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Unexpected Enders game quote, love it.

no no no

I'm saying (in a child's mind lol) if u were superman

and went to space and looked at the bottom of the earth(Antartica) and flew TOWARDS IT....are you flying up...or down?

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that's what I was asking

but I got the answer now

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I'm confused, did you think people fall into space at the south pole?

Gravity has no up or down in a concrete sense. Whatever side of the globe you're on when you re-enter the atmosphere is going to be facing "up" and you'll be flying "down" towards the surface and the pull of gravity.

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That gave me chills.. Can't imagine how it impacted all of you.

My friend, I sincerely need you to draw a diagram or something, because I really want to know what you're trying to say.

In most simple terms, "down" is the gravitational pull straight line from where you are straight to the core of the Earth. It doesn't matter if you're directly over Spain, Florida, or Antarctica. The Northern or Southern poles don't matter for "down" .. If you took a helicopter and flew directly over the South pole, and jumped out right when you were over it, how do you think you would fall?

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Up and down are subjective. Your question doesn't make sense.

There’s not really directions in space, only forward and backward. All perspectives/orientations would feel the same

Depends on Newton’s or Einstein’s rules of physics. Newton says you’d be “falling,” while Einstein would say that the Earth is rising up to meet you while being constantly warped by the time-space continuum.

See, it the “up” part in the first sentence you have all wrong. There is no up. Showing the earth with the North Pole as up is merely convention. It would be just as correct to flip it over and have the South Pole at the top (as viewed while standing on earth). We put the solar system “flat” with the planets orbiting in the direction they do only as convention, there is no up or down in the absence of gravity.

Think of it like this. Up is always pointing away from the center of earth. Down is always pointing towards the center.

AHHHHH ok I see

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In space, whether you're Superman or not, there is no UP.

Assuming that there is a designated direction that you can label as "up" in space, is what's causing your confusion. That assumption is incorrect.

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There is no up in space. Every direction is the same. Superman could be staring at the Earth from space, and flip his whole body around so that Antarctica is "on top" of the Earth, and then fly "down" to it. Or he could flip 90 degrees so Antarctica is "on the side" of the Earth, and fly straight into it.

That Antarctica is placed at the bottom of every map and globe is completely arbitrary, it's not because it's actually up, down, left, or right. It's just there.

How would you be flying down towards land when you’re flying away from earth? Try thinking outward instead of “Up”

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“Remember, the enemy’s gate is down”

There’s no up and down, except in relation to the observer.

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with respect to gravity there is no "bottom of earth"