Friday, September 09, 2005

OK, this is the last time I am going to explain this to you.....

Toilets DO NOT flush backwards below the equator. With all due respect to my Australian assistant Kim, who swears she has seen it, its a bunch of crap. Read this for details:
http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/1998-11/910045585.Es.r.html

or this

http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/BadCoriolis.html

Or do your own damned research!

I know that people have seen this work at the equator. Its a fake. A scam. Michael Palin even got conned by this on one of his PBS series.

I'm sorry to debunk this, but I'm sure you still believe in lots of dumb stuff.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Reading your source links Howard (that the direction has to do with the way water comes into the bowl), it is highly possible, though altogether unlikely, that some obscure southern hemisphere ceramics manufacturer makes a smattering of "reverse spin toilets" just so people like Kim can witness this and report back to northerners like you, thus creating a ruckus (such as we have here today!). BS

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