Does Water Swirl the Other Way in the Southern Hemisphere?
The definitive answer about the direction water swirls in two hemispheres Sync the videos yourself: http://toiletswirl.com For the record Destin and I repeated the experiment 3-4 times each...
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Derek: A couple of years ago my friend Destinand I wanted to definitively answer thequestion: does water actually swirl theopposite direction down the drain in theother hemisphere? At the time, I wasliving in Sydney, Australia, and Destinwas in Huntsville, Alabama. Those areabout the same latitude, just oppositesides of the Equator, so we created twovideos that were meant to be watchedsimultaneously, and if you want tosynchronize them yourself, you can clickthe link in the description, but we alsorecognize that that was a hassle forsome people, particularly watching onmobile devices, and that's why I'm nowreleasing this extra wide video of bothvideos synchronized. The Simpsons did awhole episode based on toilet flushingthe opposite direction in Australia...
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Derek: A couple of years ago my friend Destinand I wanted to definitively answer thequestion: does water actually swirl theopposite direction down the drain in theother hemisphere? At the time, I wasliving in Sydney, Australia, and Destinwas in Huntsville, Alabama. Those areabout the same latitude, just oppositesides of the Equator, so we created twovideos that were meant to be watchedsimultaneously, and if you want tosynchronize them yourself, you can clickthe link in the description, but we alsorecognize that that was a hassle forsome people, particularly watching onmobile devices, and that's why I'm nowreleasing this extra wide video of bothvideos synchronized. The Simpsons did awhole episode based on toilet flushingthe opposite direction in Australia...
