Travel Bug Dog Tag Down the Drain

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Owner:
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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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Retrieve It from a Cache 12/5/2005 Captain Gore-tex retrieved it from CCCC United Kingdom   Visit Log

pulled the plug on this little baby
Dropped Off 11/30/2005 magic fingers placed it in CCCC United Kingdom - 2.62 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 11/16/2005 magic fingers retrieved it from Trym Trail United Kingdom   Visit Log

Not sure on direction as seems to change with weather. Will place this at weekend.
Dropped Off 11/12/2005 Lost_Tribe placed it in Trym Trail United Kingdom - 40.44 miles  Visit Log
  • The bugs chat before they go on their way
Retrieve It from a Cache 10/30/2005 Lost_Tribe retrieved it from Homes of the rich and famous South West England, United Kingdom   Visit Log

Grabbed the plug - our first bug in a while - will try to move it on soon - as far as possible.

  • Tim grabs the plug
Dropped Off 10/30/2005 geocacherscott placed it in Homes of the rich and famous South West England, United Kingdom - 41.48 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 10/29/2005 geocacherscott retrieved it from Abbey View Southern England, United Kingdom   Visit Log

Did the experiment as soon as we got home to Gloucester and we can report from here that the water is moving anti-clockwise!

Will drop off as soon as we can.
Dropped Off 10/26/2005 damsk placed it in Abbey View Southern England, United Kingdom - 12.11 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 10/23/2005 damsk retrieved it from Guiting Wood Southern England, United Kingdom   Visit Log

will run this experiment as soon as my youngest gets out of the bath - could be in a couple of days.
Dropped Off 10/13/2005 mackattack placed it in Guiting Wood Southern England, United Kingdom - 407.66 miles  Visit Log

Must admit experiments inconclusive. I think you need to run hot and cold tap together to ensure result is not polluted by swirling from filling basin! Tip, use a bit of soap to make it easier to spot direction of swirl! Which way should it go and will someone coallate results? MA
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