Travel Bug Dog Tag Down the Drain

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Owner:
roolku Send Message to Owner Message this owner
Released:
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Origin:
Chatham Islands, New Zealand
Recently Spotted:
In BPE #4 – Les Dawson

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Current Goal

Collect empirical evidence on which direction the drains flush.

About This Item

new plug

One of the many unresolved mysteries of (my) life is which direction the little maelstrom rotates that is created when you flush the toilet or pull the plug in the sink. Now there has already been a lot of research on this topic, suggesting that the coriolis force might force the direction to be clockwise on the southern and anticlockwise on the northern hemisphere. Others claim that this is complete rubbish.
This TB is my small contribution to the debate. Please conduct the experiment carefully and post the results on this page with your log.

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Tracking History (25353.6mi) View Map

Dropped Off 9/28/2007 Pandagram placed it in My Side Of The Mountain New York - 233.7 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 9/26/2007 Pandagram retrieved it from Sticky I Vermont   Visit Log

Counter-clockwise. Will move along for other to experiment with.
Dropped Off 9/23/2007 Sonsieface placed it in Sticky I Vermont - 3,033.56 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 8/14/2007 Sonsieface retrieved it from Monks' Cave Northern Scotland, United Kingdom   Visit Log

Plenty water today , checked that it goes down the drain clockwise. We'll take this to the US next week.
Dropped Off 7/28/2007 roolku placed it in Monks' Cave Northern Scotland, United Kingdom - 320.28 miles  Visit Log
Grab It (Not from a Cache) 7/25/2007 roolku grabbed it   Visit Log

Come back for reincarnation...
Dropped Off 4/30/2006 jri placed it in Bristol Panorama South West England, United Kingdom - 16.67 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 4/28/2006 jri retrieved it from Weston Big Wood's Good United Kingdom   Visit Log

Tried the experiment with two different sinks in my flat. One emptied clockwise (filled with a tap on the right), the other anticlockwise (filled with a tap on the left).
Dropped Off 4/23/2006 doctor scotland placed it in Weston Big Wood's Good United Kingdom - 6.93 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 4/1/2006 doctor scotland retrieved it from Slave`s grave South West England, United Kingdom   Visit Log

picked him up and wil move him soon.
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