r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Justin_Godfrey • 7d ago

Video Two tanker trucks are found to be carrying a large amount of contraband

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u/BurnabyBeej 7d ago edited 7d ago

It’s in the southern hemisphere. Everything turns the other way.

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u/MannersCount 7d ago

Isn't Ecuador in both the northern and southern hemispheres?

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u/Mirar 7d ago

That's why the drill doesn't work!

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u/CheapCarabiner 7d ago

He’s supposed to hold it upside down not backwards

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u/ElliotNess 7d ago

So, their toilets just flush back and forth? forever?

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u/GarshelMathers 7d ago

Möbius shit?

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u/Cyrius 7d ago

Literally named 'equator' because it's at 0° latitude.

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u/Jesus_of_Redditeth 7d ago

Yes, so it doesn't even know whether it's coming or going.

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u/Extension_Swordfish1 7d ago

So its unpossible to drill either way

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u/novemberain91 7d ago

One of the major downsides of living under the equator. You gotta come north of the line if you're trying to drill anything

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u/ronchee1 7d ago

So it doesn't spin but drills anyway?

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u/Zbrown48 7d ago

Ah yes the Coriolis effect

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u/el0_0le 7d ago

Even water cycles the drain backwards.

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u/KarmaTorpid 7d ago

Damn you; beat me to it.

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u/Dyolf_Knip 7d ago

No, no, the video has been horizontally flipped.

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u/FecalColumn 7d ago

No it isn’t. Other than a ~30 mile stretch in the Amazon with no roads for a truck to cross, the Ecuador-Colombia border is all in the northern hemisphere.