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trhfhxggf
3y ago
Well, if you define up and down as the axis perpendicular to the ecliptic, there is an up and down in the solar system.
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trhfhxggf
3y ago
It makes things further from the equator appear huge. There's no conspiracy or biases involved, unless of course you're proposing that the Mercator projection was developed to give Antarctica a false sense of superiority.
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3y ago
> It usually goes something like “wow, Country X is actually smaller than Country Y. This distorts our worldview and makes us think things we shouldn’t have thought. That’s terrible.” That's not less stupid than the other statement.