PhenomenalPancake@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · edit-213 hours agoWhat misconception are you tired of being spread?message-squaremessage-square140fedilinkarrow-up163arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up160arrow-down1message-squareWhat misconception are you tired of being spread?PhenomenalPancake@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · edit-213 hours agomessage-square140fedilinkfile-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-up14·12 hours ago“Water drains in opposite directions in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres”. No, it doesn’t.
minus-squarelastunusedusername2@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 hours agoSure it does. Up here it drains down but down there it goes up.
minus-squareTriumph@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up17·12 hours agoThe coriolis effect is a real thing, but it is spectacularly weak.
minus-squareCaptain Aggravated@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·47 minutes agoStrong enough that you have to steer against it when flying, too weak to decide the handedness of your toilet.
minus-squareTriumph@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·44 minutes agoThe atmosphere is much larger than my toilet.
minus-squareAatube@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-210 hours agoit’s like gravity (small objects don’t have (well, show, I guess but uhhh) it but large ones do)
“Water drains in opposite directions in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres”.
No, it doesn’t.
Sure it does. Up here it drains down but down there it goes up.
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)