Re: Letf / Right, was Re: Count and mass nouns
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, January 22, 2004, 5:09 |
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On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 10:41:14PM -0600, Nik Taylor wrote:
> Which is an illogical question. Directions like north, south, east, and
> west are planetary conventions, and the only logical way to assign
> "east" is "the direction the sun rises", and work out the other
> directions accordingly.
Not necessarily. There is also a solar-system-wide "north", which
points out of the plane of the ecliptic in the same direction as the
Earth's North pole. If you use that as a basis, a couple planets rotate
east-to-west instead of west-to-east.
-Mark
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