The south pole is the top of the planet. Globes were first layed out with convex lenses makeing the drawings up side down, with the north star as a referance. All the work would be lost and started over, so it was easier to call the north pole the top since it made only small differances. You would be pointing up if on the south pole, but only with referance. There is no up or down that we have learned of so far.True or false? Your true inner thoughts.
2006-09-30 00:00:08 · 23 answers · asked by wonderingallthetime 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Geography
Up. The sky is up. The earth is down.
2006-09-30 00:02:11 · answer #1 · answered by ssbn598 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If you were standing on the south pole, point at the sky, you would be, from YOUR perspective, be pointing up.
If you were standing on the north pole watching (somehow) somebody point towards the sky from the south pole, then they would be pointing down from your perspective.
It's all relative, you can look at it from several different perspectives and each perspective can hold a different answer or element to the problem. Down is a relative vector, as is up. It's a direction that can always change. And it is only two dimensional. We have down left right up, but that is thinking two dimensionally, and we live in a three dimensional universe. So it gets complicated describing 3 dimensions with 2 dimensional words.
2006-09-30 07:10:53 · answer #2 · answered by mattomynameo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are standing on any point on the surface of the earth, it doesn't matter where, and you point straight over your head, you would be pointing up. That is from your own viewpoint. If someone was looking at a photograph of the earth, with the north pole at the top, and you at the bottom pointing straight over your head, you would be pointing down. That is the viewer's viewpoint. Up or down always depends on a viewpoint.
2006-09-30 20:37:32 · answer #3 · answered by galacticsleigh 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You would be pointing SW since the earth is tilted. You can make it simplify it by saying your pointing down on a large scale and pointing up to the sky on the south pole. In all in you were at the southpole pointing to the you would be pointing SW on the largest and most difficult scale.
2006-09-30 19:01:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
From your standing point, i.e., the south pole you would be pointing down. But if you were looking at the earth from somewhere else in the universe, the person at the south pole would definitely be pointing down.
2006-09-30 07:12:38 · answer #5 · answered by Martinha 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At any point on earth, a human will always find earth to be strech of vast horizontal land. So irrespective of equator, north / south pole, we shall never be up or down, we shall feel we are at any other place on earth and there shall be surface on all he oher sides.
There shall be no Up or Down, Up shall still be the sky and down shall still be Water / land
2006-09-30 07:13:04 · answer #6 · answered by dickwettingtown 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Up!! And if you built a house directly on top of the south pole ... all walls would face north
2006-09-30 17:12:57 · answer #7 · answered by wadenovakovski 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Up and down are really references to gravitational force. Down is were gravity pulls you the strongest. That's why people have such trouble in space. So as long as you are on earth, if you are pointing at the sky you are pointing up.
2006-09-30 14:08:34 · answer #8 · answered by Jamie Lee 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
up
any where in the world when you point at the sky its up. because of gravity to us the center of the earth is down and the sky is up
2006-09-30 07:30:21 · answer #9 · answered by nathan m 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, if you were pointing down, you would be pointing at your feet. So, it doesn't sound logical that you would be pointing down at the sky.
2006-10-04 05:22:35 · answer #10 · answered by ElOsoBravo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