Fofo,
Any physicists out there please correct me, but I think the only
measurable effect of the Coriolis force on a caver would be the same
effect it has on a pendulum: If a caver--say one who has fallen asleep
on-rope from reading too much Texascavers and died from harness
compression syndrome--is swinging back and forth on the end of a rope,
he wouldn't spin, but the plane of his oscillation would precess at an
angular speed proportional to the sine of his latitude, clockwise in
the northern hemisphere, counterclockwise in the southern hemisphere.
The next time you have to flatrock someone, you could perform this
experiment to measure the latitude of the cave you're in!
Ed
Well, maybe it'll start spinning backwards, and then, if movies have
taught me something, time would move back and we can do important
things like avoiding sending those text messages after a long night
partying that ended up being not such a good idea the following day...
- Fofo
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