Date: 29/06/2018 10:25:13
From: The Rev Dodgson
ID: 1245792
Subject: The Bedford Level Experiment
Yet another scientific story I had not heard before:
Yet another scientific story I had not heard before:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Yet another scientific story I had not heard before:
It’s almost like you haven’t heard everything before rev, I’m shocked.
poikilotherm said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Yet another scientific story I had not heard before:It’s almost like you haven’t heard everything before rev, I’m shocked.
Well statistically speaking, that would be a pretty close approximation to the truth :)
The Rev Dodgson said:
poikilotherm said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Yet another scientific story I had not heard before:It’s almost like you haven’t heard everything before rev, I’m shocked.
Well statistically speaking, that would be a pretty close approximation to the truth :)
That may seem a strange response to what you actually wrote.
What I read was:” you haven’t heard anything before”.
The Rev Dodgson said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
poikilotherm said:It’s almost like you haven’t heard everything before rev, I’m shocked.
Well statistically speaking, that would be a pretty close approximation to the truth :)
That may seem a strange response to what you actually wrote.
s’ok, it it’s any consolation, your responses are usually strange :P
Interesting read though. thanks.
poikilotherm said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
The Rev Dodgson said:Well statistically speaking, that would be a pretty close approximation to the truth :)
That may seem a strange response to what you actually wrote.
s’ok, it it’s any consolation, your responses are usually strange :P
Interesting read though. thanks.
It seemed rather crude and prone to errors
Cymek said:
poikilotherm said:
The Rev Dodgson said:That may seem a strange response to what you actually wrote.
s’ok, it it’s any consolation, your responses are usually strange :P
Interesting read though. thanks.
It seemed rather crude and prone to errors
you mean floating on a boat and using a telescope while standing in the river isn’t the best way to do an experiment?
poikilotherm said:
Cymek said:
poikilotherm said:s’ok, it it’s any consolation, your responses are usually strange :P
Interesting read though. thanks.
It seemed rather crude and prone to errors
you mean floating on a boat and using a telescope while standing in the river isn’t the best way to do an experiment?
Drunk maybe, but not really
Water always finds its own level.
Ian said:
Water always finds its own level.
Quite useful it doing that
The Rev Dodgson said:
Yet another scientific story I had not heard before:
> The Bedford Level experiment is a series of observations carried out along a six-mile (9.7 km) length of the Old Bedford River on the Bedford Level of the Cambridgeshire Fens in the United Kingdom, during the 19th and early 20th centuries, to measure the curvature of the Earth.
Do you know the measurement of the curvature of the Earth by Alfred Russel Wallace? Using bridges and a telescope?
mollwollfumble said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Yet another scientific story I had not heard before:> The Bedford Level experiment is a series of observations carried out along a six-mile (9.7 km) length of the Old Bedford River on the Bedford Level of the Cambridgeshire Fens in the United Kingdom, during the 19th and early 20th centuries, to measure the curvature of the Earth.
Do you know the measurement of the curvature of the Earth by Alfred Russel Wallace? Using bridges and a telescope?
Yes, that’s covered in the wikilink.
I thought the Wallace measurements were also carried out at the Bedford Level, but I may have that wrong.
How was Wallace suckered?
The Rev Dodgson said:
mollwollfumble said:
The Rev Dodgson said:
Yet another scientific story I had not heard before:> The Bedford Level experiment is a series of observations carried out along a six-mile (9.7 km) length of the Old Bedford River on the Bedford Level of the Cambridgeshire Fens in the United Kingdom, during the 19th and early 20th centuries, to measure the curvature of the Earth.
Do you know the measurement of the curvature of the Earth by Alfred Russel Wallace? Using bridges and a telescope?
Yes, that’s covered in the wikilink.
I thought the Wallace measurements were also carried out at the Bedford Level, but I may have that wrong.
How was Wallace suckered?
A prize was offered by the Flat Earth society for anyone who could prove the Earth was round.
Wallace asked what would constitute a proof, and they told him. Wallace proved it, but the person in charge of awarding the prize asked his assistant to look through Wallace’s telescope and the assistant claimed to have seen that the Earth was flat. So the person in charge of awarding the prize walked off. Wallace sued, and there was a legal battle of suing and counter-suing that ended up bankrupting him.
Far more about this in the ScientificAmerican article.