On 18/02/10 01:01, Anton Aylward wrote:
James Knott said the following on 02/17/2010 08:36 AM:
Basil Chupin wrote:
The Americans have a lot to answer for..... :-) .
('Color' instead of 'colour'; 'harbor' instead of 'harbour'; 'ass' instead of 'arse'; and the list can go on..... :-) .)
At least they don't drive on the wrong side of the road! ;-)
Actually they do. Consider two cars passing in opposite directions. Their motion causes a vortex of air as they pass. It spins anti-clockwise, which is the same way that hurricanes (etc) spin in the northern hemisphere. So all those millions of cars are contributing spin in the air and it all adds up.
Ah, the old "Butterfly Effect", eh? :-)
The correct formula, therefore, is to drive on the left in the northern hemisphere and on the right in the southern hemisphere.
So the Australians have it wrong as well.
I'll leave as an exercise to the reader how one should drive on or near the equator.
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