> I think the thing I have the most basic, deep-down trouble with, regarding living in America, is the moon. It's upside-down, and that just isn't normal. I can get used to the different stars -- becoming familiar with new constellations is something you *expect* when changing hemispheres -- but seeing an upside-down moon in the sky is just completely disturbing. It's wrong. It's weird. It JUST IS NOT RIGHT, and although I'm not sure how this should happen, I feel strongly that something ought to be done about it.

I never knew that in the Southern Hemisphere that the moon appears to look "upside-down" to the Northern Hemisphere point of view. I don't quite understand how that is possible. I understand it a little bit, but not too much. Isn't it because of which direction we are looking at the moon from (Northern Hemisphere looks south at the moon, and Southern Hemisphere looks north at the moon)? If not, then what is the reason?

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> The strangest thing is that even though I know the idea of "the man in the moon" was originally a northern hemisphere concept, this never stopped me from seeing a smiley-face in the southern hemisphere moon. In fact, it looks FAR MORE like a smiley-face there than it does HERE, where the idea was invented. Try as I might, I can't make out a face in the moon here at all, and I can't figure out how anybody could have originally done so.
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> I can, however, see the Rabbit In The Moon very clearly indeed. As if it wasn't strange *enough* having to look at an upside-down moon, it has a giant cartoon bunny rabbit stuck to it. How disturbing.

I never have heard about the Rabbit in the Moon. I've never actually been able to find the Man. Now I have two things to try and find.

By the way, is there a such thing as a "South Star" in the Southern Hemisphere as like the North Star in the Northern Hemisphere?

~x~Band-"I can't even find the stupid North Star let alone anything else!!"Aids~x~