Anytime I feel like blowing my own mind, especially after eating PBJs while watching Jerry Springer, I think of the orientation of our planet we've all become familiar with and have accepted as the "true" view of the way things are. But really there is no "up" or "down". We traditionally think of the Arctic as being "North" and the Antarctic as being "South", but it's all relative. We're floating in space. You can look at the ground, the sky, but once your far enough away that all seems less and less relevant. Everything radiates from the Earth's core and therefore when viewed from afar anywhere can be the northernmost apex of the planet. This view of the Earth is just as correct and and true as any other view you could imagine. Earth itself is just hanging out in the middle of the vast void of space. Isn't that cool?
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You should read more about R. Buckminster Fuller's view of spaceship earth, misconceptions about the cartography of our planet he clarified in his dymaxion map and further problems of symmetry in space known as the Ozma problem. I of course can provide you with reading material. Start with fuller's Education Automation!
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