Water down the drain :-)

[Guest guest]

While this is not relevant to astrology at all, I just wish to point out

that the circulation of water going down the drain does not depend on the

hemisphere - it depends only on the conditions in the drain when the water

starts draining out. The same thing can't be said for natural phenomena

though - the circulation patter of cyclones/hurricanes are opposite in the

two hemispheres (clockwise in the southern hemisphere and anti-clockwise

in the northern hemisphere). This is because of what is known in physics

as the Coriolis effect.

 

The following site gives an explanation.

 

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_161.html

 

| > That's quite an interesting thought--I am enjoying this discussion very

| much, and wondering about the fact that water drains in one swirling

| direction above the equator (clockwise) and swirls down a

| drainpipe in the opposite direction below the earth's equator.

|

| This is a scientific misfact .Water goes down the drain clockwise in the

| Southern hemsiphere