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Suggestions & Concerns / Terrible Wiki Writing
« on: July 18, 2015, 10:39:32 PM »
https://www.reddit.com/r/flatearthsociety/comments/3dorwf/seeming_contradiction_in_the_description_of_the/
Some fellow on Reddit actually read the Wiki, and to no surprise, the damn thing contradicts itself because some dolt copy and pasted passages straight from Wikipedia. Is the Wiki account separate from the TFES account? I can't seem to logon as it recognizes none of my usual userids.
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As a connoisseur of strange ideas I have naturally found myself here. I was looking at the flat earth wiki and can't help but want to have this explained to me.
On the page for the Bedford Level Experiment (http://wiki.tfes.org/Bedford_Level_Experiment[1] ) , it says:
"The Bedford Level Experiment remains one of the most widely-accepted examples of Flat Earth proof."
Then says "...a set of three poles fixed at equal height above water level along this length. As the surface of the water was assumed to be level, the discovery that the middle pole, when viewed carefully through a theodolite, was almost three feet higher than the poles at each end was finally accepted as a new proof that the surface of the earth was indeed curved."
So the experiment showed that the Earth is actually curved? Am I missing something here?
Some fellow on Reddit actually read the Wiki, and to no surprise, the damn thing contradicts itself because some dolt copy and pasted passages straight from Wikipedia. Is the Wiki account separate from the TFES account? I can't seem to logon as it recognizes none of my usual userids.