Lord Cochrane, on 10 July 2012 - 02:29 AM, said:
No we're not, since the northern hemisphere is heavier due to all that land mass and people and stuff and we all know that the heavy side of a ball always rolls to the bottom.
Therefore the southern hemisphere is actually on top and so we southerners are up the right way and all the northerners are upside down.
Look at that science in action.
Well, if you suspend a magnet, the north pole of the magnet points to the north magnetic pole and the south pole of the magnet points to the south magnetic pole of the earth.
The whole...
compass thing.
So we can conclude that the 'north magnetic pole' is actually
south, because unlike poles attract, and the north pole of a magnet/compass is attracted to the north magnetic pole.
Therefore, those in the south are right side up, and those in the north are upside down,
if north is taken as up.
In actuality up is any radial line drawn from the centroid of mass of the earth, so the only person who is truly upside down has his head pointing towards the centroid of mass of the earth. However, that wouldn't be as fun to talk about.