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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Teddy who wrote (43276)	1/13/1998 8:38:00 AM
From: Spank	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 58324

OT Teddy, I don't think the flush takes long enough for the Coriolis acceleration to work its magic on the contents. The direction of the flush vortex is determined more by the geometry of the bowl. If you want to see it swirl counter-clockwise, try looking at it from the other side a la "Trainspotting." -Spank

To: Teddy who wrote (43276)	1/13/1998 9:33:00 AM
From: Tom Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58324

*Mostly OT* Coriolus/Coriolis (sp.?) effect Eddie and all, Trying to observe the coriolus effect in a toilet bowl is like trying to observe earnings effects in a panic bear market. You might, just maybe, get to see the effect if you get people to fill their kitchen sinks with water, let it stand until it's very still, and then let it drain. Even there, though, a nearly microscopic change of initial conditions, such as a little movement of your hand as you reach in and open the drain, can easily overpower the effect. There just isn't that much of a distance between the northern end and the southern end of your sink. The most easily-observed illustration of the coriolus effect is in the weather patterns on The Weather Channel. By-and-large, the storm systems in the Northern Hemisphere swirl counterclockwise, and the ones in the Southern Hemisphere swirl clockwise, though even there you can get a maverick now and then, and the patterns right near the Equator tend more toward the chaotic or random. Like the effect of earnings growth on the price of a stock, the coriolus effect is a mild background effect, but over a large time and space, its power is ineluctable. Cheers, Tom (long IOM) P.S. If Gary W.'s expertise comes from his Penn/Wharton exposure, then I guess the content of this post comes from my being a Caltech/Penn hybrid. <g> P.P.S. to E. Graphs: Take it out of the toilet, and it magically transforms from sickness to science. We're not sick. We're geeks. <g>