On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 10:45 -0400, Thom LaCosta wrote:
> I wonder if folks south of the equator, where the toilet whirlpool is 
> backwards to north of the line find the width control counter-intuitive.

Contrary to common belief, the direction that a toilet (or a sink, or a
bathtub, etc) drains is not dictated by the coriolis effect.

For more info:
http://www.snopes.com/science/coriolis.asp
http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/BadCoriolis.html


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