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On the contrary, it makes the most sense to place some point of the equator on top, so that you can rotate to look at any part of the globe you want, surely?
by xvedejas 6y ago
On the contrary, it makes the most sense to place some point of the equator on top, so that you can rotate to look at any part of the globe you want, surely?
- slavik81 6y agoIt's a lot easier to add the rest of the solar system if it rotates around the Earth horizontally, and you need that to explain the day/night cycle, seasons and tides.
- samatman 6y agoCall me weird if you must, but I would prefer a globe rotate in the same fashion as the planet does: around the poles.
- mkl 6y agoThat's perfectly compatible with the poles being on the sides and the equator being on a vertical plane. In fact, many globes can be tilted to this position and the main rotation still happens around the poles.
- thaumasiotes 6y agoThey all do, but you can have more than one dimension of rotation. Look at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B085K2ZPWB/ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B085K2ZPWB/ . You're still free to spin the earth backwards, though.
- iso1631 6y agoInteresting, so a globe on a 90 degree axial tilt rather than a 23 degree one. I'm sure I've seen such (either fixed at 90 degees or variable from 0-90 degrees), but I can't see any after a quick browser online.