This seemed clever for a minute. Then I remembered that East and West don’t even generalize to a global scale, let alone an extraplanetary one, and it stopped seeming clever.
One can talk about points on Earth corresponding to the position of a celestial body—for example, the high tide being “directly under” the moon, or noon being “directly under” the sun.
If it is noon in California and high tide in New York, and you’re in Missouri, I think it makes sense to say you are east of the sun, west of the moon.
This seemed clever for a minute. Then I remembered that East and West don’t even generalize to a global scale, let alone an extraplanetary one, and it stopped seeming clever.
One can talk about points on Earth corresponding to the position of a celestial body—for example, the high tide being “directly under” the moon, or noon being “directly under” the sun.
If it is noon in California and high tide in New York, and you’re in Missouri, I think it makes sense to say you are east of the sun, west of the moon.
In other words, the plane that contains both you and the axis of the Earth divides the Universe into East and West. (Ignoring relativity)