Alignment of Sea-bed Debris Field versus Heading at Sea-level Impact
Chris and others....
Here is a fairly simple experiment to carry out. Get a tall pail or bucket. Fill it with water. Let it sit awhile so that it's stopped all motion.
While it is stopping raid, a sewing kit for some needles, buttons of various sizes, thimbles, and so forth. (Don't mess up any of the bobbins or things like that. Be kind to the owner of the sewing kit.) Create an arrangement to have them fall straight into the water. See if you notice any patterns that appear when the debris hits the bottom and settles.
A taller the bucket and the wider the array of objects will probably give clearer results.
The results I am looking for are similar to the arcade type gadgets which have you drop a coin through water to get it into a specific slot. These gadgets make a lot of money. The coins all flutter and slip aside.
Draw conclusions as you will. I contend that the array on the bottom is fairly surprisingly compact. Currents must have been really slow compared to the rate of fall through them.
Last edited by Jetdriver; 17th Apr 2011 at 16:20.