Eli5- Why isn’t everything upside down when your in the South Pole? How come we feel upright despite living in the globe earth?

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Sorry if this is an incredibly dumb question. I remember it having something to do with the size of earth and gravity?

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Gravitational pull works in the way that you’re pulled towards the center of a large mass. The large mass being Earth, you’d be pulled towards the center. So whether you’re standing in the South Pole, Australia, or a plane 50’000 feet in the air, you’ll feel as if you’re standing upright.

Even though technically there is no up/down, left/right as far as the universe is concerned.

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Down is the direction gravity is pulling you in, so on earth down is towards the center of the earth, the fact maps and globes normally have North at the top and south at the bottom is just a convention, you can turn them upside down and it’s just as accurate.