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Parabolas are used in satalights and flash lights and archiceture and maths, whoever wrote eggs is very wrong parabolas ends never meet

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All very true. The only problem is that a parabola is not an ellipse!

One of the main uses for an ellipse is to describe planetary orbits.

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