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From: Warp
Date: 28 Feb 2006 01:17:34
Message: <4403eafe$1@news.povray.org>
Bob Hughes wrote:
> Trying to remember about twisting directions... I know it is commonly 
> thought that the northern and southern hemispheres of the planet have their 
> own direction but it's apparently just a random thing instead. I forget. 
> Something about no relation to weather that is influenced by earth rotation 
> instead.

   I wondered how long it would take for someone to bring this up.

   The rotation of the water has nothing to do with the rotation of
the Earth or anything like that. It's purely a question of geometry
of the sink, the pipes, initial water movement, etc.


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