Brooms Standing Up After Eclipse

Got home the day after the eclipse and the wife told me there was a bunch of photos on facebook of people standing brooms up due to something wonkie with the gravity.

Brooms standing up after eclipse.

The same brooms standing on end today will stand on end a week from now a month from now or four months from now regardless of the positioning of the planets. But the truth is you can make a broom stand upright today and tomorrow and the day after and the day after that. Well apparently it s happening all over. The broom standing up challenge has gone very very viral.

Broomchallenge brooms nasa harry potter theme song ost. The gravitational pull was off balance because of the lunar eclipse last night. And no i don t have any ghosts in my house at least not any cleaning ghosts. If you ve already tried this rest assured that you re not alone.

Millions of people seem to care more about standing up brooms than serious issues such as global warming and politics. It also has nothing to do with the vernal equinox another day of the year when this magic supposedly happens. 10 was the one and only day when a broom could stand up without. Take any flat bottomed broom it can be angled or straight with relatively stiff bristles and stand it up so that the bottom is flat on.

Yesterday a tweet quickly went viral claiming that nasa declared february 10 the only day a broom can stand up on its own because of the gravitational pull cue a plethora of twitter users pulling off magic tricks in the middle of their kitchens by making a broom stand up by itself. It s simply the latest resurgence of an old myth helped along on monday with a tweet purporting that nasa had proclaimed that feb. Tons of tweets and posts on facebook prove brooms and even eggs are standing. The tweet which has received over 250 000 likes at the time of this post inspired thousands to upload their own videos of broom balancing acts.

Okay so nasa said today was the only day a broom can stand up on its own because of the gravitational pull twitter user mikaiylaaaaa wrote accompanying a video of herself balancing a broom. Brooms are standing up on their own today. Broom stick standing up duration. It has nothing to do with the earth s gravitational pull on a certain day.

Claims that nasa said february 10 is the only day you could make a broom balance are completely false.