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Orion113 t1_j5wsvw5 wrote

Reply to comment by lifesyndrome in If you were in space facing Antartica and you flew towards it, gravity-wise would you be going up or down? by lifesyndrome

There is no up in space. Every direction is the same. Superman could be staring at the Earth from space, and flip his whole body around so that Antarctica is "on top" of the Earth, and then fly "down" to it. Or he could flip 90 degrees so Antarctica is "on the side" of the Earth, and fly straight into it.

That Antarctica is placed at the bottom of every map and globe is completely arbitrary, it's not because it's actually up, down, left, or right. It's just there.

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