top | item 36423087 (no title) stephenboyd | 2 years 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-... discuss order hn newest trhfhxggf|2 years 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. ubermonkey|2 years ago Kinda? It's still arbitrary which one we think of as "up" and which we think of as "down," though, right?
trhfhxggf|2 years 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. ubermonkey|2 years ago Kinda? It's still arbitrary which one we think of as "up" and which we think of as "down," though, right?
ubermonkey|2 years ago Kinda? It's still arbitrary which one we think of as "up" and which we think of as "down," though, right?
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