• Provoked Gamer@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Kind of unrelated, but the fact that that picture was taken upside down reminds me that north didn’t have to be at the top of our maps. We could’ve made south the top and our maps would look upside-down but the map would work the same. Same with making east or west the top.

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      1 year ago

      It being ‘upside down’ makes this photo so much better!

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        1 year ago

        Ya! “Upside down” doesn’t really exist because down doesn’t exist. What we think of as “down” is just where the Earth’s gravity is pulling us from. “Down” doesn’t exist in space. It does make the photo better!