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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