• Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
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      Either that or everything is in every Klein bottle.

      That would still be a no because no ship can be put in a Klein bottle if every ship is already in the Klein bottle.

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      I don’t think that’s quite a valid statement. You could create a klein bottle that has an object locked into the void area. By the colloquial definition of “inside”, the ship would be contained inside the bottle

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        I feel like Klein bottles are famously the exception to colloquial notions of “inside.” Do Möbius strips have two sides because colloquially nothing has only one side?

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          Mobius strips actually have two sides. The face and the edge. Both wrap around twice.