American Reacts Why is North up?

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[@maxwinchester6076]

To expand on the oriental being east thing... Oriental = East; Boreal = North; Austral = South (Australia being "Southern Land") and Occidental = West.

[@MaryCeleste86]

Why is Austria Österreich ('eastern realm') then? It has to do with the sun, which is golden. Sun rises in the east, and in the northern hemisphere, moves to the south. Compare with the chemical name of gold, Au, from 'aurum', meaning gold.

[@davidareeves]

Aside to the flipping of Blue Marble, NASA has always made pictures colour corrected to pleasing the viewers, instead of what it actually looks like ;)

[@N3bulA_]

I believe the one shown in this video is the non colour-edited version, but i might be wrong

[@atrus3823]

It's crazy how much stuff isn't from Europe that is now generally considered a major part of European culture: wheat, cow dairy, tea, coffee, chocolate, tomatoes, potatoes, garlic, pepper, cinnamon... the list goes on.

[@Thisandthat8908]

arguably even more stuff is in America that is originally from Europe.

[@atrus3823]

@@Thisandthat8908 I think you missed the point. Most of the stuff I listed wasn't from America, and a lot of the stuff from Europe that is now in America was from somewhere else (e.g., China, Africa, the Middle East).

[@Baiko]

Wheat and dairy are weird inclusions in the list. The other stuff is fairly recent (apart from garlic maybe), but wheat was already cultivated in Europe in 5000 BC so it has been Europe for longer than any current European culture, and cow dairy was likely discovered in North Europe independently of its use in Turkey and Mesopotamia, but in any case it was already used in similar times as wheat.

[@someguysomeone3543]

By that logic all people aren't from their respective continents but african.

[@atrus3823]

​@@Baikosure, I'll give you the dairy one. For wheat, I don't really see how something happening longer ago matters. Different products/technologies migrated at all different times When did the current culture start? Culture evolves over time. It doesn't have a starting point.

[@stirlingmoss4621]

the Universe has no up or down, it is a contrivance for ourconvenience.

[@user-xi6nk4xs4s]

Too bad they didn't mention the advantages of a standard. Some people seem to have trouble finding anything on a map, even with the North-Up being standard.

[@ClassicWorld19]

I don't just like their perspective but yours, too, Connor! :D

[@saberint]

Just to put a twist on this, the Chinese name is correct. What we know as the magnetic north, is actually the magnetic south. The north needle on a compass points to the strongest magnetic field with is south🙂🙃

[@nigelmcconnell1909]

I think you would hear more objections to the picture of Earth not being flat, rather than it being upside down

[@Thisandthat8908]

Mr. Schmitt who likely made the blue Marble photo (a whole series of them for metereology reasons), might have just floated upside down. Or the spacecraft have. Or the Galaxy. There is no right or wrong. And since the Earth is tilted 25° compared with the orbit of the planets (and itself), It's neither north or south pole being on top. Not sure if the original orientation of the photo accounted for that. Antarctica is quite big so even 25° off, it might still be on top. Btw on the cruise to the moon the spacecraft was "standing" upside down, vertically to the ecliptic, and rotated for equal sun heating (PTC). But of course the Astronaut has no obligation to do the same INSIDE the spaceraft when taking a photo. So still no proof he did. With the Windows being all tiny and skewed he probably wasn't. Also the photo was taken very early so they might not have been in "Barbeque mode" at that point. Nasa would know th orientation of the spacecraft, at that timestamp but not his. But it's quite possible they decided on the orientation based on that.

[@jimdaw65]

I'm embarrassed that I never got the connection between "orienteering" and "looking to the East". I feel a bit stupid now :-)

[@grahamsangster1042]

We have a lot blackcurrant flavour sweets and juice,supposedly a lot of your fellow americans have never heard of it

[@tommyxbones5126]

They go for black grape in USA

[@robertharris8912]

Ok, I'm going to add something else that might blow your conception of what is North.... * If you place two north pole magnet ends together they repel. We know that. * If you place a north and a south pole together they attract, right? * So, consider why does the north pole end of a compass points North? Does that mean the compass/magnet point is wrong, and they are actually south poles (or North seeking poles)? Or that what we think the direction of North is actually South? Just a thought for you.

