if you think about it, since the earth rotates, the rest of the solar system does actually revolve (elliptically) around the earth if you change the frame of reference to consider the earth as stationary.
Edit: Forgot to mention on the North/South Pole
The Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service just released their annual report on international security and Estonia, which contains an insightful chapter on China (pages 70-78). The report is very straight forward in its assessment on the actions of the Chinese government and contains a number of important points.
Some quotes from the chapter:
"China's broader goal is to impose its worldview and standards, and through that build a Beijing-led international environment."
"China is attempting to reformulate the Western concept of human rights, which it reduces solely to the right to economic prosperity and a safe living environment."
"It is important to understand that, in the eyes of the CPC, decision-makers in other countries are only useful pawns to help implement CPC strategies."
"China has recently begun to export its vision more vigorously, harnessing its foreign missions. Since spring 2018, many Western countries have witnessed unprecedented levels of activity by Chinese missions, and this trend continued in 2019."
"Chinese foreign missions endorsed violence."
"The New Silk Road (#BRI), envisages strengthening #China’s power by establishing trade infrastructure in Asia & Africa, but also in Europe & South America. It is part of China’s strategy to become a global superpower that controls strategic trade channels and logistic nodes."
"Chinese investments aim to gain a lever for steering other countries’ policies in a suitable direction. Foreign investment is used to create dependency. It is a distinct possibility that China will use its close trade ties as a weapon when international relations deteriorate."
"The threat of Chinese technology is strategic and will be revealed in the long term. As one aspect of building its global influence, China creates dependencies in other countries step by step, over the long term."
It is rare to see such a blunt assessment of China's actions internationally from a national agency, the whole chapter is worth a read:
https://www.valisluureamet.ee/pdf/raport-2020-en.pdf
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>An example of use would be if humanity became an interstellar race. Though this doesn't have to be necessarily the only means of a need. The idea rose from a conversation on the flaws of the Gregorian calendar.
So there would be 360° in a day. If you think about it, this was essentially the driving principle behind sundials; measure the degrees a shadow moved around a circle throughout the day. So our current clock already is using ‘degrees’ in a sense, but with 24 large ones instead of 360 normal-sized degrees.
Each degree would be the equivalent of 4 minutes, and each arcminute would be 4 current-system seconds. An arcsecond would be about 67 milliseconds. Conveniently enough, the earth rotates 1° every 4 minutes, which I assume is not a coincidence. While we’re completely changing how we count time, we might as well correct for the fact that a day is actually about 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4.1 seconds. A degree would then technically be ~3.989 current-system minutes
Obviously radians would work as well, but it’s slight more inconvenient to say “I’ll be there in 0.0349rad” than “I’m running 2 degrees late”. I suppose we could use milliradians and say 35mrad. Then we don't have to deal with the 360°/60′/60″ nonsense.
TL;DR: Since our clock is based on degrees anyway, we should go the full mile and make the degrees 1/360th of a circle instead of 1/24th.
