In related news, I was studying engineering when they were building the CN
Tower in Toronto. The main part of the tower was built by pouring concrete
into a form that was raised as the concrete set.

We were told that they had to apply torque to the form to counteract the
coriolis force and prevent the tower from taking on a corkscrew shape.

Do you think our professors were lying to us gullible first year engineering
students, or would the coriolis force result in a twist to the tower given
the year or so that concrete pouring was going on?

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