Comment on I would personally just treat whatever direction I'm facing at the time as North and go from there.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
The Sun rises in the East and sets in the west.
With East on your right and west on your left you would be facing north.
You can tell which side of the equator you are on by the way water swirls. Northern Hemisphere water drains clockwise. If water draining has no spin then you’re on the equator.
Sometimes the moss on trees is enough of an indicator, as moss growing on only one side of a tree means no sunlight reaches it and the moss faces the direction opposite of the equator.
Halosheep@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
The water thing is a myth. Any body of water you can actively watch drain is influenced by the shape of the reservoir and direction the water is added to it.
CorvidCawder@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
What about the videos recorded in Ecuador, where the same reservoir is drained on both sides of the equator and the water spins in different directions?
Halosheep@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Idk why you’re being downvoted for this comment but it’s actually a really cool sleight of hand trick where the guy pouring the water gives it a small swirl in the direction they want the water to drain.
A lot of people may not like him but Mark Rober did a video about it: youtu.be/M7-h3FO-KKo?t=729&si=DoYwXCutiNvF_WcZ
CorvidCawder@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
The downvotes are just typical Reddit/Lemmy superiority complex, whenever some science stuff that “most people don’t know” shows up, anyone saying anything different gets downvoted a ton.
Source/opinion/joke, doesn’t matter, just going against the hivemind.
kazren@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
You might have to provide that link if you want them to listen.
CorvidCawder@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
youtu.be/4IIVfoDuVIw
GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
😂
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Hmm
Looked it up and you might be right. But believing you at face value would also be the same fault that lead to this spread to this myth’s spread.
Halosheep@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
To be fair I had to look it up too. Seems the Coriolis effect COULD impact a perfectly still container of water that was opened suddenly, but other forces are going to be significantly more impactful on a small body of water.