Well, yeah, I can agree with you there, that the convention is confusing. It probably would have made more sense to use other terms that aren't related to geographical direction. But actually, what came first was people deciding that the end of a bar magnet which points north should be ...
I don't recall how this happened, but we were pulled out unto space amongst the stars, but it wasn't pitch black like one would expect it to be. space actually glowed a little with a myriad of stars all around us, but we kept getting pulled even farther and we passed a line of s...