[@N3bulA_]

I'm a bit late, but I believe that the GEOGRAPHIC north pole is actually the MAGNETIC south pole (obviously there was no way of knowing this when the compass was first invented). That's what I've learnt, I might be wrong.

[@rwlynch3468]

What is the map at 1.50?

[@williamwhitty7243]

recognised liverpool even upside down

[@oufc90]

I wonder if Leyton Orient Football Club are named Orient because they’re in East London?

[@MisterChrisInTheUK]

The Orient part comes from many of their early players working for the Orient Shipping Company, which later became the 'O' in 'P&O', so although it does indeed come from 'east' it is the Far East rather than east London.

[@oufc90]

@@MisterChrisInTheUK ah I see, interesting! Cheers 🙂

[@GroovingPict]

yeah, lower Egypt is lower Egypt not because it is lower down on a south-at-the-top map, but because it's literally lower down. Altitude-wise. Not sure why both map-men let that one slip through without double checking

[@lyndarichardson4744]

Isn't it 'Oop North? !

[@Andy-et2qh]

Bit of a cheek to release your review on the same day they released the original

[@carolinekofahl8867]

No potatoes, tomatoes, or turkey limits the cooking 🤔😊

[@marvintpandroid2213]

Turnips

[@stephenlee5929]

Boiled Beef and Carrots.

[@AndrewwarrenAndrew]

yep, no turkey burgers with chips and ketchup

[@Baiko]

It's also interesting that Asia didn't have the chili pepper before the age of exploration either, and it came in the long way, through Europe.

[@gmdhargreaves]

Mate your comment @4:06 left me GOB SMACKED,! I was so sure before this vidya that you went to school but it appears not or you are talking to your American followers, in Europe we have education that teaches us this(at least in England) these basics at like 6 years old. Come on please…really??!!

[@jonashansson2320]

So you are saying that nothing you learn in school can ever be interresting? Come on please…really??!!

[@stephenlee5929]

If we went for East at the top? where would be Eastest, so at the top?

[@oufc90]

Japan I guess?

[@oufc90]

Although obviously it depends on what the map is chosen to be centred around

[@maozedong8370]

East ends at the international dateline before west begins so if you want to apply the same parameters to what the furthest east place would be on a oriented map, Kiribati would be right at the top of the map along with other islands in the Pacific. However, that is assuming all of our other current cartographic measures remain in place like the same international date line, same longitude and latitude as well as prime meridian.

[@donaldb1]

In old European maps Jerusalem was always at the top.

[@stephenlee5929]

@@maozedong8370 Ehm, Yes I had a think, maybe using 0 Longitude as effectively the equator and using the Equator as centralising left/right might make sense, The international dateline might be an issue as Cooke Islands would be at the bottom with Kiribati Line Island at the top. I'm guessing we would have to change the top/ bottom edges in a similar way to the current Mercator projection does to the poles.

[@enemde3025]

How does any of this work if the World is , in fact, FLAT !?

[@tacfoley4443]

Uhuh.......................................

[@maxkozak9702]

That’s a joke. I don’t know if it’s a funny joke or not.

[@williambranch4283]

Ancient Egypt put the S at the top. Medieval European maps put the E at the top.

[@lukespooky]

yeah we watched the video mate

[@trailerman2]

Well that was a load of tripe 🤨😂😂

[@RighAlban]

If it didn't start until the 1400's then why were vikings called northmen?

[@donaldb1]

They had North before 1400, they just didn't put it at the top of their maps.

[@garyrigby21]

Say up north be up north ha ha ha!!

[@papalaz4444244]

North and South is the Earth's axis of rotation. East and West are the equator. This video is fairly idiotic.

[@sirrodneyffing1]

Think Europe is just like the US but a bit different? just watch this: "Участь президентського подружжя в обіді від імені Гітанаса Наусєди з нагоди проведення Саміту НАТО"

[@JohnSmith-do3ek]

This has always been a problem, how do you make a world map fro a globe with the right scale to be represented on the common 2 dimensional scale that we see in our classrooms. You cannot flatten a globe, the representing countries is inaccurate and not to scale. Some coumtries are shown

[@magnusnilsson9792]

Just put a globe in the classroom, computer screens ought to soon become globe shaped.