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To: Elsie
"It looks like a computer graphic"

Possibly, but it is suspiciously similar to an exhibit at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) where a cable is suspended three stories up and attached to a steel ball that swings like a pendulum. The rotation of the earth causes it to move ever so slightly around a circle as it swings. The thing will eventually knock all the pins down in a 24 hour period. Just wondering 'cause it seems so random...

38 posted on 04/07/2014 3:30:58 PM PDT by Dutchboy88
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To: Dutchboy88

Did they move the pendulum downtown to the new location on the Willamette River?


40 posted on 04/07/2014 3:38:48 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature not nurture)
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To: Dutchboy88
The thing will eventually knock all the pins down in a 24 hour period. Just wondering 'cause it seems so random...

Indeed!

Look up Foucault pendulum in Google® and look at the pictures.

There are many museums that have these things set up.

There only TWO places on Earth that would have one rotation in 24 hours: the north or south pole.

Any other latitude would have less and less rotation until a pendulum is set on the equator; where it would have none at all.

47 posted on 04/07/2014 8:27:29 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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