Can You Swim Uphill?

First of all:

HAHAHAHAHAHA

Second: You could not make a swimming pool on a slope, the water would just level itself out... It would need to be running water for it to actually be on a slope. But then the water would never, ever, be deep enough for you to swim.

This thread is the best! :)

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geeza said:
Yes.

Get a big tube and plonk it on a hill
Run water down it from the top.
Swim up as fast as you can holding your breath

Depends how big the hill is, how long you can hold your breath and how fast you can swim as to if you can do it. But it can be done!
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wouldnt this be classed as swimmin under water everyones talking about swimmin on the surface . the only way to swim up hill is swimming up a river.
 
You would basically have to create a river flowing downhill, it wouldn't be a pool since a pool by definition is settled.

You could create a deep, downhill flow of water, that would be your volume of water through which you could swim, you could then attempt to swim against the current to swim uphill. How you would create a constant deep flow of water artifically is a logistical problem, involving huge pumps I suspect.

So, yes it can be done. But you'd best stop using the word "pool". And become a very, very strong swimmer.
 
seek said:
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yantorsen said:
that doesn't count, because obviously we're speaking relative to earth.
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Ok, I would argue otherwise but hey...

The other reason you can swim uphill (and why ships sail up and down hill) is because of the bathymetry (topography underwater) of the ocean sea bed. For example, take this map of the Atlantic:

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It shows the relative height of the sea bed, worked out by using a satellite to measure the actual sea level (measured multiple times to get rid of waves and tides) because the lasers can't be used to measure the sea bed themselves. It, as others have pointed out, is due to gravity. Bug lumps of rock (especially if they are denser) have a higher gravitational pull, so the shallower parts of oceans like near shore (and continental shelfs) and the mid Atlantic ridge pull the water towards them. That creates troughs and peaks in the ocean. So if you were to swim (or sail) across the Atlantic you would swim downhill, then uphill as you reach the mid Atlantic ridge, then back downhill as you went over the top, then back uphill as you came to the US.

I know that's a bit long winded but the gist is:

Yes, you can swim uphill, and you probably have already (although only to a small degree).:)

And just on a side note, it's not just the sea that has tides, the earth under your feet moves up and down by as much as a foot twice a day as the moon goes round the earth.;)
 
Helium_Junkie said:
If the water were obeying conventional gravity it would flow downhill, and therefore you would be swimming against a current. If the hill had its own gravitational field (cant believe we're discussing this...) and the water were stationary, then you too would be affected by said field, and there would be no change to normal behaviour.
If.... if the pool were stationary but you still obeyed gravity, then some twit probably divided by zero and you have far worse problems.
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A hill does have it's own gravitational field, everything does. Go brush up on your laws of physics.:p

Having said that the gravity it does have would be so small in comparison to earth it would be very unlikely we could measure the waters attraction to it.

dustiestrat said:
read through and didnt see anyone reply and fancied my chances for virtual cookie. is the other reason seas hilly because of air pressure from changing weather?
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That's not what I was thinking of but you got me there, I don't know for sure but it could be a possibility. :)
 
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Capn' $qu!ff said:
Dear god just let it lie this thread is almost as awkward as me walking into a party where it's emos only
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Sorry, I was just replying to a reply to my post that I couldn't do yesterday. I'll make sure I don't do it again mum..:p

Only the tards on OCUK could produce a thread arguing the validity of swimming up a slope
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It's not my fault people don't understand the laws of physics.:p
 
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