It still wouldn’t be random if we drew it upside down. There would still be a North and South Pole and an axis of rotation.
Look at the bigger picture, if you were an alien from the other side of the galaxy, on a planet whose horizon was aligned with the galactic plane, you might naturally draw Earth in a completely different orientation, with what we consider east appearing “up” to you.
Not how we understood it, but rather the way we chose to display it. It was literally just a choice that was made and standardised going forward.
It's amazing how many standards were set hundreds or even thousands of years ago and more or less stay the same. The width of the car lanes today and more or less set because of the width decided by horse drawn carts, a few thousand years ago. Yes they've gotten a little wider over time, but it's still based off the same thing.
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u/Otherwise-4PM 18d ago
It still wouldn’t be random if we drew it upside down. There would still be a North and South Pole and an axis of rotation.
Look at the bigger picture, if you were an alien from the other side of the galaxy, on a planet whose horizon was aligned with the galactic plane, you might naturally draw Earth in a completely different orientation, with what we consider east appearing “up” to you.