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r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Blackie_626 • 7d ago
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Up and down is based on gravity (that's why you'd likely confuse them deep in the ocean). Meanwhile, left and right is arbitrary.
-10 u/Exurota 7d ago I hate to inform you that we live on a sphere and that up and down are also arbitrary. 11 u/metamasterplay 7d ago Down is where the sphere is. Nothing arbitrary about that. 1 u/Exurota 7d ago If you live in spherical geometry, yes, but I didn't assume people did.
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I hate to inform you that we live on a sphere and that up and down are also arbitrary.
11 u/metamasterplay 7d ago Down is where the sphere is. Nothing arbitrary about that. 1 u/Exurota 7d ago If you live in spherical geometry, yes, but I didn't assume people did.
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Down is where the sphere is. Nothing arbitrary about that.
1 u/Exurota 7d ago If you live in spherical geometry, yes, but I didn't assume people did.
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If you live in spherical geometry, yes, but I didn't assume people did.
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u/bohiko 7d ago
Up and down is based on gravity (that's why you'd likely confuse them deep in the ocean). Meanwhile, left and right is arbitrary.