{"id":11333,"date":"2012-03-26T03:00:28","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T08:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=11333"},"modified":"2012-03-26T03:00:28","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T08:00:28","slug":"scamming-the-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11333","title":{"rendered":"Scamming the Tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object class=\"embed\" width=\"425\" height=\"264\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" \ndata=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yWgsTOux6So&amp;t?fs=1\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yWgsTOux6So&amp;t?fs=1\" \/><em>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video<\/em><\/object><\/p>\n<p>This has nothing to do with the earth rotation and the Coriolis force.  It&#8217;s purely for the suckers.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the trick:  notice how he pours the water into the basin on each attempt.  You don&#8217;t see it for the original one; it&#8217;s been sitting there for a while and has settled while he does the little demo with the compass and probably some more lecture.  But he pours the water off-center for the next two experiments, so there is already some rotation of the water, and the result is exactly the direction you&#8217;d expect from the pour.  When he pours on the left side of center, it drains clockwise, and when he pours on the right side, it drains counter-clockwise.<\/p>\n<p>One, of course, should do this with both pour techniques in the same location to be a real experiment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video This has nothing to do with the earth rotation and the Coriolis force. It&#8217;s purely for the suckers. Here&#8217;s the trick: notice how he pours the water into &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11333\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,39,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiscience","category-physics","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}