I've heard that in the Southern hemisphere water rotates in the opposite direction (ie clockwise) to here in the Northern hemisphere. Obviously it's impractial to fly out to Aussieland just to find out . . .
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From SPACE.COM:\n\nBack home, all of this has almost nothing to do with your bathtub drain, which creates another spiral shape.\n\nThere is a popular myth, though, owing to the rotational direction of a hurricane, that says the water in bathtubs rotates a certain direction in the Northern Hemisphere.\n\nIt's not true.\n\nThe Coriolis effect does not determine which way the water swirls in your house. The effect is too tiny to impact such a minor, localized process, all experts agree.\n\nThat means water is free to swirl in either direction in tubs in both hemispheres. Which way it goes is determined by the geometry of a particular basin or, if things are perfectly aligned and balanced, then by chance.
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Countries on the southern hemisphere. Think about the tilting earth as it orbits. Australia would be a good example.
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It doesn't. Go south of the equator and you will see it spins clockwise.
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There is no top and bottom. There is no up or down in space. Else the Australian population would fall of, right?\n\nBut earth has an equator. And since we (living north of the equator) explored the world and drew the maps, we defined the north pole, or Arctic, as the most northern place.
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In the northern Hemisphere the days are longer during the summer months and shorter in the winter months.  The opposite is true in the Southern Hemisphere.  To get exactly length of the day I think you would need a computer program.  The calculation seems a bit complicated.
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The directional North pole of the earth is a magnetic south pole, this is because the north end of a compass points north, and opposites attract, therefore north is...south.\n\nMagnetic lines go from south to north i think, sorry havn't taken electricity/mag class in so long...\n\nanyways, if my thining is correct than it would point towards the directional south\n\ni'd choose "down"
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Yes, everything's upside down from down under!\n\nIf you're facing south looking at an early crescent setting in the northern hemisphere, the Moon is on your right, and the Sun is further to the right (west), so the right (west) side of the Moon is illuminated.  From the southern hemisphere, you're facing north, and west is on your left.  The western side of the Moon is still illuminated, but now you see it on the left. The Moon, of course, appears upside down.
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Someday it will be.  Earth reverses its magnetic poles periodically, so one day Antarctica will be to the north.
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Summer and Winter in the Northern Hemisphere, i.e. for countries north of the equator are seasons that occur, along with Spring and Autumn (or Fall) as follows.\n\nSpring : March 21st to June 21st.\nSummer : June 22nd to September 21st.\nAutumn : September 22nd to December 21st\nWinter : December 22nd to March 20th.\n\n\nHowever the seasons are seen differently. Most people see Spring as starting in mid-March until mid June and Summer from then until September but Autumn until late October with Winter from then until the following march.\n\nIn the Southern hemisphere, south of the equator the seasons are reversed by six months so they would be\n\nAutumn : March 21st to June 21st\nWinter : June 22nd to September 21st\nSpring : September 22nd to December 21st\nSummer : December 22nd to March 20th.\n\nIn Australia Christmas Day is usually spent having a barbecue on the beach.\n\nThe reason for this difference is due to the Earth tilting as it orbits the Sun so that every six months the two poles become 'reversed' as far as closeness or proximity to the Sun is concerned.
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The hemispheric difference in the downdraft of fluids is a result of the spin of the earth, gravitational pull of the sun and moon, etc.  When we cruise along in our orbit, the spin of the earth itself, relative to the other gravitational bodies in our vicinity of this solar system, and the actual tilt of the earth on its axis determine the results of this actuality.
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Time is unconnected to the Earth.  The only immediately noticeable differences between normal Earth and a backward rotating Earth (NOT counting the moment during which the Earth stops spinning) is that water will circulate in the opposite direction in the ocean, counterclockwise instead of clockwise, and storms will rotate across the Earth in a different directional tendency.
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No, you've got it backwards, it flushes counter-clockwiswe above the equator, and clockwise below. Right on the equator should flush counter-clockwise as well.
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The direction of draining water is no different in either of Earth's hemispheres. This is a perpetual myth that has no basis in scientific fact. This website provides a good discussion about the whole thing, plus lots of information about the Coriolis Effect itself --\nhttp://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/BadCoriolis.html
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because gravity points to the center of the sphere, so no matter where you are on teh sphere, the down direction is towards the center of teh planet, wich allows penguins in teh south pole to walk on teh surface of the planet.\nIf you look at constelation however, they do appear upside down when viewed from below the equator, proving that we are walking on a sphere
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True. It is called the coriolis effect. It causes moving objects to drift sideways on their courses. This causes hurricanes to rotate. In the Northern hemisphere, the shift is to the right, in the Southern hemisphere it is to the left.
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Not all tracks run counter clockwise. Barbagallo Raceway in Perth Western Australia runs clockwise. Aswell as Queensland Raceway in Australia. Silverstone runs clockwise. Brands Hatch runs clockwise. There just a few. Want to know more just ask.
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Actually, the "science fact" that toilets, tubs, and sinks all drain in the same direction in the Northern hemisphere and drain in the opposite direction in the Southern hemisphere because of the Coriolis Effect (which does cause weather patterns in the Northern Hemisphere to go clockwise, and weather patterns in the Southern Hemisphere to go counter-clockwise). The Coriolis Effect is caused by the rotation of the earth.\n\nThe effect of the Coriolis Effect on a body of water the size of a regular toilet, sink or bathtub is nearly negligible. The most common reasons for the direction that water will take in going down the drain have to do with small currents in the water from either filling or other moving objects in the water, and the shape of the basin. In the case of toilets, generally they also put a slight spin on the direction of the flushing water to help it create the whirlpool.\n\nWhile you can divide the world into Western and Eastern hemispheres (usually culturally - the American continents are considered "Western" while Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia are considered "Eastern", the Coriolis Effect only matters for Northern and Southern hemispheres.\n\nSo as to answer why it might appear that a toilet in Ireland flushes differently than a toilet in the US, don't blame the rotation of the Earth - the Coriolis Effect on such a small body of water is insignificant to the design of the toilet - the shape of the bowl and where it fills and drains, and any motion created by this shape.