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It isn't just the projections that distort our perception. North being up and south being down is so ubiquitous that it seems like Earth (and the Solar System)
by stephenboyd 3y ago
It isn't just the projections that distort our perception. North being up and south being down is so ubiquitous that it seems like Earth (and the Solar System) has a top side and a bottom side. But that's just a convention.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160614-maps-have-north-at-the-top-but-it-couldve-been-different https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160614-maps-have-north-...
- trhfhxggf 3y agoWell, if you define up and down as the axis perpendicular to the ecliptic, there is an up and down in the solar system.
- ubermonkey 3y agoKinda? It's still arbitrary which one we think of as "up" and which we think of as "down," though, right?