{"id":17666,"date":"2020-08-08T12:36:24","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T12:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=17666"},"modified":"2020-08-08T12:36:24","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T12:36:24","slug":"new-comment-on-reddit-1738","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=17666","title":{"rendered":"New comment on reddit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"md\">\n<p>The short version is \u201dgravity\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The longer version is the concept of spherical geometry and antipodes <\/p>\n<p>Given a massive enough body (like the earth), at any given point on the surface will feel \u201dup\u201d because \u201ddown\u201d is relative to the direction gravity pulls <\/p>\n<p>An antipode is the \u201dsame\u201d position on a spherical object as yourself, but with the coordinates reversed (eg the position 100E 50N has it&#39;s antipode at 100W 50S &#8211; literally the opposite side of the planet)<\/p>\n<p>The only reason you feel north mist be \u201dup\u201d is because most maps are published with a northern-hemisphere-biased orientation (due to the fact that most of earth\u2019s population lives in the northern hemisphere (indeed, most of earth\u2019s habitable land surface area is in the northern hemisphere (along with most of the landmass at all)))<\/p>\n<p>the southern hemisphere could just as easily be considered \u201dup\u201d &#8211; there&#39;s no physical, geometric, geographic, or mathematical reason for it <em>not<\/em> to be: except convention<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>August 08, 2020 at 08:28AM<br \/>\nvia reddit https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/explainlikeimfive\/comments\/i5y7f5\/eli5_how_are_people_not_upside_down_when_they_go\/g0s7q62?utm_source=ifttt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The short version is \u201dgravity\u201d The longer version is the concept of spherical geometry and antipodes Given a massive enough body (like the earth), at any given point on the surface will feel \u201dup\u201d because \u201ddown\u201d is relative to the direction gravity pulls An antipode is the \u201dsame\u201d position on a spherical object as yourself, &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=17666\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New comment on reddit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[972],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-17666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-reddit"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17667,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17666\/revisions\/17667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17666"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=17666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}