Showing posts with label equator. Show all posts
Showing posts with label equator. Show all posts

Friday, 23 April 2010

Journey to the Centre of the Earth...


... (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.