Conservation of angular momentum means that the top will stay in the same orientation it was started in while spinning, which is not necessarily upright. Gyroscopes for instance can be started at an angle of 45o to the ground and will remain at that angle as long as they keep spinning.
Implosion
if you look at a video and the North Pole is at the top, the Earth would appear to move from left to the right (the Pacific Ocean would first appear on the left side then rotate across and disappear on the right)
When a top spins, there is a little bit of work being done: The top attempts to maintiain a conservation of angular momentum, which is why as the top slows, it tends to wander more and more across the table.
The Earth spins like a top around its own axis. The Earth orbits the Sun. The Sun has its own proper motion through the Milky Way galaxy, and orbits the center of the galaxy every 220 million years or so. The Milky Way galaxy itself is moving, but because we don't have any fixed point of reference in the universe, we don't know in what direction.
Essentially, yes.
Rotation
The Pulley has a wheel and spins at the top
the top and bottom flattens out
A top as an object is a balanced object that spins on its point. Many people play games where they see how long they can get it to spin.
There is a retaining ring that spins on and off. There is a retaining ring that spins on and off. There is a retaining ring that spins on and off.
When a planet spins on its axis it is said to rotate. (Think of a top.)
okay, the directions are: top top top top right right right right down right right top right top right right and giratina should be right there