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Low Quality Facts
Low Quality Facts
@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 5 months ago

I'm surprised that so many people don't know this.

Lumberjacks Chop the
west side of a tree
because trees always
fall to the east.
Lumberjacks Chop the west side of a tree because trees always fall to the east.
Lumberjacks Chop the west side of a tree because trees always fall to the east.
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Sam Livingston-Gray
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@geeksam@ruby.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

@lowqualityfacts well, yeah. The ground is moving at 1,000 miles per hour from west to east, so this is just the Coriolis effect. Except, y'know, backwards. Because trees, amirite?

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@spacemagick@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

@lowqualityfacts
Surely, given that the Earth rotates West-to-East, that should be the other way around?
#AngularMomentum
#JustSaying

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