Hey Chris,

Glad to hear you and Steve got a chance to have a go at it. The forum has been sort of quiet in your absence; it was obvious that your presence was missed.

Gravity not withstanding, I thought for the most part all moving water runs towards the equator due to centrifugal force.

Water runs North in the Southern hemisphere, and South in the Northern hemisphere.

Obviously, if a body of land is at an extreme angle away from the equator, gravity would take precedence and the water would run down hill. But eventually that water will feed into a larger body of water that runs towards the equator.

There's a place in Colorado that has a stream beside the road. There are high mountains on either side. The illusion is that you are going down hill. But the stream is running up hill. I'm assuming it is an illusion that you are going down hill. But I still haven't figured it out.

The mind judges the incline or decline by visual references. The only visual references you have in this area are the grade of the road relative to the trees which grow vertically. So based on that input everything says you are going downhill, but that darn stream is running uphill. I don't get it!

I even thought that maybe it was the stream that was an optical illusion and it just appeared to be running uphill. I pulled off the side of the road and threw a leaf into the stream, uphill the leaf went with the current of the stream.

I went back to the van and got out a baseball and put it on the shoulder of the road and it ran downhill.

Darndest thing I've ever seen, I still haven't figured it out.

Let's be careful out there!

Doc

• flowing uphil... Phil (NM) 16:59:04 3/27/99 (0)