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Article #1213Re: Coriolis (again!) on Pole to Pole
From: Dan Prener
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 07:27
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 07:27
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In article <1993Jan26.195224.25820@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> bwatson@nyx.cs.du.edu (bruce watson) writes:
> 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.
If I remember correctly, they did not get the directions right.
--
Dan Prener (prener@watson.ibm.com)
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