Most Popular Myths

[Lalanae]

http://www.livescience.com/bestimg/resu ... &cat=myths

Some interesting tidbits

[Truant]

The only one that was a shocker to me was that drains aren't counter clockwise in the southern hemisphere. Although their argument of moving the faucet to change it kind of messes it up in my head. I had always thought something like pulling the drain plug in a bathtub would be a more controlled experiment.

Interesting read, thanks.

[Lalanae]

I didn't realize that chickens could live so long without their heads. That's just fucking creepy.

[Sylvus]

Is the female orgasm on that list?

[Winnow]

Reference: Beer Goggles

[Midnyte_Ragebringer]

Is the female orgasm on that list?

If you're having problems in that arena, hand her a vibrator.

[Arborealus]

I've seen chickens run w/o heads but not for 18 frickin months ...

I knew the coriolis force was insignificant relative to the inertia of water...tested that on a 747 on the way to Australia ...

[cadalano]

yeah I had read about the chicken a few years ago. 18 months and he ended up dying from mucuous congestion that was routinely cleared. He could have lived just as long as a normal chicken



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken

[Zaelath]

The only one that was a shocker to me was that drains aren't counter clockwise in the southern hemisphere. Although their argument of moving the faucet to change it kind of messes it up in my head. I had always thought something like pulling the drain plug in a bathtub would be a more controlled experiment.

Interesting read, thanks.

The coriolis effect isn't supposed to overpower massively stronger forces like injecting the water into the system in the opposite direction, so the "running a tap into a drain" experiment is invalid.

You need a large, still body of water and a relatively small drain apperature to see the effect. Or, a nice big weather system like a cyclone...

Bart's toilet experiment is likely invalid as well as there is water being injected into the bowl as it is draining, and Australian toilets are vastly different construction to American toilets anyway, so we don't have a vast lake of water in our bowls.

[Truant]

The only one that was a shocker to me was that drains aren't counter clockwise in the southern hemisphere. Although their argument of moving the faucet to change it kind of messes it up in my head. I had always thought something like pulling the drain plug in a bathtub would be a more controlled experiment.

Interesting read, thanks.

The coriolis effect isn't supposed to overpower massively stronger forces like injecting the water into the system in the opposite direction, so the "running a tap into a drain" experiment is invalid.

You need a large, still body of water and a relatively small drain apperature to see the effect. Or, a nice big weather system like a cyclone...

Bart's toilet experiment is likely invalid as well as there is water being injected into the bowl as it is draining, and Australian toilets are vastly different construction to American toilets anyway, so we don't have a vast lake of water in our bowls.

Yeah, that's why I always assumed the experiment would be tested at it's very smallest possibilty by pulling the drain plug on a full bathtub. There's nothing to disturb it, no water entering the bathtub anywhere, no seamonkeys monkeying up the flow of the water.


There's an old baseball myth that the rotation of the earth is beneficial to a left hander's curve ball. I can't say I ever believed that. But I did believe the drain/cyclone rotation as it relates to hemisphere. Maybe we should conduct our own experiment with our friends down under!

[Lynks]

Mythbusters covered a lot of this.

[Boogahz]

Mythbusters covered a lot of this.

And it was much more entertaining!

[Zamtuk]

that guy's beret and mustache disturbs me too much to take that show seriously, or let alone watch it.

[Boogahz]

You really should watch it. It's great how even if they can't prove a myth to be true, they will MAKE it work...usually with a big explosion of some sort

[cadalano]

Mythbusters is a great show.


And that Carrie gal arouses the nerd-cortex of my nervis

[Phuggs]

"And that Carrie gal arouses the nerd-cortex of my nervis"


Amen my Brotha ...... She does it for me too , and the wife HATES it she thinks the show is boring and blah blah , I would watch it just for her Geeky Highness.

[Noysyrump]

Did ya know the paris gun could fire farther east than it could west...

Ok imma geek.

[Dregor Thule]

Something about watching her blow shit up makes my nervis huge

As for the chicken.. man. That's a little depressing! Poor damned bird.