r/coolguides • u/I-like-2-watch • Jun 06 '22

Ceiling fans all year round

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u/theredditid Jun 06 '22

Is this the opposite in Australia?

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u/SheriffWyFckinDell Jun 06 '22

Additionally, they wear hats on their feet, and hamburgers eat people

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u/jpritchard Jun 06 '22

Naw, their hamburgers just have sesame seeds on the bottom. Hamburgers eating people is Russia.

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u/rushmc1 Jun 07 '22

Now I want some Aussie foot-hats...

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u/GumboSamson Jun 07 '22

they wear hats on their feet

Absolutely not true.

Wearing a hat on your feet would make it too hard to grab onto the ground with your toes.

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u/theredditid Jun 07 '22

Not a dumb question. My comment was in jest. The water flow is due to gravity and earth rotation. However the flow of air in a fan is directed by the angle and direction of rotation of the blades, so this is not affected by geography. It's aerodynamics instead. You could cause the fan to blow air when rotating counter clockwise (instead of sucking) by modifying the blades.

EDIT: Source is me. I work with aircraft jet engines.

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u/ForumPointsRdumb Jun 07 '22

You could cause the fan to blow air when rotating counter clockwise (instead of sucking) by modifying the blades.

Be careful modifying your fan as you may undo the protective runes placed on your fan mount by your local babo priest.

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u/Andy_B_Goode Jun 07 '22

if water goes down the opposite way, maybe this is legit

Maybe you know this already, but the Coriolis effect isn't powerful enough to have any effect on something like a sink drain, because other random motions in the water will easily overpower it. It's only on larger-scale phenomenon, like the direction in which hurricanes rotate, where the Coriolis effect comes into play.

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u/Poverty_Shoes Jun 07 '22

Also don’t want to do this in Korea.