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From: buchbind@agrigene.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Yet Another Flaky Paradox
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Date: Fri, 31-May-85 21:11:58 EDT
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> This has more to do with clear thinking than with physics, but here goes:
> 
> When you look in a mirror, the image you see is reversed left to right.
> Why is it not also reversed in the vertical direction?
> 
> -- Carl

The image is reversed front to back, not left to right.  If you are facing
North your image is facing South while your Left arm points West in the image
and in reality;  ditto Right arm and East.

-Barry
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Barry Buchbinder
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