Originally posted by fjordSnow in the Xmas summer holidays? Had to scrape ice off my car window last week - it is winter now.
You MUST be wrong 😉
Have you got snow at Xmas?
fjord
Brings me to another pet hate - the use of seasons to describe a future event - ie the new software will come out next Spring. To me, Spring is September. Another example of Northern linguistic oppression!
Originally posted by PhlabibitTo the best of my flawed knowledge:
I love the episode of the Simpsons where the US Embassy in Australia has installed some kind of 'toilet turbine' to make it flush "the proper clock-wise direction".
I know that Huricains and Typhoons spin the oposite direction... Tornados also??? I guess so....
Yes, this would all change if the poles flip, I would guess!
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direction of flow of oceans and air currents is caused by the Corriolus (sp?) effect, which has nothing to do with the poles and everything to do with the direction the Earth spins. Unless the direction of spin was changed bythe poles flipping, which is unlikely, the otrnadoes etc will still go the same way as now.
The Corriolus effect is very weak and therefore only works on massive volumes. I have been told that direction of water flow down a toilet etc is more likely to be effected by toilet design or your sink not being 100% level than by this effect.
Originally posted by belgianfreakI really had a vision of the poles flipping... not realizing the magnitism was in question!
To the best of my flawed knowledge:
direction of flow of oceans and air currents is caused by the Corriolus (sp?) effect, which has nothing to do with the poles and everything to do with the direction the Earth spins. Unless the direction of spin was changed bythe poles flipping, which is unlikely, the otrnadoes etc will still go the same way as now.
...[text shortened]... e likely to be effected by toilet design or your sink not being 100% level than by this effect.
So, I geuss there will be little destruction if it happens.
Yes, it is the Earth's spin that makes the toilet flush one way or the other. Do they go straight down on the equator?
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Originally posted by VargOnly 2 drugs spring to mind that tend to promote violence, alcohol & PCP. 'Uppers' such as coke & speed can also promote violence but not as commonly. Hallucinogens are far more likely to lead to damage to the user. Most violence assosiated with drugs is when the user runs out & wants money for more - logically therefore we should be doing more drugs not less 😛
Lots of hard drugs in Holland, too.
Originally posted by Vargwell ... I can name a few others: Rotterdam, Den Haag, Utrecht, Maastricht, Groningen, Eindhoven and on and on and on
Amsterdam is the only place I have seen heroin addicts injecting openly in the streets.
owwwwww ... they are all in Holland.
Did you know some addicts get free heroine prescribed as a project?
Originally posted by NicolaiSReally?
well ... I can name a few others: Rotterdam, Den Haag, Utrecht, Maastricht, Groningen, Eindhoven and on and on and on
owwwwww ... they are [b]all in Holland.
Did you know some addicts get free heroine prescribed as a project? [/b]
Would you say the liberal attitude to drugs there is a good thing then?
Personally, so long as taking drugs doesn't affect other people i.e. crime to pay for drugs, and leaving needles all over the place is not nice, I don't mind what people do.
you are partly correct belgianfreak, the Coriolis force is the reason hurricanes turn clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counter-clockwise in the south, but ocean currents are also affected by density differences caused by temperature and salinity, topography of the ocean floor, and astronomical forces such as the tides.
As for the poles flipping (it is called Geomagnetic Reversal) it is not known why this happens, but there is a record of it occurred 9 times in the last 4 million years. It is thought that the magnetic slowly losses its strenght ontill it is no more then quckly regains its strenght with the poles in oposite ends of the Earth.
What that means for life on Earth as the field slowly diminishes is an ever decreasing protection form solar winds and cosmic radiation. Given that this period of magnetic decay will last 4000 to 8000 years it is likley that live will adapt to the changing environment, and since the next geomagnetic reversal is perhaps 2000 yeas away humans will either be extinct or have thought some ingenious way to counter the problem. One thing than can be said is that without the magnetic field there will be no auroras effect.