From: niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid   
      
   On 2020-10-13 2:48, Alain Fournier wrote:   
   > On Oct/12/2020 at 13:34, Greg (Strider) Moore wrote :   
   >> "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.   
   >   
   > Personally I wouldn't say the Moon is high,   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_High_the_Moon   
      
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