Monday, February 18, 2008

Blind to the Most Obvious Things

For someone who travels from the Southern Hemisphere to the Northern and vice-versa, I'm sure this little factoid is obvious:

Those people looking up at the moon from the Southern Hemisphere see a moon that is upside-down from that which the Northern Hemisphere observers see.

For someone who doesn't have this travel experience, it just highlights how greatly experience can color our understandings.

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