Corieoulis (sp?) effect

Is it true that water when poured down the drain will swirl one direction more in the Northern Hemisphere than the Southern?  Not that it'll always swirl the same way in a particular hemisphere but does that location actually affect the chances it'll swirl in a direction?

>>1
lol, itt we believe the earth is round

at the equator it's 50/50 mid year.

Fucking tool. The coriolis effect is too small to affect water in a drain.

Fucking tool. The drain is too small to be affected by the Coriolis effect.

The Coriolis force is a fictitious force !

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_161.html

Cecil's weighed in with a "no."

>>6
Yeah, just like centrifugal force is fake
learn2nonintertialreferenceframe, faggot

>>8

Fails

>>6 is right

>>9
fails
>>8
is right
coriolis/centrifugal forces are very real, if you're in a rotating reference frame (ie Earth)

>>10

Almost everthing is just a "point-of-view-situation".

We could even use the galaxy as frame of reference.

Only thing that is constant in every frame of references the speed of light!

>>11
which is why 6 and 8 are faggots for saying it's fictitious when it does exist depending on your 'point of view'

>>11
Speed of light is not constant. It can be affected by gravity wells.

Stop swallowing that E=MC2 shit.

>>13

Full explanation, otherwise gtfo.

>>14
How much simpler do yo want?

>>15

I want to hear the FULL-explanation.

>>16
a hundred years ago it was scientifically impossible to travel to space with in result achieving imba speeds to the earth's frame of reference...

so that THEORY of general relativity which works fine in many (note NOT ALL cases) might have a few bugs in it so don't knock it...

its difficult to say what would actually be the most vcomprehensive representation of the world around us... human intelligence is at an infant stage now (needs more microchips/ram/matiX to be zOmg imbA  or smth)

so asmuch as it pitys me to say this we will never know for sure about this "lightspeed" well at least not in the near future and even when we learn all about the workings within our universe... what about... ah nvm humanity won't survive that long anyway

>>13

We can also artificially slow and speed up light.  For example, in a certain gas, light travels faster than it does in a vacuum.  And there are mirroring techniques to slow the speed of light.

>>18

to speed up light over 300km/s ?

Link or proof!

I know that the speed of light in vacuum is the maximum.

>>19

you can make light travel at 300c through specially-prepared caesium gas

>>20 Link?

>>21
now thats fucking lazy...

>>19 , >>21

>>18 here,

Without any gas or modifications other than refractions:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=475587&in_page_id=1965

With gas:
http://www.iitk.ac.in/infocell/Archive/dirjuly3/science_light.html