A ship sails from north pole to south. when it reach at south its flag is still looking up rather down why?

Question

It is assumed that north pole is the top of our earth and south pole is the bottom. If so, the ship starts from north and sails to sout and when it reach at south its flag should be pointing to downwards.(Imagine a globe) Is this mean that our knowledge about directions are limited when looking from the space? Is the concept of directions (east, west, sout, north) limited to earth? Indian astrology says there have 16 directions in the space is it true?

Answer 1

Relativity aside, the simple answer is, you are at the south pole, the flag is at the south pole. You are facing the flag. You are upside-down too. Question answered.

Answer 2

A simple answer is that there is no up or down on earth the way you seem to understand. Everything is relative to sky above or the sun. Would you like to believe that Australians are walking tilted, as they are beyond Equator and closer to the South Pole than the North Pole?

Directions any where are relative, but everybody by consensus should follow the same

Indian astrology did not know anything about Neptune or Pluto, neither the Theory of Relativity

Answer 3

It is not correct to assume that the north pole is the top of the Earth. That is just a map making convention. On Earth, down is toward the center of the planet. In space there is no up or down. This "no up or down" statement about space was often repeated in the early days of space flight but does not get much press these days. As to there being 16 directions in space, I say there are an infinite number of directions, whether you are in space or on Earth, but you may consider 16 of them as special in some way if you like.

Answer 4

The others have answered this question adequately. The only problem with question is that a ship could not sail to the south pole because the south pole is land locked on the continent of Antarctica.

As far as the directions. There can be as many directions that you like depending on how you separate the units in a circle. Such as 360 degrees ar 6400 mils.

Answer 5

We are tied to the earth by gravity, and gravity would require quite a complex explanation. At either the north, or south poles you would experience the same sensation of up and down that you would at the equator. The earth is round. You may want to study cartography, and the graticule. It seems to me that the round earth's projections on a flat surface may be of interest to you.

Answer 6

u should know that the 'concept' of space is relative and not absolute, this means that ur observation of objects in space would be different according to your relative position, so if u look to the earth from the outer space u should see the flag points downwards, but if u r standing at the surface of the earth, the flag will always points upwars unless u stand on ur head :) see, everything is relative in this universe, just ask Newton and Einstien.

Answer 7

Go to a pole or a lamp post. Tie your hands with a rope to the lamp post. Walk half a circle around the lamp post with your hands pointing toward the pole. At the end of the walk, you back is still pointing outwards. Why?

This answers ur q.

Answer 8

I guess if you took a cube there are 6 directions for each face, plus another 8 for the corners, then 2 for time. There you have it - 16 directions.

Answer 9

Everything we see is in relation to somthing. in relation to earth we have those directions explained. And also in relation to the milkyway, you can define the same directions and, that can be the opposites of what you defined on earth. It's all relative when it comes to directions(and most other things in physics too). so dont be confused. if you consider earth, you know the directions.

Answer 10

Gravity keeps us stick to earth be it north or south.
Yes, Indian astrology has all the true answers.