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Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman tests swirling water

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  • If you were really serious about testing this you would've let the water settle, sit completely still, before you let the water drain.

    Besides, Coriolis Effect doesn't affect something so insignificant. It's like gravity, we all exert it, but we're not drawn to each other the way we're drawn to larger planets.

  • It's a scam. The demonstrators just add a tiny flick of their wrist before setting the water down. Coriolis forces are only noticeable on much larger scales.

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  • Its a fact that water on the south drains in opposite direction of the north. FACT!

  • "anti clockwise" lol

    very cool though

  • If u look down and rotate ur finger clockwise it will be obviously going clockwise!!! But if u then lay down with u or ur mate still rotating clockwise , u will b looking up at an anti clockwise finger tjen stand up and watch it rotate clockwise!!!

  • a hurricane rotates one way,,.a cyclone the other..one is northern hemisphere..the other is southern

  • Haha, what? What would be the point of that? And how do you think would that work?

  • well I think that it is time to get caught up on the vaccines and throw the ol leathers on a try this for my self.

  • Much more water were poured into the bowl when he stood in the middle. I don't know if he manipulated the flow to go anti clockwise but it looked as if it was manipulation to confuse Ewan and Charley and us. I am not a believer, sorry about that.

  • great travel!

  • they are not. they are supposed to show the same idea, which is conservation of angular momentum of a fluid speeding up as it "drains" into the center. In a hurricane, it's draining upwards of warm air. this water swirling is just draining inward due to gravity.

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