On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Paul Tierney wrote:
> >Up and down are only relative (but relative to what ?) - I like to think of
> >us being on top and you lot below.
>
> If you're on top in Oz then to mainitain the sequence of the sun rising in
> the east and setting in the west, the onward march of the seasons etc, you
> are going to have to reverse the rotation of the Earth on its axis and its
> direction of travel around the Sun.
No you won't: Southern hemisphere seasons have the same sequence as
Northern ones, just 6 months out of phase. Orbital direction makes no
difference. Reversing the earth's rotation on its axis is only
necessary if you want to redefine East & West so they look the same in
Oz as they do here.
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