Out of Africa's midlife crisis

Re:Out of Africa's midlife crisis by api on Thursday July 08, 2021 @10:59AM (#27772792)

There is no top of the map since there is no objective frame of reference in space. The axis on which the Earth spins relative to its orbit is a point of orientation but which side is the "top" is arbitrary.

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Re:Out of Africa's midlife crisis by fallingknife on Thursday July 08, 2021 @11:02AM (#27772831)

Yes, everybody knows that, and if someone asks me where Greenland is on a map, I will say "at the top" like a normal person.

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Re:Out of Africa's midlife crisis by api on Thursday July 08, 2021 @11:08AM (#27772927)

You don't reference the galactic orientation by reference to the nearest superclusters? Pleb.

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Re:Out of Africa's midlife crisis by nerfbatplz on Thursday July 08, 2021 @11:42AM (#27773447)

The enemy's gate is down

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Re:Out of Africa's midlife crisis by BitwiseFool on Thursday July 08, 2021 @12:28PM (#27774268)

>"top" is arbitrary"

Sure, but at the end of the day you've got to pick a frame of reference and people have settled on North being the 'top'. You can draw a map that ignores this convention and still have it be valid but you're going to confuse a lot of people.

For what it's worth there's more landmass and population in the Northern Hemisphere so make of that what you will.

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