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Why aren't people at the South Pole upside down?
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I know this question has been asked loads and loads.
But how come??
Just imagine the Earth is a football for a second and an ant is crawling at the bottom end of the ball, (same place where the South Pole is), the ant would clearly be sticking to the bottom with its legs, and would appear upside down.
Well it wouldn't just appear IT WOULD be upside down.
How come say you went to the South Pole you wouldnt feel upside down?
But how come??
Just imagine the Earth is a football for a second and an ant is crawling at the bottom end of the ball, (same place where the South Pole is), the ant would clearly be sticking to the bottom with its legs, and would appear upside down.
Well it wouldn't just appear IT WOULD be upside down.
How come say you went to the South Pole you wouldnt feel upside down?
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Gravity pulls towards the centre of the football...err... planet, and wherever you stand on it, down is always towards the surface.
If you did "feel upside down", you'd fall off the world... which of course doesn't happen due to gravity.
They are !
So they really are upside down.
And, the blood doesn't rush to their head because gravity pulls the blood back down their feet?
Oh I see!!!
I sort of thought it was to do with gravity but wasnt completely certain.
Also if the world just stopped spinning suddenly, would we all fall off??
Exactly! This would obviously mean the southern hemisphere brain is located in the feet. They also have tiny "suckers" on their feet to keep them from floating into space .
Not necescarily. That'd depend on what else was the cause of the earth stopping.
LOL -- I can't grasp it though thinking about it..
But there heads are pointing downwards though!!! :eek:
Just say it just stopped like some brakes went on.
Australia and New Zealand are approximately the antipodes of the UK.
But we all feel gravity pulling us towards the centre of the earth, so nobody FEELS upside down.
Unless you are pissed of course, in which case who cares.
To an outsider looking at the globe with the North Pole at the top, we would look as if we were standing at an angle, and peolpe at the equatro would look like the were standing sideways.
Therfore no one is upside down. I think i am right in saying its because of the position of the moon and the face that people in the northern hemisphere started mapping, and so we are 'upright'.
What? Gravity is caused by mass, not rotation.
LOL - I was really listening in science wasn't I?
Sorry I was getting centrugation mixed up with gravity.
Ooh now I heave learnt why Jupiter has real strong gravity, is it because it has a larger mass?
It makes our whole solar system look like a little speck!!
up and down have no overall meaning in the universe. it all depends on the local gravitational field.
Gravity has very little to do with it, just perspective.
To 'dangle' downwards you need the gravitational force acting on you to pull you from toe to head and as the gravitational pull comes from the centre of the planet nobody is being pulled from other ways.