockwise?

[white8noise]

coooool!!!!!!!!