0:32 "The bust was faced north..." because that's the only direction it could face at the south pole.

Update: Okay, it wasn't at the geographic south pole. So I guess there was technically a north and a south.

Greetings to the North Pole from the South Pole, if you're still out there you might enjoy this one - http://videosift.com/video/Starting-WW2-Era-Russischer-Sternmotor-Radial-Engine

Hey! You too, to you and your family.

I live pretty far north -- almost Canada -- and we have pretty dramatic swings in the length of our days.

My favorite salutation, which I made up myself, that brings genuine joy to one's entire being if you live like this....

HAPPY RETURN OF THE LIGHT!!

Don't know if you are close enough to the South Pole for that to be meaningful.

If not --

An American Merry Christmas to you and yours.

It is in the southern hemisphere, genius.

Ya know, the one where the SOUTH POLE is.

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I don't get it. Did he just forget what he packed?

"This is day 86 on my full return South Pole Expedition 2011/2012. I`m quite hungry and about to pick up my last cache by my second pulk which I left on the way in. As a part of my motivational plan I have on purpose not made notes on what goodies I have left behind in the cache.. and on this last one, I didn`t expect very much."

Financial reasons? WHAT financial reasons!? A conspiracy of globe sellers?

Considering that map in the video, I'd like to know what this guy makes of the various trips to the North and South poles.

This is a really neat effect. Thanks @juliovega914 for some more info on the physics.

As aluminum isn't magnetic, in and of itself, the idea of using a magnet with aluminum can seem illogical. If it weren't for the eddy currents and Lenz's law it would make no sense.

I found a great real-world explanation of this same effect:

"A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine uses an enormous and extremely strong magnet to study a patient's body. The magnet, which has its north pole at the patient's head and its south pole at the patient's feet, is actually a coil of superconducting wire through which electric charges flow.

Aluminum isn't normally magnetic, but as you carry a large aluminum tray toward the magnet, you find that the magnet repels the aluminum. Once again, Lenz's law. The magnet induces a magnetic field in the moving aluminum tray to oppose its own, effectively pushing it away.

You eventually manage to get the aluminum tray up to the magnet. As long as the tray doesn't move, it experiences no magnetic forces. But when you drop it, it falls past the magnet remarkably slowly. What slows down its fall?
That trickster, Lenz. When the tray is stationary, the magnetic field of the magnet is not changing, but as soon as it moves, the field begins changing and an opposing field is induced."

awesome

Imagine that from the perspective of someone sitting in a chair at the South Pole, someone sitting in a chair at the equator is moving 1000+ mph relative to them.

My sister is spending the next 5 months at the South Pole during the summer months (down there) at a research station. Cool to see some of what she will see!

>> ^doogle:
I can see how this would work if the pendulum was on the north or south poles, but instead if anywhere else, why would it shift around?

It's true that it would not shift around if it were situated on the equator, but this is not an either/or question. At any latitude in between, it will still shift around, but it will take a longer time to complete a rotation than if it were situated on one of the poles. There is actually a quite simple equation describing how fast it will rotate at a latitude φ:

α = 360° sin(φ)

where α is the angular velocity measured in degrees per day. If you want some in-depth mathematical analysis, check the Wikipedia article. It has some highly illuminating animations as well.

I can see how this would work if the pendulum was on the north or south poles, but instead if anywhere else, why would it shift around?

The swirling water myth is interesting, Phil Plait writes about it in Bad Astronomy, and thoroughly debunks it of course, he mentions that there are places around the Equator where deliberate scammers show off on either side how the direction is different on the northern and southern hemisphere, but its all baloney. The swirl is subject to all sorts of other local forces before the spin of the earth has any effect at all, and even if it did, it never actually spins around the sinkhole, (unless the sink is directly on top of the north/south pole)

>> ^treat:
Out of curiosity, what's the band? Sounds Unwed Sailor related.


Group:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_of_Eceon

Song: The Open Sea

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