Can You Swim Uphill?

I can't believe how hard some people find it to think that water can be sloped. It is sloped when it is *falling*.

Not a pool... a river...
 
Water doesn't just naturally have high points and low points. It will spread out and have an even surface...

Swimming uphill can be done though...it's the same as rising from being underwater whilst going forwards, surely? ;)
 
uphill means up a hill, as in, "i am walking uphill".
water, cannot under any circumstances be fashioned into a hill.
ergo, you cannot swim uphill.

unless of course you are strong enough to be able to swim through clay.

swimming up a river that is flowing down a hill is not swimming uphill.
it's swimming upriver.

so there.

:D
 
mp3kla said:
Well anything is possible in this thread. It's like the twighlight zone, only it's real and full of idiots.
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Cr0fty said:
Water doesn't just naturally have high points and low points. It will spread out and have an even surface...

Swimming uphill can be done though...it's the same as rising from being underwater whilst going forwards, surely? ;)
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Didn't you read my post?:p

(It was a serious post, problem is I can't for the life of me remember what it is called so can't provide a link.:o)

If gravity was the same everywhere on earth you're right, water would be evenly distributed. The problem is due to the underlying topography (bathymetry) and underlying rock/material, gravity is not a constant 9.8m/s everywhere on earth (actually nowhere near) so water will create hills and valleys above the high and low points.
 
I've swum in the Dead Sea, which is the lowest place on Earth that you can swim, so anything is 'up' from there.

I say 'swum', but I really mean floated.

I say 'floated', but I really mean sat on.
 
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