| ▲ | wasting_time 3 hours ago | |
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/3135 | ||
| ▲ | santoriv 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
Reminds me of the time that Bill O'Reilly argued on national television that tides were inexplicable. | ||
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| ▲ | boothby 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
I live near a river that flows backwards for some 50km or so with tides. The first time I saw it, I thought I'd gotten turned around because surely water can't flow uphill, right? It's fun to find out that one is so wrong about basic physics. | ||