Upvote for Alan's sigh when Steven gets one right! That man's a comic genius.

Soon the whole BBC-QI playlist on YouTube will have been sifted.

^nah, only the good ones. There are plenty there that are not quite good enough.

>> ^rasch187:
^nah, only the good ones. There are plenty there that are not quite good enough.


I think you overestimate the standards of the average sifter.

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)

The spin of the Earth does have an effect, just not as big a one as people would like to think. I read of an experiment where they filled a massive round basin with water and spun the water opposite to the way it was expected to go in that hemisphere. After a number of hours, the water slowed, stopped, and started moving slightly in the other direction. I don't remember, but I imagine they also did the same experiment in the other hemisphere and the water didn't turn around.

I am the BATHTER.