The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #59418 Message #3912454
Posted By: Rapparee
22-Mar-18 - 10:40 AM
Thread Name: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Because of its geography, rain DOES fall "up" (as does everything else) in places in the Southern Hemisphere (like Australia and New Zealand). This is not embarrassing for ladies in skirts or men in kilts, because the gravity there is also reversed. Newton's classic "FG = Gm1m2/r2 uses both negative and imaginary numbers below the Equator. That is why Tuvalu has already established colonies on the Moon, Mars, and several asteroids, as the escape velocity there is negative ("falling upwards").
To answer DtG's original question, we in the North are "under the weather" of the South.