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[Aussie Dave]

Originally Posted by McCoy

What could you expect from someone who must spend their life upside down in that weird place on the downside of our globe were most things is deadly poisonious n' were what's not poisionious is quite deadly... Just such a thing that the water spirallin' the other direction down the drain could drive the sanest person to a ravin' lunatic...

Cheers mates!

Sorry mate, but the "water spinning down the drain" thing just isn't true at all.
(The water actually spins in the same direction down a drain here as it does anywhere else in the world.)

But you are right about the deadly creatures though, we have a too many of those type of critters.

Cheers,
Dave

[cyberia]

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[Jim O]

Originally Posted by Aussie Dave

Sorry mate, but the "water spinning down the drain" thing just isn't true at all.
(The water actually spins in the same direction down a drain here as it does anywhere else in the world.)

But you are right about the deadly creatures though, we have a too many of those type of critters.

Cheers,
Dave

But your cyclones (hurricanes to us in North America) do spin in the opposite direction. How water goes down a drain has more to do with the angle at which it is introduced and the shape of its container, and nothing to do with location. There's a good discussion of this totally irrelevant material at Which Way Does Water Spin Down a Drain?.

[McCoy]

Well I'd say that the water spins DOWN in a drain...

[Jim O]

Originally Posted by McCoy

Well I'd say that the water spins DOWN in a drain...

In that case it spins UP in the southern hemisphere.

[McCoy]

Originally Posted by Jim O

In that case it spins UP in the southern hemisphere.

Further proof that they're weird down under...

[Aussie Dave]

But is the Northern Hemisphere really the top of the Earth?

Physics Lab Experiments:

Really, there is no "top" to the Earth.
To take apart a globe and mount the Earth "upside-down" in its frame, really does not in any way detract from the accuracy and usefulness of that globe.
It is still a legitimate representation of the Earth, and the position in my be observed from in space.

You actually believe you live on the "top" half of the world, and you call us "weird"???


Cheers,
Dave

[McCoy]

Well of course it is! Just look at any atlas map of the world...

[Jim O]

It is disconcerting to look at that way...like an upside down map.

[lufttiger]

Originally Posted by cyberia

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Rarely seen, un-cropped Tankboy photo

Now thats just too cool, maybe thats why he stood there in front of those tanks, so the Beatles could pass by.