... (well kinda).
Some work we are doing in South West Uganda meant that I got to cross the Equator on land for the first time on Wednesday, and what a kodak moment! Some nice chaps there offered to show us the trick where the water spins the other way, but my guidebook had warned me against this from 3 reasons:
1. They charge oo much... the scallies!
2. The equator has actually been mis-mapped in Uganda and GPS shows it around 30m away from this point.
3. Apparently the Earth's gravitational field is far too weak for this trick to even work (which I don't believe, because I'm sure I remember learning about this particular phenomenom in Physics class)
Anyway, I took a nice picture and here it is.
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