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by stephenboyd 1098 days 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 1098 days 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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ubermonkey 1098 days 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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