When a common lawn sprinkler is hooked to a suction, rather than a pressure source the conservation of angular momentum can be invoked to show that no rotation will result. A recently reported experiment leading to a different conclusion is not the equivalent of simply changing from a fluid exhaust to a fluid intake.
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1986
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