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Thank you We sneak in then here's your daily scribble

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brought to you by stretching because there's nothing worse than

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pulling a hammy If two different lines stretch out infinitely

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but never touch what's the relationship Well they're certainly not

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dating on let's Think about this in a couple different

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ways What happens when two lines air stretching away from

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each other increasing the distance between them That might seem

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like it could work But remember aline is always infinite

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in both directions That means that if our two lines

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were stretching away from each other at the end they'd

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actually be getting closer together at the other end Got

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it What about two lines that are running in opposite

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directions Well that depends on what we mean by opposite

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They can't be running in truly opposite direction since they're

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both infinite lines Without any end points they each already

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go in both directions We could have two opposite reyes

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but not to opposite lines What if we tried to

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draw one vertical line in one horizontal lines Well would

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they intersect on a plane Well try drawing Vertical line

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That takes up a whole sheet of paper Top to

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bottom and then tried running of a horizontal line on

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the same paper that doesn't hit the critical one And

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it's impossible right there always gonna intersect well the only

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way this woodwork is if the two lines never got

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any closer or farther away from each other That means

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they've got to be parallel because parallel lines are the

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only type of lines that never touch each other They'll

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look like an equal sign but stretched out to infinity

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in both directions Yeah it's like two cars going the

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same speed on a highway right next to each other

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in two different lanes Parallel lines are perfect drivers They

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never ever crashed Or have it reported it to the

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insurance companies and we'd know about it eh Come on

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