Re: Hot vs. Cold

[trappe@PHYSICS.UTEXAS.EDU (Karl Trappe)]

Wasn't there a "gedanken" problem a few years back that posed "how much
could we slow the earth down (or speed it up) by lining up parallel to the
rotation and all taking a single step?  I believe it was also posed that we
all "drive our cars in this way and attempt to change the seasons...
Karl

> > According to a friend, revolving doors in Australia turn in the opposite
> > direction to those in North America!  (After he let that soak in for a bit,
> > he commented that people enter the buildings to the left, as in Britain and
> > other places where they also drive on the left.)
> >
> > Van Neie

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