i remember watching movies as a kid, even star trek, and wondering why you’d always see the planet earth from orbit with north america facing the camera shot

the explanation was trivial, we all know why, but it still made me sad as a kid that i didn’t get to see other continents from orbit.

there was one young adult novel i read later which talked about extra terrestrials landing on earth in tasmania, australia, because they thought the south pole was the right side up, i thought that was awesome

normalise seeing the earth from other perspectives than north america! other continents are beautiful!