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For anyone having trouble understanding why this won’t take off, imagine if where you live, we called down “up” and up “down”, because on the other side of the
by ironmagma 5y ago
For anyone having trouble understanding why this won’t take off, imagine if where you live, we called down “up” and up “down”, because on the other side of the world, up was called up and that’s the opposite of our down, but we want to remain globally consistent.
What possible kind of utility would this serve? And how much pain would it cause?
- geoduck14 5y agoWe DO have compasses with a "North" and "South" heading. And they are pretty useful sometimes.
- ironmagma 5y agoRight, and those mean something already in a global sense. Nothing is being redefined there, changing it from a local coordinate system into a global coordinate system. Time is a local coordinate.