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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-...

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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?