Coriolis (again!) on Pole to Pole

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From: bruce watson
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:52

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On last night's Pole to Pole, part 5 with Michael Palin he has 
gotten halfway to his goal of the south pole -- the equator.
At the site of a burned out hotel, in Kenya, a man was
demonstrating with a rectangular tub (about 0.3 meters widest)
with a small hole at the bottom, that on one side of the equator
it emptied swirling in one direction, on the equator no swirling,
and on the other side swirling in the opposite direction.
No one, including Michael, repudiated this nor was it endorsed.
I'll have to rewatch the episode to see if they got the 
directions right. I couldn't see him giving a little start
to the process.

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