I'm skeptical, having heard far more personal anecdotes about circumnavigating the earth as opposed to visiting those so-called "poles" or the "inner ring" as y

I'm skeptical, having heard far more personal anecdotes about circumnavigating the earth as opposed to visiting those so-called "poles" or the "inner ring" as your group hypothesizes. Once you accept the torus, where do you stop? I can mentally map the earth to a genus one torus, absurd as that is, but your splinter group has its own splinters with proponents of genus two, three, and beyond! Where does the madness stop?