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The earth's axis points any direction you want it to.

While for convention's sake we have a "north" pole (which points roughly twoard the star Polaris) and a "south" pole (which points roughly twoard a patch of thick dust in the one of the spiral arms), these directions are effectively meaningless. There is no north, south, east or west once you are no longer on the Earth's surface and up, down, left, right, only have meaning in relation to some other thing (the glass is to the left of the plate), and generally requiring some sort of gravitational field (for up/down).

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