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[Hugo Miller]

That's an interesting take. The closest I've ever got to the souhern 
hemisphere is Key West. But I'm sure I would be thrown more by having 
the sun rising on the right and setting on the left. I don't think 
having the sun to the north would trouble me as much, since everything 
is 'upside down' in the Antipodes anyway.


On 2020-04-05 01:59, Colin via VirtualVairs wrote:
> Hugo's comment regarding the position of the sun in the southern 
> hemisphere
> is on the right track. But I can assure you all that the sun still 
> rises in
> the east and sets in the west.
>
> When I was at the Denver convention some years back, I wondered why I 
> was
> losing track of where I was. Then I realised it was related to the 
> position
> of the sun. For 60 plus years the sun had always been in the northern 
> half
> of the sky, but in Denver it was in the southern half of sky. Once 
> you get
> your sense of north and south back to front, you automatically get 
> east and
> west back to front, and you lose track of where you are.
>
> The GPS at the time was my saviour.
>
> Colin LYNN 28299
>
> Perth, Western Australia
>
>
>
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