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Re:The hairy ball theorem by tome on Friday June 12, 2009 @03:43PM (#655306)
Some other reason. It's not the geometry ("perfect sphereness") of the earth that's the issue, it's the topology (that it's a ball).

The other reason is something like "wind velocity is not a continuous vector field". When you get down to the microscopic level, what does wind velocity mean?

"There's a cyclone somewhere on earth" is a pretty good approximation though.

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