stackyFACTSEuclid stubbornly insisted that parallel lines remain separated forever, but he apparently forgot that curves exist. If you draw two strictly parallel lines straight up from the equator of a globe, they will inevitably crash into each other at the pole. Flat-plane logic is fundamentally flawed.
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