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denim · 05-16-2003, 05:43 AM

You're perfectly welcome to turn your globe with "south" pointing "up" if you like. The world's a spheroid in a place with no up or down, just relative directions: it doesn't matter. I guess you could say that it's a convention, but it's arbitrary.

05-16-2003, 05:43 AM	#7 (permalink)
denim Banned Location: Massachusetts, USA	You're perfectly welcome to turn your globe with "south" pointing "up" if you like. The world's a spheroid in a place with no up or down, just relative directions: it doesn't matter. I guess you could say that it's a convention, but it's arbitrary.