PhenomenalPancake@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · edit-22 days agoWhat misconception are you tired of being spread?message-squaremessage-square331linkfedilinkarrow-up1146arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1141arrow-down1message-squareWhat misconception are you tired of being spread?PhenomenalPancake@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · edit-22 days agomessage-square331linkfedilinkfile-text
What’s a common “fact” that’s spread around that’s actually not true and pisses you off that too many people believe it?
minus-squarechuso@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up25arrow-down1·2 days ago“Water drains in opposite directions in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres”. No, it doesn’t.
minus-squareTriumph@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up26·2 days agoThe coriolis effect is a real thing, but it is spectacularly weak.
minus-squareCaptain Aggravated@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 days agoStrong enough that you have to steer against it when flying, too weak to decide the handedness of your toilet.
minus-squareTriumph@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 days agoThe atmosphere is much larger than my toilet.
minus-squareAatube@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·2 days agoit’s like gravity (small objects don’t have (well, show, I guess but uhhh) it but large ones do)
minus-squarelastunusedusername2@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoSure it does. Up here it drains down but down there it goes up.
“Water drains in opposite directions in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres”.
No, it doesn’t.
The coriolis effect is a real thing, but it is spectacularly weak.
Strong enough that you have to steer against it when flying, too weak to decide the handedness of your toilet.
The atmosphere is much larger than my toilet.
Demonstration of the effect
it’s like gravity
(small objects don’t have (well, show, I guess but uhhh) it but large ones do)
Sure it does. Up here it drains down but down there it goes up.