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Why is north not straight up?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

North is used as a direction, like left or right. not up or down. In truth, the north pole is not really "above" us. this is simply because "up" a direction that is used to describe the direction away from the earth and into the sky no matter where you are on any planet. Up is relative, but north, south, east, and west are the same everywhere. To sum it up, Anywhere north of you isn't in the sky because it's not up, but the clouds are up because they are in the sky. If they were any direction on the compass, the would completely surround us every day.

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