stackyFACTSTopology aggressively insists that perfection is impossible. The 'hairy ball theorem' states that you cannot comb fibers flat against a continuous sphere without creating at least one tuft or cowlick where the vectors cancel out to zero. It is fundamentally impossible to achieve smooth uniformity on a globe.
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