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James Driscoll (Spaceman): I have a ball that has 2 parallel lines drawn on it.  (1-Oct-2002)

>From: Randy Poe rpoe@atl.lmco.com

>A little garbled. On the surface of the sphere, there are
>no parallel lines. Shortest paths are great circles. All
>shortest paths will eventually cross.

BULLSHIT!
What a maroon!

shortest paths "on spheres" ar not shortest paths.
stop twisting the definition of shortest you frellin fool.

I have a ball that has 2 parallel lines drawn on it.
YOU LOSE!

>Of course it does. There are infinitely many paths along
>the surface of a sphere from point A to point B, and one
>of them is minimal.

and IT WILL NOT FOLLOW THE SURFACE DINGBAT!
SHEESH!
you are lost "or just a bad troll"

James M Driscoll Jr
Spaceman
http://www.realspaceman.com

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