From: mooregr@deletethisgreenms.com   
      
   "Alain Fournier"  wrote in message news:rm1mm4$12u$1@dont-email.me...   
   >   
   >On Oct/12/2020 at 09:15, Greg (Strider) Moore wrote :   
   >> "Dean Markley"  wrote in message   
   >> news:b3ba9dee-3b09-479a-86a8-4a5698b98222n@googlegroups.com...   
   >>>   
   >>> On Saturday, October 10, 2020 at 11:46:52 AM UTC-4, Alain Fournier   
   >>> wrote:   
   >>>> Imagine you are out one night and you see a plane flying over your   
   >>>> head.   
   >>>> Someone might note that it is 10 km high. Now imagine that exactly   
   >>>> behind the plane is the Andromeda galaxy. No one is going to say t hat   
   >>>> the galaxy is 2.5 million light years high, one would say it is 2.5   
   >>>> million light years away. Conversely, for the plane no one would say it   
   >>>> is 10 km away if it is directly over head. So at what point does   
   >>>> something cease to be up and starts to be far.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Now this might seem like being only semantics, and it is. But I think   
   >>>> that discussing this particular point of semantics sheds light on how   
   >>>> people perceive space. I have my own opinion on the matter but I will   
   >>>> give it only after others have given their opinion, because I don't   
   >>>> want   
   >>>> this thread to be about discussing my opinion. I want it to be about   
   >>>> seeing what are the different opinions out there.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Alain Fournier   
   >>> I suspect it is mostly human nature.  At least around here, we consider   
   >>> anything north of us to be "up" there.  Conversely, anything south is   
   >>> "down" there.  Being on the east coast, anything west is "out" there.   
   >>>   
   >>> Dean   
   >>   
   >> I suspect anything that's within Earth's atmosphere is "high" and even in   
   >> most cases, if it's within the gravitational influence "high" often   
   >> applies.   
   >> Beyond that I think it's "out there" or "away".   
   >   
   >So for you the moon is high not away?   
   >   
   >   
   >Alain Fournier   
      
   Like I said, "even in most cases". I've heard both.   
      
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