4th November 2018, 9:59 AM
The Nightly Show, before it was cancelled, also had the map reversed. Neil DeGrasse Tyson was a big fan of that for letting people see things from a different point of view. I mean, it's either going to be north OR south on the top due to geo-physics not really providing any other good way to orient a map, but which of those two is arbitrary.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)