At 05:10 PM 7/2/97 -0400, you wrote:

At the bottom of this spam is a question, please look.

In a message dated 97-07-02 14:49:25 EDT, Mr. Casale wrote:
<< White Wolf <ranma@tendo-dojo.ranma.net> wrote:

On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Richard Lawson wrote:

There is, of course, a solution.  However, the teacher said it was also
possible with just three lines:  Just draw a line from where you are to
the north pole, then drop back down to the south pole, then back on up. 

Bzzzzt.  Your teacher was wrong.  Lines do *not* curve, and a line from 
the north pole to the south pole would travel via the center of the 
earth.

Lines are curved if the space they exist in is curved.  :)

Just imagine the earth as a two dimensional, spacially curved plane, and 
there you are.  ^_- >>

Slayer, you're using a viewpoint external to the particular space/time
continium
in which your spacially curved plane exists, therefore your view will not
match
with that of an inhabitant of that designated universal structure.  The
beings who
are living within that universe will agree with WW's viewpoint, since they
are an 
integral part of their particular space/time matrix and thus will see its'
structure 
accordingly.  From their viewpoint a line will be straight and not curved.

My two yen...

johnd