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Saturday, September 15, 2007

Badger on the Equator

I did cool experiments too. I balanced an egg on a nail- easy as pie. I walked the line with my eyes closed and felt very off balance- getting pulled in two directions slightly. I felt weak when off the line they couldn't pull apart my two fingers (like when you pinch with your thumb and pointer finger), but could do it in .3 seconds when you are on the equator. And the cooolest part was watching water go down a drain south of the line and watch it go clockwise in a little tornado funnel thing ., water go counter clockwise on the other side of the line...and when you are on equator- it goes STRAIGHT DOWN! No tornado funnely thing!

Yes, i felt like Bill Nye.

7 Comments:

  • At 9/17/07 4:17 PM , Blogger SarahEliz said...

    oooooh, so cool!

     
  • At 9/17/07 4:32 PM , Blogger syd said...

    bill nye was a cornellian. just to let you know :)

     
  • At 9/18/07 6:46 AM , Blogger Katy said...

    i always new he was special- just like you!

     
  • At 9/18/07 12:19 PM , Blogger Ariane said...

    dude. awesome. i can't wait to try it myself someday. :)

     
  • At 9/20/07 9:18 AM , Blogger Erin said...

    sweet diggity!

     
  • At 9/23/07 2:16 PM , Blogger Sean said...

    you know - the water spinning thing is a myth

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_effect#Draining_bathtubs_and_toilets

    http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/02/02/092236.php

    http://www.discovery.com/area/skinnyon/skinnyon970523/skinny1.html

     
  • At 9/23/07 4:16 PM , Blogger Katy said...

    it wasn't a toilet bowl...it was a still standing basin of water that the removed the plug...and i saw it for my own eyes! and have the video to prove it...

     

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