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when going south east (ish)
how come if I head north west and keep going then Australia would be at least 13 hours BEHIND the UK?
therefore Andy Murray would be on court on tuesday and sunday morning!
someone's up to somat imo
how come if I head north west and keep going then Australia would be at least 13 hours BEHIND the UK?
therefore Andy Murray would be on court on tuesday and sunday morning!
someone's up to somat imo
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Australia is twenty years behind uk
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11 plus 13 makes 24.........24 hours in a day
so whats the problem? |
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because 1 way would be a day ahead
the other way would be a day behind ffs |
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they introduced a date line in 1963
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at what point does the water start spinning in the opposite direction down the plug hole?
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ffs
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thanks gresty
I have calmed down now :-) |
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the international date line divides +12 hours from -12 hours, roughly speaking.
Which is why if you fly across the Pacific from west to east you gain a day. I've got stamps in my passport departing Fiji on March 1 and arriving in the Cook Islands on Feb 28 :) |
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if you keep flying westwards it is impossible to die
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JamesBlakesHugeArse 24 Jan 23:51 if you keep flying westwards it is impossible to die Unless you're flying from Boston to LA on 9/11 :( |
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JamesBlakesHugeArse 24 Jan 23:51
if you keep flying westwards it is impossible to die different gravy nominate as a top ten post of the year imo laughed out loud B-) |
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water reverses its gravitational pull at the equator. This is theoretical though. In practice it decreases in force as you get closer to the equator before reversing, and so there is a black spot, if you will, where it does not spin due to the effects of friction on the water with whatever it is in contact with.
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total rubbish ^^
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it isn't rubbish at all, but it also isn't gravity.
it is to do with the rotation of the earth. It's the Coriolis Effect. ( i forgot the name so had to look it up) It gets a mention in the playstation game COD4 relating to how a truely fired bullet with no wind will still be effected by the spin of the earth. if the earth spun the other way the water would spin the other way. gravity is constant. |
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apparently, it is why a swinging weight on a bit of string stars to rotate too. a simple experiment we can all reproduce at home. (thread probably better than string tho TBF)
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GO TO BED YOU LOONY
PS - it is gravity that makes the earth spin isn't it? |
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lol...
it is gravity that keeps us on the earth while it is spinning. we spin coz of the big bang and we are still moving out... |
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I always thought we were getting slowly pulled towards the sun.... :/
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i dunno, the sun is moving out with us...
regardling our relationship to the sun i really don't know. since the sun is burning, i would have assumed is was reducing in size so therefore the gap would be getting slightly longer between us, yet the centers would still be the same distance apart, if you know what i mean... |
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They cannot be 11 hours ahead of us, otherwise they would have all the race results before the races were run and they would clean up!
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what's the time difference between LA and Sydney then?
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I just tried that, (yes i'm bored) the water started anti clockwise then changed to clockwise.
Any academics want to explain that? |
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I'm no academic, but i did this when i was about 8.
you can force the water to spin one way but the natural forces that want it to spin the other way must slowly be taking it's effect on your forced spin. the Coriolis Effect is very slight so isn't going to stop a big fat human hand forcing water against it. but it will gradually counter out the energy you have "stored" in the water moving the wrong way... i assume of course... |