This just makes me happy. 
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I want to see the SAME apparatus used in all three places. Smells like a scam to me! 
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I like the Bad Astronomy blog to guide me through these types of videos and articles.
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Oh, quit stomping on my geekgasms! I want to belieeeeeeve!
Also, the video I posted doesnāt use the āpour to the left/rightā technique, so I wonder how you explain it?
I am going to go take a bath with my ankle hanging over the side, because Iāve been dealing with work crises all day even though Iām not supposed to be working and now Iām even grouchier than I was from the boredom, and I need to escape. When Iām done Iām going to see if I can make the water go counter-clockwise when it drains. Iāll keep you posted. 
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When I first heard about the X Files, I scoffed and ridiculed my students who were talking about it. I just assumed it was another alien abduction or ghost hunger thing. It was probably about five years or so into the run when it became syndicated and FX did a marathon. I was able to catch up on it.
Boy, had I been missing out on things. In fact, it is one of the best shows that treats human faith with respect. āI want to believe!ā is so powerful. We canāt live without faith. Iām not talking necessarily about religious faith, but our attitudes toward realities we are unable to comprehend fully.
The ghost stories were pretty good. The take on bureaucracy was amazing. Of course governments and most institutions were suspect, but there were always good people seeking the truth.
I spent most of my life thinking that some day Iād go to the equator and see this in real life. Was sad to find out that it doesnāt quite work that way.
But to make up for it, I just look at weather patterns and clouds on a global scale. It is absolutely amazing to see the coriolis effect at this level. When I look at the moon, I am amazed. What is cool is that Iām tugging on the moon as it is tugging on me. Gravity is spooky, no doubt about it. I want to believe too!
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I got busy with a work crisis (yeah, even in the bathtubā¦but you probably know exactly how that feels!) and forgot to watch the water drain.
Darnit.
Iāve been reading the Dresden Files. Itās not about Germany. Itās about a wizard working as a private investigator in modern-day Chicago. Having some of the same reactions as you did with the X-Files. Also itās nice to just let my brain disengage for a whileā¦until the next crisis that for whatever reason no one but me can fix. sigh
Iām still not convinced about that Coriolis thing.
Iām also beginning not to believe the old ātake your foot out of a bucket of waterā thing about not being indispensable. <whine> I really, really want to be dispensable, for just a little while! </whine>
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Apologies in advance, but Phil (BA guru and my neighbor) & company are correct ā the Coriolis Effect is not evidenced at small scales. Even the slightest manipulation of the vessel will effect the initial draining motion and many āentrepreneursā in the tropics are as adroit as your average three-card monte hustler on the streets anywhere.
BTW, my manager was making a presentation yesterday and when he projected his laptop screen, its background was a photo of a narwhal swimming under an ice floe. I shouted āI Believe!ā before I remembered I was at workā¦ 
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